Submissions sought for Workshop on Grid Computing Portals

released August 23, 2005

GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals will be held Nov. 18 in conjunction with SC05 in Seattle.

Portals have emerged as important components of many large-scale grid computing projects. The portal development community is undergoing a revolution as component-based architectures and services become standardized and widely adopted. Grid middleware is also changing in response to the services-oriented-architecture (SOA) approach to hosting services. This workshop will focus on portal projects that are adopting these new technologies and services. We seek papers from all aspects of portal development, including portal architecture design and standards studies, toolkits developed in support of portals, as well as high-level application portals that use these technologies.

Specific topics of interest include:

• Project portals, including user portals, application portals, science gateway portals, and education portals.
• Portal architecture and design, including portlets and portal frameworks (uPortal, Sakai, CHEF, GridSphere, WebSphere, etc.), JSP, JSF, Servlets, REST, and Cocoon.
• Portal security models and solutions.
• Portal languages, including Java, Python, Perl, PHP, etc.
• User interface/usability studies.
• Middleware solutions in support of portals, including web services, WSRF wervices, grid technologies, databases, workflows, WSRP and other standards, and Web services in support of portals.

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract on original and unpublished work reporting significant projects and results in any aspect of grid portals and related technologies. Papers should not exceed six single-spaced pages of text using 10 point type on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Submissions should be made through the workshop website at http://acel.sdsu.edu/mtgs/gce05/. Abstracts are due Sept. 19. For complete author instructions see http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/5361/ForAuthors.html.

All papers selected for this workshop will be peer-reviewed and will be published in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

 

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