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                     CALL FOR PAPERS


                       AxGrids 2004

         THE 2nd EUROPEAN ACROSS GRIDS CONFERENCE

            http://grid.ucy.ac.cy/axgrids04/

                    January 28-30, 2004
                      Nicosia, Cyprus

   Organized by CrossGrid, GridStart, and the University of Cyprus
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PURPOSE AND SCOPE

The 2nd European Across-Grids Conference  aims to examine the state of
the art in research and  technology developments in Grid Computing, as
well as to provide a forum  for the presentation and exchange of views
on  latest  grid-related  research   results  and  future  work.   The
objective  of the  Conference is  to bring  together the  academic and
industrial research communities working on Grid Technologies in Europe
and around the world.

Across Grids 2004  is organized by CrossGrid, a  European Union funded
project on  Grid research, GRIDSTART, the  EU-sponsored initiative for
consolidating  technical   advances  in  grids  in   Europe,  and  the
University of Cyprus. The Conference is hosted in Nicosia, Cyprus, and
continues the successful 1st European Across Grids Conference, held in
Santiago  de Compostela,  Spain,  on February  2003.   This year,  the
Conference will also host the  Second IST Concertation Meeting on Grid
Research,  which  brings together  key  European  Grid technology  and
application  developers involved  in  EU funded  Grid Projects.   More
information    is   available    at   the    conference    web   site:
http://grid.ucy.ac.cy/axgrids04/

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

         * Grid Architecture, Middleware, and Toolkits.
         * Grid Programming Models.
         * Tools and Environments for the Grid.
         * Data Management, Performance, Monitoring of Grids.
         * Problem-Solving Environments and Grid applications.
         * Grid infrastructures and testbeds.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Across   Grids   2004  solicits   full   research,  application,   and
large-testbed experience papers. In  addition, it solicits posters and
short   papers  reporting   work-in-progress.   Submissions  will   be
peer-reviewed by at least three  members of the program committee. The
Conference   plans   to  publish   selected   revised   papers  in   a
post-proceedings  volume in  the  Springer Lecture  Notes in  Computer
Science. Selected papers will be  invited to submit to a special issue
of the Scientific Programming journal.

Authors  are  invited   to  submit  original,  previously  unpublished
papers.     We     also     solicit     short     papers     reporting
work-in-progress. Papers  must be formatted using  the LNCS guidelines
of Springer  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/). Full papers  must be
at most 10 pages, whereas demonstration reports and poster submissions
should  be  limited  to  2  pages. All  submissions  will  be  handled
electronically,    at    the   web    site    for   the    Conference:
http://grid.ucy.ac.cy/axgrids04/. For more information, please contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

IMPORTANT DATES

     Paper submissions: Oct 30, 2003
     Author notification: Nov 30, 2003
     Camera-ready: Dec 15, 2003

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

    Conference General Chairs:
         Michal Turala, ACC Cyfronet & INP, Krakow, Poland
         Marc Parsons, EPCC, Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

     Program Committee Chair:
         Marios Dikaiakos, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus

     Posters & Demonstrations Chair:
         Jesus Marco, CSIC, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

     M. Bubak, Inst. of Comp. Science & Cyfronet, Poland
     B. Coghlan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
     J. Cunha, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
     M. Cosnard, INRIA, France
     Y. Cotronis, Univ. of Athens, Greece
     E. Deelman, ISI, Univ. of Southern California, USA
     M. Delfino, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
     M. Dikaiakos, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
     B. DiMartino, Second University of Naples, Italy
     J. Dongarra, Univ. of Tenessee, USA
     T. Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
     I. Foster, ANL and Univ. of Chicago, USA
     G. Fox, Univ. of Indiana, USA
     W. Gentzsch, Sun Europe, Germany
     M. Gerndt, TU Munchen, Germany
     A. Gomez, CESGA, Spain
     A. Hoekstra, Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
     E. Houstis, University of Thessaly, Greece
     P. Kacsuk, Sztaki, Hungary
     J. Labarta, Univ. Polytechnica Catalunya, Spain
     D. Laforenza, CNR, Italy
     V. Markatos, Univ. of Crete, Greece
     L. Matyska, Masary University, Czech Republic
     N. Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland
     B. Miller, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
     L. Moreau, Univ. of Southampton, UK
     P. Trancoso, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus
     R. Wismueller, TU Munchen, Germany
     T. Priol, INRIA/IRISA, France
     D. Reed, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
     R. Sakellariou, Univ. of Manchester, UK
     M. Senar, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
     P. Sloot, Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
     L. Snyder, Univ. of Washington, USA
     D. Walker, Univ. of Wales, UK

ABOUT CYPRUS

Cyprus is a  beautiful island, the third largest  in the Mediterranean
Sea, with  an excellent  climate, natural beauty  and archaeological
treasures. The island serves the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean as
a service, conference and business center. The Republic of Cyprus is a
modern country  with a  population of around  700000, due to  join the
European  Union on  May 2004.  Nicosia, the  capital of  Cyprus,  is a
rather  small   city  of   200000  people  with   excellent  services,
infrastructure and organization.  The city is 47 km  away from Larnaca
International Airport, which provides  daily connections to most major
European destinations.