Call for Participation: IEEE 2008 eScience Conference
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 9, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Ind - Organizing committees of the 4th International IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing eScience 2008 Conference are now accepting papers and proposals for tutorials; posters, exhibits and demos; workshops and special sessions.
The conference is being held in partnership with the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop and is hosted by Indiana University. Sponsors include Microsoft Research, Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology, and Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University.
Conference Dates: December 7-12, 2008
Conference Location: University Place Conference Center, Indiana University/Purdue University (IUPUI) Campus, Indianapolis, IN
Submission Deadlines:
Workshops and Special Sessions: June 20, 2008
Papers & Tutorials: July 20, 2008
Posters, Exhibits and Demos: September 14, 2008
For submission guidelines and more information visit the conference Web site: http://escience2008.iu.edu.
Topics of interest cover applications and technologies related to eScience, grid and cloud computing. They include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Application development environments
- Autonomic, real-time, and self-organizing grids
- Cloud computing and storage
- Collaborative science models and techniques
- Enabling technologies: Internet and Web services
- e-Science for applications including physics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, finance, engineering, and the humanities
- Grid economy and business models
- Problem-solving environments
- Programming paradigms and models
- Resource management and scheduling
- Security challenges for grids and e-Science
- Sensor networks and environmental observatories
- Service-oriented grid architectures
- Virtual instruments and data access management
- Virtualization for technical computing
- Web 2.0 technology and services for e-Science
Sponsors Include:
IEEE Computer Society Comiittee on Scalable Computing
Microsoft Research
Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University
Indiana University School of Informatics
Louisiana State University Center for Computation and Technology
Conference Leadership:
General Chairs
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, United States
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, United States
Program Chair
Anne Trefethen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Program Vice-Chair
David Wallom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Workshops Chair
Ken Chiu, State University of New York, United States
Tutorials Chair
Krishna Madhavan, Clemson University, United States
Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Chair
Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, United States
Exhibits, Demos, and Posters Vice-Chair
Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, United States
Education, Diversity, and Broadening Participation Chair
Alex Ramirez, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
Communication and Outreach Chair
Daphne Siefert-Herron, Indiana University, United States
Microsoft e-Science Conference Chair
Kristin Tolle, Microsoft, United States
Conference Manager
Therese Miller, Indiana University, United States
