December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

http://www.gridbus.org/escience

http://www.garudaindia.in/eScience2007

Sponsored/Organised By:

• IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
• The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
• Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) at Lousiana State University, USA
• University of Melbourne, Australia
• Indiana University, USA

Call for Papers

The next generation of scientific research and experiments will be carried out by communities of researchers from organizations that span national boundaries. These activities will involve geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources such as computational systems, scientific instruments, databases, sensors, software components, networks, and people. Such large-scale and enhanced scientific endeavors, popularly termed as e-Science, are carried out via collaborations on a global scale.

Grid computing has emerged as one of the key computing paradigms that enable the creation and management of an Internet-based utility computing infrastructure, called cyberinfrastructure, for the realization of e-Science and e-Business at the global level. To harness the potential of e-Science and Grid computing paradigms, several national and international projects around the world have been initiated to carry out research and innovation activities that will transform the goal of e-Science and Grid computing into a reality.

The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world.

Topics of interest concerning e-Science and Grid computing include, but not limited to, the following:

• Enabling Technologies: Internet and Web Services
• Collaborative Science Models and Techniques
• Service-Oriented Grid Architectures
• Problem Solving Environments
• Application Development Environments
• Programming Paradigms and Models
• Resource Management and Scheduling
• Grid Economy and Business Models
• Autonomic, Real-Time and Self-Organising Grids
• Virtual Instruments and Data Access Management
• Sensor Networks and Environmental Observatories in e-Science
• Security Challenges
• e-Science & Grid applications in Physics, Biology, Astronomy, Chemistry, Finance, Engineering, and the Humanities
• Web 2.0 Technology and Services for e-Science

Location

The e-Science 2007 conference is being organized in conjunction with the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India. Established in 1988 by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology originally to develop the PARAM series of supercomputers, C-DAC has since diversified to become the premier institute in India researching and developing advanced computing to the furtherment of science, industry, and business.

The conference will be held in Bangalore, India. With metropolitan population of 6.1 million, Bangalore is India's fifth-largest metropolitan area, and the center of India's information technology industry. It accounts for around 38% of Indian software exports and is known popularly as the "Silicon Valley of India" and "Information Technology capital of India". The recent software boom and globalization has made Bangalore an attractive off-shore center for many popular IT firms.

The city is also home to a number of pioneering educational institutions. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is one of the most popular science and technological research institutes. The Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore is one of the top business schools in India.

In addition to its technological prowess, Bangalore is also known as the "Garden City of India" because of the large number of gardens and parks. The most famous of them are the botanical gardens, Lalbagh and Cubbon Park, each around 240 acres of flora. Lalbagh, meaning the "The Red Garden", was constructed in 1760 and is known due to its abundance of red roses. Cubbon Park was built during the British rule in India and wonderfully constructed public buildings reside amidst this wooded and grassy expanse. The Bannerghatta National Park, around 13 miles from the city, is a known for the lion and tiger safari and a nature lover's delight to see the fauna in their natural habitat.

Another attraction is the Vidhana Soudha, a majestic building comprising of skillful blending of ancient and modern architectural styles with richly carved bases and capitals for pillars, deep friezes, Kapotha cornices, Chaithya arches. This building houses the State Legislature of Karnataka state and is one of the major visitor attractions of Bangalore. Bangalore Palace is built similar to the medieval castles in Normandy and England.

Travel

Bangalore's HAL Airport (IATA code: BLR) is India's fourth busiest an serves both domestic and international flights. International airline such as Air-India, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Air France provide convenient direct flights from Bangalore to destinations in Asia and Europe, such as Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Singapore.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced, 10-point font size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/

Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (Level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. The submission site is http://www.easychair.org/eScience2007/

For the most up-to-date information, please check the conference website. All papers will be competitively peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA in the conference proceedings and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

e-Science 2007 will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibits, and an industrial track. To organize or participate in these please see the conference web site.

Conference Organisation

Honorary Chairs:

• N. Balakrishnan, IISc, Bangalore, India
• A. K. Chakravarti, Advisor, DIT, Government of India
• S. Ramakrishnan, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India

General Chairs:

• R. Govindarajan, IISc, Bangalore, India
• N. Mohanram, CDAC, Bangalore, India
• Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Chair:

• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

Program Co-Chair:

• Kenneth Chiu, SUNY Binghamton, USA

Organising Chairs:

• V. Rao Aiyagari, DST, Government of India
• B. S. Bindhumadhava, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Posters and Research Demos Chairs:

• Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
• Prahalad Rao, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Web Chair:

• C. Madhusudana Rao, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Workshops Chair:

• Dick van Albada, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Industry Track Chair:

• M. R. Rajagopalan, C-DAC, Chennai, India

Publicity Chair:

• Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Publicity Co-Chairs:

• Radha Nandkumar, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA
• Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China

Finance Chair:

• K. Kalyansundaram, C-DAC, Bangalore, India

Sponsorship Chair:

• S. Sadagopan IIIT, Bangalore, India
  

• Mark Baker, The University of Reading, UK
• Sathish Vadhiyar, IISc, Bangalore, India

TCSC Steering Committee:

• Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, USA
• Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago, USA
• Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
• Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation, USA
• Ron Perrot, Belfast e-Science Centre, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
• Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Important Dates

Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 2007

Camera Ready Papers Due: September 14, 2007

Program Committee

• David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
• Richard Aló, University of Houston, USA
• Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
• Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
• Gautam Barua, IIT Guwahati, India
• Upinder Bhalla, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
• Ok-Hwan Byeon, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
• Vipin Chaudhary, University of Buffalo, USA
• Paul Coddington, The University of Adelaide, Australia
• Peter Coveney, University College London, UK
• Simon Cox, University of Southampton, UK
• David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK
• Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
• Kelvin Droegemeier, Oklahoma University, USA
• Mark Ellisman, University of California at San Diego, USA
• John Essex, University of Southampton, UK
• Deborah Estrin, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton, UK
• Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
• Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany
• Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA
• Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
• Madhusudhan Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton, USA
• Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA
• Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA
• Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
• Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
• Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Domenico Laforenza, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Italy
• Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland
• Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
• Michael Lewis, SUNY Binghamton, USA
• Xiaoming Li, Peking University, China
• Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
• Sang Boem Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
• Bertram Ludäscher, University of California at Davis, USA
• Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University, USA
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
• Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK
• James Myers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), USA
• Harvey Newman, Caltech, USA
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Ron Perrott, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Michael Piasecki, Drexel University, USA
• Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
• Rob Procter, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Mark Pullen, George Mason University, USA
• VCV Rao, C-DAC, India
• John Reynders, Eli Lilly, USA
• John Rundle, University of California at Davis, USA
• Vadhiyar Sathish, Indian Institute of Science, India
• Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
• Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Waleed Smari, University of Dayton, USA
• Tony Solominides, University of the West of England, UK
• Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA
• Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA
• Heinz Stockinger, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
• Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
• Sameer Tilak, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
• Herbert Van De Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
• Frank van Lingen, Caltech, USA
• Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• David Walker, Cardiff University, UK
• Roy Williams, Caltech, USA
• Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia