6th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research

Wollongong, Australia, 2008
Thursday 24 January


http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/ausgrid08/

in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Jan 22 – Jan 25, 2008


Important Announcement: Paper submission deadline extended, see Important Dates.

AUSGRID 2008

The 6th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2008) will be held on Thursday 24th January, in Wollongong, NSW, in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Wollongong, Jan 22 - Jan 25, 2008.

Scope of the Workshop

Interest in Grid computing in Australia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its state partners are supporting e-Research by deploying a national grid infrastructure and working to grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. The Australian Research Council has recently funded a number of projects under a special research initiative in e-Research. The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Technology (DEST) has formed an e-Research Coordinating Committee to develop a framework for national support of e-Research.

Topics of interest for the symposium include:

  • Grid applications and e-Research.
  • Grid computing middleware and tools.
  • Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and metadata management and integration.
  • Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using grids.
  • Grid portals and problem-solving environments.
  • Grid economy.
  • Web services.
  • Semantic Web and Semantic Grid.
  • Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids.
  • Performance evaluation and modelling.
  • Next generation grid.

The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.

We expect to provide time for a panel session or group discussion on topics of particular interest.

Australasian Computer Science Week

The Australasian Computer Science Week is the annual meeting for computer science researchers and educators held in the Australasian region. It includes the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC), the premiere generalist forum for Australasian computer science academics, as well as several specialist conferences and workshops. Registration for ACSW enables participation in all the ACSW conferences and workshops, including AusGrid 2008.

Send questions to ausgrid08@easychair.org.