[ ARCHIVE ] 3rd International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 13 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag


In the last decade, grid computing has developed into one of the most important topics in the computing field. The research area of grid computing has been making particularly rapid progress in the last few years, due to the increasing number of scientific applications that are demanding intensive use of computational resources and a dynamic and heterogeneous infrastructure.

Within this framework, the GADA workshop arose in 2004 as a forum for researchers in grid computing whose aim was to extend their background in this area, and more specifically, for those who used grid environments in managing and analyzing data. Both GADA'04 and GADA'05 were constituted as successful events, due to the large number of high-quality papers received, as well as the brainstorming of experiences and ideas interchanged in the associated forums. Because of this demonstrated success, GADA was upgraded as a Conference within On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM'06). GADA'06 covered a broader set of disciplines, although grid computing kept a key role in the set of main topics of the conference.

The objective of grid computing is the integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. The achievement of this goal is creating revolutionary changes in the field of computation, because it enables resource sharing across networks, with data being one of the most important resources. Thus, data access, management and analysis within grid and distributed environments are also dealt as main part of the conference.

Therefore, the main goal of GADA'08 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. The second goal of GADA'08 is to create interaction between grid computing researchers and the other OTM attendees.

GADA'08 intends to draw a highly diverse body of researchers and practitioners by being part of the "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems and Ubiquitous Computing 2008" federated conferences event that includes five co-located conferences:

  • GADA'08 (International Conference on Grid computing, high-performAnce and Distributed Applications)
  • CoopIS'08 (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems)
  • DOA'08 (International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications)
  • ODBASE'08 (International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and applications of Semantics)
  • IS'08 (Information Security Symposium)


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
  • Mobile Grid Computing
  • Grid computing services
  • Collaboration technologies
  • Data analysis and management on grids
  • 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
  • Grid standards as related to applications


GADA PC Chairs

Dennis Gannon
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
Lindley Hall, Room 215
150 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7104
Phone: (812) 855-5184
Fax: (812) 855-4829
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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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Daniel S. Katz
Louisiana State University
Louisiana (USA)
Phone: (+1) 225.578.2750
Fax: (+1) 225.578.5362
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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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Program Committee

Juan A. Botía Blaya - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Jemal Abawajy - Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Akshai Aggarwal - University of Windsor, Canada
Artur Andrzejak - Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), Germany
Oscar Ardaiz - Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Sattar B. Sadkhan Almaliky - Iraq - Alnahrain University, Iraq
Costin Badica - University of Craiova, Romania
Mark Baker - University of Reading, UK
Pascal Bouvry - Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rajkumar Buyya - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Santi Caballé Llobet - Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Blanca Caminero Herraez - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Mario Cannataro - Univ. of Catanzaro, Italy
Jesús Carretero - Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Jinjun Chen - Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Carmela Comito - University of Calabria, Italy
Toni Cortes - UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Geoff Coulson, - Lancaster University, UK
Jose Cunha - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Alfredo Cuzzocrea - University of Calabria, Italy
Ewa Deelman - USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
Beniamino Di Martino - Department of Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy
Marios Dikaiakos - University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Markus Endler - PUC-Rio, Brazil
Geoffrey Fox - Indiana University, USA
Maria Ganzha - Elbląg University of Humanities and Economy, Poland
Felix García - Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Antonio Garcia Dopico - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Anastasios Gounaris - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Eduardo Huedo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Félix J. García Clemente - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Shantenu Jha - Louisiana State University, USA
Liviu Joita - Cardiff University, UK
Francisco José da Silva e Silva - Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brasil
Kostas Karasavvas - National e-Science Centre, UK
Kamil Kuliberda - Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Jose L. Bosque - Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Laurent Lefevre - INRIA, France
Ángel Lucas González Martínez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
José Luis Vázquez Poletti - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Francisco Luna - University of Malaga, Spain
Rosa M. Badia - UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Ignacio M. Llorente - UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
Jose M. Peña - UPM, Spain
Edgar Magana - CISCO Systems, USA
Gregorio Martinez - Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Reagan Moore - San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), USA
Mirela Notare - Barddal University, Brazil
Hong Ong - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Neil P Chue Hong - The University of Edinburgh, UK
Marcin Paprzycki - Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Science, Poland
Manish Parashar - Rutgers University, NJ
Dana Petcu - Western University of Timisoara, Romania
Bhanu Prasad - Florida A &M University, USA
Víctor Robles - UPM, Spain
Ruben S. Montero - UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain
Rizos Sakellariou - Univ. of Manchester, UK
Manuel Salvadores - University of Southampton, UK
Alberto Sanchez - UPM, Spain
Hamid Sarbazi-Azad - Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Heinz Stockinger - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Alan Sussman - University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Elghazali Talbi - University of Lille, France
Jordi Torres - Barcelona SuperComputing Center (BSC-CNS), Spain
Cho-Li Wang - Hong Kong University, China
Adam Wierzbicki - Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
Fatos Xhafa - Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain