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ICCS 2004 will be held on June 7-9, 2004 in Krakow, Poland.

Computational Science is a vital part of many scientific investigations, affecting researchers and practitioners in the sciences and beyond. Due to the sheer size of many challenges in computational science, the use of supercomputing, parallel processing, and sophisticated algorithms, is inevitable.

The International Conference on Computational Science 2003 (ICCS 2003) aims to bring together researchers and scientists from mathematics and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various application areas who are pioneering advanced application of computational methods to sciences such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, arts and humanitarian fields, along with software developers and vendors, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, and to shape future directions for research, as well as to help industrial users apply various advanced computational techniques.

ICCS 2003 is the follow-up of the highly successful ICCS 2002 conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ICCS 2003 will be unique, in the sense that it is a single event held at two different sites almost opposite to each other on the globe, that is, in Melbourne, Australia and Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. The conference will run at the same dates at both locations, and there will be a single set of ICCS 2003 proceedings. You, as participant, as author of a paper, or as organizer of a workshop, decide to which location you go. In this way we hope that researchers from all over the world will be able to participate in the most important event on Computational Science in 2003.

The organizers of this Conference expect to outline the variety of large- scale problems requiring interdisciplinary approach and vast computational efforts, and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize a workshop. See Call for Papers for paper submission information, and Call for workshop Proposals for more information. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A selected number of papers will also be published as special issues of the appropriate journals.