[TCPP-announce] Global and Peer-to Peer Computing 2004 -->Deadline extension: December 5

            Extended Deadline: DECEMBER 5
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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                        Fourth International Workshop on
                     GLOBAL and PEER-TO-PEER Computing
                          "From Theory to Practice"

                          (http://GP2PC.lri.fr)

             organized at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium
                   on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2004
                          IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2004

                         Chicago, USA, April 2004

  In cooperation with the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC)
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 SCOPE

Global computing systems aim to harness Internet-connected resources at a
global scale. A global computing platform can be built in a pre-defined,
stable, organized fashion (more like today's Grids) or can be
self-organizing, ad-hoc, decentralized, like in Peer-to-Peer systems.

Supporting computation on such systems raises a novel set of questions.
Because of size, autonomy and the high volatility of their resources, Global
Computing and P2P platforms provide the opportunity to revisit major fields
of distributed computing: protocols, infrastructures, security, fault
tolerance, scheduling, performance, services,  applications, incentives for
cooperation, etc. Moreover, new issues concerning installation, utilization,
flexibility and scalability become more relevant than ever.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work describing current
research and novel ideas in the area of Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing as
well as experiences with the deployment of Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing
technologies. Papers whose contributions are supported by experimental or
theoretical evaluations are strongly encouraged.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   * Global Computing and Peer-to-Peer platforms
   * P2P Merging / Interoperability with Grids (OGSA/I)
   * Software technology evaluations: Web Services, Grid services
   * Middleware, programming models, environments and toolkits
   * Protocols for resource management (discovery, reservation, scheduling,
monitoring)
   * Economic considerations of resource usage (protocols, accounting)
   * Storage in Global Computing infrastructures (strategies, protocols)
   * Performance measurements, benchmarking, and modeling of Global
Computing and Peer-to-Peer systems
   * Security
   * Result certification (detection/tolerance of corrupted results)
   * Parallel computing on large-scale distributed systems
   * Compute & I/O driven applications
   * Global and peer-to-peer computing applications (programmed from
scratch, ported from sequential or parallel  implementations, adaptations to
fit a global computing environment)

PAPER SUBMISSION

We invite you to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages in IEEE format (10pt
font, two-columns, single-spaced) at:

   http://gp2pc.lri.fr/REG-paper/

Or visit the workshop web page at http://GP2PC.lri.fr for all  information
regarding the paper submission.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: December 5, 2003 (extended, hard deadline)
Notification to authors: January 10, 2004
Final version of papers due: January 19, 2004

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

David Anderson, University of Berkeley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] project, USA
Franck Cappello, INRIA/LRI, Paris-South University, France
Henri Casanova, SDSC, California, USA
Andrew Chien, UCSD, California, USA
Adriana Iamnitchi, University of Chicago, USA
Spyros Lalis, University of Tessaly, Greece
Serge Petiton, University of Lille, France
Olivier Richard, INRIA ID, Grenoble, France
Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Arnold Rosenberg, DCS, Massachusetts, USA
Mitsuhisa Sato, CCP, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Domenico Talia, DEIS, University of Calabria, Italy
Bernard Traversat, SUN, Jxta, USA

WORKSHOP CHAIRS (and contact for info)

Franck Cappello
INRIA/LRI, Paris-South University, France
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adriana Iamnitchi
University of Chicago, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Adriana Iamnitchi
University of Chicago
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~anda
(773) 834-4416