=========================================================================== Grid 2012: The 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing http://grid2012.meepo.org September 20-23, 2012 Beijing, China =========================================================================== Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts. Grid 2012 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in grid computing. Previous events in this series have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. =========================================================================== Grid 2012 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Architecture Middleware and toolkits Resource management, scheduling, and runtime environments Performance modeling and evaluation Programming models, tools and environments Metadata, ontologies, and provenance Cloud computing Virtualization and grid computing Scientific workflow Storage systems and data management Data-intensive computing and processing QoS and SLA Negotiation Applications and experiences in science, engineering, business and society =========================================================================== Proceedings: The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. =========================================================================== Important Dates Papers Submission Due: 15 March 2012 Extended to 15 April 2012. Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 June 2012 =========================================================================== Paper Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original papers (not published or currently under review for any other conference or journal). Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grid12 -- Dr. Xuanhua Shi, Associate Professor School of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, 430074, China Tel: +86-27-87543529 ext 8016 Fax: +86-27-87557354 Email: xhshi@hust.edu.cn; http://grid.hust.edu.cn/xhshi