Call For Papers
 	
International Conference on

Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'08)

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 13 - 14, 2008

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf


In the last decade, grid computing has developed into one of the most important topics in the computing field. The research area of grid computing has been making particularly rapid progress in the last few years, due to the increasing number of scientific applications that are demanding intensive use of computational resources and a dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure.

Within this framework, the GADA workshop arose in 2004 as a forum for researchers in grid computing whose aim was to extend their background in this area, and more specifically, for those who used grid environments in managing and analyzing data. Both GADA'04 and GADA'05 were constituted as successful events, due to the large number of high-quality papers received, as well as the brainstorming of experiences and ideas interchanged in the associated forums. Because of this demonstrated success, GADA was upgraded as a Conference within On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM'06). GADA'06 covered a broader set of disciplines, although grid computing kept a key role in the set of main topics of the conference.

The objective of grid computing is the integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. The achievement of this goal is creating revolutionary changes in the field of computation, because it enables resource sharing across networks, with data being one of the most important resources. Thus, data access, management and analysis within grid and distributed environments are also dealt as main part of the conference.

Therefore, the main goal of GADA'08 is to provide a framework in which a community of researchers, developers and users can exchange ideas and works related to grid, high-performance and distributed applications and systems. The second goal of GADA'08 is to create interaction between grid computing researchers and the other OTM attendees.

GADA'08 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing 2008" federated conferences event that includes five co-located conferences:

     * GADA'08 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications)
     * CoopIS'08 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems)
     * DOA'08 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications)
     * ODBASE'08 (International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and applications of Semantics)
     * IS'08 (Information Security Symposium)

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Computational grids
     * Data grids
     * High-performance computing
     * Distributed applications
     * Cluster computing
     * Parallel applications
     * Grid infrastructures for data analysis
     * High-performance computing for data-intensive applications
     * Grid computing infrastructures, middleware and tools
     * Mobile Grid Computing
     * Grid computing services
     * Collaboration technologies
     * Data analysis and management on grids
     * Distributed and parallel I/O systems
     * Extracting knowledge from data grids
     * Agent architectures for grid and distributed environments
     * Agent-based data extraction in distributed systems
     * Semantic Grid
     * Security in distributed environments
     * Security in computational and data grids
     * Grid standards as related to applications


IMPORTANT DATES

   	Abstract Submission Deadline 	  	June 8, 2008
Paper Submission Deadline 	June 15, 2008
Acceptance Notification 	August 10, 2008
Camera Ready Due 	August 25, 2008
Registration Due 	August 25, 2008
OTM Conferences 	November 9 - 14, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to GADA'08 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference.

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready format.

The paper submission site will be announced shortly

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

GADA PC co-chairs

     * Dennis Gannon
       Computer Science Department
       Indiana University
       Lindley Hall, Room 215
       150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
       Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
       Phone: (812) 855-5184
       Fax: (812) 855-4829
       Email: gannon@cs.indiana.edu

     * Pilar Herrero
       Facultad de Informática
       Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
       Madrid (Spain)
       Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
       Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
       Email: pherrero@fi.upm.es

     * Daniel S. Katz
       Louisiana State University
       Louisiana (USA)
       Phone: (+1) 225.578.2750
       Fax: (+1) 225.578.5362
       Email: d.katz@ieee.org

     * María S. Pérez
       Facultad de Informática
       Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
       Madrid (Spain)
       Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80
       Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73
       Email: mperez@fi.upm.es

Program Committee (to be confirmed and extended)

     * Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
     * Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Canada
     * Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
     * Alberto Sanchez, UPM, Spain
     * Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
     * Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
     * Beniamino Di Martino, Department of Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy
     * Bhanu Prasad, Florida A &M University, USA
     * Blanca Caminero Herraez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
     * Carmela Comito, University of Calabria, Italy
     * Cho-Li Wang, Hong Kong University, China
     * Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
     * Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
     * Edgar Magana, CISCO Systems, USA
     * Eduardo Huedo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
     * Elghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France
     * Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
     * Felix García, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
     * Félix J. García Clemente , Universidad de Murcia, Spain
     * Francisco José da Silva e Silva, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brasil
     * Francisco Luna, University of Malaga, Spain
     * Geoff Coulson,, Lancaster University, UK
     * Gregorio Martinez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
     * Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
     * Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
     * Hong Ong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
     * Ignacio M. Llorente, UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
     * Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
     * Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
     * Jinjun Chen , Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
     * Jordi Torres, Barcelona SuperComputing Center (BSC-CNS), Spain
     * Jose Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
     * Jose L. Bosque, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
     * José Luis Vázquez Poletti , Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
     * Jose M. Peña, UPM, Spain
     * Juan A. Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
     * Kamil Kuliberda, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
     * Kostas Karasavvas, National e-Science Centre, UK
     * Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
     * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, NJ
     * Manuel Salvadores, University of Southampton, UK
     * Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
     * Maria Ganzha, Elblag University of Humanities and Economy, Poland
     * Mario Cannataro, Univ. of Catanzaro, Italy
     * Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
     * Mark Baker , University of Reading, UK
     * Markus Endler, PUC-Rio,
     * Mirela Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
     * Neil P Chue Hong , The University of Edinburgh, UK
     * Oscar Ardaiz, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
     * Pascal Bouvry, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
     * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
     * Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA
     * Rizos Sakellariou, Univ. of Manchester, UK
     * Rosa M. Badia, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
     * Ruben S. Montero, UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
     * Santi Caballé Llobet, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
     * Sattar B. Sadkhan Almaliky, Iraq - Alnahrain University, Iraq
     * Toni Cortes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
     * Víctor Robles, UPM, Spain
     * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
     * Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, USA
     * Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
     * Liviu Joita, University of Oxford, UK