Call For Papers
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Special Issue on Grids and
Worldwide Computing
Publication Date: Winter 2005
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The Internet and the Web have created a revolution in modern
communications and future generation Grid cyberinfrastructures have
the potential to revolutionize the way we live to a much larger
extent. Millions of nodes and devices connected to an everyday more
pervasive and ubiquituous network provide an opportunity for scaling
computationally intensive applications to national and worldwide
infrastructures.
While current grid services development represents an excellent
starting point to accomplish worldwide computing, there remain a
number of important challenges largely unaddressed today. These
include:
- Advanced programming models that simplify the development of
applications by providing high-level abstractions and algorithms so
that programmers do not have to explicitly deal with distribution
issues such as data placement, data replication, load balancing,
quality of service, and fault tolerance.
- Advanced middleware infrastructures that support the
aforementioned
programming abstractions, profile the network, and adapt programs to
highly dynamic and evolving grids to meet the needs of applications
that range from those having real-time requirements to those which
require massive levels of computation.
Papers are solicited describing original research contributions in the
following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:
- Programming models and languages for worldwide computing.
- Coordination abstractions for large-scale distributed
computations.
- Dynamic program reconfiguration and adaptation through migration
based on adaptive run-time architectures.
- Generic libraries for high-performance messaging over
heterogeneous
networks.
- Middleware infrastructure to deal with non-functional or
para-functional aspects of distributed applications.
- Fault-tolerance models and strategies for computing over
unreliable
networks.
- Heterogeneous devices and standards for interoperability (e.g.
XML,
Web Services).
- Dependable distributed computing with quality-of-service
guarantees
(e.g., real-time, predictable execution).
- Software evolution in long-lived computations, version control.
- Security infrastructures for safe open distributed systems.
Authors should follow the Scientific Programming manuscript format.
An electronic copy of the
manuscript, in Postscript or PDF format should be submitted via
electronic mail to
cvarela@cs.rpi.edu by May 1st, 2005. Submission should include authors
names,
affiliations, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses on the
cover
page. Only original manuscripts, which have not been submitted
elsewhere, will be
considered for publication. All papers will be subject to a thorough
peer
review process.
Guest Editors
Paolo Ciancarini, U. Bologna, Italy
Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. (Primary
Contact)
Program Committee
Franck Cappello, INRIA, France
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy
Toshio Endo, University of Tokyo, Jap
John Field, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab, U.S.
Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Lab, U.S.
Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan
Yoshio Tanaka, AIST, Japan
Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., U.S.
Key Dates
May 1, 2005
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Papers Due
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July 1, 2005
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Reviews Back
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September 1, 2005
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Revisions Due
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October 1, 2005
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Final Notification
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Winter 2005
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Tentative Publication Date
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