DESCRIPTION

Grids are now an established part of the computing landscape. Both in research and in enterprise environments, they offer concrete solutions for on demand sharing and  virtualisation of resources, such as computing power, storage capacity, and data sources. However, a number of challenges lie ahead when considering the deployment of grids in a more pervasive computing environment.

This workshop will target such challenges from an infrastructure perspective, considering two of the basic ingredients of a pervasive computing environment and how they can be incorporated in grid middleware. Firstly, mobility support aims to enable ubiquitous access to grid computing irrespect of user, device or code mobility. It is also an aim to enable mobile devices to seamlessly contribute with resources in a grid environment.

Secondly, by incorporating support for context-awareness, grid middleware will be able to adapt the management (allocation, scheduling, etc) of grid resources as both their users and providers experience changes in their execution environments (for instance, as a result of mobility or system load).

The overall goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the several topics related to this challenge, aiming to provide an environment for the exchange of experiences and for leveraging collaborations.

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to):

• context-aware scheduling and allocation of grid resources
• context infrastructure for the grid
• characterisation and modelling of context in grid computing
• context-based dynamic adaptation of grid middleware and services
• access to distributed and heterogeneous context
• mobile access to the grid
• scheduling of mobile resources
• mobile grid applications
• ad hoc network grids
• support for service continuity
• resource and service discovery
• collaborative energy management
• security and privacy issues
• software engineering issues

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers reporting on their recent and ongoing research and experience on the above topics. Papers must be under the limit of 6 pages, following the IEEE 8.5"x11" format guidelines (A4, two-column, 10-point font size).

Paper submission should be via e-mail to wcamg07@inf.puc-rio.br, with the paper sent as an attachment in PDF format; please use the following message subject:

Submitted papers should be written in English. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from the programme committee.

Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society on a CD and distributed to all CCGrid participants. The papers will also be available electronically in the IEEE Digital Library.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE