1st Call for Papers

Applications Grid Workshop (AGW)

In conjunction with the

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

PPAM 2003

Czestochowa, Poland,

September 9-10, 2003

The Applications Grid Workshop in Czestochowa, POLAND, seeks to provide a bridge between the application community and the developers and directors of grid policies and infrastructures. The Workshop results may be used by the national and European governments while building the global grid infrastructures.

The goals of this workshop are:

· to provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the grid application users, application developers and grid middleware developers

· to identify the key application requirements and scenarios on the grid

· to gather/spread the information about tools, toolkits and other mechanisms for grid application users and developers

· to broaden the grid community by encouraging new users to use the grid technologies

The workshop is seeking papers and poster presentations from different areas of grid computing, especially those concerned with applications and collaborative environments on the grid.

Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Grid Application Toolkits

· Collaborative Environments on the Grid

· Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the grid

· Experience on the characteristics of applications or particular application software that make them well suited for the grid

· Application requirements towards grid middleware and infrastructures, including networks

· Application Schemas

· Grid Services (Resource Management, Information Systems, Data Management, Policy Management, etc.)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Original papers are invited for the conference. Authors should submit full papers (draft version, Postscript or PDF file) to Jarek Nabrzyski, (workshop cochair, email: naber@man.poznan.pl) before May 15, 2003. Regular papers are not to exceed 8 pages. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics.

Papers presented at the Grid Workshop will be included into the proceedings and published after the conference by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Full camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be required by October 15, 2003.

The author's guide for preparing them in LaTeX will be available on the conference's home page http://ppam.pcz.czest.pl. The best papers will be (probably) published in the Journal of Grid Computing, edited by P. Kacsuk and I. Foster.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Ewa Deelman (General Workshop Chair), Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

Piotr Bala, ICM, Warsaw, Poland

Marian Bubak, Cyfronet, Krakow, Poland

Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan, Poland

AGW WORKSHOP OFFICE

AGW-PPAM 2003

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Noskowskiego 12/14

61-704 Poznan, POLAND

Send papers to: e-mail: naber@man.poznan.pl

CONFERENCE OFFICE

PPAM 2003

Institute of Computer & Information Sciences

Technical University of Czestochowa

Dabrowskiego 73, 42-200 Czestochowa, Poland

Tel. +48 606 878 654

e-mail: roman@k2.pcz.czest.pl

http://ppam.pcz.czest.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of Papers: May 15, 2003

Notification of Acceptance: June 15, 2003

Camera-Ready Papers: Oct. 15, 2003