For more Call for Paper information, please contact Ms. Jill Lin at jlin@twgrid.org.

Applications — High Energy Physics
Submissions should report on experience with High Energy Physics (HEP) applications that already exploit grid computing services, applications that are planned or under development, or application tools and methodologies. Topics of interest include:

Applications — Earth Sciences
Earthscience explores dynamic processes among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, natural hazards, ecological systems, and human habitation. Many of these application involve international as well as national collaborations of scientists and technologists. Submissions to this session cover results, technologies, methods and systems for distribution collaboration and computing in support of the Earth Science application area. Earth science has increasing needs for vast amounts of data with which to model, analyze and measure the history and evolution of the earth. This session should in particular address how these challenges are being addressed.

Environmental Monitoring & Disaster Mitigation
Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation is a globally important application area. Collaborative scientific research makes use of distributed systems of several types. The submissions for this session should describe results, technologies and methods applied to geological hazards and disaster mitigation distributed system software. Relevant areas of research include earthquake, volcano, landslide, tsunami, flood, subsidence, etc as well as environmental monitoring using data from a range of sensors (including satellites, urban environmental monitoring stations and oceanic or coastal buoys). Research developments, description of working systems, and novel ideas for future developments are appropriate for submission to this session.

Applications on Humanities & Social Sciences
Researchers working in the social science and the humanities have started to explore the use of advanced computing infrastructures such as grids to address the grand challenges of their disciplines. For example, social scientists working on issues such as globalisation, international migration, uneven development and deprivation are interested in linking complementary datasets and models at local, national, regional and global scales.

Similarly, in the humanities, researchers from a wide range of disciplines are interested in managing, linking and analysing distributed datasets and corpora. There has been a significant increase in the digital material available to researchers, through digitisation programmes but also because more and more data is now 'born digital'.

As more and more applications demonstrate the successful application of e-Research approaches and technologies in the humanities and social sciences, questions arise as to whether common models of usage exist that could be underpinned by a generic e-Infrastructure. The session will focus on experiences made in developing e-Research approaches and tools that go beyond single application demonstrators. Their wider applicability may be based on a set of common concerns, common approaches or reusable tools and services.

Grid Operations & Management
This session will cover the current state of the art and recent advances in managing the operation of large scale grid infrastructures. The scope of the session will include advances in monitoring tools and metrics, service management, the implementation and management of Service Level Agreements, improving service and site reliability, interoperability between grids, user and operational support procedures, and other topics relevant to general grid operations.

Grid Middleware & Interoperability
The track will highlight the major grid middleware developments intended for deployment on production infrastructures supporting research and business applications. The interoperability of these infrastructures and the middleware stacks to enable applications to migrate between and/or aggregate the combined resources of these infrastructures is of particular importance to facilitate a grid with global reach. The relevance of current and emerging standards for such interoperability will also be addressed.

Grid Security & Networking
Grid security and networking are at the forefront of the challenges in grid computing. Research communities require access to petascale networking infrastructures and sites that are operationally secure and performant. Opportunities for innovation exist in the areas of operational security, incident response, connecting grid services over untrusted networks, network monitoring, and coping with IPv4 address shortages by use of gateways, NAT, or IPv6. Submissions should address solutions to these and related security and networking issues.

Digital Library & Content Management
Digital libraries provide services for organizing, managing, accessing and displaying data within collections. Multiple digital library initiatives now build upon data grid technology to enable management of distributed data. Papers are sought that describe use of grid technology within digital library applications.

Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
This track will highlight the use of cloud computing virtualization technologies and how they can be used in the large-scale distributed computing environments in science and technology computing. Cloud computing dynamically instantiates virtual machine environments to support computation on demand. Grid computing shares dedicated resources using standard protocols. Papers on integration of the two approaches are desired. Also of interest are papers on integration of Cloud storage with data grids to support caching of data near cloud compute resources. Applications that use both approaches are sought.