[saga-rg] GCE0-05: Portals Workshop - Paper Submission Pages Online

[Mary Thomas]

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GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals

                 Call for Participation

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WORKSHOP UPDATES:

**** Paper submission webpage is up and available (see Submissions)   *****
                         http://acel.sdsu.edu/mtgs/gce05/
 
* Date for workshop has been finalized by SC Committee:
      Friday, November 18th, 8am - 12pm
* Paper submission dates have been extended by 1 week to September 26, 
2005.
* The Technical Program review committee has been finalized and includes 
grid portal experts from both the US and Europe (see below).

*Important Dates:
      26-Sep-05:  Extended Abstract Due <---- delayed
      08-Oct-05:  Acceptance Notification
      18-Nov-05: Full Paper Submission Due at time of workshop


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WORKSHOP 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, etc.).
   * 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. Abstracts/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

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 (r.j.allan at dl.ac.uk)
   Technical Program Chairs:
          Marlon Pierce (IU) (mpierce at cs.indiana.edu)
          Jason Novotny (IU) (novotny at ncmir.ucsd.edu)
   Technical Program Committee:
          Alameda, Jay (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
         Allen, Rob (Daresbury Labs, UK)
          Baker, Mark (University of Portsmouth, UK)
          Carafo, Massimo (University of Lecce, Italy)
          Fox, Geoffrey (Indiana University)
          Gannon, Dennis (Indiana University)
          Haupt, Tomasz (Univ. of Mississippi)
          Kelley, Ian (Louisiana State University)
          Kosiedowski, Michal (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center)
          Kuba, Martin (Masaryk University in Brno, CZ)
          Lin, Abel (University of California at San Diego)
          Marru, Suresh (Indiana University)
          Mueller, Kurt (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
          Novotny, Jason (University of California at San Diego)
          Parashar, Manish (Rutgers University)
          Pickles, Stephen (University of Manchester)
          Pierce, Marlon (Indiana University)
          Roberto, Barbera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, IT)
          Roberts, Eric (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
          Severance, Charles (University of Michigan)
          Thomas, Mary (San Diego State University)
          von Laszewski, Gregor (University of Chicago/Argonne National 
Labs)
          Wehrens, Oliver (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max Planck 
Institute, Germany)
          Wilkins-Diehr, Nancy (San Diego Supercomputing Center)


We look forward to seeing you at SC in Seattle!

Mary Thomas on behalf of the GCE 2005 planning committee

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Mary Thomas              Department of Computer Science
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