[gce-rg] [Fwd: GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals - CFP]

[Mary Thomas <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Please circulate this to any interested groups that you think will 
> want to plan
> on attending or submitting papers.
>
>
> GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals
>
>                 Call for Participation
>
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> WORKSHOP UPDATES:
>
> * Date for workshop has been finalized by SC Committee:
>      Friday, November 18th, 8am - 12pm
> * Paper submission dates have been extended by 1 week to September 26, 
> 2005.
> * The Technical Program review committee has been finalized and 
> includes grid portal experts from both the US and Europe (see below).
>
> *Important Dates:
>      26-Sep-05:  Extended Abstract Due <---- delayed
>      08-Oct-05:  Acceptance Notification
>      18-Nov-05: Full Paper Submission Due at time of workshop
>
>
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> WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
>
> Grid computing portals have emerged to be important components of many 
> large-scale Grid computing projects. Portals provide well-established 
> mechanisms for providing familiar interfaces to secure grid resources, 
> services, applications, tools, and collaboration services for 
> communities of scientists. Furthermore, portals deliver complex grid 
> solutions to users wherever they have access to a web browser running 
> on the Internet without the need to download or install any 
> specialized software or worry about networks and ports, etc. As a 
> result, the science application user is isolated from the complex 
> details and infrastructure needed to operate an application on the grid.
>
> The portal development community is currently undergoing a revolution 
> as component-based architectures and services become standardized and 
> widely adopted. Grid middleware is also changing in response to the 
> services oriented architecture (SOA) approach to hosting services. The 
> move towards an SOA grid maps very well to the architecture already 
> employed by portals, further increasing their value within the grid 
> community.
>
> This workshop will focus on portal projects that are adopting these 
> new technologies and services. We seek papers from all aspects of 
> portal development including portal architecture design and standards 
> studies, toolkits developed in support of portals, as well as 
> high-level application portals that utilize these technologies.
>
> GCE 2005 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
>
>   * Project portals including: User Portals,Application Portals,
>        Science Gateway Portals,Education Portals
>   * Portal architecture and design, including: Portlets and portal 
> frameworks
>        (uPortal, Sakai, CHEF, GridSphere, WebSphere, etc); JSP; JSF;
>        Servlets; REST; Cocoon, etc.).
>   * Portal security models and solutions.
>   * Portal languages including Java, Python, Perl, PHP, etc
>   * User interface/usability studies.
>   * Middleware solutions in support of portals including: Web 
> Services; WSRF
>        Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP and 
> other standards;
>        Web services in support of Portals.
>
> Paper Submission and Publication:
>
> Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract paper on original 
> and unpublished work (also not submitted elsewhere for review) 
> reporting significant projects and results in any aspect of grid 
> portals and related technologies. Papers should not exceed 6 
> single-spaced pages of text using 10 point size type on  8.5 x 11 inch 
> paper (see author instructions below). Authors should submit a PDF or 
> PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. 
> Electronic submission will be done through the workshop website. 
> Emailed copies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not 
> possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the 
> authors to register and present the paper.
>
> Proceedings:
>
> All papers selected for this workshop will be peer-reviewed and will 
> be published in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: 
> Practice and Experience 
> (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/77004395). For 
> author instructions see 
> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/5361/ForAuthors.html
>
> Organization:
>
>   Workshop Chair:
>          Mary Thomas (SDSU) mthomas@rohan.sdsu.edu
>   Steering/Advisory Committee:
>          Dennis Gannon, Indiana Univ. (gannon@cs.indiana.edu
>          Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ. (gcf@indiana.edu)
>          Jay Boisseau, Univ. of Texas (boisseau@tacc.utexas.edu)
>          Rob Allan, Daresbury (r.j.allan@dl.ac.uk)
>   Technical Program Chairs:
>          Marlon Pierce (IU) (mpierce@cs.indiana.edu)
>          Jason Novotny (IU) (novotny@ncmir.ucsd.edu)
>   Technical Program Committee:
>          Alameda, Jay (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
>         Allen, Rob (Daresbury Labs, UK)
>          Baker, Mark (University of Portsmouth, UK)
>          Carafo, Massimo (University of Lecce, Italy)
>          Fox, Geoffrey (Indiana University)
>          Gannon, Dennis (Indiana University)
>          Haupt, Tomasz (Univ. of Mississippi)
>          Kelley, Ian (Louisiana State University)
>          Kosiedowski, Michal (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking 
> Center)
>          Kuba, Martin (Masaryk University in Brno, CZ)
>          Lin, Abel (University of California at San Diego)
>          Marru, Suresh (Indiana University)
>          Mueller, Kurt (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
>          Novotny, Jason (University of California at San Diego)
>          Parashar, Manish (Rutgers University)
>          Pickles, Stephen (University of Manchester)
>          Pierce, Marlon (Indiana University)
>          Roberto, Barbera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, IT)
>          Roberts, Eric (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
>          Severance, Charles (University of Michigan)
>          Thomas, Mary (San Diego State University)
>          von Laszewski, Gregor (University of Chicago/Argonne National 
> Labs)
>          Wehrens, Oliver (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max Planck 
> Institute, Germany)
>          Wilkins-Diehr, Nancy (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
>
>
> We look forward to seeing you at SC in Seattle!
>
> Mary Thomas on behalf of the GCE 2005 planning committee
>
>
> ===============================================================
> Mary Thomas                          Department of Computer Science
> mthomas@sciences.sdsu.edu  San Diego State University
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