[CCGT] Re: On your GGF14 workshop application

[Thilo Kielmann]

Dear Satoshi et al.,

attached please find a revised version of the workshop proposal.
I have added the review committee, tried to clarify the "CFP text" and
added a few words about journal publication. (We are sceptical whether
in this topic there will be mature work already, but we are open to
positive surprises.)

I know that the reporting from previous workshops is THE weak point.
I was hoping to catch up earlier that year but I had to organize the
ggf13 workshop instead as the supposed-to-be organizer had let me
down. David Wallom has volunteered to do the organization for GGF14,
so I hope this will free my time for report writing... 

About making ggf workshops scientifically respected venues I have some
ideas, but this would take a separate discussion and a bit more time
than we have until ggf14.


Please let me know whatever needs to be done to make the workshop
happen.


Regards,


Thilo
-- 
Thilo Kielmann                                 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/
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A)     Workshop Title

Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users
 
We are intending a type two (refereed workshop)


B)     Proposed workshop organizer names and affiliations (possibly incl. review committee for type 2). Be sure to identify yourself if you are a chair of an existing RG/WG.

Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Co-Chair APPS-RG
Thomas Hinke, NASA AMES, Co-Chair APPS-RG
Laura McGinnis, PSC, Co-chair PGM-RG (to become PGS-RG)
David Wallom, Bristol Univ, designated Co-chair PGS-RG

Reviewing committee:
Simon J. Cox, University of Southampton, UK
Thomas Hinke, NASA AMES, Co-Chair APPS-RG
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Co-Chair APPS-RG
Pascal Kleijer, NEC, Japan
Ignacio Martin Llorente, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Laura McGinnis, PSC, Co-chair PGM-RG (to become PGS-RG)
Andre Merzky, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steven Newhouse, OMII, UK
David Wallom, Bristol Univ, designated Co-chair PGS-RG
Judith Utley, Old Dominion University, USA


C)     RG/WG that will be involved (including potential RG/WGs as well as RG/WGs up for approval). If you are proposing a workshop without being a full RG, please provide a separate RG submission info, including candidate RG name, charter, area, chairs, BOF descriptions, etc.

APPS-RG
PGS-RG (currently PGM-RG)
 

D)     Scope and Content (a paragraph or two of the workshop description to be put on the program.

In this workshop, we aim at experience with bridging the gap between
early adopters of grids and the more mainstream use of grid technology.
Currently, grids are mostly on the early adopter side of the
gap, asking for the move to the more mainstream users.
For fostering mature production environments, incentives by
application users are vital. 

We are seeking experience from early adoptors who would like to become 
mainstream users, from mainstream users who would like to use grids,
from those who already do, and from middleware developers and system
operators in charge of providing working grid environments to user communities.

We are seeking contributions on the following topics:
- user experience with early-adoptor and/or mainstream grid applications
- management approaches for production-quality grid environments
- techniques for robust (fault tolerant) grid applications and middleware
- software tools for automatic testing and signaling of error conditions

Our focus is on hands-on experience with existing grid environments,
focusing on bridging the gap between early adoption and production use.




E)      Potential speakers for type one (invited( and possibly two workshops. Any additional info are welcome including the title of the talk, their abstract, etc. In fact the proposed program may be put here.

Potential speakers come from major grid projects, from grid user
communities, and from grid service operators.
We seek to enrich the program by an opening keynote presentation and a
final panel discussion.
A candidate for  the keynote could be Steven Newhouse from OMII,
talking about his user survey among UK E-science users.


F)      Past History of hosting a similar workshop inside or outside GGF.

Prior to GGF5 in Glasgow:
NeSC Workshop on Applications and Testbeds on the Grid
  organized by APPS-RG and GUS-RG (just prior to GGF5)

At GGF7 in Tokyo: Applications workshop:
What can be achieved with today's Grid technology (and what cannot)?
  organized by APPS-RG

At GGF8 in Seattle:
Workshop on Grid Applications and Programming Tools
  organized by APPS-RG and UPDT-RG
Workshop on Tools For Grid Management
  organized by PGM-RG

At GGF10 in Berlin:
Workshop on Case Studies on Grid Applications
  organized by APPS-RG, UPDT-RG, GUS-RG, and PGM-RG

At GGF11 in Honolulu:
Semantic Grid Applications Workshop
  organized by APPS-RG and SEM-GRD
Management of Grid Services in Production Grids
  organized by PGM-RG

At GGF12 in Brussels:
Workshop on Grid Application Programming Interfaces
  organized by APPS-RG with DRMAA-WG, GridRPC-WG, SAGA-RG

At GGF13 in Soul:
The Usable Grid
  organized by APPS-RG
 

G)     Duration of workshop (half day (2-3 slots incl. Breaks) or whole day (4-5 slots)

whole day 


H)     Estimated # of participants (if possible)

50-70
 

I)        Publication Plans --- please indicate if you have plan to publish the workshop result with a certain publisher. If left out we will assume that the workshop product will be a GGF Informational Document.

We plan to publish a proceedings volume in form of a 
GGF Informational Document.
The organizers consider the topic to be very close to the forefront of
technology adoption. While considering the topic to be timely and
interesting, we are afraid there may be little scientifically sound
work yet. Nevertheless, we will announce the possibility of a journal
special issue for the case that we get high-quality submissions.