CFP: Grid Computing:  Adaptive Software, Tools, and Applications

Software Technology Mini-track at the HICSS-41 (2008)
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/


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 the mini-track is three-fold:
(i) adaptive software, including programming models, languages and
frameworks to facilitate developing dynamically reconfigurable
applications, (ii) 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 (iii) 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:

- Adaptive middleware for grid computing
- Programming technology for developing grid applications
- Dynamically reconfigurable distributed systems
- Large-scale distributed computing technology
- Internet computing frameworks
- Volunteer computing
- Web portals for scientific communities
- Computational science and engineering applications


Chair:

Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A.

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.

Key Dates:

June 15,  2007       Full paper deadline

August 15,  2007     Notification of accepted papers

September 15, 2007   Final (revised) paper submission

January 7-10, 2008   HICSS-41 Conference, Big Island, Hawaii

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

For more information, please see:

  http://wcl.cs.rpi.edu/hicss-grid/