ICST - Optical Grids Workshop - Call for Paper

Call for Paper

Workshop on Service Aware Optical Grid Networks

Sponsored by ICST, technically co-sponsored by Create-Net.

Important Dates:

Papers submission: 13 August 2008
Acceptance notification: 21 August 2008
Camera ready version: 29 August 2008
Workshop: 8 October 2008

Motivation and rationale for the workshop

The constantly increasing interest devoted to grids, both in terms of developments and applications, proves that distributed computing has now achieved a high degree of maturity to be considered as a new network paradigm. Quality of Service as well as service awareness of both network and non network resources are important aspects for both controlling an managing grids. Service awareness concept is derived from autonomic networks for self-organizing purposes. Service awareness in grids will allow the combination of complex grid services with QoS-enabled connectivity or in other words a seamless internetworking of network and non-network resources. In this direction, service composition, service discovery as well as complete service restoration (apart from simple connectivity restoration) are key aspects when distributed grid services are offered.

This workshop will solicit contributions discussing the most significant aspects of deployment service awareness in a grid infrastructure. The scope of the papers includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Resource virtualization and grid service abstraction
• Service oriented grid network architectures
• Grid service composition
• Intelligent optical network architectures
• Grid service discovery mechanism
• Service restoration and protection
• GMPLS extensions for new service paradigms

The conference proceedings will be included in the Lecture Notes of ICST
(LNICST), which will be published by Springer. Papers published in LNISCT
will get into the main indexes of the global academic/scientific community
and authors will also be able to purchase hard copies of the proceedings.
In addition, the proceedings will be included in Springerlink as well.

Please follow the formatting information at http://gridnets.org/authkit.html

Visit: http://www.opticalgrids.org/ for more information.

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