******************************************************************* We apologize if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ******************************************************************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Usage of Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop Austin, Texas, USA, September 19, 2007 http://www.coregrid.net/sla-workshop2007/ to be held in conjunction with The 8th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2007) Austin, Texas, USA, September 19 – 21, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION As the Grid evolves to become an infrastructure for providing and consuming services in research and commercial environments, mechanisms are needed to agree on the objectives and the quality of such service provision. This could be facilitated by means of electronic contracts between service consumers and one or more service providers, in order to achieve the necessary reliability and commitment on both sides. Such contracts help to establish a well-defined relationship between a service provider and a client in the context of a particular service provision. This is especially important if the services or resources to be used come from different administrative domains, or if commercial service provision needs to be supported. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a promising approach to establishing these kinds of guarantees and relationships. This workshop will provide a forum to present current research and up-to-date solutions from research and business communities. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest for the Usage of Service Level Agreement in Grids workshop include but are not limited to: * Areas benefiting from SLAs * Languages to express SLAs (e.g. SLOs, BLOs, QoS, Guarantees, Penalties) * Protocols to conclude and negotiate SLAs * Technologies for management and observation of SLAs * Static vs. Dynamic SLAs * Business models & Grid economy * Validation techniques for SLA parameters * Comparison and matchmaking of SLA and policy descriptions * Managing user expectations via SLAs * Multi-party SLAs and SLA chaining * SLA-based resource discovery, co-scheduling and resource reservation * Registry Services and repositories for SLA * SLA-based trust management including VOs PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the CoreGRID Springer Series. For more information regarding paper format and style please visit the author's instruction link at http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/content/view/360/332. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments on the topics of interest. Submitted papers should be formatted according to the CoreGRID Springer style format (please see http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/content/view/360/332) and should not exceed 10 pages including figures and references. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format by sending it as an e-mail attachment to sla-workshop2007@fz-juelich.de. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: June 10, 2007 Notifications of acceptance: August 3, 2007 Camera ready version due: August 31, 2007 Workshop: September 19, 2007 PROGRAM CHAIRS Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, UK Philipp Wieder, Research Centre Jülich, Germany Ramin Yahyapour, University of Dortmund, Germany Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Christiana Amza, University of Toronto, Canada Francis Brazier, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany Michael Gerndt, TUM Munich, Germany Liviu Joita, Cardiff University, UK Bastian Koller, HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany Heiko Ludwig, IBM, USA Toshi Nakata, NEC Research, Japan Benno Overeinder, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Julian Padget, Bath University, UK Shamima Paurobally, University of Liverpool, UK Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Amit Sheth, University of Georgia, US Achim Streit, Research Center Jülich, Germany Luigi Telesca, Create-Net, Italy Daniel Veit, University of Mannheim, Germany Oliver Wäldrich, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany Steven Willmott, UPC, Barcelona, Spain ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For further information please send an e-mail to sla-workshop2007@fz-juelich.de. Information about registration, accommodation and other relevant information regarding the Grid 2007 conference can be found at http://www.grid2007.org/. -- Wolfgang Ziegler www.scai.fraunhofer.de/ziegler.html Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Tel: +49 2241 14 2258; Fax: +49 2241 14 42258 CoreGRID Network of Excellence www.coregrid.net Collaboration Gateway www.coregrid.net/cg Institute on Resource Management and Scheduling www.coregrid.net/irms