Last Call for Papers: 2007 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA"07), Ju

Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, GCA'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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Last Call For Papers

The 2007 International Conference on Grid
Computing and Applications (GCA'07)
Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Sponsors: Research Labs at
MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

Paper Submission Deadline: February 20, 2007
url: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/GCA07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of GCA'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

O Major grid initiatives
O Evolution of grid - any progress?
O Software integration technologies in grid systems
O Software engineering support for grid computing
O Grid technology and security
O Grid computing virtual organization and policy
O Grid computing security
O Grid information services
O Grid middleware and toolkits
O Grid monitoring, management, and organization tools
O User development environment and programming tools for grid
computing
O Evolution of grid standards
O Policy requirements and implications
O Internet-based computing models
O Creation and management of virtual enterprises
O Information/knowledge grids
O Architectures for grid computing
O Data grid management systems
O Resource management, reservation, scheduling, and load
balancing
O Resource discovery
O Performance evaluation and modeling
O Web services and web security in grid computing
O P2P computing
O Wireless enhanced grid systems
O Grid and cluster integration
O Programming models, tools and environments
O Grid architectures and fabrics
O Grid object metadata and schemas
O e-Science and virtual instrumentation
O Grid survivability
O Grid enabled virtual organizations
O e-Business applications
O Case studies
O Grid application and deployment environments
O Interconnects and protocols for grids
O Grid computing scenarios and applications in science,
engineering, and commerce (life science, CFD grids, business
process grids, physics grids, ...)

Submission of Papers:

Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
(about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007 (hra@cs.uga.edu). E-mail submissions
in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
(later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for
publication.)

The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously
published
or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page
of
the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
postal address, email address, and telephone number for each
author.
The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
independent of the conference program committee. The referees'
evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track
that
the paper has been submitted to. The track chair will make the
final
decision. Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
artificial
intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many
members
of the program committee for individual conferences include
renowned
leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final
stages
of their PhD programs) who are identified as such. Refer to the
conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
Massachusetts)
- Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
Austin (Austin, Texas)
- Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
- University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
- Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
Other Co-sponsors include:
- HPCwire
- GRIDtoday
- STEM Education Society
- HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
- International Technology Institute
- H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

GCA'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
(http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
science, computer engineering and applied computing.
Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
countries participating in the 2007 event.

The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
place at a common time. The main goal is to provide a forum for
exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact. The
model used to form these annual conferences facilitates
communication
among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. Both
inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering)
and
outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

Feb. 20, 2007: Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
March 20, 2007: Notification of acceptance
April 20, 2007: Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
June 25-28, 2007: The 2007 International Conference on Grid
Computing
and Applications (GCA'07)