FYI. We apologize if you received multiple copies of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers Fourth Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks GAN'06 http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/gan06 Organized At IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2006) May 16-19, 2006 Singapore http://pdcc.ntu.edu.sg/ccgrid2006/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Papers due on: December 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: January 21, 2006 Camera Ready Papers: February 21, 2006 CCGrid'2006 Symposium: May 16-19, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope ------ The rapid rise of the grid computing concept is leading to the development of a wide range of capabilities for managing distributed applications and services. These applications and services, in addition to the grid infrastructure itself, all rely on network communication. Effectively utilizing high-speed networks, however, is not entirely trivial. Network communication will also encompass far more than simple, point-to-point data transfers. Advanced network capabilities will include quality of service, security, filtering, reliable multicast, high performance transport protocols, monitoring, performance measurements and content-based routing, to name a few. In many cases, new network services will offer applications a control plane whereby it can control network behavior in the data plane. Hence, grid applications and middleware that can be more network-aware, and even topology-aware, will be able to achieve higher performance, and responsiveness while lower network demand. Meanwhile, performance and specific requirements of Grid applications will push the evolution of network protocols. For these reasons, the Workshop of Grids and Advanced Networks (GAN'06) will be convened as part of CCGrid 2006 to bring together researchers in both grids and networks to present the latest work integrating these two fields. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to : - Grids and High-Performance Networks - Communication Middleware - Multicast for Grids - QoS for Grids - Grid Network Security - Grid Network Services, e.g., monitoring, filtering - Transport protocol for Grids - Network resource allocation - Content-based Networking - Bulk Data Transfer - Active and Programmable Networks for Grids - Resource Discovery - Topology Construction - Network Protocols Enhancement for Grids - Grid Applications using advanced network capabilities - Optical network solutions supporting Grids You can find here http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/gan05 program and slides of last GAN workshop. Paper Submissions ------------------- GAN 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. GAN 2006 also encourages the submission of outstanding "work-in-progress" papers. Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or 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. To upload your paper, use the following link : http://www.easychair.org/GAN06/submit/ Proceedings ------------- All papers selected for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published as a part of the CCGrid 2006 Proceedings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs Dr. Laurent Lefevre and Pascale Primet INRIA RESO / LIP Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon 46, allee d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 07 - France Tel: +33 4 72 72 82 28 Fax: +33 4 72 72 80 80 Email: laurent.lefevre@ens-lyon.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Members ------------------------------ - Cosimo Anglano,Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy - Micah Beck, University of Tennessee, USA - Andrew A. Chien, University of California, San Diego, USA - Yves Deneullin, ID-IMAG, France - Michel Diaz, LAAS / CNRS, France - Wu-chun Feng, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy - Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom - James Griffioen, University of Kentucky, USA - Olivier Gluck, INRIA RESO/LIP, France - Robert Harakaly, CERN, Switzerland - David Hutchison, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC Grid Computing and Network Services, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, GUP, Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria - Tomohiro Kudoh, Grid Technology Research Center, AIST, Japan - Craig Lee, AeroSpace Organization, USA - Jason Leigh, UIC/EVL, USA - Gabriel Montenegro, SUN Labs, France - Hidemoto Nakada, AIST Tsukuba, Japan - Cong-Duc Pham, INRIA RESO / LIP, France - Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia - Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA - Volker Sander, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany - Osamu Tatebe, AIST Tsukuba, Japan - Brian Tierney, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA - Kun Yang, University of Essex, United Kingdom ---