--------------------------CALL FOR PAPERS--------------------------

Agent based Grid Computing

at
6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid 2006)
May 2006, Singapore

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/agc2006/

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DESCRIPTION

Grid Computing is an active research area which promises to provide a flexible
infrastructure for complex, dynamic and distributed resource sharing. Recent
research on Grid has largely focused on issues of performance, scalability and
standardisation. Managing access to computing and data resources is a complex
and time consuming task. As Grid computing matures, deciding which systems to
use, where the data resides for a particular application domain, how to migrate
the data to the point of computation (or vice versa), and data rates required to
maintain a particular application "behaviour" become significant.

There are still issues to be tackled such as: semantically enhanced service
descriptions and specification of resources, autonomy, collaboration and
economic models, self-organisation and learning, intelligence and adaptability.
Many of these research areas offer new opportunities to Grid Computing
researchers. Some have already been addressed within the multi-agent systems
community. Agent and multi-agent technologies provide a promising approach to
make Grid technologies and solutions based on Grid and Cluster technologies
smarter, more flexible, and adaptable. Often, within the multi-agent community,
agents are restricted to small numbers of agents -- and often agents undertake
similar tasks. To support Grid computing, agents can offer different roles, be
organised into dynamic "groups", and be able to migrate between groups to
support load balancing. Therefore agents could play an important role in Grid
Computing, and Grid Computing can offer useful testbeds for investigating Agent
services. The Grid is not only a low level infrastructure for supporting
computation, but can also facilitate and enable information and knowledge
sharing at the higher semantic levels, to support knowledge integration and
dissemination.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together infrastructure developers,
applications developers, and researchers, who are working towards the vision of
a Grid using agent and multi-agent based technologies. The workshop will also
aim to inspire and encourage collaboration between these two communities.

TOPIC OF INTERESTS

Authors are encouraged (but not restricted) to submit in the following areas:

-Performance analysis/modeling of multi-agent communities
-Performance enhancement methodologies for mobile and multi-agent systems
-Agent frameworks and infrastructure to support the Grid
-Software engineering support for scalable multi-agent systems
-Support for managing and establishing multi-agent communities
-Approaches for managing Grid systems (such as nature-inspired approaches)
-Grid Economics and Business Models
-Supporting service discovery and service management using agent-based
approaches
-Recommender agents for scientific problem solving
-Ontology support for scientific applications
-Integrating ontologies with Grid Services
-Agent-based resource and service management in Grid environments
-Agent-based load balancing and metacomputing support
-Agent-based network monitoring and characterisation
-Data migration and management via agents
-Grid markets mechanisms and agent-based technologies
-Agent-based computational economics
-Agent application in simulation environments
-Modeling of economic systems using agent-based paradigms
-Empirical results using agent-based simulation environments
-Environment description and metric definitions for Grid simulations
-Evaluation of dynamic pricing and trading mechanisms using autonomous agents
-Generation of knowledge in complex decision situations using autonomous agents

Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly welcomed.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column text
using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x
11 manuscript guidelines (see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm for
instructions).

-All papers must be original work authorized to be released.
-No submission of material that has been previously published.
-Papers must be written in English language.

Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a
PostScript printer. Please do not embed specialist fonts (such as Asian fonts)
in the PDF. Electronic submission by e-mail is strongly encouraged. Hard copies
should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies
the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the
paper. Please e-mail your papers to
Liviu Joita - l.joita@...,
Bjoern Scnhizler - bjoern.schnizler@..., or
Pablo Chacin - pchacin@...,
which is the preferred method for submission. Put "AGC-CCGrid2006-Workshop" in
the e-mail subject. In addition, authors should submit an ASCII abstract, with
the following information: title of paper; names and affiliations of authors;
name, email, snail mail, phone number, and fax number of primary contact. The
same information should be included on the first page of submitted papers.
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee.

PAPER PROCEEDINGS

Papers are expected to be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE
Computer Society.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers: 1st December 2005
Notification of acceptance: 22nd January 2006
Camera ready version: 15th February 2006

WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANISERS

Pablo Chacin
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
UPC Campus Nord, Despatx C6-002
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona,
Spain
Email: pchacin@...
Tel: +34 (0) 93 4011055
Fax: +34 (0) 93 4017055

Liviu Joita (Primary Contact)
Cardiff University,
School of Computer Science and Welsh e-Science Centre
Queen's Buildings
5 The Parade, Roath
Cardiff CF24 3AA
UK
Email: L.Joita@...
Tel: +44 (0) 29 20874000 Extension No.: 77399
Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874598

Bjoern Schnizler
University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Information Management and Systems
Englerstraße 14
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
Email: bjoern.schnizler@...
Tel: +49 (0) 721 6088385
Fax: +49 (0) 721 6088399

STEERING COMMITTEE

Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Daniel Veit, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (as on October 10, 2005)

-Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
-Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
-Felix Freitag, University of Catalonia, Spain
-Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
-Gianfranco Giulioni, Universita Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
-Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden
-Chris Kenyon, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland
-Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
-Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
-Leandro Navarro, University of Catalonia, Spain
-Dirk Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-Giselher Pankratz, The FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany
-Fehti Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
-Simon Chong-Wee See, Sun Microsystem Inc., Singapore
-Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
-Jan Staellaert, University of Connecticut, USA
-York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-Niranjan Suri, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition - IHMC, USA
-Christof Weinhardt, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-Floriano Zini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy