The 5th Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2007) will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, Ballarat, Jan 30 - Feb 02, 2007.
Interest in Grid computing in Australia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity.
The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its state partners are supporting e-Research by deploying a national grid infrastructure and working to grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. The Australian Research Council has recently funded a number of projects under a special research initiative in e-Research. The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Technology (DEST) has formed an e-Research Coordinating Committee to develop a framework for national support of e-Research.
Topics of interest for the symposium include:
The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.
We expect to provide time for a panel session or group discussion on topics of particular interest.
The proceedings of the symposium will be published through the Australian Computer Society Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series, under the title ACSW Frontiers 2007. The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 referees.
Submitted papers should be at most 10 pages in length and conform to the CRPIT formatting style. Formatting instructions can be found at http://crpit.com/Authors.html.
Papers (in PDF form) should be submitted via the symposium web site by 25 August 2006.
25 August 2006: Submission of full papers (NOTE: deadline extended by 1 week)
26 September 2006: Notification of authors
20 October 2006: Final version due
20 October 2006: Author registration for ACSW
30 January - 2 February 2007: Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) 2007.
The date of the symposium is to be announced, but will be sometime during ACSW 2007.