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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                         UNICORE Summit 2008
         Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26th, 2008
                  http://www.unicore.eu/summit/2008/

                    to be held in conjunction with

   Euro-Par 2008 -  European Conference on Parallel Computing 2008
    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26th – 29th, 2008
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The UNICORE Grid technology provides a seamless, secure, and
intuitive access to distributed Grid resources. UNICORE is a 
full-grown and well-tested Grid middleware system, which today is 
used in daily production worldwide. Beyond this production usage, 
the UNICORE technology serves as a solid basis in many European and 
International projects. In order to foster these ongoing 
developments, UNICORE is available as open source under BSD licence 
at http://www.unicore.eu.

The UNICORE Summit is a unique opportunity for Grid users, 
developers, administrators, researchers, and service providers 
to meet. Join us to get an inside view of UNICORE, share 
experiences, and discuss future developments.


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 (http://www.springer.de/comp/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 20th, 2008
Notifications of acceptance:  May 23rd, 2008
Camera ready version due:     June 13th, 2008
UNICORE Summit:               August 26th, 2008 


PROGRAM CHAIRS

Achim Streit (Forschungszentrum Jülich, 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 Jülich, Germany)
Bernd Schuller (Forschungszentrum Jülich, 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)


REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION 

UNICORE Summit 2008 registration is handled by the Euro-Par 2008
conference. Please visit the Euro-Par 2008 web page 
(http://europar2008.caos.uab.es/) for registration and 
hotel information. At least one author has to register and 
present the paper at the Summit.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For further information please refer to 
http://summit.unicore.org/2008/ or send e-mail to 
unicore-summit@fz-juelich.de.