Each presentation will be of 25 minutes duration, which includes 5-minute question and discussion time.

• Chair: Jacir. L. Bordim (University of Brasilia)
• Speaker: Professor Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo (University of Brasilia)
• Titie: Parallel Biological Sequence Comparison in Heterogeneous Platforms with Multiple Programming Environments: Strategies and Challenges

• Chair: Jacir L. Bordim (University of Brasilia)
• AHEAD: A Tool for Projecting Next-Generation Hardware Enhancements on GPU-Accelerated Systems, Hazem A. Abdelhafez, Christopher Zimmer, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai and Matei Ripeanu
• Developing OpenSHMEM model over Switchless PCIe Non-Transparent Interface, Seung-Ho Lim
• Evaluation of neuromorphic hardware using cellular neural networks and oxide semiconductors, Hiroya Ikeda, Hiroki Yamane, Yuki Shibayama, Mutsumi Kimura and Yasuhiko Nakashima

• Chair: Koji Nakano (Hiroshima University)
• A self-stabilizing algorithm for the local (1,|Ni|)-critical section problem with safe convergence, Sayaka Kamei and Hirotsugu Kakugawa
• A Distributed Wheel Sieve, Gabriel Paillard, Christian Lavault and Felipe França
• Entropy-based DoS Attack identification in SDN, Ranyelson Carvalho, Jacir Luiz Bordim and Eduardo Adilio Pelinson Alchieri

• Chair: Sayaka Kamei (Hiroshima University)
• Constraints embedding for solving hard optimization problems on quantum annealers, Tomas Vyskocil and Hristo Djidjev
• Efficient Algorithms for Estimating the Farness-Centrality in Parallel, Sai Charan Regunta, Sai Harsh Tondomker and Kishore Kothapalli
• Efficient Conversion of Boolean Circuits to Nondeterministic Branching Programs, Yosi Ben Asher and Vladislav Tartakovsky
• FIFO-based Hardware Sorters for High Bandwidth Memory, Koji Nakano, Yasuaki Ito and Jacir Bordim