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Baltimore, MD 18th November 2002 http://www.gridcomputing.org/ (To be held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2002) CALL FOR PAPERS!!! Sponsored By: ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing, and Springer Verlag. The growing popularity of the Internet along with the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks as low-cost commodity components are changing the way we do computing. These new technologies enable the clustering of a wide variety of geographically distributed resources, such as supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, and special devices and services, that can then be used as a unified resource. This new paradigm is popularly terms as "Grid" computing. The Grid is analogous to the electrical power grid and aims to couple distributed resources and offer consistent and inexpensive access to resources irrespective of their physical location. GRID 2002 is an international meeting that brings together the Grid community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. The objective of GRID 2002 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. GRID 2002 will have a special focus on Grid Applications. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Remote Data Access and Management * Grid Middleware and Toolkits * Grid Management and Organization Tools * Internet-based Computing Models * Performance Evaluation and Modeling * Grid Architectures and Fabrics * Cluster/Grid Integration Issues * Grid Information Services * Grid Security Issues * Grid Object Metadata and Schemas * Grid Applications * Resource Management and Scheduling * Computational Economy * Advance Resource Reservation and Scheduling * Scientific, and Industrial and Social Implications Paper Submission: GRID 2002 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages of text using 10 point size type on A4 paper. GRID 2002 also encourages the submission of outstanding "work-in-progress" papers with initial results (limited to 5 pages). Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic submission through the workshop website is strongly encouraged. Hard copies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Proceedings: All papers selected for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published in a separate proceedings, titled "Grid Computing", by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Special Issue: The best 6 papers in the workshop's focus area of Grid Applications will be chosen for journal-length papers in a special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications to be published in early 2003. Important Dates: June 01, 2002: Full Paper Submission July 15, 2002: Acceptance Notification Aug. 15, 2002: Camera-Ready Copy Due Further Information: Contact the Workshop Chair: Manish Parashar, parashar@caip.rutgers.edu