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GRID 2006 Call for Papers -- Extended dealine: April 21st, 13:00 EDT, 19:00 CEST

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GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing

Barcelona, 28-29 September

www.grid2006.org

The Grid conference series is an anual 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 conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where

new concepts can be introduced and explored.

The previous events in this series were: Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid

2001, Denver; Grid 2002, Baltimore; Grid 2003, Phoenix; Grid 2004, Pittsburgh;

and the sixth event, Grid 2005 in Seattle. All of these events have been

successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international

participation. Last year's event attracted about 400 registered 

participants. From the second event through the sixth, we have been known i

as the Grid Workshop affiliated with the Supercomputing SC conference series.  

For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference 

and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference.

The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by

Springer-Verlag, and the proceedings of the three most recent workshops

were published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We expect this year's

proceedings will join those of the last three years in the IEEE Computer

Society's Digital Library.

Grid 2006 has been labelled a CoreGRID event.

SCOPE

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Grid 2006 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but 

are not limited to:

     * Internet-based Computing Models

     * Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications

     * Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management

     * Middleware and Toolkits

     * Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools

     * Resource Management and Scheduling

     * Networking

     * Virtual Instrumentation

     * Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance

     * Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations

     * Architectures and Fabrics

     * Information Services

     * Security Issues

     * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments

     * Grid Economy

     * Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids

     * Performance Evaluation and Modeling

     * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues

     * Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications

Technical Papers

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Grid 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work  (also not

submitted elsewhere for review) reporting solid and innovative  results in any

aspect of grid computing and its applications. Papers should not  exceed 8

single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch  paper

(see IEEE author instructions, a LaTeX style sheet and Word format is

available, too). All bibliographical references, tables, and figures 

must be included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page limit 

will not be reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a 

PostScript printer.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to 

register and present the paper.

Proceedings: All papers selected for this conference are peer- reviewed and will

be published as a separate proceedings. After the event, the papers 

will also be published in the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author

instructions see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Special Issue: The best 6 to 8 papers from the conference will be 

selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special issue

of the Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS).

Important Dates

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1     March 2006            Paper submission site open

21    April 2006  Extended deadline for abstract and full paper submission

9     June  2006 Acceptance notification

1     July  2006  Camera-ready copy due

28-29 Sept  2006           Conference

Conference Organization

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General co-Chairs

Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA

Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain

Program Chair

Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA

Program Vice Chairs

Applications: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Data Management: Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA

Networking/Security/Infrastructure: Olle Mulmo, Center for Parallel 

Computers, KTH Sweeden

Scheduling/Resource management: Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing

Center, Poland

Tools/Software/Middleware: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK

Publicity Chair: Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de 

Catalunya, Spain

Proceedings Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Finance Chair: Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

Local arrangements chair: Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing 

Center, Spain

Tutorial Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA

Steering Committee

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Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA

Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany

Daniel S. Katz, JPL/Caltech, USA

Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria