This fourvolume set LNCS 9528 9529 9530 and 9531 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the
15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for ParallelProcessing ICA3PP
2015 held in Zhangjiajie China in November 2015. The 219revised full papers presented
together with 77 workshop papers in these fourvolumes were carefully reviewed and selected from
807 submissions (602 fullpapers and 205 workshop papers). The first volume comprises the
followingtopics: parallel and distributed architectures distributed and network-basedcomputing
and internet of things and cyber-physical-social computing. Thesecond volume comprises topics
such as big data and its applications andparallel and distributed algorithms. The topics of the
third volume are:applications of parallel and distributed computing and service
dependabilityand security in distributed and parallel systems. The covered topics of the
fourthvolume are: software systems and programming models and performance modelingand
evaluation.