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Mardi Gras Conference 2008
Call for Papers
The Center for Computation & Technology
at LSU, in cooperation with
ACM
SIGAPP,
is hosting the 15th Mardi Gras Conference, 30 January - 2
February 2008, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Mardi Gras conferences
take place annually, concentrating each year on a different
computational theme of current relevance.
This Year's Theme:
From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids:
Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing
requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability,
and the incremental adoption of key capabilities.
Description:
The field of distributed computing has been recognized for decades but
only in the last few years has there been a vast expansion of distributed
computing approaches and tools that are gaining serious, wide-spread use.
This wide-spread use goes far beyond computational science and engineering,
to include business, government, art, and popular culture.
While the fundamental requirements of distributed computing are generally
understood, the ubiquitous availability of networks and servers has enabled
the development of many different tools to suit the needs of different communities.
Besides what have become traditional grids, there is growing use of lambda grids,
enterprise service buses, service-oriented architectures, and Web 2.0.
All of these approaches enable the sharing of resources in
"virtual organizations" but with widely differing support for
discoverability, reliability, security, management, quality-of-service, etc.
In all cases, interoperability at the infrastructure level and at
the application domain level is a critical issue.
While network connectivity has become ubiquitous, and has enabled the
creation of virtual organizations, it is still an open issue how tightly coupled these
organizations can be.
Bandwidth and latency determine how interactive and collaborative
distributed participants can work together.
Hence, advanced networks such as lambda networks (dedicated optical networks) have the potential
for enhancing interactiveness on a large-scale, and actually being an
enabling technology for application domains that require tight coupling.
The goal of Mardi Gras 2008 is to improve our understanding of the
drivers for all of these technologies, how they relate to one another, and
how user communities can transition from simpler approaches, like
Web 2.0 mash-ups, to more full-service grids, when better discovery,
reliability, security, etc., are needed -- while achieving sufficient
interoperability -- and how tightly coupled virtual organizations can be.
To this end, we are seeking the best, most insightful papers on all
of these technologies, and the application domains that are driving
their requirements and development.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Application case studies in all areas, e.g., geospatial, disaster response/management, science, engineering, commerce, finance, art, etc.
- Innovative and advanced scenarios, e.g., dynamic data-driven, interactive, collaborative, tele-immersive, adaptive, etc.
- Tools for developing and deploying applications, e.g., middleware, toolkits, portals, problem solving environments, production environments, virtual organizations, etc.
- Application APIs and programming models
- High speed and optical networks
- Distributed algorithms
- Workflow management
- Resource management and scheduling
- Education
Paper Submission:
We invite authors to submit original and unpublished work (also not submitted elsewhere for review)
reporting solid and innovative results and positions on any of the conference topics.
Papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
paper (see ACM author instructions,
a LaTeX style sheet and Word format is available, too.) All bibliographical references, tables,
and figures must be included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page limit will not be
reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic
submission is required, to http://www.easychair.org/MG08/.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one
of the authors to register and present the paper if it is accepted.
Proceedings:
All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and
accepted papers will appear in the conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be distributed on CD at the conference. The
copyrights for the proceedings papers will be held by ACM, and the
proceedings will be hosted in the ACM Digital Library.
Program Committee:
Program Chair:
Craig A. Lee
Program Vice-Chairs:
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, Emerging Technologies
Liping Di, George Mason University, Data-Intensive Applications
Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE, Network-Intensive Applications
Franck Cappello, INRIA, Middleware and Distributed Infrastructures
Program Committee Members:
- Cosimo Anglano, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", Italy
- Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre, UK
- Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Alessandro Bassi, Hitachi, France
- Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Bruce Boghosian, Tufts University, USA
- Natalya Bulashova, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, USA
- Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
- Yves Caniou, ENS-Lyon, France
- Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA
- Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
- Sergi Figuerola, i2cat, Spain
- Jean-Patrick Gelas, ENS-Lyon, France
- Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid/RENCI, Germany/USA
- Paola Grosso, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Olivier Jerphagnon, Calient Networks, USA
- Admela Jukan, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
- Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
- Dieter Kranzlmüller, Joh. Kepler University, Austria
- Jason Leigh, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, USA
- Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech, USA
- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Andre Merzky, Louisiana State University, USA
- Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan
- Savas Parastatidis, Microsoft, USA
- Serge Petiton, Ecole Universitaire des Ingenieurs de Lille, France
- Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
- Olivier Richard, UJF/INRIA, France
- Paul Roe, Queensland University of Techology, Australia
- Alain Roy, University of Wisconsin, USA
- Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Martin Swany, University of Delaware, USA
- Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
- Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
- Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Due Dates:
Submission: Oct 31, 2007 (changed due to change in proceedings publication method, no further extensions)
Notification: Nov 28, 2007
Final Papers: Dec 14, 2007
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