2006-08-17 #2

GCE Portals Workshop 2006

The GCE 2005 portals workshop at SuperComputing 2005 in Seattle was a success. Many papers were submitted and peer-reviewed and will be published in a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

The second annual GCE workshop will be a full two day workshop November 12-13th held in conjunction with SC06.

CALL FOR PAPERS due, September 11th. The results of the Workshop will be published in a special edition of (http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/) Concurrency Practice and Experience.

GCE 2006 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of Grid Portals and Gateways (including User Portals, Application Portals, Science Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies).
• Design and architecture of Grid portals and gateways including
• Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gatweaways easier
• Portal security models and solutions.
• Middleware solutions in support of portals and Gatwways including: Web Services; WSRF Services; Grid technologies; Databases; Workflows; WSRP and other standards; Web services in support of Portals and Gateways.
• Interaction with Commodity and Commercial tools such as Perl, Python, Matlab, and Mathematica.
• Interaction with Desktop aplications.