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ICTeSSH 2020 CFP
by Dragan Ivanovic 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Dear all, The ICTeSSH 2020 CFP may be of interest to some of you working with Social Sciences and Humanities data: https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/call-for-papers. ICTeSSH 2020 is a three day annual conference where stakeholders come together for an open discussion to talk about the changing research ecosystem in SSH fields in the digital age due to the extremely fast development of ICT. Moreover, call for pre-conference workshop/training proposals has been published as well: https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/call-for-pcw. ICTeSSH 2020 has great list of speakers (https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs/speakers) and will be held on an attractive location - Amsterdam, in the last week of June. Stay tuned: 1. Subscribe to conference's newsletter using the subscription form at the bottom of the home page (https://ictessh.uns.ac.rs) and/or 2. Follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/ICTeSSH) Sincerely, Dragan Ivanovic University of Novi Sad

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CFP: UK AHM Metadata Workshop
by neil p chue hong 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Apologies for cross-posting - please forward to colleagues with an interest in metadata. We have to Talk about Metadata AHM2007 MINI-WORKSHOP: CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract Submission Deadline: 16th April 2007 Workshop Coordinators: Neil Chue Hong, Jano van Hemert, Paul Millar SCOPE AND CONTENT The Grid provides us with the ability to create a vastly different model of data integration and management allowing support for dynamic, late-binding access to distributed, heterogenous data resources; diverse replication capabilities; and integration of legacy storage systems. However the opportunities to exploit these new methods also produce many issues and open questions. In particular, different attitudes and misconceptions towards the management of metadata abound and it can be difficult to identify clear strategies and tools for the handling of metadata at many different levels, from service discovery to semantic integration. This workshop will bring together eScience developers and end-users to present and disseminate the current status of approaches to metadata handling, examining commonalities at the technology, interface and schema level, and ensure best practice is recorded and disseminated to the eScience community. Papers on Metadata management issues, best practice, and research are invited, especially with a focus on the following topics: * Common requirements on metadata to support data integration * Authentication and Authorisation issues pertaining to metadata * Experiences of transferring approaches for metadata handling between communities * The current challenges in managing metadata * Tracking of provenance in the context of metadata * Approaches of binding metadata to data * Novel approaches to managing metadata, e.g. using RESTful interfaces * Architectural issues preventing seamless management of data and metadata * Use of Web Services / Semantic Web standards to assist distributed metadata management * Currently available solutions and success stories * Review of missing tools and technologies Presentation length will be dependent on number of submissions but is likely to be roughly 20 minutes. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS To ensure a uniformly high quality of presentations, all mini-workshop papers will be subjected to the same reviewing procedure as regular AHM papers. Papers should be submitted through the regular online submission system at http://www.allhands.org.uk and marked for consideration of the "We have to talk about Metadata" mini-workshop. All mini-workshop papers will be subject to the same reviewing procedure as regular AHM submissions. During submission you can specify that you wish it to be considered for the Metadata workshop. High quality workshop papers that are judged to be unsuitable for the workshop to which they are submitted will automatically be considered as regular papers. To submit abstracts to this mini-workshop please go to the submissions page at the AHM website (http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/paper_submissions.cfm) which includes details of how to format your submission. Deadline for submission is 16th April 2007. Name, Affiliation and Contact Details of the Organiser: Neil Chue Hong, EPCC The University of Edinburgh JCMB Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH9 3JZ Tel: 0131 650 5957 Fax: 0131 650 6555 Email: N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk -- Neil P Chue Hong | T: [+44] (0)131 650 5957 Project Manager, EPCC | F: [+44] (0)131 650 6555 Rm 2409, JCMB, Mayfield Rd. | E: N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK | W: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk BT MeetMe: http://tinyurl.com/8mwhd - Code: 14712935# "A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death - in a word, emotion." - Sam Fuller

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contact
by Lindsey Christie 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

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[wg-all] Mailing List Changes
by Andre Merzky 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Sorry for duplicates ------------------------------------------------------------ As of yesterday, all GGF/OGF mailing lists are migrated to the ogf domain. They are now managed by mailman, the web interface is available at http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo With that migration, all list can be now reached via <list>@ogf.org The old @ggf.org addresses will be available for some time, but are bound to disappear eventually - please start using the ogf addresses! A number of lists have changed their names: ggf-it --> ogf-it ggf-office --> ogf-office ggf-proc-wg --> ogf-proc-wg ggf-sponsors --> ogf-sponsors ggf-tutorials --> ogf-tutorials ggf-compute --> ogf-compute ggflistowners --> ogflistowners ggfstudentmembers --> ogfstudentmembers Postings to the old list names get forwarded to the new ones. With the migration we have also been able to fix the archives - you may have noticed that list archiving stopped sometime in mid June. Well, now its working again, and all mails from June to now have been added to the archive. The list archives can be found at: http://www.ogf.org/archives/<list> If you are an list administrator, and would like to receive the list admin password, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. In general, however, we tried to map the old majordomo settings to the mailman settings, in terms of privacy etc, so no or little changes should be required from your side. The spam avoidance policy has been changed to some extent, and is somewhat stricter than before. Please let us know if you experience any trouble with that. On all questions in respect to mailing lists, or mails in general, please contact postmaster(a)ogf.org. Best regards, Andre. -- "So much time, so little to do..." -- Garfield -- wg-all mailing list wg-all(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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Call for Participation: HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management
by Ann Chervenak 23 May '06

23 May '06

*** Apologies for crossposting - please forward to interested parties *** *HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management* http://www.isi.edu/~annc/distributedDataWorkshop.html June 20, 2006 Paris, France Register at HPDC web site: http://hpdc.lri.fr/index.php?section=Info&subsection=registration Distributed data management is a challenging problem in high performance computing environments, and the difficulty of managing scientific and commercial data sets will increase as they scale to terabytes and petabytes in the coming years. In conjunction with HPDC, we will hold a one-day workshop that will gather together researchers and industry participants to discuss future trends for distributed data management in HPDC environments. We include papers of two types: position papers that discuss the authors' vision for trends or developments in data management in the three to five year timeframe or papers that describe innovative algorithms, tools or services for distributed data management. Workshop Agenda, June 20, 2006: *14:00-14:10 Welcome * *14:10-15:00 Invited Talk: Miron Livny,* University of Wisconsin *15:00-15:30 A Prototype Rule-based Distributed Data Management System* (Rajasekar, Wan, Moore, Schroeder) *15:30-16:00 GridBlocks DISK - Distributed Inexpensive Storage with K-availability* (Pitkanen, Karppinen, Swany) *16:00-16:30 Break * *16:30-17:00 The gLite File Transfer System* (Kunszt, Badino, Brito da Rocha, Casey, Frohner, McCance) *17:00-17:30 Extending NSFv4 for Petascale Data Management *(Adamson, Hilderbrand, Honeyman, McKee, Zhang) *17:30-18:00 Machine Interpretable Metadata for Large Scale Distributed Data *Management (Agrawal, Zhang) *18:00-18:30 Distributed Metadata with the AMGA Metadata Catalogue * (Santos, Koblitz) *18:30-19:00 Closing discussion with Panel *

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VLDB Workshop "Data Management in Grids", DMG'06 - new deadline : 22 May 2006
by neil p chue hong 12 May '06

12 May '06

*** Apologies for crossposting - please forward to interested parties *** VLDB Workshop on Data Management in Grids http://liris.cnrs.fr/~jpierson/DMG_VLDB06/ Co-located with VLDB'06 Seoul, Korea, 10-11 September 2006 **************************************************** * DEADLINE EXTENDED : 22 May 2006 * **************************************************** **** Due to numerous demands, the deadline for submitting a paper is postponed for one week. **** Context : --------- VLDB'06 (Very Large Data Bases, http://www.vldb.org/) is the 32th Conference in the series: It is one of the top conferences on the management of data bases in the world. This workshop is the second workshop organized at VLDB on the topic of Data Management in Grids, after the success of the 1st edition in 2005. Topics of Interest : -------------------- Since the mid nineties and the emergence of Grids, many research activities have been initiated in relation to data management in these dynamic, heterogeneous and cross-organisational environments. The database community can offer her unique expertise in the management of very large, widely distributed databases. Conversely, Grids offer a novel and very exciting field of research for database scientists both in terms of application domains and fundamental research. This workshop is intended to bring together these two communities, and thus to offer a unique workspace for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas about the emerging challenges and opportunities offered by Data Grids. Relevant topics for the workshop include all aspects related to the management of data in a Grid (non-exhaustive list) : - Data Access - Data Interoperability - Semantic Grids - Mediation / Negotiation - Security: access control, policy, privacy - Authenticity and integrity - Data Placement: replication, migration - Data Streams - Metadata Management - Indexing - Query processing - Caching - Data Warehouses - Unique identification of data entities - Data Definition/Model Management - Data De-identification - Data scheduler and data-aware scheduling - Information sharing - Information dissemination - Infrastructure independence for data management - Federation of data management systems - Applications dealing with large databases Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF or PS files via email to : Jean-Marc.Pierson(a)liris.cnrs.fr Research papers should not exceed 12 pages in length. They should be formatted using the camera-ready templates of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) It is foreseen that full papers will be published by Springer in a LNCS volume (last year workshop was published this way). At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and present the work. Important Dates : ----------------- Submission deadline : 22 May 2006 Acceptance notification : 23 June 2006 Final paper due : 15 July 2006 Workshop dates : 10-11 September, 2006 Program Chair : --------------- Jean-Marc Pierson LIRIS Lab., CNRS National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Lyon, France Program Committee : ------------------- Lionel BRUNIE, LIRIS, France Neil P. CHUE HONG, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK Alvaro A.A. FERNANDES, The University of Manchester, UK Dieter GAWLICK, Oracle, USA Peter KACSUK, Mta Sztaki Research Institute, Hungary Peter KUNSZT, CSCS, Switzerland Stephen A. LANGELLA, The Ohio State University, USA Marta MATTOSO, UFRJ, Brazil Johan MONTAGNAT, CNRS, France Reagan MOORE, SDSC, USA Gianluca MORO, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy Inderpal NARANG, IBM, USA Brigitte PLATEAU, ID-IMAG, France Thierry PRIOL, IRISA, France Marc SHAPIRO, INRIA, France Heinz STOCKINGER, University of Vienna, Austria Jari VEIJALAINEN, University of Potsdam, Germany _____________________________________________

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Grid 2006 Preliminary CFP
by neil p chue hong 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

*** Apologies for crossposting - please pass on to other interested parties *** GRID 2006 Preliminary Call for Papers ===================================== GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing Barcelona, 28-29 September www.grid2006.org The Grid conference series is an anual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid 2001, Denver; Grid 2002, Baltimore; Grid 2003, Phoenix; Grid 2004, Pittsburgh; and the sixth event, Grid 2005 in Seattle. All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. Last year's event attracted about 400 registered participants. >From the second event through the sixth, we have been known as the Grid Workshop affiliated with the Supercomputing SC conference series. For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference. The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by Springer-Verlag, and the proceedings of the three most recent workshops were published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We expect this year's proceedings will join those of the last three years in the IEEE Computer Society's Digital Library. Grid 2006 has been labeled CoreGRID event. SCOPE ===== Grid 2006 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to: * Internet-based Computing Models * Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications * Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management * Middleware and Toolkits * Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools * Resource Management and Scheduling * Networking * Virtual Instrumentation * Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance * Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations * Architectures and Fabrics * Information Services * Security Issues * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Grid Economy * Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids * Performance Evaluation and Modeling * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues * Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications Technical Papers ================ Grid 2006 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, 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. 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 proceedings. 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 Special Issue: The best 6 to 8 papers from the conference will be selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special issue of the Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS). Important Dates =============== 1 March 2006 Paper submission site open 7 April 2006 Full paper submission due 14 April 2006 Last date for paper updates before review process 9 June 2006 Acceptance notification 1 July 2006 Camera-ready copy due 28-29 Sept 2006 Conference Conference Organization ======================= General co-Chairs Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Chair Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Program Vice Chairs Applications: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Data Management: Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA Networking/Security/Infrastructure: Olle Mulmo, Center for Parallel Computers, KTH Sweeden Scheduling/Resource management: Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland Tools/Software/Middleware: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Publicity Chair: Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Proceedings Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Finance Chair: Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Local arrangements chair: Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Tutorial Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Steering Committee ================== Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany Daniel S. Katz, JPL/Caltech, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria

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CFP: VLDB Workshop "Data Management in Grids", DMG'06
by neil p chue hong 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

FYI - please forward to interested parties VLDB Workshop on Data Management in Grids http://liris.cnrs.fr/~jpierson/DMG_VLDB06/ Co-located with VLDB'06 Seoul, Korea, 10-11 September 2006 **************************************** * DEADLINE : 15 May 2006 * **************************************** Context : --------- VLDB'06 (Very Large Data Bases, http://www.vldb.org/) is the 32th Conference in the series: It is one of the top conferences on the management of data bases in the world. This workshop is the second workshop organized at VLDB on the topic of Data Management in Grids, after the success of the 1st edition in 2005. Topics of Interest : -------------------- Since the mid nineties and the emergence of Grids, many research activities have been initiated in relation to data management in these dynamic, heterogeneous and cross-organisational environments. The database community can offer her unique expertise in the management of very large, widely distributed databases. Conversely, Grids offer a novel and very exciting field of research for database scientists both in terms of application domains and fundamental research. This workshop is intended to bring together these two communities, and thus to offer a unique workspace for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas about the emerging challenges and opportunities offered by Data Grids. Relevant topics for the workshop include all aspects related to the management of data in a Grid (non-exhaustive list) : - Data Access - Data Interoperability - Semantic Grids - Mediation / Negotiation - Security: access control, policy, privacy - Authenticity and integrity - Data Placement: replication, migration - Data Streams - Metadata Management - Indexing - Query processing - Caching - Data Warehouses - Unique identification of data entities - Data Definition/Model Management - Data De-identification - Data scheduler and data-aware scheduling - Information sharing - Information dissemination - Infrastructure independence for data management - Federation of data management systems - Applications dealing with large databases Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF or PS files via email to : Jean-Marc.Pierson(a)liris.cnrs.fr Research papers should not exceed 12 pages in length. They should be formatted using the camera-ready templates of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) It is foreseen that full papers will be published by Springer in a LNCS volume (last year workshop was published this way). At least one author is expected to register for the workshop and present the work. Important Dates : ----------------- Submission deadline : 15 May 2006 Acceptance notification : 23 June 2006 Final paper due : 15 July 2006 Workshop dates : 10-11 September, 2006 Program Chair : --------------- Jean-Marc Pierson LIRIS Lab., CNRS National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Lyon, France Program Committee : ------------------- Lionel BRUNIE, LIRIS, France Neil P. CHUE HONG, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK Alvaro A.A. FERNANDES, The University of Manchester, UK Dieter GAWLICK, Oracle, USA Peter KACSUK, Mta Sztaki Research Institute, Hungary Peter KUNSZT, CERN, Switzerland Stephen A. LANGELLA, The Ohio State University, USA Marta MATTOSO, UFRJ, Brazil Johan MONTAGNAT, CNRS, France Reagan MOORE, SDSC, USA Gianluca MORO, DEIS - University of Bologna, Italy Inderpal NARANG, IBM, USA Brigitte PLATEAU, ID-IMAG, France Thierry PRIOL, IRISA, France Marc SHAPIRO, INRIA, France Heinz STOCKINGER, University of Vienna, Austria Jari VEIJALAINEN, University of Potsdam, Germany

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GGF ByteIO Specifications - please comment!
by neil p chue hong 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

The GGF ByteIO WG provides a set of specifications to provide an interface for reading and writing sequences of bytes in a POSIX like way. It aims to be a lowest common denominator specification for transferring bytes. Within the specification it also proposes a scheme for describing data transfer mechanisms. These specifications have now completed their initial GFSG Review, and have just entered their public comment period. We would encourage people to submit: 1. Technical comments on any aspects of the specifications, in terms of their scope, clarity and correctness. 2. Comments from application developers on the suitability of the specifications for their use cases. 3. Comments from organisations that may be interested in implementing the specifications, for evaluation, for use for a specific purpose, or as part of a wider platform. 4. Comments from other groups who are interested in using ByteIO (or parts of ByteIO, e.g. the data transfer identification scheme) as a basis for other specifications. Comments can be made via the following links (where you can also get copies of the relevant documents) ByteIO specification http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1692 ByteIO OGSA WSRF Basic Profile Rendering 1.0 Specification http://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=1693 Although detailed comments are preferred, even top level comments expressing approval or disapproval with the specification are useful. We currently have three implementations in progress, however any offers for further implementations or implementation use cases are again, gratefully received. Many thanks, Mark Morgan Neil Chue Hong OGSA ByteIO co-chairs

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CFP: HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management
by Ann Chervenak 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

*HPDC Workshop on Next-Generation Distributed Data Management* *http://www.isi.edu/~annc/distributedDataWorkshop.html <http://www.isi.edu/%7Eannc/distributedDataWorkshop.html>* *June 20, 2006* *Paris**, France*** Distributed data management is a challenging problem in high performance computing environments, and the difficulty of managing scientific and commercial data sets will increase as they scale to terabytes and petabytes in the coming years. In conjunction with HPDC, we will hold a one-day workshop that will gather together researchers and industry participants to discuss future trends for distributed data management in HPDC environments. We invite short papers (maximum 6 pages) of two types: position papers that discuss the authors' vision for trends or developments in data management in the three to five year timeframe or papers that describe innovative algorithms, tools or services for distributed data management. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* * Peer-to-peer approaches to data discovery and data storage * Distributed Metadata management * Services for generating and maintaining provenance information * Techniques for replica management, including consistency of replicas * Algorithms for data placement, prefetching, staging, proactive replication * Federation of diverse databases, data mediation services * Distributed query processing * Virtualization of data resources * Interaction of data management with execution environments, including workflow management services, virtual machines * Validation of correctness of distributed data * Publish/subscribe systems * Advanced data transfer techniques * Namespace management, globally unique naming * Support for streaming data *Important dates: * * Position papers due: February 28, 2006 (Tuesday) * Program committee discussion: March 23, 2006 (Thursday) * Notification of acceptance of papers: March 27, 2006 (Monday) * Final papers due: April 14, 2006 (Friday) * * *Submission: *We will be using the HPDC conference submission site. Submission instructions to follow on workshop web site. *Workshop organizers/co-chairs:* Ann Chervenak, USC Information Sciences Institute (annc(a)isi.edu) Dave Berry, National UK e-Science Center (daveb(a)nesc.ac.uk) Neil P. Chue Hong, EPCC, University of Edinburgh (N.ChueHong(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk) *Program committee:* Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State Bill Allcock, Argonne National Laboratory Chaitan Baru, SDSC Karan Bhatia, SDSC Dieter Gawlick, Oracle Pilar Herrero, UPM Tahsin Kurc, Ohio State Allen Luniewski, IBM Andre Merzky, Zuse Institute Berlin Reagan Moore, SDSC Beth Plale, Indiana University Osamu Tatebe, AIST Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Stratis Viglas, U. Edinburgh

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