Dear all, Please find attached the Call For Papers for: 6th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC2005) - Track on Methodologies, Technologies and Applications in distributed and Grid systems. Las Vegas, Nevada 11-13 April 2005 http://datadog.unile.it/itcc2005/cfp.htm http://www.itcc.info/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society This Conference Track aims at offering a forum of discussion where young researchers and PhD students could present their research activities, either at an early or mature phase. Best regards, Maria Mirto. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology) Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy phone: +39-0832-297304, fax: +39-0832-297279 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ******************************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ******************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track on Methodologies, Technologies and Applications in Distributed and Grid systems. ITCC 2005: IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society April 11-13, 2005 The Orleans, Las Vegas, Nevada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers http://datadog.unile.it/itcc2005/cfp.htm http://www.itcc.info ***************** Grids couple geographically distributed resources such as high performance computers, workstations, clusters, and scientific instruments. In particular Computational Grids aggregate computing power, Data Grids manage and analyze shared large-scale data set and Service or Collaborative Grids have the potential to allow real time processing of data streams from scientific instruments such as particle accelerators and telescopes in ways that are more flexible and powerful than are currently available in traditional systems. Recently, Grid technologies are being integrated with Web Services technologies to provide a framework for interoperable application-to-application interaction. Existing applications exploit these technologies in several domains. In health systems, the Grid offers the power and ubiquity needed to acquire biomedical data, process and deliver biomedical images (CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, etc) located in different hospitals, within a wide area. So, the Grid acts as a Collaborative Working Environment: physicians often want to aggregate not only medical data, but also human expertise and might want colleague around the world to visualize the examinations in the same way and at the same time so that the group can discuss the diagnosis in real time. Analysis of the problems relevant to the use of GRID in medical virtual environments will be appreciated. In Geographic Information Systems (GISs), the Grid exploits a dynamic infrastructure for retrieval and on-demand processing of remote sensing data. Grid Computing techniques can be used in the industry, reducing process time for improvement of design of some components and, in general, for supporting of complex simulations. In the virtual reality (VR), some applications in different areas such as entertainment, training, design valuation, data visualization etc., need of computing power and resources for non-immersive and immersive environments. Finally, bioinformatics applications call for the ability to read large datasets (e.g. protein databases) and to create new datasets (e.g. mass spectrometry proteomics data). These applications can require the ability to change (updating) existing datasets; consequently a Data Grid, i.e. a distributed infrastructure for storing large datasets, is needed. In the bioinformatics field, a Data Grid could prove to be useful to build Electronic Patient Record systems (EPRs) for the management of patient information (data, metadata and images), to support data replication, allowing the integration and sharing of biological databases and, generally, for the developement of efficient bioinformatics (in particular proteomics and genomics) applications. The main goal of the Conference Track is to discuss well-known and emerging data-intensive applications in the context of distributed and Grid systems, and to analyze technologies and methodologies useful to develop such applications in those environments. In particular, this Conference Track aims at offering a forum of discussion where young researchers and PhD students could present their research activities, either at an early or mature phase. Topics include, but are not limited to: Data intensive applications in distributed and Grid systems: - Grid for the following application areas: o Aeronautics o Astronomy o Astrophysics o Bioinformatics o Chemistry o Climatology o Cosmology o Earth observations o Earthquake studies o E-learning o Environment management o Fluid dynamics o Genomics o Geology o High energy physics o Industrial design o Medicine o Meteorology o Molecular engineering o Pharmacology o Proteomics Technologies and methodologies in distributed and grid-based applications: - Grid Portals; - Web and Grid Services; - Wervice Orchestration and WorkFlow; - Advanced Resource Reservation and Scheduling; - Databases and the grid; - Grid Information and Monitoring services and related (OO, Relational, XML) data models; - Grid Security; - Grid Workload and Data management services; - Agent architectures for grid environments; - Extracting knowledge from data grids; - Parallel and Distributed application (cluster and grid based); - Peer-to-Peer Systems for grid environments; - Simulation and Applications of Modeling; - Collaboration technologies. IMPORTANT DATES October 29, 2004 Paper Due December 19, 2004 Author Notification January 9, 2005 Camera-Ready Copy Note: The Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. A special issue of an international journal is being planned consisting of selected papers from this conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for the journal. SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or be unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit a 6-page summary of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords, before October 29 2004, in the IEEE format to the track chair: Maria Mirto, CACT/ISUFI (Center for Advanced Computing Technology) & SPACI (Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures) Consortium, c/o Engineering Faculty, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy, Voice: +39-0832-297304, Fax: +39-0832-297279, Email: maria.mirto@unile.it Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged.