[gce-rg] CFP: GCE 2005 - Workshop on Grid Computing Portals at SC|05, Nov 18th

[Mary Thomas]

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*                      GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals
*
                                              Call for Participation
     *                       *                November 18th, 2005
  *                       *           (held in conjunction with SC05)
*                     *(Workshop website: http://acel.sdsu.edu/mtgs/gce05)
 

*Important Dates:*
    19-Sep-05:  Extended Abstract Due
    03-Oct-05:  Acceptance Notification
    18-Nov-05: Full Paper Submission Due at time of workshop

*Organization:*

    Workshop Chair:                          Mary Thomas (SDSU) 
mthomas at rohan.sdsu.edu
    Steering/Advisory Committee:     Dennis Gannon, Indiana Univ. 
(gannon at cs.indiana.edu)
                                                         Geoffrey Fox, 
Indiana Univ. (gcf at indiana.edu)
                                                         Jay Boisseau, 
Univ. of Texas (boisseau at tacc.utexas.edu)
                                                         Rob Allan, 
Daresbury Labs, UK (r.j.allan at dl.ac.uk)
    Technical Program Chairs:           Marlon Pierce (IU) 
(mpierce at cs.indiana.edu)
                                                         Jason Novotny 
(IU) (novotny at aei.mpg.de)

*Overview*
Grid computing portals have emerged to be important components of many 
large-scale Grid computing projects. Portals provide well-established 
mechanisms for providing familiar interfaces to secure grid resources, 
services, applications, tools, and collaboration services for 
communities of scientists. Furthermore, portals deliver complex grid 
solutions to users wherever they have access to a web browser running on 
the Internet without the need to download or install any specialized 
software or worry about networks and ports, etc. As a result, the 
science application user is isolated from the complex details and 
infrastructure needed to operate an application on the grid.

The portal development community is currently undergoing a revolution as 
component-based architectures and services become standardized and 
widely adopted. Grid middleware is also changing in response to the 
services oriented architecture (SOA) approach to hosting services. The 
move towards an SOA grid maps very well to the architecture already 
employed by portals, further increasing their value within the grid 
community.

This workshop will focus on portal projects that are adopting these new 
technologies and services. We seek papers from all aspects of portal 
development including portal architecture design and standards studies, 
toolkits developed in support of portals, as well as high-level 
application portals that utilize these technologies.
 
GCE 2005 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
    * Project portals including: User Portals,Application 
Portals,Science Gateway Portals,Education Portals
    * Portal architecture and design, including: Portlets and portal 
frameworks (uPortal, Sakai, CHEF, GridSphere, WebSphere, etc); JSP; JSF; 
Servlets; REST; Cocoon.
    * Portal security models and solutions.
    * Portal languages including Java, Python, Perl, PHP, etc
    * User interface/usability studies.
    * Middleware solutions in support of portals including: Web 
Services; WSRF Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP 
and other standards; Web services in support of Portals.

*Paper Submission and Publication:*
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract paper on original and 
unpublished work (also not submitted elsewhere for review) reporting 
significant projects and results in any aspect of grid portals and 
related technologies. Papers should not exceed 6 single-spaced pages of 
text using 10 point size type on  8.5 x 11 inch paper (see author 
instructions below). Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) 
file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic submission will 
be done through the workshop website. Emailed copies will be accepted 
only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the 
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the 
paper.
 
*Proceedings*:
All papers selected for this workshop will be peer-reviewed and will be 
published in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice 
and Experience 
(http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/77004395). For author 
instructions see 
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/5361/ForAuthors.html.

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Mary Thomas              Department of Computer Science
mthomas at rohan.sdsu.edu   San Diego State University
(619) 594-1694 (office)  San Diego, CA 92182-7720
(619) 594-6746 (fax)     http://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/mthomas
Adv. Comp. Env. Lab      http://acel.sdsu.edu