7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research

Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
TBC 20 - 23 January


http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/ausgrid09/

in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Jan 20 – Jan 23, 2009


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

AUSGRID 2009

The 7th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2009) will be held in January, in Wellington, New Zealand in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Wellington, Jan 20 - Jan 23, 2009.

Scope of the Workshop

Interest in Grid computing in Australasia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity. In both New Zealand and Australia eResearch and Grid computing have been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations.

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 2009.

Send questions to ausgrid09@easychair.org.