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Author Submission Instructions
Software Technology Track
HICSS
Hawaii

Grid Computing: Adaptive Software, Tools and Applications.
HICSS 2008 Software Technology Mini-Track


Call for Papers

Grid computing environments are highly heterogeneous and dynamic. Software for grid computing must be able to adapt dynamically to changes in the underlying execution environments, in order to provide high performance, throughput, and quality of service to end users. As the scale of these environments grows Internet-wide, new models, tools and frameworks are necessary to ease programmability. Middleware layers can be used to tackle the complexity of non-functional properties such as load balancing, fault tolerance, data replication, and interoperability.

Adaptive software for dynamic grid computing is an important research area, as we move into Internet-wide (large scale) distributed computing environments. The focus of this mini-track will be three-fold:
  1. adaptive software, including programming models, languages and frameworks to facilitate developing dynamically reconfigurable applications,
  2. tools that facilitate grid computing, including middleware for message passing systems such as actors and MPI, grid computing frameworks such as Globus and Condor, and volunteer computing frameworks such as BOINC, and
  3. applications in science and engineering, including astro-informatics, bio-informatics, chem-informatics, phys-informatics and others that illustrate how different communities are taking advantage of grid computing to solve their domain-specific problems.

Papers are sought in the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

Key Dates

June 15, 2007 Paper submission deadline.
August 15, 2007 Paper acceptance notice sent to authors.
September 15, 2007 Final versions of papers due.
January 7-10, 2008 Conference meeting dates.

Authors of the best papers may be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a Special Issue of the Scientific Programming Journal.

Organizers

Chair: Carlos A. Varela
Department of Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180

Program Committee:

David Anderson, U. of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
Henri Casanova, U. of Hawaii at Manoa, U.S.A.
Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, U.S.A.
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.


For more information

Please contact hicss-grid AT cs DOT rpi DOT edu