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eInfrastructure Position (OWL and RDF)
by Edwards, Peter 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN Computing Science Software Engineer - eInfrastructure for Social Sciences Available immediately (21 month appointment) £27,857 - £33,262 per annum The PolicyGrid project within the Department of Computing Science invites applications for the above post, to work on a new eInfrastructure activity funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme. PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the National Centre for eSocial Science research nodes, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Semantic Grid in supporting collaboration, sharing and re-use of social science resources. ESRC has recently committed to the construction of an e-Infrastructure on the UK National Grid Service (NGS) to provide integrated access to a variety of resources for social science research, including datasets, tools, services and easy-to-use user environments. You will focus on the development of Grid services and software tools in the context of the metadata infrastructure and simulation workpackages of the eInfrastructure effort. These include (but are not restricted to) the following: developing a Grid based metadata/ontology infrastructure; making an existing natural language interface for creation of RDF metadata robust, pluggable and usable; portal development. The work will entail extensive collaboration with other sites involved in the eInfrastructure project, and regular access grid, telephone and face-to-face conferences. There will be a requirement to produce documentation throughout the project, to include: regular progress updates, workpackage reviews, software tool documentation. You should have a PhD in Computer Science, or relevant equivalent experience. You are expected to be a highly competent programmer in Java, and have experience of Semantic Web technologies (including OWL and RDF). Knowledge of Web/Grid services, e-science, and related areas would be desirable. The work will involve development of robust software, within a managed project environment; it is therefore important that you have knowledge and experience of software engineering principles and standards. The post is available until 31 December 2009 and is available immediately. For further details, including online application facility: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=YCS060RZ Closing Date: 24-Mar-2008 The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.

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CFP : 9th International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2008)
by Isao Kojima 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Call for Papers *************************************************************************** The 9th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008) 29 September - 1 October 2008 Tsukuba, Japan http://www.grid2008.org/ *** Submission Deadline: 19 April 2008 *** *************************************************************************** Sponsored by: The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (final approval pending) ================================= IEEE Grid 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================= Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, networking and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications in e-Science and businesses. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and user 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. The conference will feature invited talks, pre-coordinated workshops and refereed paper presentations. Grid 2008 welcomes paper and poster 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 2008 is hosted in the Science Park City of Tsukuba which is only 50km away from downtown Tokyo and only 90min bus ride from Tokyo/Narita International Airport. Your will experience well harmonized surroundings of wide variety of High Technologies and nature. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (http://www. cluster2008.org/) will be held on the same days and location as the Grid 2008. CFP of Cluster 2008 is available at the home page.. SCOPE ----- Grid 2008 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to: - Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications - Architectures and Fabrics - Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids - Cluster and Grid Integration - Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations - Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management - Grid Economy and Business Models - Information Services - Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance - Middleware and Toolkits - Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools - Networking and Security - Performance Measurement and Modeling - Problem Solving Environments - Programming Models, Tools and Environments - QoS and SLA Negotiation - Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments - Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications TECHNICAL PAPERS ---------------- Grid 2008 invites authors to submit original papers. Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length and be submitted as a PDF file. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. A separate conference proceedings will be published and will also be a part of the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author instructions visit www.grid2008.org. - PDF files only. - Maximum 8 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 6 pages for Posters. - Single-spaced - 8.5x11-inch, Two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format - Format instructions are available at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html and ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/ - Concerning the final camera-ready version: Maximum of 2 extra pages at $100/page. Camera-ready means PDF file must comply with IEEE Xplore formatting and style for publication. - Electronic Submission: Only web-based submission is accepted. The URL will be announced on the Grid 2008 web page. IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- Mar. 1, 2008 Technical Paper Submission Open Apr.18, 2008 Technical Paper Submission Due Jun. 9, 2008 Paper Acceptance Notifications Jul.22, 2008 Poster submissions Due Aug.10, 2008 Poster Acceptance Notifications CONFERENCE ORGANIZING CHAIRS AND COMMITTEES ------------------------------------------- General Chair: Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Kento Aida (NII, Japan), Henri Casanova (University of Hawaii, USA) Program Vice Chairs: Applications Daniel S. Katz (Louisiana State University, USA) Data Management Ann Chervenak (Information Sciences Institute, USA) Knowledge Management and Semantic Grid Isao Kojima (AIST, Japan) Networking/Security/Infrastructure Marty Humphrey (University of Virginia, USA) Scheduling/Resource Management/Runtime Environments Emmanuel Jeannot (INRIA, France) Tools/Software/Middleware David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) Poster Chair: Susumu Date (University of Osaka, Japan) Proceedings Chair: Sornthep Vannarat (NECTEC, Thailand) International Relation Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech, Japan) Local Arrangement Chair: Hidemoto Nakada (AIST, Japan) Financial Chair: Katsuya Nishi (Beyond Computing, Japan) Publicity Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda (University of Tokyo, Japan) Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany) Wilfled Li (UCSD, USA) Yoshio Tanaka (AIST, Japan) Conference Secretaries: Yuko Oshima (AIST, Japan) Mayumi Takita(ICS Convention Design Inc., Japan) Steering Committee Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) Steering Committee: Rosa Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Mark Baker (The University of Reading, UK) Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Dennis Gannon (Indiana University, USA) Wolfgang Gentzsch (D-Grid, Germany) Daniel S. Katz (Louisiana State University, USA) Craig Lee, (The Aerospace Corporation, USA) Heinz Stochinger, (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland) Warren Smith, (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) *********************************************************************

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Final CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008)
by Jyotishman Pathak 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

2nd International Workshop on Web Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA-2008) Special Theme: Dynamic Services Composition and User Steering Website: http://www.cs.uga.edu/~jfh/WSCA2008 July 8, 2008, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Affiliated with IEEE International Services Computing Conference 2008 Recent advances in networks, information and computation grids, and WWW have resulted in the proliferation of a multitude of physically distributed and autonomously developed Web services. Correspondingly, the construction and deployment of composite services by combining and reusing independently developed component services is an important capability in the emerging Web - based computing infrastructure. In particular, ongoing research in automatic and semi-automatic techniques of creating and managing service compositions is paving the way for business processes to continually evolve and be flexible--an important requirement in managing Information Technology (IT) complexity for big and small businesses. Typically, issues related to dynamic service compositions include developing approaches to handling service failures, changes in service functionalities, and changes to quality of service parameters. Other related topics include understanding external events, which are the sources of volatility in service compositions. In people-oriented service compositions, the element of human intervention further complicates the compositions and the manner in which compositions may be adapted. One example of this is user steering, which includes human involvement in interpreting dynamic compositions and making decisions on how the process will adapt to change. Exploring novel techniques such as mash-ups that support incremental and dynamic process evolution due to user steering is also an important topic of interest. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Services Computing Conference. SCC is a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of services computing, which in essence, has emerged as a new cross discipline that shapes the thinking of performing services business more efficiently and effectively. The workshop truly complements this theme of the conference. Additionally, for this year, we are including a special theme for dynamic service composition and user steering---topics in SOC research that have been lately gaining a lot of momentum in both academia and industry. We believe that the workshop presentations and discussions will not only bring out the current state of advances in service composition, adaptation and human involvement in constructing processes, but also provide valuable insights for future research and development avenues and for work-in progress in related areas. *Specific topics of interest include* - Formal methods in service composition - Verification of service composition - Reuse in service composition: service compatibility and substitution - Ontology-based approaches to service composition - Adaptation and evolution of services - Dynamic service selection and binding - Self aware, self-optimizing, and self-healing Web services and compositions - Modeling of change in functional, non-functional, and process semantics - Re-planning of service compositions - "People activities" and "People-initiated" processes - Service compositions in mash-ups - BPEL4PEOPLE - Human interaction workflow patterns - Case studies, and applications (e.g., in e-science and scientific workflows) *Submission guidelines* Authors are asked to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers must be limited to 8 pages and following the formatting of the IEEE Computer Science Proceedings template (http://www.computer.org/cspress+instruct.htm) Papers can be submitted electronically via EasyChair submission management system. At least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. *Workshop proceedings* A single volume of proceedings encompassing all the workshops (held in conjunction with SCC/SERVICES-2008) will be published by IEEE Computer Society. *Important Dates* Paper submission: March 8, 2008 (EXTENDED DEADLINE!!) Notification: March 31, 2008 Camera-Ready due: April 7, 2008 Workshop date: July 8, 2008 *Organizing Committee* Jyotishman Pathak, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Samik Basu, Iowa State University Marco Pistore, University of Trento Prashant Doshi, University of Georgia Rama Akkiraju, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center *Steering Committee* Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University Amit Sheth, Wright State University *Program Committee* (to be expanded) Budak Arpinar, University of Georgia Sanjay Chaudhary, DAIICT, India Nirmit Desai, North Carolina State University Xiang Fu, Georgia Southwestern State University Karthik Gomadam, Wright State University Anca Ivan, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Dearborn Nanjangud Narendra, IBM India Research Lab Marwan Sabbouh, MITRE Corportation Michael Sheng, CSIRO, Australia Biplav Srivastava, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Kunal Verma, Accenture Inc. Jian Yang, Macquarie University Haibo Zhao, University of Georgia *Publication Chair and Webmaster* John Harney, University of Georgia -- Jyotishman Pathak WWW: http://www.jyotishman.org

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