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

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@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@man.poznan.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of Papers: May 15, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: Oct. 30, 2005