Please forward to others who might be interested; my apologies for any duplicate copies received ========================================= The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008) Tsukuba, Japan Sep 29 (Mon) -- Oct 1 (Wed), 2008 http://www.grid2008.org/ Sponsored by: The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (final approval pending) ========================================= Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and user involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts. The conference will feature invited talks, workshops, and refereed paper presentations. Previous events in this series have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. This ninth event will be co-located with the Cluster 2008 conference. ======================================== SCOPE Grid 2008 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to: - Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications - Architectures and Fabrics - Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids - Cluster and Grid Integration - Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations - Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management - Grid Economy and Business Models - Information Services - Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance - Middleware and Toolkits - Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools - Networking and Security - Performance Measurement and Modeling - Problem Solving Environments - Programming Models, Tools and Environments - QoS and SLA Negotiation - Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments - Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications ======================================== TECHNICAL PAPERS Grid 2008 invites authors to submit original papers. Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length and be submitted as a PDF file. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. A separate conference proceedings will be published and will also be a part of the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author instructions visit www.grid2008.org. ======================================== IMPORTANT DATES Mar. 1, 2008 Technical Paper Submission Open Apr.18, 2008 Technical Paper Submission Due Jun. 9, 2008 Paper Acceptance Notifications Jul.22, 2008 Poster submissions Due Aug.10, 2008 Poster Acceptance Notifications ======================================== CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION General Chair: Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Kento Aida (NII, Japan), Henri Casanova (University of Hawaii, USA) Program Vice Chairs: Applications Daniel S. Katz (Louisiana State University, USA) Data Management Ann Chervenak (Information Sciences Institute, USA) Knowledge Management and Semantic Grid Isao Kojima (AIST, Japan) Networking/Security/Infrastructure Marty Humphrey (University of Virginia, USA) Scheduling/Resource Management/Runtime Environments Emmanuel Jeannot (INRIA, France) Tools/Software/Middleware David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) Poster Chair: Susumu Date (University of Osaka, Japan) Proceedings Chair:Sornthep Vannarat (NECTEC, Thailand) International Relation Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair: Hidemoto Nakada (AIST, Japan) Financial Chair: Katsuya Nishi (Beyond Computing, Japan) Publicity Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda (University of Tokyo, Japan) Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany) Wilfled Li (UCSD, USA) Yoshio Tanaka (AIST, Japan) Conference Secretaries: Yuko Oshima (AIST, Japan) Mayumi Takita(ICS Convention Design Inc., Japan) ======================================== -- Daniel S. Katz http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dsk/ Louisiana State University (225) 578-2750 (voice) (225) 578-5362 (fax) d.katz@ieee.org