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Last CFP: WISE'05 Industrial Track in NYC
by Gagnon, Stephane 08 Jun '05

08 Jun '05

CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== WISE 2005 Industry Track http://elab.njit.edu/wise 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering November 20-22 2005, New York City, New York http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 ===================================================================== Sponsored by: - Telcordia - IBM - NJIT Supported by: - Object Management Group (OMG) - Integration Consotrium (IC) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The goals of the WISE 2005 Industry Program are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's business challenges, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work. We invite submissions on all topics related to web engineering including technologies, methodologies, and applications. Papers can take the form of detailed case studies, technical white papers, new methodologies, new standard specifications, benchmarking models, or any other contributions demonstrating innovative web engineering technologies, methods, and applications. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the conference CFP, as well as those listed below: 1. Technologies: a. Development of new web services standards b. Use of business process automation technologies c. Use of semantic web and grid computing d. Innovative solutions for performance optimization e. Benchmarking of leading runtime environments 2. Methodologies: a. Web engineering with a Model Driven Architecture b. Requirements engineering for web applications c. Software design reusing legacy systems and data d. Quality focus and use of Test Driven Development e. Benchmarking of leading web engineering tools 3. Applications: a. Case studies of major web engineering projects b. Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture c. Outsourcing and use of Business Services Networks d. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges e. Benchmarking models in selecting web IT vendors ---------- Deadlines: ---------- Abstracts due June 10, 2005 Papers due June 17, 2005 Decision notification Aug. 12, 2005 Camera-ready copies due Sept. 16, 2005 ------------------------- Guidelines and Submission: -------------------------- All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the regular conference proceedings. For easy identification, industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title". Please follow the guidelines of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) published by Springer: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html. Please submit your paper online in PDF format: http://elab.njit.edu/wisesubmit For more information, please contact the Industrial Program Chair. ------------------------- Industrial Program Chair: ------------------------- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research (jychung(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------------------- Industrial Program Vice Chairs: ------------------------------- Stephane Gagnon, NJIT (gagnon(a)njit.edu) Shu-Ping Chang, IBM Research (spchang(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------ Program Committee: ------------------ TBA

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CFP: The Second Grid Applications and Middleware Workshop
by Ewa Deelman 25 Apr '05

25 Apr '05

Grid Applications and Middleware Workshop 2005, Poznan, Poland (GAMW'2005) in conjunction with the SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS PPAM 2005 Poznan, Poland, September 11-14, 2005 http://ppam.pcz.pl/ The Applications and Middleware Grid Workshop in Poznan, POLAND, is the second workshop in the series. It seeks to provide a bridge between the application community and the developers and directors of grid policies and infrastructures. The Workshop results will provide input to middleware and infrastructure developers. The goals of this workshop are: *To provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the grid application users, application developers and grid middleware developers *To identify the key application requirements and scenarios on the grid *To gather/spread the information about tools, toolkits and other mechanisms for grid application users and developers *To broaden the grid community by encouraging new users to use the grid technologies. We are looking for papers from different areas of grid computing, especially those concerned with applications and collaborative environments on the grid. Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following: * Grid Application Toolkits * Collaborative Environments on the Grid * Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the grid * Experience on the characteristics of applications or particular application software that make them well suited for the grid, like checkpoint/restart functionality in grids, new challenges in data/information management * Application requirements for grid middleware and fabric infrastructures, including networks * Application Representations (Workflows, etc.) PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Original papers are invited for the conference. Authors should submit full papers (draft version, Postscript or PDF file) to Ewa Deelman, (workshop chair, email: gamw(a)man.poznan.pl <mailto:gamw@man.poznan.pl> ) before May 15, 2005. Regular papers are not to exceed 8 pages (in Springer LNCS format www.springeronline.com) Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics. The authors will be notified by June 30, 2005. Papers presented at the Grid Applications Workshop will be included into the proceedings and published after the conference by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Full camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be required by October 31, 2005. The author's guide for preparing them in LaTeX will be available on the conference's home page. WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Ewa Deelman, Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA * Norbert Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ann Chervenak, USC Information Sciences Institute Peter Brezany, University of Vienna Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck Ladislav Hluchy, Slovak Academy of Sciences Daniel S. Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Scott Koranda, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Craig Lee, Aerospace Corporation Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics Jacek Rokicki, Warsaw University of Technology Mathilde Romberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich Rizos Sakellariou, Manchester University Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ian Taylor, Cardiff University Elena Zudilova-Seinstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam Please send your papers or any questions to: e-mail: gamw(a)man.poznan.pl <mailto:gamw@man.poznan.pl> IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: May 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: Oct. 30, 2005

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CFP: NYC WISE'05 Industry Track
by Gagnon, Stephane 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

C A L L F O R P A P E R S ===================================================================== WISE 2005 Industry Track http://elab.njit.edu/wise 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering November 20-22 2005, New York City, New York http://www.cs.txstate.edu/wise05 ===================================================================== Sponsored by: - Telcordia - IBM - NJIT Supported by: - Object Management Group (OMG) - Integration Consotrium (IC) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The goals of the WISE 2005 Industry Program are to foster exchanges between practitioners and the academics, to promote novel solutions to today's business challenges, to provide practitioners in the field an early opportunity to evaluate leading-edge research, and to identify new issues and directions for future research and development work. We invite submissions on all topics related to web engineering including technologies, methodologies, and applications. Papers can take the form of detailed case studies, technical white papers, new methodologies, new standard specifications, benchmarking models, or any other contributions demonstrating innovative web engineering technologies, methods, and applications. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to those identified in the conference CFP, as well as those listed below: 1. Technologies: a. Development of new web services standards b. Use of business process automation technologies c. Use of semantic web and grid computing d. Innovative solutions for performance optimization e. Benchmarking of leading runtime environments 2. Methodologies: a. Web engineering with a Model Driven Architecture b. Requirements engineering for web applications c. Software design reusing legacy systems and data d. Quality focus and use of Test Driven Development e. Benchmarking of leading web engineering tools 3. Applications: a. Case studies of major web engineering projects b. Implementation of a Service Oriented Architecture c. Outsourcing and use of Business Services Networks d. Analysis of industry-specific trends and challenges e. Benchmarking models in selecting web IT vendors ---------- Deadlines: ---------- Abstracts due June 10, 2005 Papers due June 17, 2005 Decision notification Aug. 12, 2005 Camera-ready copies due Sept. 16, 2005 ------------------------- Guidelines and Submission: -------------------------- All industrial papers will be peer-reviewed and published in the regular conference proceedings. For easy identification, industrial papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title". Please follow the guidelines of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) published by Springer: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/ 0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html. Please submit your paper online in PDF format: http://elab.njit.edu/wisesubmit For more information, please contact the Industrial Program Chair. ------------------------- Industrial Program Chair: ------------------------- Jen-Yao Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research (jychung(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------------------- Industrial Program Vice Chairs: ------------------------------- Stephane Gagnon, NJIT (gagnon(a)njit.edu) Shu-Ping Chang, IBM Research (spchang(a)us.ibm.com) ------------------ Program Committee: ------------------ TBA

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CFP: ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Section on Scientific Workflows
by Bertram Ludaescher 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

This is a repost from a recent message to DBWORLD: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C A L L F O R P A P E R S SIGMOD RECORD, September 2005 Issue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Section on Scientific Workflows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guest editors: Bertram Ludaescher & Carole Goble ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today computational scientists across all disciplines (from biology, medicine, ecology, and other life sciences to chemistry, physics, geosciences, and astronomy) create ever increasing amounts of often highly complex data. Generated raw and derived data may come from wet lab experiments (possibly under control of a LIMS), large-scale data-intensive and compute-intensive simulations, or real-time observations e.g. from remote sensors. Technical challenges include not only the volume of data, but also the complexity of data of "metadata-intensive" applications. In order to support scientists in their data management and analysis tasks, scientific workflows have recently gained increased interest and momentum as a unifying mechanism for handling scientific data. While loosely related to the more traditional business workflows studied earlier by the database community, scientific workflows pose a quite different set of challenges due to the special nature of scientific data and the specific needs for large-scale data collection, querying, analysis, and visualization. Scientific workflows are often designed or depicted in a block diagram style, with connections indicating data-flow (and sometimes control-flow) between individual tasks. A comprehensive scientific workflow system should be able to schedule workflow tasks (typically in a distributed/Grid environment), monitor and control execution, allow on-the-fly visualization and computational steering, support user-interaction, facilitate "pause & rerun" of workflows, keep track of data provenance, and support various static and dynamic analysis and optimization techniques. Moreover, the underlying scientific workflow model and paradigm should facilitate component and subworkflow reuse. We invite contributions on all aspects of database technologies for scientific workflows (SWFs) including but not limited to: - conceptual modeling and design of SWFs - computation models for SWFs - scheduling, resource allocation, and planning for SWFs - static analysis, validation, verification of SWFs - distributed and Grid-based SWFs - web-service based SWFs (incl. overcoming limitations of web services) - data-intensive, compute-intensive, metadata-intensive SWF applications - data mining, data analysis, and statistics in SWFs - highly interactive SWFs - long running and non-interactive SWFs - transaction management and SWFs - fault tolerance in SWFs - scientific visualization and SWFs - problem-solving environments for SWFs (scientific workflow systems) - coupling SWF systems with other systems (databases, LIMS, statistics packages, visualization tools, etc) - data and workflow provenance in SWFs - knowledge representation and semantic extensions to SWFs ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper submission deadline : May 21th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 26th, 2005 Camera ready copies due : July 10th, 2005 Submitted articles should not exceed 6 pages in the 2-column, 10-point SIGMOD Record format (see http://www.sigmod.org/record/author.html) Please email your contributions in PDF format, using Subject: SIGMOD-Record/SWF to LUDAESCH(a)UCDAVIS.EDU. -- Bertram Ludaescher Dept. of Computer Science & UC Davis Genome Center University of California at Davis One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 530-754-8576 (ph), 530-752-4767 (fax) ludaesch(a)ucdavis.edu _______________________________________________ Please do not post msgs that are not relevant to the database community at large. Go to www.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld for guidelines and posting forms. To unsubscribe, go to https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/dbworld

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Updates to Scientific Workflows Survey
by Aleksander Slominski 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

hi, please send to me if you have any updates to projects listed at Scientific Workflows Survey (or information about projects that are missing). http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/swf-survey/ thanks, alek ps. it is on experimental basis but SWF has now ATOM feed: http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/swf-survey/atom.xml -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay

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Last CFP: Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN)
by Gagnon, Stephane 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students Last Call for Papers IEEE EEE05 International Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN) ===================================================================== Hong Kong - March 29, 2005 http://elab.njit.edu/bsn.html Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Held in Conjunction With IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e- Service (EEE-05) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hong Kong - March 29 to April 1, 2005 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05 & The IEEE EEE05 Workshop: Mobility, Agents, and Mobile Services (MAM) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong - March 29, 2005 http://voip.csie.ntu.edu.tw/workshop/eee05 Organized by Management Development Center (MDC) Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada e-Business Laboratory (eLab) School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA In Cooperation With Academic Partners: e-Centre for Infonomics http://www.infonomics.org.uk AIS SIGeBiz http://citebm.business.uiuc.edu/ebiz AIS SIGPAM http://www.sigpam.org AIS SIGSEMIS http://www.sigsemis.org Industry Partners: Integration Consortium http://www.integrationconsortium.org Object Management Group (OMG) http://www.omg.org Abstract: Business Services Networks (BSN's) are IT infrastructure intermediaries where Web Services can be securely published, reused, and invoked based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards. They allow vendors to sell their software as a service and offer business users a secure network to compose complex business processes. With proper permissions, users can automate several Business Process Management (BPM) functions such as: (1) analyze their requirements and match them to network resources, (2) model their business processes in a complete architecture, (3) define key operational conditions for processes, (4) execute their processes on the grid, and (5) monitor and manage processes in real-time. In addition, BSN's extend the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) of each network participant by providing reliable Business to Business (B2B) transaction management and Service Level Agreements (SLA). They also offer exceptional profit opportunities to vendors based on Utility Computing, On Demand, or Pay-Per-Use business models. They effectively represent a new form of e-marketplace where IT resources and business services are the commodities exchanged. Scope: We invite papers that address both business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including BSN operators, software vendors, business adopters, developers, and end-users. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. BSN Operators: a. Business Models and Architectures b. Spin-Offs from Outsourcing Providers c. Mobile Operators and Grid Services d. Industry-Specific B2B Integration Alliances e. Inter-BSN Alliances and Interoperability 2. Software Vendors: a. Market Value for Software Vendors b. SOA-Enablement of Software Vendors c. Pricing and Marketing On Demand Software d. Service Level Agreements (SLA) e. Software Vendors from Developing Countries 3. Business Adopters: a. Comparing IT Sourcing Models (BSN, ASP, etc.) b. International Provisioning and Adoption Barriers c. Real-Time Transaction Monitoring d. Quality of Service (QoS) e. Accounting Systems for Utility Computing 4. Developers: a. Process Oriented and Model Driven Architectures (UML, BPMN, MDA, etc.) b. Synthesizing Process, Data, and Component Models (MOF, BPSM, etc.) c. Process Specifications and Execution (WS-CDL, BPEL4WS, etc.) d. Composite Processes with Messages, Documents, and Services e. ebSOA, Business Patterns, and Universal Business Language (UBL) 5. End-Users: a. Service and Process Oriented Application Development Methods b. Intelligent Automated Process Discovery and Composition c. Semantic Web, Ontology Applications, and Domain Specialization d. User Specialization and Automated Coordination e. Security, Privacy, and Trust Keynote Speaker: To be announced. Paper Submission: Please, limit your paper to 8 pages, following the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. We only accept paper submissions in PDF format through our review system: http://elab.njit.edu/bsn. The submission of an abstract is handled by the same system. This is optional and authors are free to submit either or both an abstract and their full paper anytime until January 24, 2005. While our system is a "double-blind" review process, we are happy to confirm that we also accept papers that are formatted for a "one- side-blind" review. In that case, while authors are asked to remove all author information in the paper and PDF file, it may be possible that their work and references clearly reveal the author's identity. We want to reassure authors of "one-side-blind" papers that their work is equally welcomed to the workshop. Our reviewers will be asked to reveal any potential conflict of interest, and in that case they will be assigned other papers. As well, all reviewers will be asked to review both types of papers equally without any discrimination. For any other questions regarding this workshop or its submission and review processes, please feel free to contact workshop chairs directly. Journal Publications: The enhanced version of the selected papers published in the workshop will be invited for publication in: - A special issue on "Business Services Networks" in the International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC), Information Resources Management Association (IRMA), USA. It is expected this special issue will be published in October-December 2005. ISSN (Online): 1548-0615 - ISSN (Paper): 1548-0623, http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=4285 - A special issue on "Web Services, Business Processes, and Services Science" in the International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS), Inderscience Publishers, USA. It is expected this special issue will be published in January-March 2006. ISSN (Online): 1741- 1114 - ISSN (Paper): 1741-1106, https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=47 - A special issue on "Business Service Management and Service Level Agreement" in the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (IJIEM), Vol. 5, No. 2, Inderscience Publishers, USA. It is expected this special issue will be published in April-June 2007. ISSN (Online): 1741-5330 - ISSN (Print): 1476-1300, http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=39 Registration: Presenters and participants must register by February 28, 2005. Please use the registration instructions and fees provided on the EEE-05 web site: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~eee05/registration. Deadlines: December 25, 2004 Abstract Submission Due (Optional) January 24, 2005 Full Paper Submission Due February 14, 2005 Paper Acceptance Notice Sent to Authors March 1, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers Due March 29, 2005 Workshop Workshop Chairs: Dr. Stephane Gagnon School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA E-mail: gagnon(a)njit.edu Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada E-mail: patrick.hung(a)uoit.ca Steering Program Committee: Prof. Terry Wu Management Development Center (MDC) Faculty of Business and Information Technology University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Prof. Anup Kumar CECS Department University of Louisville, USA Prof. Elena Ferrari Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione University of Insubria at Como, Italy Prof. Barbara Carminati Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione University of Insubria at Como, Italy Dr. Kerry Taylor ICT Research Centre Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia Dr. Casey K. Fung Mathematics and Computing Technology Boeing Phantom Works, USA Dr. Vladimir Tosic Department of Computer Science The University of Western Ontario, Canada Prof. Aoying Zhou Department of Computer Science and Engineering Fudan University, China Prof. Jia Zhang Department of Computer Science Northern Illinois University, USA Prof. Hannes Werthner Honorary President, IFITT University of Innsbruck & EC3 Vienna, Austria Dr. Ravi Bapna Department of Operations and Information Management University of Connecticut, USA Dr. Morad Benyoucef School of Management University of Ottawa, Canada Dr. Oleg Gusikhin Supply Chain Management Research Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, USA Dr. Michael zur Muehlen Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Prof. Dan Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada Dr. Jen-Yao Chung T. J. Watson Research Center IBM, USA Dr. Richard Soley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Object Management Group (OMG), USA Prof. Pascal Pecquet Editor in Chief, http://www.cyber-gestion.com University of Montpellier I, France

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GGF13
by Ewa Deelman 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

Hi, Looks like many people will not be making it to GGF13 in Korea, so we will not hold a session at the next GGF. However, as we discussed in our previous meetings, we are planning to have a one day workshop at GGF14 so please stay tuned. -Ewa Ewa Deelman, PhD Research Assistant Professor, USC Computer Science Department Research Team Leader, Center for Grid Technologies USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, suite 1001 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 (310) 448-8408 http://www.isi.edu/~deelman

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Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN)
by Gagnon, Stephane 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

{Apologies for cross-postings; please send to interested colleagues.} Hi, Please join us in Hong Kong on March 29th, 2005 for the IEEE EEE05 International Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN) - http://elab.njit.edu/bsn.html. Business Services Networks (BSN's) provide infrastructure where Web Services can be securely published, reused, and invoked based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) standards. They allow vendors to sell their software as a service and offer business users a secure network to compose complex business processes. BSN's extend the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) of each network participant by providing reliable Business to Business (B2B) transaction management and Service Level Agreements (SLA). We invite readers of the GGF WFM Research Group mailing list to submit a paper for this workshop. We are particularly interested in hearing about how BSN's can properly integrate emerging standards into their architecture. We also welcome industry case studies about implementing the SOA using BSN's or other forms of On Demand software providers. Please see our CFP for details on using our online submission site. Thanks for your attention and looking forward to reading your papers. Best Regards, Stephane _______________________________________ Stephane Gagnon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Central Avenue Building, 3rd Floor Newark, NJ 07102-1982 Office: 973-596-8569 Fax: 973-596-3074 Email: gagnon(a)njit.edu <mailto:gagnon@njit.edu> Web: http://elab.njit.edu <http://elab.njit.edu/>

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Attendance at GGF in Korea
by Ewa Deelman 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hi, As most of you know the next GGF is scheduled for March 14-17 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Unfortunately, at this time it looks like the chairs of the Workflow Management group will not be able to attend GGF13. However, if there are a good number of the people from the list that will attend maybe someone would like to organize the session. Please send your thoughts to the list. Thank you and Happy New Year! -Ewa Ewa Deelman, PhD Research Assistant Professor, USC Computer Science Department Research Team Leader, Center for Grid Technologies USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, suite 1001 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 (310) 448-8408 http://www.isi.edu/~deelman

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Mime-Version: 1.0
by Jim Blythe 20 Nov '04

20 Nov '04

Hi, In case anyone is interested, this conference includes Scientific Workflows in the list of topics. -Ewa CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************ 13th Annual Mardi Gras Conference-- Frontiers of Grid Applications and Technologies 3-5 February 2005 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA http://www.mardigrasconference.org ************************************************ The Center for Computation & Technology at LSU is hosting the 13th Mardi Gras Conference, February 3rd to 5th 2005, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Mardi Gras conferences take place annually, concentrating each year on a different computational theme of current relevance. This years conference, titled Frontiers of Grid Applications and Technologies, will focus on Grid Computing, particularly how applications are exploiting emerging Grid and distributed computing environments as well as the supporting and enabling Grid technologies. Scope Grid Computing is an increasingly important field of computer science, promising a world where shared scientific research computers and instruments, experimental data, numerical simulations, analysis tools, research and development, as well as people, are closely coordinated and integrated in "virtual organizations". While Grid technologies and infrastructure are rapidly being developed and are now maturing through the guidance of bodies such as the Global Grid Forum, focus now needs to be turned towards the applications which will run in these new environments. Existing applications need to be adapted and tuned to exploit Grids, and more importantly new generations of applications need to be designed and developed to take full advantage of the possibilities of distributed infrastructures and collaborative working. We are seeking papers and posters of relevance to Grid and peer-to-peer applications and infrastructure, including but not limited to o Case studies of applications, including compute-, data- or network-intensive, collaborative, and tele-immersive. o Innovative and advanced scenarios, including dynamic data-driven, interactive and adaptive. o Application APIs and programming models o High speed and optical networks o Tools for developing and deploying applications. o Middleware and toolkits o Problem solving environments o Building and managing production environments o Virtual organizations o Scientific workflow o Resource management and scheduling o Portals and collaborative environments o Education Keynote Speakers To be provided Important Dates Submission deadline: 6th December 2004 Acceptance notification: 20th December 2004 Final papers due: 11th January 2005 Pre-conference registration closes: 11th January 2005 Conference dates: 3rd to 5th February 2005 Paper Submission The organizers invite authors to submit original and unpublished work as well as outstanding "work-in-progress" papers. Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 6 pages of double column text using=20 single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic submission by email is strongly encouraged. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Please email your papers to organizers(a)mardigrasconference.org, which is the preferred method for submission. Put "Paper Submission" in the subject of the email. All papers selected for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published as a part of the conference proceedings. It is expected that selected papers will be extended and published in a special journal=20 issue. Demonstration Session One session of the conference will be devoted to talks that include as part of the presentation a live demonstration of Grid applications=20 and/or Grid technologies. Papers to propose demonstration presentations should follow the format of the paper submission section above, with a page=20 limit of 3 pages, and will be part of the conference proceedings. A separate document of up to two pages should describe the proposed demonstration=20 and any networking or other requirements. For more information on the demonstration session, contact Dr Gerald Baumgartner at gb(a)csc.lsu.edu. Poster Submission Authors are encouraged to submit a title and abstract for posters. Each accepted poster presenter will be provided with a 36" x 48" tri-fold poster board. Wireless networking will be available during poster=20 sessions. Poster set up starts at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, February 4. Dismantling of poster displays will begin Saturday, February 5 at 8:00 a.m. and must be completed by Noon on Saturday. For more information on posters, contact Dr Seung-Jong Park at sjpark(a)bit.csc.lsu.edu. Associated Meetings Open Science Grid Workshop and GridSphere Meeting Registration Fees Advanced registration, $175.00 Late/on-site registration, $225.00 To qualify for advance registration discounts, your registration form=20 and payment must be received by midnight, January 11, 2005. Registration received after January 11 will be charged at the late/on-site=20 registration rate. Registration and more information: http://www.mardigrasconference.org Schedule Conference sessions will be held for full days on Thursday, 3rd February and Friday, 4th February, and for the morning of Saturday, 5th February. On Saturday afternoon an excursion will take participants to join in the celebrations for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, returning to Baton Rouge on Sunday morning at approximately 2 a.m. A full program will be available at a later time. Program Committee Edward Seidel (Chair), Center for Computation & Technology, LSU Peter Arzberger, San Diego Supercomputer Center Paul Avery, University of Florida Simon Cox, University of Southampton Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory Sara Graves, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Tomasz Haupt, Mississippi State University Hartmut Kaiser, Albert Einstein Institute Scott Koranda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Jaroslav Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin Mary Fran Yafchak, Southeastern Universities Research Association Local Organizing Committee Gabrielle Allen (Chair), Center for Computation & Technology, LSU Gerald Baumgartner, Computer Science, Louisiana State University Rajgopal Kannan, Computer Science, Louisiana State University Bijaya Karki, Computer Science, Louisiana State University Michael Khonsari, Louisiana Board of Regents Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University Seung Jong Park, Center for Computation and Technology, LSU J. Ramanujam, Electrical & Computer Engineering, LSU Edward Seidel, Center for Computation and Technology, LSU Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Karen Jones, Center for Computation & Technology, LSU Contact For further information please contact=20 organizers(a)mardigrasconference.org Sponsored By Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and CCT,=20 LSU. Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK Home Page: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ Tel: +1-202-247-8341 or +44-781110 3142

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