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International Workshop on Agent based Grid Computing - AGC2007
at
7th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid 2007)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14-17, 2007

http://recerca.ac.upc.edu/conferencies/AGC2007/
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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 and sophisticated problem solving environments.
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.
As grid infrastructures mature and its complexity increases,
deciding which services 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 performance rates required to
maintain a particular application "behaviour" become a significant
challenge. There are still issues to be tackled such as:
semantically enhanced service descriptions and specification of
resources, autonomy, dynamic service composition, collaboration,
self-organisation and learning, intelligence and adaptability.
Some f these research areas have already been addressed within the
multi-agent systems community. Agent and multi-agent technologies
provide a promising approach to make Grid technologies smarter, more
flexible, and adaptable. However, Grid computing environments and
applications, with their inherent distribution, heterogeneity and
multi-institutional setups, impose new challenges to agent-based
approaches. Proposed solutions must be able to scale, be (self)
organised from a diversity of agents with different roles and
policies into dynamic Virtual Organizations (VOs), adapt to policies
in place on a given VO, and be able to change roles or migrate
between VOs to adapt to changing conditions and requirements. All of
this while maintaining stringent levels of performance.
Therefore agents could play an important role in Grid Computing, and
Grid Computing can offer useful test-beds for investigating Agent
related technologies. The aim of this workshop is to bring together
infrastructure developers, applications developers, and researchers
to inspire and encourage collaboration between these two
communities.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are encouraged (but not restricted) to submit in the
following areas:
- Agent frameworks and infrastructure to support the Grid
- Performance analysis/modelling of multi-agent based grid
applications and infrastructures
- Integrating Peer-2-Peer and mobile infrastructure with multi-agent
based grid systems for pervasive gird environments
- Software engineering methodologies and tools to support the
development of multi-agent based gird systems
- Support for managing and establishing virtual organizations using
agents
- Supporting service discovery, service composition and service
management using agent-based approaches
- Integrating ontologies with Grid Services description for service
discovery, composition and management
- Agent based tools for scientific problem solving (ontologies,
service composition, application monitoring)
- Agent-based support for high performance computing (load
balancing, process scheduling, process migration, application
optimization, communication optimization)
- Agent-based autonomic systems
- Agent-based monitoring, performance prediction and workload
characterisation
- Data migration and management via agents
- Grid markets mechanisms and agent-based computational economics
- Agent application in grid simulation environments
- Empirical results using agent-based simulation environments
- Environment description and metric definitions for Grid
simulations
- Knowledge generation and processing in complex decision
situations using autonomous agents
- Alternative approaches for managing Grid systems (such as nature-
inspired approaches)

Experience reports and application demonstrators are particularly
welcomed.


The workshop is based on six similar events that have been organised
over the last few years.

Five of these have been organised alongside CCGrid conferences in
the past:
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/agc2006
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/ccgrid/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid-2003/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid-2002/
http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/O.F.Rana/agent-grid/

and one at last year Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
conference:
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sgt05/


SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors should submit papers of not more than 6 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/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html 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. 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 to the
conference and workshop and present the paper.

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.

Please visit the workshop's web page for more details on the
submission procedure.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. The
papers are intended to be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of papers 8 December 2006
Notification of acceptance 15 January 2007
Camera ready version 5 February 2007 (hard deadline)


WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANISERS

Pablo Chacin
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors
UPC Campus Nord, Despatx D6-212
Jordi Girona, 1-3
08034 Barcelona,
Spain
Email: pchacin@...
Tel: +34 (0) 93 4011055
Fax: +34 (0) 93 4017055

Liviu Joita
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


STEERING COMMITTEE

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (PRELIMINARY)

Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Felix Freitag, University of Catalonia, Spain
Gianfranco Giulioni, Universita Politecnica delle Marche Ancona,
Italy
Sverker Janson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science - SICS, Sweden
Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research, USA
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
Dirk Neumann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Giselher Pankratz, The FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany
Line Catherine Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Fehti Rabhi, University of New South Wales, Australia
Simon Chong-Wee See, Sun Microsystem Inc., Singapore
Jan Staellaert, University of Connecticut, USA
York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Niranjan Suri, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition – IHMC, USA
Floriano Zini, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy