Apologies for crossposting CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - SECOND DIALOGUE WORKSHOP Second DIALOGUE Workshop: Applications-Driven Issues in Data Grids February 9 & 10, 2006 eScience Institute National eScience Centre 15 South College Street Edinburgh, UK. As more and more applications move towards distributed storage and processing solutions, new and interesting issues arise. Applications must handle varying, sometimes extremely large data sizes and increasingly complex data models. These applications also often must allow fine grained access control. Applications areas - from engineering to basic biomedical research to clinical research - share common challenges and encounter domain specific issues regarding the storage, management, and processing of requirements in a data grid environment. Future data grid middleware solutions will need to be able to deal with these issues in generalizable, globally applicable ways. Call For Participation The DIALOGUE workshops aim to bring together researchers and developers to create a framework that composes a range of complementary technologies and research efforts in order to make these readily available to researchers and scientific organizations world-wide. Presentations and discussions at the second DIALOGUE workshop will cover applications scenarios that identify what is required from data services in the short to medium term (1-3 years), and the obstacles preventing the achievement of their data integration goals. Presentations may discuss how such issues can be generalized and abstracted so that they can be addressed by existing grid middleware and/or may propose potential middleware approaches to address these issues. In particular, at this workshop we are interested in presentations addressing the following topics: - High level data access and integration use cases -- use of data abstractions in applications -- use of data integration in application workflows -- use of data transport in applications and data integration - Integration of diverse data resources -- schema integration, evolution and management -- data mediation services -- alternative data resources (e.g. web based data sources, streams, map data, files) -- distributed queries - Data provenance -- services for generating and maintaining provenance information -- requirements for minimal sets of provenance information Presentation abstracts (<1000 words) should be submitted to dialogue@datagrids.org by 15 January 2006. For event registration please visit: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/636/ For more details about DIALOGUE including presentations from the previous workshop please visit: http://www.datagrids.org/ Programme Committee * Co-Chair, Malcolm Atkinson (NeSC) * Co-Chair, Joel Saltz (OSU) * Member, Pinar Alper (University of Manchester) * Member, Chaitan Baru (SDSC) * Member, Peter Brezany (University of Vienna) * Member, Shannon Hastings (OSU) * Member, Neil Chue Hong (EPCC) * Member, Jason Novotny (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) * Member, Beth Plale (Indiana University) -- 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@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