Scope

The goal of the UNICORE Summit is to bring together researchers and practitioners working with UNICORE in the areas of Grid and distributed computing, to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of UNICORE.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest for the UNICORE Summit should be related to UNICORE and include but are not limited to:

• High-performance scientific and engineering Grid applications
• End user experiences
• Service-oriented designs adopting Grid and Web standards
• Grid scheduling, resource management, and brokering
• Theoretical models and algorithms
• Reliability, fault-tolerance, and autonomy
• Interoperability
• Security
• Performance evaluation
• Architecture extensions and new components
• Scientific and economic scenarios
• Business models and service provisioning
• Tools and environments for development, deployment, and configuration

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding paper format and style please visit the author's instruction link at LNCS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs.

Paper submissions

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to UNICORE, e.g. the described topics of interest. Submitted papers should be formatted in LNCS format and should not exceed 10 pages including figures and references. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format by sending it as an e-mail attachment to unicore-summit@fz-juelich.de. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.

Important dates

Submissions due:		April 11th, 2008 Extended until April 20th, 2008
Notifications of acceptance:		May 23rd, 2008
Camera ready version due:		June 13th, 2008
UNICORE Summit:		August 26th, 2008

Programm Committee

Program Chairs
Achim Streit (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer Gesellschaft SCAI, Germany)

Program Committee
Agnes Ansari (CNRS-IDRIS, France)
Rosa Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Donal Fellows (University of Manchester, UK)
Anton Frank (LRZ Munich, Germany)
Edgar Gabriel (University of Houston, USA)
Alfred Geiger (T-Systems, Germany)
Fredrik Hedman (KTH-PDC, Sweden)
Odej Kao (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Paolo Malfetti (CINECA, Italy)
Ralf Ratering (Intel GmbH, Germany)
Mathilde Romberg (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
Bernd Schuller (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
David Snelling (Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, UK)
Thomas Soddemann (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik - RZG, Germany)
Stefan Wesner (University of Stuttgart - HLRS, Germany)
Ramin Yahyapour (University of Dortmund, Germany)

Additional information

For further information please send e-mail to unicore-summit@fz-juelich.de.

The Call for papers is also available in text and PDF format.

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