Dear Dave, all: I am on the road and couldn't edit directly and email the Excel attachment. So, i append my ratings and comments below: old good plain text! best wishes =================================================================== Rizos Sakellariou, PhD email: rizos@cs.man.ac.uk School of Computer Science Tel: +44-161-2756257 University of Manchester Fax: +44-161-2756204 Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos =================================================================== ================================================================ Experiences Developing Health Grids in the UK Rating: 3 I would be prepared to give a rating of 4, if the proposal involved participation of non-UK international projects as well. ================================================================ Infrastructure for Highly Interactive and Computational Steering Applications Rating: 1 I am not sure, but i don't know on what experiences the presenters will draw upon. Since Nazir appears to be a research student, i wonder whether what will be included in the session will be much more than a PhD project presentation. ================================================================ Dynamic Service Level Agreements Rating: 4.5 Interesting, focussed proposal on a "hot" topic, good interaction with GRAAP. ================================================================ OMII-Europe - an Overview Rating: 4 Although the details of the presentation are not yet confirmed (according to the proposal), i think this is a good match with the criteria set. ================================================================ Full Economic Costing of Condor Pools Rating: 2 There is only UK interest here... ================================================================ Rapid Application Deployment on Condor Pools Rating: 2? It is not clear, but according to the summary it looks like the request is only for a 30 minute presentation... ================================================================ eArts and eHumanities - eScience technologies and methodologies in Arts and Humanities research Rating: 4.5 An interesting topic, however, i would like to see more involvement. At the moment it looks like it is only two sides: the TextGrid project and the AHeSSC. More involvement would justify 2 sessions, otherwise, this might be a candidate to reduce to 1. However, i think this proposal relates to a very interesting and timely topic, that should be accepted. ================================================================= e-Science Themes at the e-Science Institute Rating: 3.5 Although the theme is appropriate, i wonder whether it justifies a workshop session... ================================================================= NextGRID Architecture Workshop Rating: 5 Certainly, a 16M euro Grid project, with large industrial involvement, at its final year, will have something to say! The agenda looks fine. ================================================================= GridWay Metascheduler Rating: 3.5 I am not very familiar with GridWay, however, there appears to be some activity. I would have given a higher rating if the presentations from selected use cases (item 3) in the agenda, could be confirmed. ================================================================= Evolutions of GRIDs Towards Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities (SOKUs) Rating: 3 For sure, it is difficult to justify a 4 session workshop, especially, if the "detailed programme has not yet been decided and the speakers have not been verified". In addition, the agenda seems to be a mix of different things - doesn't seem to match the title and it probably needs to be more coherent. My suggestion, if the proposers agree, would be to offer one session (following the same argument that i made for NextGrid), to illustrate CoreGrid experiences and vision. ================================================================== Computational steering on the Grid Rating: 5 Good focussed proposal, international involvement, certainly of interest. ================================================================== Service Level Agreements in Grids Rating: 3.5 Certainly of interest, however, i would have liked to see more in the agenda about presentations, to give a higher rating. It might be worth thinking about a possibly merged, 3-session workshop with the dynamic SLAs topic... ================================================================== The Astronomical Virtual Observatory - Building Operational Services on Pervasive Grids: Standards in Use Rating: 4.5 An excellent proposal, for sure it makes a serious attempt to justify the need for 5 sessions, very good involvement. It looks to me as if everything could fit in 3-4 sessions. ================================================================== 2nd International Campus Grids Workshop: Continuing Interoperability Rating: 3? I am a bit unsure about this... ================================================================== Community Workshop: Experiences of using OGSA-DAI Rating: 3 There is nothing wrong here, but the topic might be limited in scope... ================================================================== Health-e Child Rating: 1 Not enough information. I'd suggest to absorb this into the very first proposal... ================================================================== Adoption of Grid Technologies in Astronomic Science Rating: ? This doesn't seem to be available from the web link. I seem to recall there was a separate attachment, but i can't find it at the moment... ==================================================================