[WFM-RG] The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Grid2007

[Ewa Deelman]

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           Call for Papers
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 (Grid 2007, http://www.grid2007.org)

Austin, Texas, USA, September 19-21, 2007


Grid computing is evolving from the sharing of powerful computers for
widely distributed applications to service orientation, open standards
integration, collaboration, and virtualization. The ongoing development
of
the Grid as a service-oriented architecture for transparent and reliable
distributed computing allows the reuse of existing components and
information resources, and the assembly of these components in a
flexible
self-organizing manner. Hiding the complexity and technical details of
the
Grid from end users and application developers is going to play a
crucial
role in the future, for which issues related to security, provenance,
automatic recovery, machine-interpretable metadata, QoS and SLA
negotiation, etc. will have to be carefully addressed.

The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting with the
objective to serve as both, the premier conference presenting best Grid
research and as a forum for free exchange of ideas. Grid 2007 will
feature
invited talks, workshops, tutorials, and refereed paper presentations
where
new concepts are introduced and explored.


Topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited
to:

*        Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
*        Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
*        Computing and Programming Models
*        Programming Tools and Environments
*        Distributed Problem Solving
*        Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and
Organizations
*        Information Services
*        Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments
*        Architectures and Fabrics
*        Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications
*        Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
*        Middleware and Toolkits
*        QoS and SLA Negotiation
*        Grid Economy and Business Models
*        Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
*        Cluster and Grid Integration Issues
*        Networking and Security
*        Performance Measurement and Modeling
*        Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance


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Important Dates
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April 7, 2007                Deadline for full paper submission
May 31, 2007                  Acceptance notification
June 22, 2007                Camera-ready copy due

******
 News
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Tony Hey from Microsoft and Carole Goble from University of Manchester
will give
keynote presentations in Grid2007.

Paper submission is open now for Grid 2007.


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Technical Papers
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Grid 2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work (also
not
submitted elsewhere for review) reporting solid and innovative results
in any
aspect of grid computing and its applications. Papers should not exceed
8
single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
paper
(see IEEE author instructions (PDF), a LaTeX style sheet and Word format
is
available, too). All bibliographical references, tables, and figures
must be
included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page limit will
not be
reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a
PostScript
printer. Electronic submission is required. The site for submissions is
http://www.easychair.org/Grid2007/

If you submit a paper for the first time through EasyChair you have to
register
first. The registration process is fairly simple (start by pressing the
button
"I have no EasyChair account"). Once you have a username and password
you can
log in to the EasyChair submission system and submit your paper. For
additional
questions concerning the registration and submission procedure, please
contact:
grid2007 at easychair.org

Papers must be submitted by April 7, 2007. No extensions will be given.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register
and present the paper.

Proceedings: All papers selected for this conference are peer-reviewed
and will
be published as a separate proceeding. After the event, the papers will
also be
published in the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author
instructions
see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.


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Conference Organization
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General Co-Chairs
Warren Smith, University of Texas, USA
Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University, USA

Program Chair
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Program Vice Chairs
Applications
Thilo Kielman, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Data Management
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA

Knowledge Management and Semantic Grid
Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Networking/Security/Infrastructure
David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK

Scheduling/Resource Management/Runtime Environments
Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA

Tools/Software/Middleware
Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Lab, USA

Proceedings Chair:
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Finance Chair:
Janet McCord, University of Texas, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:
Faith Singer-Villalobos, University of Texas, USA

Tutorial Chair:
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Workshop Chair:
Michael Gerndt, TU Munich, Germany

Poster/Research Demonstrations Chair:
Edward Walker, University of Texas, USA

Publicity Chair:
Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA


Steering Committee:

Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA
Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany
Daniel S. Katz,LSU & JPL, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland