Call for Papers Grid Computing and its Applications Special Issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE) http://www.scpe.org (Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/yc6p3qx) Special Issue of the Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE) journal is currently being prepared and will be based primarily on extended and modified versions of papers accepted for two Workshops organized within the framework of the PPAM'2009 Conference (http://www.ppam.pl): * Grid Applications and Middleware (http://www.ppam.pl/?page=gamw) and * Large Scale Computations in Grids (http://lascog09.info.uvt.ro/) In an effort to broaden the scope of the Special Issue, we would like to invite submissions of additional papers matching one or more topic of either Workshop: GAMW Topics: * Cloud and grid computing * Virtualization Technologies * Customization of Virtualization Environments * Workflows, application representations * Collaborative Environments on the Grid * Distributed Application Toolkits and Frameworks * Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the distributed ecosystem * Distributed Data management * Experience on the characteristics of applications or particular application software that make them well suited for the grid, such as checkpoint/restart functionality, new challenges in data/information management * Application requirements for grid and cloud middleware as well as fabric infrastructures, including networks LaSCoG Topics: * Large-scale algorithms * Symbolic and numeric computations * High performance computations for large scale simulations * Large-scale distributed computations * Agent-based computing * Data models for large-scale applications * Cloud computing * Security issues for large-scale computations * Science portals * Data visualization * Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction * Programming models * Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable grids * Collaborative science applications * Business applications * Data-intensive applications Papers have to be formatted according to the instructions found at: http://www.scpe.org/?a=instruction All submissions will be refereed by at least two referees. Schedule: - submission of the paper: March 30, 2010 - acceptance decision April 30, 2010 - final versions of papers due: May 30, 2010 Please submit your papers to: marcin.paprzycki@ibspan.waw.pl. The initial submission should consist of a PDF file ONLY. A complete set of files (sources) will be required for final versions of accepted papers. Sincerely Yours, Ewa Deelman Norbert Meyer Marcin Paprzycki Dana Petcu Special Issue Editors