Dear All,

Apologies if you get this multiple times.

Please forward this announcement to anyone you think might be
interested, and please consider submitting a paper to the workshop.

Thanks
Raj
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The Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research
(AusGrid 2005)
http://www.ausgrid.org/ausgrid2005/

to be held in conjunction with
Australasian Computer Science Week
Newcastle, Australia, Jan 30 - Feb 4, 2005
http://www.cs.newcastle.edu.au/~acsw05/

Call for Papers
===============

The Australasian Workshop on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2005)
will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week,
Newcastle, Jan 30 - Feb 4, 2005.

This workshop follows on from two successful Australian Grid Workshops
(in Melbourne in 2002 and the Gold Coast in 2003) which were organized
by the Australian Grid Forum to promote grid computing research,
applications and collaboration in Australia.


Scope of the Workshop
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Interest in Grid computing in Australia and internationally is rapidly
growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and
complexity.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its state partners
are supporting e-Research by deploying a national grid infrastructure and
working to grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy,
chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. The Australian
Research Council is also planning to implement an initiative to support
e-Research in Australia.

Topics of interest for the workshop include:
* Grid applications and e-Research.
* Grid computing middleware and tools.
* Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and
metadata management and integration.
* Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using
grids.
* Grid portals and problem-solving environments.
* Grid economy.
* Web services and Grid services.
* Semantic Web and Semantic Grid.
* Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids.
* Performance evaluation and modelling.
* Next generation grids.

The workshop is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and
New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable
collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and
participation from international researchers.


Paper Submission
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The proceedings of the workshop will be published through the Australian
Computer Society Conferences in Research and Practice in Information
Technology (CRPIT) series, under the title ACSW Frontiers 2005.
The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library.

Submitted papers should be at most 10 pages in length and conform to the
CRPIT formatting style. Formatting instructions can be found at
http://crpit.com/Authors.html.

Details of the process for submitting your paper will be announced
on the workshop web site http://www.ausgrid.org/ausgrid2005/.


Important Dates
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10 September 2004: Submission of full papers

15 October 2004: Notification of authors

12 November 2004: Final version due

12 November 2004: Author registration for ACSW

30 January - 4 February 2005: Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW)
2005.

Date of the workshop is to be announced, but will be sometime during
ACSW 2005.


Program Committee Chairs
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Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide
Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide

Program Committee
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Dave Abel, CSIRO
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Markus Buchhorn, Australian National University
Ken Hawick, Massey University
Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne
Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology
Jon Smillie, Australian National University
Lyle Winton, University of Melbourne
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