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Workshop on

Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID

at the

Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island/Spain, August 26-29, 2008 http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia

Through recent advancements in network technology, graphics cards, and displays a new type of applications - real-time online interactive applications (ROIAs) - has become more and more popular.

Everyday life has been affected and transformed not only by the use of web technology, but also by collaborative multimedia applications, networked computer games, cooperative scientific visualisations, networked virtual environments and real-time graphical displays. Users dislocated all over the globe are enabled to work with a variety of tools and graphical user interfaces to communicate and jointly solve problems using sophisticated graphical interfaces. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a hot topic which will most likely increase the impact on ROIAs. The grid and its technologies is known to provide a sophisticated basis for ROIAs and collaborative work.

This event encourages paper submissions concerning the application and usage of real-time online Gird applications, as well as the technologies supporting them in scientific and industrial context. Authors are expected to emphasize the benefits of their real-time online applications for human users with focus on up-to-date characteristics of hard-, soft and middleware aspects.

This workshop offers the possibility to discuss the different approaches Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID and supportive technologies, to show the latest results, products, or research prototypes to potential users, and to establish connections between developers and users of associated technologies.

The following areas and related topics are of interest:

* Interactive grid tools and environments * Development of associated parallel and distributed computing solutions * Integration of networking and grid computing technology * Gaming approaches on the Grid * Approaches using novel interaction techniques * E-learning applications using Grid technology * Requirement studies for future Grid tools * Evaluation of existing ROIAs and practical experiences

Paper Submission: --------------------

We invite you to submit an extended abstract of 1 page (A4), describing new and original results, for oral presentation. Submission implies the willingness of one of the authors to register and present the described work.

After the presentation at the workshop a paper for the workshop proceedings is to be prepared by the authors. The submitted paper must already be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS (Springer Verlag). Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS format (excluding references and appendices).

Please follow the ROIA 2008 guidelines http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia for more information on paper submission.

Please include a cover page which lists the following: * name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of each author * name of the presenting author; name of the contact author * a maximum of 5 keywords

Submission details will be available on the webserver at: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia

Proceedings: ------------

The proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and distributed to all participants who paid their attendance fees for the workshop.

Important Dates (provisional): ------------------------------

May 19th, 2008 - Submission of the abstract May 26th, 2008 - Acceptance notification for presentation June 2nd, 2008 - Registration deadline August 25, 2008 - ROIA Workshop August 26-29, 2008 - Euro-Par Conference October 1st, 2008 - Submission deadline for the final paper October 15th, 2008 - Acceptance notification for the final paper October 31st, 2008 - Submission of camera ready version

Executive Committee: --------------------

Christoph Anthes (1), Thomas Fahringer (2), Dieter Kranzlmueller (1)

(1) GUP Linz (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing) Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria

(2) Institute for Computer Science University of Innsbruck, Austria

Program Committee: ------------------

Alexis Aragon Darkworks S.A., France

Damjan Ceric Amis d.o.o, Slovenia

Justin Ferris IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, UK

Frank Glinka Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany

Sergei Gorlatch Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany

Roland Landertshamer GUP - Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria

Mark Lidstone BMT Cordah Ltd., UK

Arton Lipaj Amis d.o.o, Slovenia

Jens Müller-Iden Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany

Vlad Nae Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Alexander Ploss Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany

Radu Prodan Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Christopher Rawlings BMT Cordah Ltd., UK

Mike Surridge IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, UK

Jens Volkert GUP - Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria

Contact Information: --------------------

Christoph Anthes eMail: roia@gup.jku.at URL: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia GUP Linz (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing) Johannes Kepler University of Linz A-4040 Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, Austria/Europe Telephone: (+43) 732 2468 8884 Facsimile: (+43) 732 2468 9496 or (+43) 732 2468 10

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