Please forward as appropriate; my apologies to multiple recipients Call for Participation: 15th Mardi Gras Conference 30 January - 2 February 2008 Baton Rouge, LA http://mardigrasconference.org/ The 15th Mardi Gras Conference, to be held between January 30th - February 2nd , 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announces the approaching deadline for hotel booking (12/31) and issues this general call for participation. The theme of this year’s conference is: from lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the incremental adoption of key capabilities. The conference will include 3 keynotes presentations, 3 tutorials, 3 workshops, 15 accepted peer-reviewed papers, and a selection of reviewed posters. Additionally, the conference will have a banquet at a local Cajun restaurant, and will offer an optional trip to New Orleans to see some of the Mardi Gras atmosphere and a parade. Keynotes: Thursday: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Friday: Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium Saturday: Larry Smarr, Calit2 Tutorials (Thursday am): Introduction to the Condor High Throughput Computing System and the Metronome Build and Test System, Becky Gietzel Scientific Workflows: The Pegasus Workflow Management System Example, Ewa Deelman, Karan Vahi, Kent Wenger Swift: Scripting for fast and easy parallel computing with loosely-coupled tasks, Ben Clifford, Michael Wilde Workshops (Wednesday): Distributed Programming Abstractions Workshop - http://www.mardigrasconference.org/DPA_workshop.php Workshop on Economic Models for Distributed Systems - http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/emds2008/ Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications - http://www.mardigrasconference.org/GEA_workshop.php Accepted Papers: Oluwafemi Ajayi, Richard Sinnott and Anthony Stell. Dynamic Trust Negotiation For Flexible e-Health Collaborations Ian Chang-Yen, Denvil Smith and Nian-Feng Tzeng. Structured Peer-to-Peer Resource Discovery for Computational Grids Craig Lee and Nikos Chrisochoides. A (Condensed) Parametric Study of Optimistic Computation in Wide-Area, Distributed Environments Christian David Ott, Erik Schnetter, Gabrielle Allen, Ed Seidel and Jian Tao. A Case Study for Petascale Applications in Astrophysics: Simulating Gamma-Ray Bursts Sung Ho Park, Myung Jin Lee and Soon Ju Kang. Multimedia Room Bridge Adapter for Seamless Interoperability between Heterogeneous Home Network Devices Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer Rana and Ian Wootten. A Fuzzy Model for Calculating Workflow Trust using Provenance Data Christopher Rapier. High Speed Bulk Data Transfer Using the SSH Protocol Michael Ruth. Concurrency in a Decentralized Automatic Regression Test Selection Framework for Web Services Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman, Bruce Berriman, John Good, Daniel S. Katz and Gaurang Mehta. Workflow Task Clustering for Best Effort Systems with Pegasus Garry Smith, Mark Baker and Javier Diaz Montes. A Web 2.0 User Interface for Wide-area Resource Monitoring Anthony Stell, Richard Sinnott and Oluwafemi Ajayi. Supporting UK-wide e-Clinical Trials and Studies Cornelius Toole and Andrei Hutanu. Network Flow Based Resource Brokering and Optimization Techniques for Distributed Data Streaming Over Optical Networks Jeremy Villalobos and Barry Wilkinson. Latency Hiding by Redundant Processing: A Technique for Gridenabled, Iterative, Synchronous Parallel Programs Zhifeng Yun, Sun Chang, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen and Ashwin Bommathanahalli. Grid-enabled Sawing Optimization: from scanning images to cutting solution Xiaoming Zhang, Zhou Jun Li and Yijie Wang. A Distributed Topology-aware Overlays Construction Al-gorithm Posters: to be determined See http://mardigrasconference.org/ for more details, including https://www.cct.lsu.edu/register/mardigrasconf/mardigras.php for registration, and http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BTRCPHF-LCT-20080130/index.j... for hotel booking