[ ARCHIVE ] International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA'06)


Montpellier, France, Nov 2 - Nov 3, 2006

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag 

Grid computing has become one of the most important topics appeared and widely developed in the computing field in the last decade. The research area of grid computing has been making a rapid progress in the last few years, owing to the increasing number of scientific applications that are demanding an intensive use of computational resources, as well as a dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure to all these complex applications.

Within this framework,the GADA workshop arised in 2004, as a forum for researchers in grid computing, whose aim was to extend their background on this area and more specifically to those that used grid environments for managing and analysing data.

Both GADA'04 and GADA'05 have been constituted as real successful events, due to the large number of high-quality papers received in both editions, as well as the brain-storming of experiences and ideas interchanged in the associated forums. As final reward for all this hard work, GADA has been upgraded as a Conference within OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06) and Workshops.

GADA'06 intends to cover a broader set of disciplines, although grid computing will keep a key role in the set of main topics of the conference. The objective of grid computing is the complete integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. The achievement of this goal is involving revolutionary changes in the field of computation, because it enables resource-sharing across networks, being data one of the most important ones. Thus, data access, management and analysis within grid and distributed environments are also dealt as main part of the conference.

Besides the traditional set of topics of GADA, High-performance and distributed applications are tackled in an explicit manner within GADA'06. These areas and grid computing have many sinergies, which can and must be dealt with.

Therefore, the main goal of GADA'06 is to provide a framework in which a community of researchers, developers and users can exchange ideas and works related to grid, high-performance and distributed applications and systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Computational grids
  • Data grids
  • High-performance computing
  • Distributed applications
  • Cluster computing
  • Parallel applications
  • Grid infrastructures for data analysis
  • High-performance computing for data-intensive applications
  • Grid computing infrastructures, middleware and tools
  • Grid computing services
  • Collaboration technologies
  • Data analysis and management
  • Distributed and parallel I/O systems
  • Extracting knowledge from data grids
  • Agent architectures for grid and distributed environments
  • Agent-based data extraction in distributed systems
  • Semantic Grid
  • Security in distributed environments
  • Security in computational and data grids


GADA PC co-chairs

Pilar Herrero
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
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María S. Pérez
Facultad de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid (Spain)
Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80
Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73
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Domenico Talia
DEIS
Universitá della Callabria
Arcavacata di Rende (Italy)
Phone: (+39) 0984 494726
Fax: (+39) 0984 494713
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Albert Zomaya
School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
Sydney (Australia)
Phone: +61-2-9351-6442
Fax: +61-2-9351 3838
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Program Committee

Akshai Aggarwal, University of Windsor, Canada
Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Alastair Hampshire, University of Nottingham, UK
Alberto Sanchez, UPM, Spain
Alvaro AA Fernandes, The University of Manchester, UK
Angelos Bilas, Univ. of Crete and FORTH, Greece
Antonio Garcia Dopico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
Azzedine Boukerche, , University of Ottawa , Canada
Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy
Bhanu Prasad, Florida A &M University, USA
Bing Bing Zhou, Sydney University, Australia
Carmela Comito, University of Calabria, Italy
Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
David Walker, University of Wales in Cardiff, UK
Domenico Laforenza, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Elghazali Talbi, University of Lille, France
Enrique Soler, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Fatos Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Felix García, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Francisco Luna, University of Malaga, Spain
Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Gregorio Martinez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria
Ignacio M. Llorente, UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Jan Humble, University of Nottingham, UK
Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jon Maclaren, Louisiana State University, USA
Jose L. Bosque, URJC, Spain
Jose M. Peña, UPM, Spain
Juan A. Botía Blaya, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Kostas Karasavvas, National e-Science Centre, UK
Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, NJ
Manuel Salvadores, Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain
Marcin Paprzycki, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
María Eugenia de Pool, Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Venezuela
Maria Ganzha, Elbl.g University of Humanities and Economy, Poland
Mario Cannataro, Univ. of Catanzaro, Italy
Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK
Mirela Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Neil P Chue Hong , The University of Edinburgh, UK
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Panayiotis Periorellis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Pascal Bouvry, Luxembourg University, Luxembourg
Rainer.Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA
Rizos Sakellariou, Univ. of Manchester, UK
Rosa M. Badia, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Ruben S. Montero, UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
Santi Caballé Llobet, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Sattar B. Sadkhan Almaliky, Iraq - Alnahrain University, Iraq
Savitri Bevinakoppa, RMIT University, Australia
Stefan Egglestone, University of Nottingham, UK
Thierry Priol, IRISA-INRIA, France
Toni Cortes, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Valdimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
Víctor Robles, UPM, Spain