Call For Papers

INGRID 2008 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Instrumenting the Grid

April 9-11, 2008 Lacco Ameno, Island of Ischia, Italy

http://www.ingrid.cnit.it

The possibility to perform measurement tasks and experiments on complex tele-laboratory structures is gaining momentum as a relevant aspect in a number of areas, from scientific and technological research, to environmental monitoring, to distance learning and training. Grid architectures (or, more generally, Service Oriented Architectures - SOA), viewed as tools for the integration of distributed resources, play a significant role, not only as managers of computational resources, but increasingly as aggregators of measurement instrumentation and pervasive large-scale data acquisition platforms. In this context, the functionality of a grid architecture allows managing, maintaining and exploiting heterogeneous instrumentation and acquisition devices in a unified way, by providing standardized interfaces and common work environments to their users. This is achieved through the properties of isolation from the physical network and from the peculiarities of the instrumentation, granted by standard middleware, together with secure and flexible mechanisms to seek, access, and aggregate distributed resources. The 1st Workshop in this series was held in Sorrento, Italy, in July 2005, within the framework of the International Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. It was devoted to the investigation of the main issues related to the sustainable realization of tele-laboratories, where real and virtual instrumentation can be shared and used in a collaborative environment. The second workshop was held in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, in April 2006. The current edition of the Workshop focuses on all aspects related to the effective exploitation of remote instrumentation on the Grid. These include middleware architecture, high-speed networking in support of Grid applications, wireless Grid for acquisition devices and sensor networks, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology. The Workshop will be structured in technical sessions, some of which will be organized by leading researchers in the field, and will accommodate both invited and regular papers, selected on an open-call basis. The technical program will also include a poster session, where presentations will refer to short papers reporting prominent - but still in progress - research work. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. Contributions are solicited on all advanced research issues concerning the theme of the Workshop, and particularly in (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Grid architectures with real-time control - Grid middleware extensions for remote control of instruments and devices - Resource Management - Tele-measurement techniques - Distributed synchronization and calibration - Workflow management for large-scale experiments - Virtualization technology - Visualization techniques - Distributed data acquisition and sensor networks - Management of large data sets - Mobile and wireless grids - Management of large-scale physics experiments - Networking solutions in support of Grid architectures - Reliability and fault tolerance - Supporting interactive applications in the grid environment - Collaborative environments for the Grid

IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: January 15th, 2008 - Acceptance notification: February 28, 2008 - Camera ready copy due: March 14, 2008

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - Manuscripts to be considered as regular papers should be original work limited to 20 double-spaced pages. - Work-in-progress papers to be considered for the poster session should be limited to 10 double-spaced pages. - Any paper submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. - Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader, or Postscript. All submissions must be done through the Web site (http://www.ingrid.cnit.it) or sent by e-mail to the workshop Program Chairs. - Electronic versions of the papers will be available at the Workshop. - The proceedings will be published in book form after the Workshop (contacts with Springer, which published the previous Workshops' books, are currently undertaken).

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy (e-mail: franco.davoli@cnit.it) Sandro Zappatore, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy (e-mail: sandro.zappatore@cnit.it)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Norbert Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland (e-mail: meyer@man.poznan.pl) Roberto Pugliese, ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy (e-mail: pugliese@elettra.trieste.it)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE Davide Adami, CNIT, Pisa, Italy Oreste Andrisano, University of Bologna, Italy Luigino Benetazzo, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Bertocco, University of Padova, Italy Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Raffaele Bolla, University of Genoa, Italy Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland Eusebi Calle, University of Girona, Spain Isabel Campos Plasencia, Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Romeo C. Ciobanu, Technical University „Gh. Asachi" of Iasi, Romania David Colling, Imperial College, London, UK Luca Caviglione, ISSIA-CNR, Genoa, Italy Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marcio Faerman, Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP), Brazil Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy Erina Ferro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Peter Hobson, Brunel University, London, UK Admela Jukan, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Peter Kacsuk, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Tatiana Kalganova, Brunel University, London, UK Yuri Kalvachev, Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Fotis Karayannis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Rainer Keller, High Perf. Computing Centre Stuttgart, Germany Harald Kornmayer, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Constantinos Kotsokalis, Greek Research & Technology Network-GRNET S.A., Greece Dieter Kranzlmueller, Joh. Kepler University, Linz, Austria Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Marcin Lawenda, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland Francesco Lelli, University of Lugano, Switzerland Vasilis Maglaris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Jesus Marco de Lucas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Gaetano Maron, INFN, Italy Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy Andrew Stephen McGough, Imperial College, London, UK Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Indiana University, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Giancarlo Parodi, DIBE-University of Genoa, Italy Marco Parvis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Laura Pearlman, ISI, USA Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Thomas Prokosch, Joh. Kepler University, Linz, Austria Ramon Puigjaner, University of Balear Islands, Spain Riccardo Raheli, University of Parma, Italy Roberto Ranon, University of Udine, Italy Marina Scapolla, DIBE-University of Genoa, Italy Michael Stanton, Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP), Brazil Maciej Stroinski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland Mathias Stumpert, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Tatsuya Suda, University of California at Irvine, USA Csaba Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Francesco Vatalaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Giorgio Ventre, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Stefano Vignola, CNIT, Genoa, Italy Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain William Yeager, Peerouette, Inc., USA T. Charles Yun, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), The Netherlands Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy

WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT Clotilde Canepa Fertini IIC - Istituto Internazionale delle Comunicazioni, Genoa, Italy e-mail: fertini@iicgenova.it

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