4th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid
2006)

in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week,
Hobart, Australia, Jan. 16 - Jan. 19, 2006

http://www.gridbus.org/ausgrid2006


Call for Papers
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Scope:

The Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid
2006) will
be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Hobart,
Jan. 16
- Jan. 19, 2006. This symposium follows on from two successful
Australian Grid
workshops (in Melbourne in 2002, the Gold Coast in 2003 and Newcastle in
2005)
which were organized by the Australian Grid Forum to promote grid computing
research, applications and collaboration in Australia. Scope of the
Symposium

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

The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Technology
(DEST) is actively supporting e-Research by initiating projects that
provide a
national grid infrastructure and grid-enable applications in areas such as
physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life
sciences.
Recently, it formed an e-Research Coordination Committee to develop a
framework
that encourages further update of Grid computing and its usage in various
application domains. The Australian Research Council is also
implementing an
initiative to support Grid Computing and e-Research in Australia.

Topics of interest for the symposium 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 grid.

The symposium 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.

We expect to provide time for a panel session or group discussion on
topics of
particular interest.

This symposium also serves as the fourth meeting of the Australian Grid
Forum.
The forum's steering committee meeting will also be held in conjunction
with the
symposium. This provides an opportunity for all participants to influence
activities of the forum.

Paper Submission:

The proceedings of the symposium will be published through the Australian
Computer Society Conferences in Research and Practice in Information
Technology
(CRPIT) series, under the title ACSW Frontiers 2006. 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.

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 referees. By submitting to the
symposium authors accept that they are aware of the Guidelines on Research
Practice in Computer Science by the Computing Research and Education
Association
of Australasia (CORE), available at http://www.core.edu.au/conduct.html. In
particular, authors are encouraged to review the points on authorship.

At least one author must register for ACSW to ensure the publication
appears in
the proceedings.

Papers (in PDF form) should be submitted using the online submission
system:
http://www.easychair.org/AusGrid2006/submit/. Any submission problems
please
contact tcma@... <mailto:tcma@...>.


Important Dates:

Sept. 29, 2005: Submission of full papers
Oct. 10, 2005: Notification of authors
Oct. 28, 2005: Final version due
Oct. 28, 2005: Author registration for ACSW
Jan. 16 - Jan. 19 2006: Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) 2006.


Program Committee Chairs:

Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne
Tianchi Ma, University of Melbourne

Program Committee:

Dave Abel, CSIRO
David Abramson, Monash University
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide
Gary Egan, Howard Florey Institute
Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC Grid Computing & Networking Services, USA
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University
Ken Hawick, Massey University
Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne
Jane Hunter, Distributed Systems Technology Center
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Junseok Hwang, Seoul National University, Korea
Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology
Piyush Maheshwari, University of New South Wales
Palaniswami Marimuthu, The University of Melbourne
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology
Yong Meng Teo, National University of Singapore
Chen-Khong Tham, National University of Singapore
Srikumar Venugopal, University of Melbourne
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong
Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney