Dear GRAAPians, as in the previous years we are organising the annual SLA in Grids Workshop as part of the IEEE Grid conferences. This year Grid 2009 will he co-located with OGF27 in Banff, which allows to participate in both events without additional travel effort and expenses. Please consider submitting a paper to the workshop and distribute this call among your colleagues. Accepted papers will be published in the CoreGRID Springer Series. Thanks & best regards Wolfgang -- 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 SmartLM - Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA: www.smartlm.eu CoreGRID Network of Excellence www.coregrid.net Institute on Resource Management and Scheduling www.coregrid.net/irms -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Service Level Agreements in Grids Workshop October 13, 2009 Banff, Canada http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/content/view/786/1/ to be held in conjunction with The 10th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2009) October 13 - 15, 2009 Banff, Canada http://www.grid2009.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION As Grids and service-oriented architectures evolved to a common 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. There is a clear trend to use electronic contracts between service consumers and one or more service providers, in order to achieve the necessary reliability and commitment on both sides. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the means to model and manage such contracts in a unified way. This workshop will provide a forum to present current research and up-to-date solutions from research and business communities. The workshop considers Grids but also generic models for SLA management. That is, market-economic strategies, negotiation, or monitoring are also of interest. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest for the 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 * Negotiation and agreement protocols and strategies * 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 * Monitoring, provisioning, enforcement of SLAs PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the CoreGRID Springer Series. 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-workshop2009@scai.fraunhofer.de. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: July 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 24, 2009 Camera Ready: September 30, 2009 Workshop: October 13, 2009 PROGRAM CHAIRS Philipp Wieder, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund University of Technology, Germany Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Christiana Amza, University of Toronto, Canada Dominic Battré, TU Berlin, Germany Frances Brazier, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Asit Dan, IBM, US Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany Liviu Joita, Cardiff University, UK Bastian Koller, HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, University of Manchester, UK Gregor von Laszewski, Rochester Institute of Technology, US Heiko Ludwig, IBM, US Toshi Nakata, NEC Research, Japan Julian Padget, Bath University, UK Shamima Paurobally, University of Westminster, London, UK Thomas Quillinan, VU University Amsterdam Omer Rana, Cardiff University, GB Igor Rosenberg, ATOS Origin, Spain Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK 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 send an email to sla-workshop2009@scai.fraunhofer.de Information about registration, accommodation and other relevant information regarding the Grid 2009 conference can be found at http://www.grid2009.org/.