GGF13 - secretary needed
For attention of those at GGF13 I need someone to take notes of the discussion at the Semantic Grid session on Wednesday. Would anyone be willing to volunteer? Many thanks -- Dave
The first morning of GGF included a presentation from the new GGF Chair, Mark Linesch, on some proposed changes in GGF. Since GGF12 there has been a period of consultation with a variety of stake- holders from the "grid ecosystem" and the GGF Steering Group is now making some proposals to improve GGF. The community is now invited to consider these and provide feedback. The main thing is a clarification of the GGF mission which is then reflected in an internal reorganisation of the steering group and an enlargement of the board of directors. The mission is "leading the pervasive adoption of grid computing for research and industry" and the proposal is that there will be three "councils" within the steering group to drive these three functions: - Community: Building a broad international community for the exchange of ideas, experiences, requirements, best practices - Standards: Defining grid specifications that lead to broadly adopted standards and interoperable software - Operations: Ensuring ongoing support of our mission and communication of our progress In the chair's briefing that followed, Dave Snelling explained that research groups (like Semantic Grid) are typically aligned with the community side and Working Groups with the standards side. These changes represent a significant change in character of the GGF leadership and I am encouraged that the explicit focus on community engagement will facilitate the work of our group. In the interim arrangements, the existing steering group members have picked up some acting roles - the acting vice chair of standards is Dave Snelling and of community is Geoffrey Fox (and since Geoffrey is a Semantic Grid co-chair and Dave is one of our area directors, that is a very Semantic-Grid-aware team :-) As some of you know, I am a new member of the steering group - my interim roles are liaison with W3C (my W3C counterpart is Philippe Le Hegaret) and also liaison with the academic computer science community. We're planning some new community tracks for GGF14 and GGF15. Other presentations this morning included OASIS (quite a comprehensive set of activities) and an update about european grid activities. Thanks -- Dave
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE EXTENSION) First International Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies (SGT05) www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sgt05 To be held at the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.aamas2005.nl) July 25 - 29, 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands Description ____________________________________________________________________________ Grid Computing is a novel and active research domain for complex, dynamic, distributed, and flexible resource sharing. Recent research on Grid has largely focused on issues of performance, scalability, and standardization. Yet, little has been done on aspects of intelligence and adaptability. Agent and multi-agent technologies provide a promising approach to make Grid technologies and solutions based on Grid technologies smarter, more flexible, and adaptable. The kind of questions which arise in this research area are twofold: On the one hand, technical questions concerning the Grid have to be solved, including advanced Grid architectures, semantically enhanced service descriptions, and the specification of resources. On the other hand issues related to autonomy, collaboration, and economic models need to be tackled. Key issues here are market-based allocation and scheduling of resources, pricing, payment, automated negotiation, market mechanisms, self-organization and learning, engineering of Grid marketplaces and many others. Topics of Interest ____________________________________________________________________________ This workshop focuses on the combination of agent-based research approaches and the Grid technology. Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: * Modeling of Grid environments * Agent-based mechanisms for Grid markets * Resource allocation in Grid scenarios using agent-based approaches * Automated negotiation for Grid resource allocation * Agent-based simulation of Grid environments and markets * Agent-based Computational Economics for Grid * Engineering of Grid markets and Grid architectures * Technical research on future application domains The workshop particularly welcomes interdisciplinary papers and those reporting on industry experiences and implementations. Submission Details ____________________________________________________________________________ Authors should submit original contributions electronically in PS or PDF format to Daniel Veit (veit@iw.uka.de). In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract (max. 300 words), with the following information: title of paper; names and affiliations of authors; name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax number of primary contact; abstract. The same information should be included on the first page of submitted papers. Papers must be written in English, with a maximum length of 16 pages. Please format papers according to the Springer LNCS style. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. All correspondence will be with Daniel Veit (veit@iw.uka.de). We envisage formal post-workshop publication of selected and revised contributions. Therefore, we are negotiating with publishers. Important Dates ____________________________________________________________________________ March 28, 2005 (EXTENDED) Submission of papers April 18, 2005 Notification of acceptance Program Committee ____________________________________________________________________________ * Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany) * Martin Bichler (Technical University Munich, Germany) * Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland) * Mauro Gallegati (University of Ancona, Italy) * Wolfgang Gentzsch (MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services, USA) * Sven Graupner (HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA) * Chris Kenyon (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland) * Leandro Navarro (University of Catalonia, Spain) * James Odell (Agentis, USA) * Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia) * Omer F. Rana (University of Cardiff, UK) * Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany) * Craig Thompson (University of Arkansas, USA) * Christof Weinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * Floriano Zini (ITC-irst, Trento, Italy) Workshop Organizers ____________________________________________________________________________ Torsten Eymann University of Bayreuth Chair for Information Systems, Germany eymann@uni-bayreuth.de Nick R. Jennings School of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK nrj@ecs.soton.ac.uk Joerg P. M�ller Intelligent Autonomous Systems Siemens AG, Germany joerg.p.mueller@siemens.com Daniel J. Veit (Primary Contact) University of Karlsruhe Information Management and Systems, Germany veit@iw.uka.de +49-721-608-8372 -- See http://www.cs.umbc.edu/agentslist for list info & archives.
Call for Papers The 2nd International Conference on GRID SERVICES ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT - GSEM'05 Erfurt, Germany, 19-22 September 2005 http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/conferences/gsem2005 To be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference Net.ObjectDays 2005 (NODE'05) http://www.netobjectdays.org Aims and Scope The Grid has emerged as a global platform to support on-demand virtual organizations for coordinated sharing of distributed data, applications and processes. Service orientation of the Grid also makes it a promising platform for seamless and dynamic development, integration and deployment of service-oriented applications. The application components can be discovered, composed and delivered within a Grid of services, which are loosely coupled to create dynamic business processes and agile applications spanning organizations and computing platforms. The technologies contributing to such Grids of services include Service-Oriented Computing, Semantic Web, Grid Computing, Software Engineering, Business Process Technology, and Agent Technology. The GSEM'05 conference aims at presenting and discussing the impact of the latest theoretical and practical results from the above-mentioned technological and research areas on the engineering and management of Grid services and service-oriented applications. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields and interests, including Web Services, Semantic Web, Grid infrastructures, software components, workflow, intelligent agents and negotiation technologies, service management, and those looking for new business and research cooperation opportunities in the area of Grid services and service-oriented applications. Suggested Topics The topics of the conference include all areas of grid service engineering and management, but not limited to: * Modeling, description and discovery of services on the Grid * Deployment, packaging, and distribution of Grid services * Grid service architectures, infrastructures and deployment environments * Software engineering for Grid service creation, development, and generation * Service provisioning and Quality of Service for Grid services * Workflow planning and composition for Grid services * Service level agreement negotiation and contracting * Adaptive management, coordination, monitoring and control of Grid services and applications * Formation and management of virtual organizations * Intelligent services and Grid service agents * Security, performance and reliability engineering in service Grids * Testing and benchmarking of grid services * Grid service business models and applications * Standardization aspects Submission Guidelines We invite original research papers, work-in-progress reports and industrial experiences describing advances in the above areas, that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences in parallel with this conference. Full papers must not exceed 15 pages and follow the author instructions of Springer-Verlag that can be found at www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, see also www.netobjectdays.org (Menu: For Authors). All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's e-mail address. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission. All papers submitted for GSEM'05 will be peer-reviewed and similarly to the previous GSEM'04 the accepted papers are planned to be published in a special proceedings by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A selection of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the upcoming special issue of a major international journal. Important Dates * Submission of Papers: April 24, 2005 * Notification: June 3, 2005 * Final Version Due: June 24, 2005 * Conference: September 19-22, 2005 Conference Chairs * R. Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * A. Polze (Hasso-Plattner-Institute at University Potsdam, Germany) Organising Committee * P. Braun (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * P.Tr�ger (Hasso-Plattner-Institute at University Potsdam, Germany) * H. Krause (Transit Online, Germany) Program Committee* * Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Science, Poland) * Alvaro E. Arenas (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) * Peter Braun (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * Jos de Bruijn (DERI, Austria) * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) * Lawrence Cavedon (Stanford University, USA) * Dieter Fensel (DERI, Austria) * Bogdan Franczyk (University of Leipzig, Germany) * Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * Yanbo Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) * Ying Huang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Patrick Hung (University of Ontario, Canada) * Shonali Krishnaswamy (Monash University, AUS) * Martin von L�wis (Hasso-Plattner-Institut/University of Potsdam, Germany) * Seng Loke (Monash University, Australia) * Zakaria Maamar (Zayed University, UAE) * David Martin (SRI International, USA) * Ingo Melzer (DaimlerChrysler Research Center, Germany * Josef Noll (Telenor, Norway) * Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin (CERN, Switzerland) * Roy Oberhauser (Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Lin Padgham (RMIT, Australia) * Daniel Scheibli (SAP Research Center, Germany) * Ming-Chien Shan (HP Lab, USA) * Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) * Do van Thanh (Telenor R&D, Norway) * Hua Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) * Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) * Gabriel Wainer (Carleton University, Canada) * Mathias Weske (Hasso-Plattner-Institut/University of Potsdam, Germany) * Stefan Wesner (University of Stuttgart, Germany) * Steve Wilmott (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) * Jun Yan (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia) * Yun Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) * Confirmed to date
I gave a brief report about GGF Semantic Grid Research Group activities to the GGF Architecture Area meeting yesterday (this is the GGF area that includes Open Grid Services Architecture and Semantic Grid). Summary notes below for info. -- Dave Semantic Grid Research Group has featured in the following GGFs: GGF7 Semantic Grid sessions GGF9 Semantic Grid workshop (invited papers) GGF11 Semantic Grid Applications workshop (refereed papers) GGF12 Semantic Grid tutorial At GGF13 we have a session for "outreach" and also discussions in preparation for charter revision. The workshops have been very successful. The Semantic Grid Primer exists in draft form but we want to do more work on this. There is also much work to be done on grid resource description ontologies. There is a european concertation activity in this space. The relationship with GGF CIM activities needs to be developed. This is not a straightforward activity. One of the reasons Semantic Grid is in the GGF Architecture area is to be alongside OGSA so that we can address the application of Semantic Grid technologies in OGSA. So far we haven't achieved much engagement, largely because the activities have not been ready for each other. There are clear indications that this time could now be coming up. Tracking the Semantic Web community, we observe a big push towards "Semantic Web Services" that should be relevant to GGF. Semantic Web Services will be presented, along with the notion of "Semantic Grid Services", at the GGF13 session. We also note that there was a lot of discussion about agents and the grid a few years ago. In some ways we have achieved some of this agenda with services rather than agents, but agents also brought autonomy. The need for this "self-management" is increasingly apparent in GGF, and the agents community is again showing interest in the Grid. Hence this is also a subject of presentation and discussion in the GGF13 session.
I just wanted to express my thanks publicly to our speakers in yesterday's Semantic Grid session. Kashif Iqbal gave an excellent introduction to Semantic Web Services and WSMO, and made the case for Semantic Grid Services within the context of WSRF. He also rasied the question of whether some form of GSMO (Grid Services Modelling Ontology) working group should be formed. It seems to me that an activity within GGF could usefully provide use cases to inform a GSMO activity. Hiroki Suguri also gave an excellent introduction to agents and Grid, including FIPA, Java Agent Services and AgentCities/openNet, and made the case for Semantic Grid as integration of Web services and Semantic Web using agents. I also took the opportunity to circulate the AgentLink Roadmap and newsletter for information. Both talks achieved exactly what was required - they introduced the grid audience to the thinking in those research areas and explained the relevance to Grid and Semantic Grid. I am also extremely grateful to Wolfgang Ziegler for coming along after chairing his own session and presenting WS-Agreement, which is a step toward negotiation in Grid Services and part of the negotiation picture that includes a significant body of work in agent based computing. Finally, thanks to Omer Rana for stepping in as temporary secretary (he did this once before - at the original Semantic Grid BoF!) and to those of you who could come along and particpate. Thanks -- Dave
I was reflecting on GGF13 with others (some "usual suspects", some new to GGF) over coffee towards the end of the event and thought it might be useful to relay some of these reflections to the list, especially to capture the event for those of you who have attended GGFs before but couldn't come to this one. Firstly it has to be said that our Korean hosts did a superb job. The venue, food and warm hospitality were all excellent (as was the entertainment - the dancing was breathtaking). I attended some of the sessions which featured Korean grid activities and it is indeed an impressive piece. This was my first trip to Korea and I look forward to an opportunity to visit again. For me it was a particularly productive meeting in terms of talking with leaders of other groups and discussing interaction with Semantic Grid. I have a strong sense that we are getting increasing attention from other groups - perhaps our time is now coming! :) In particular, as OGSA becomes more developed, people are beginning to recognise issues of service naming and description. I am also now convinced that we must take some part of CIM and map this into our Semantic Grid world (volunteers please! :) and I'm already making steps to talk to DMTF about this. Another interesting feature was that the phrase "the WSRF profile for OGSA" is beginning to be adopted, reminding people that there could be other infrastructures for OGSA. There is no diminishing of the WSRF effort, but an explicit recognition of the value of other approaches being explored in GGF. (This means some graphics on our powerpoint slides are out of date - we need to show things under OGSA other than WSRF! :) It remains to be seen whether the community will create a group to pursue, for example, a WSI+ based OGSA. (Given the legacy of web services in some of our projects, and the need to interoperate with a broad range of systems and services, I certainly see the value in establishing some means of interoperating between WSI-based services and WSRF solutions.) The community had previously mandated the steering committee to come to this event with proposals for taking GGF forward (I outlined these in my earlier mail), and these generated some discussion at the "town hall meeting" on Tuesday. Based on the (non-representative) sample of people that I spoke with, the proposed objectives in standards and community were generally well received. Any change will have dissenters (the status quo has dissenters too :) and it seemed that issues raised were focused on the process of change rather than the changes themselves. The substantive structural change (the membership of the board of directors) will presumably demand further discussion. At this event people seemed to get more of a sense of the overall GGF activity (and indeed Grid activity) rather than just their own areas - for example there seem to have been many new documents coming out, and good targets for future output (though I can't actually tell whether this is any different to normal!) There's a new GGF Web Site due for launch next month which will hopefully also help people get a clear idea of what's going on in GGF. Incidentally, there were many sessions (an ad hoc collection?) which featured ubiquitous computing in various forms, from appliance aggregation to sensor networks to smart homes. There is definitely a growing interest in the relationship between ubiqutious computing and the grid, and although some of this emphasis at GGF13 may have been a result of the Korean context, I think we can expect to see more of this coming through in GGF in the fullness of time. This was my first GGF as a steering group member and I'm getting the hang of my role - sitting in on BoFs, reporting, offering advice on GGF etc. Before the event we had put a lot of work in around getting the mission and objectives figured out to take to the community. My area, with my colleague Cees de Laat, is P2P, in which we have one group completed, one drawing to a close, one proposed (and it's also where the GGF Process group sits, which is actually about GGF process rather than grid processes!) So to GGF14 in Chicago in June, and then GGF15 again in North America (the provisional plans for GGF15 in Boston seem set to change - there was a suggestion it would also move to the following week). Some of the future event locations are also set, in various countries. We need to plan another Semantic Grid session, to deal with charter revision and get on with our work, at GGF14 or GGF15. Negatives? Apalling jet lag experienced one way or another (literally) by european and american attendees in particular. Good wireless but two different kinds of power socket (caught me out). And I should have taken my suit! -- Dave
This conference includes GRID ontology, Semantic middleware, QoS middleware, Autonomic Computing, Context Ontology in GRIDs, metadata in GRID, Self management. The conference web site is http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICGNS05.html -- Dave Call for Submissions The International Conference on GRID Networking and Services (ICGNS 2005) will take place in San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, September 25-30, 2005 jointly with the International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2005). Submissions could be regular papers, industrial positions, panels and tutorials. The submission deadlines are: Submissions May 1, 2005 Submissions for tutorial/panel May 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance May 30, 2005 Camera-ready manuscript June 20, 2005 Conferences September 25-30, 2005 Details on the conferences and submission instructions: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICGNS05.html (turn around the displayed logos to visit the sites of all co-located conferences) Looking forward for your contributions, On behalf of the Chairs and the Organizing Committees: Mazin S Yousif, mazin.s.yousif@intel.com Bruno Schulze, schulze@lncc.br Cosimo Anglano, cosimo.anglano@unipmn.it Gigi Karmous-Edwards, gkarmous@mcnc.org Alex Galis, a.galis@ee.ucl.ac.uk Petre Dini, pdini@cisco.com =========================================
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David De Roure