Call For Papers
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Abstract
The GCE 07 Workshop will bring together the science portal community to discuss and foster the exchange of ideas for the development of tools, methodologies and frameworks to build Grid computing environments. Our focus for this year's workshop will be the integration of Web 2.0 approaches into science gateways. As with GCE 05 and GCE 06 proceedings, the results of the workshop are intended to be published in a special edition of Concurrency Practice and Experience (http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/) under the journal guidelines.
Scope
Scientific portals and gateways have emerged as important components of many large-scale scientific computing and Grid projects. They provide well-established mechanisms for delivering user interfaces that can be used to access secure Grid resources, services, data, and applications for communities of scientists. In most cases access is enabled through a Web browser without the need to download or install any specialized software or worry about networks and ports. As a result, the science application user is isolated from the complex details and infrastructure needed to operate an application on the Grid.
Science portals and Grids in general have tended to focus on Enterprise-style technologies (Web Services, portlet-based portals, workflows). The emerging, so-called Web 2.0 technologies have demonstrated alternatives to the conventional science portal approaches, including REST style services, rich AJAX clients, and do-it-yourself mash-ups. Web 2.0 applications introduce as well many new and innovative capabilities for scientists (such as social bookmarking, tagging, and sharable citation tools).
We seek papers from all aspects of portal, gateway, and tool development including architecture design and standards studies, toolkits developed in support of Grid portals and gateways, and Grid middleware that supports gateways. This workshop will focus on projects and technologies that are adopting and integrating Web 2.0 technologies and services into their gateways. These can include both integration efforts of Web 2.0 with conventional portal technologies as well as new (ground-up) efforts. We as always strongly encourage submissions by groups that are application-oriented and include or work closely with domain scientists and high performance computing groups.
Topics
GCE 2007 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Integration of Web 2.0 technologies with science gateways.
- Applications of Grid Portals and Gateways (including User Portals, Application Portals, Science Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies).
- Design and architecture of Grid portals and gateways.
- Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gateways easier.
- Portal security models and solutions.
- Middleware solutions in support of scientific portals and Gateways including Web Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP and other standards;
- Interaction with Commodity and Commercial tools such as Perl, Python, Matlab, and Mathematica.
- Interaction with Desktop applications. - Summary papers that review a number of useful tools.
Paper Submission and Publication
Authors are invited to submit a full paper on original and unpublished work (which is also not submitted elsewhere for review) reporting significant projects and results in any aspect of Grid portals, gateways and desktops, as well as their related technologies. Papers should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages of text including images and references using 11 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch paper with 1inch margins. The document format is PDF. Electronic submission will be done through the workshop website. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Workshop proceedings will be published through SC07 proceedings. As in previous GCE workshops, follow-on, expanded papers will be invited for a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
