Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
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http://research.bioinformatics.ulster.ac.uk/article.php3?id_article=81


Call for Papers

Special issue on Computational analysis and exploration of distributed data

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: January 15, 2006

Summary

We invite submissions for a special issue of the journal Concurrency
And Computation: Practice And Experience to address the exploration and
analysis of distributed data. Papers should describe practical
experience relating to the mining and visualization of distributed data
in eScience or analogous industrial and commercial contexts.

Motivation and Themes
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One the principal drivers behind the development of grid computing and
eScience is the "data avalanche" being experienced across a wide range
of scientific domains.

From astronomy to zoology, researchers are facing a rapid expansion in
the number and size of data sources available to them over the
Internet.

Data mining and visualization techniques can offer invaluable help in
the extraction of scientific knowledge from these large volumes of
data. Those trying to apply such data exploration and analysis
techniques in eScience, or in similar commercial contexts, face many
common challenges, independent of their application domain. These
include a range of the generic problems which characterise eScience and
grid computing, e.g. data integration, trust and security, data
provenance, workflow, service composition and interoperability.

Additional issues relate to the application of existing data mining and
visualization techniques to the distributed, and often very large,
datasets found in eScience. Solving these problems requires the
coordinated efforts by researchers from various disciplines.

From computer scientists designing the data exploration algorithms and
developing the computational infrastructure within which they will run,
to the researchers in diverse scientific fields who will use them to do
their science.

For this special issue we invite members of this multi-disciplinary
community to report on their progress to date.

Papers for this special issue could cover, but are not necessarily
limited to, the following topics:

o Example science and commercial drivers for the exploration of
distributed data and the requirements they place on computational
infrastructure;
o The applicability of current generic middleware to the exploration
of distributed data;
o The suitability of existing data mining and visualization techniques
for exploring inherently distributed and large data sources in e-Science
and commercial settings with similar data requirements;
o Collaborative data exploration (interactive data mining)

Timetable and Submission Process
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Submission deadline: January 15, 2006
Review results: March 15, 2006
Updated versions: April 15, 2006
Comments on updated versions: May 15, 2006
Second update: June 1, 2006
Papers to publisher: June 15, 2006

All submissions must be in electronic format, and should be sent to:
Omer Rana (o.f.rana@...) no later than January 15, 2006.

Format and Selection Criteria
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Please submit your electronic manuscript printable on A4 paper, double
spaced, using 10-12pt font size. There is no page limit, although
authors are encouraged to keep their contribution below 50 pages.
Papers will be reviewed and selected by the Special Issue Editors and
designated reviewers on the basis of technical quality, relevance to
the Special Issues focus, originality, significance, and clarity.

Please format your paper using the guidelines provided at
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/77004395/LaTexClassFile.html

Special Issue Editors:
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Werner Dubitzky,
University of Ulster, School of Biomedical Sciences,
Cromore Road, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
w.dubitzky@...

Robert Mann,
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh,
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ.
rgm@...

Omer Rana,
School of Computer Science and Welsh eScience Centre,
Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK.
o.f.rana@...


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