Call for Papers International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
	ITCC 2004 April 5-7, 2004 The Orleans [email], Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society

NEW: DEADLINE EXTENSION: November 21, 2003

Authors of all submitted papers to this track, are kindly requested to send via email details of their submission (paper ID and title) to the Track Chair (cannataro@unicz.it).

Track on
Modern Web and Grid Systems

Registration Form, Bank Transfer Details, List of Accepted Papers, Advanced Program

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

Web-based systems are becoming increasingly popular as tools for user-driven access to information and services. During the last years, Web-based systems are increasingly used to access Multimedia Systems, Information Systems, Legacy Applications and, more recently, High-Performance Computational Environments (Problem Solving Environments).

In Web-based Multimedia Systems and Information Systems, the linking mechanism of hypermedia offers users a large amount of navigational freedom so that it becomes necessary to guide users during navigation. Moreover, the classes of users to be dealt with are becoming increasingly heterogeneous (novices, experts, specialists, technicians, and so on) due to the worldwide deployment of applications. Other important sources of heterogeneity are: the kind of user terminal, the available network bandwidth, the desired "resolution" to observe contents, etc. Therefore, such systems should be able to adapt themselves to different user requirements (and wishes) and should manage, in an integrated way, the sources of heterogeneity, not only at the application level, but along all the layers of a modern Web-based system.

In the last years, Web Based Systems are also emerging as high-level interfaces to large-scale distributed computing platforms, called Computational Grids, that provide dependable, consistent, and pervasive access to high-end computational resources. Such systems, known as Grid Portals, are defined to be Web-based application servers enhanced with the necessary software to communicate to grid services and resources. Grid Portals provide application scientists a customized view of software and hardware resources from a Web browser. In Grid Portals, the main issues are the integration between web and grid technologies, allowing the transparent access to Problem Solving Environments through web interfaces. Moreover, specialized Grid Portals, allowing the installation, the management and the monitoring of grid environments will represent an interesting application area.

A main issue that will drive the development and evolution of the Grid raises from the enormous amount of data and information available coupled with the intelligent use of Grid resources and applications. Future generation Grids will include knowledge discovery and knowledge management functionalities, for user’s needs and system management, and will employ semantic modeling of user’s tasks, available services, and data sources to support high level services and dynamic services finding and composition.

The main goal of the Track is is to discuss some of the current and future technologies that will impact on architectures, computational models and applications of Modern Web and Grid Systems, with a particular emphasis on the use of semantics and knowledge discovery techniques and services addressing main design and management aspects.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include, but are not limited to:

	Current and Future Grid Systems
			Data Grids and Knowledge Grids
			Semantic Web and Semantic Grids
			Grid Services implementation and Applications
			Ontologies and Grids
			Ubiquitous Computing and Pervasive Grids
			Peer-to-Peer Computing and Grids
			Grid-based Problem Solving Environments
			Grid portals
			Grid portals for configuration, management and monitoring
			Data and resource management on Grids
			Peer To Peer technologies for resource discovery on Grids
			Security mechanisms on Grids

	Adaptive Web Systems
			Models for multi-format hypermedia documents
			Multi-channel access to web sites
			Web Usage Mining
			User classification and profiling
			Adaptive Search Engines
	Document Compression and synthesis
			Compression/synthesis of hypermedia documents and XML
			Text summarization to support adaptive web systems
			Storing, browsing, searching and querying of compressed/synthesized data
			Applications of compression/synthesis for Adaptive Web Systems and Pervasive Systems
			Management of XML and semi-structured data
			Schema extraction and restructuring of XML and semi-structured data

IMPORTANT DATES

November 21, 2003	Full Paper Due
December 19, 2003	Author Notification
January 9, 2004	Camera-Ready Copy & Advance Author Registration

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature. Moreover, papers concerning tools and architectures for industrial applications will also be considered.

Interested authors should submit their PDF/PostScript paper (5-8 pages paper, IEEE Proceedings format), including keywords, by using the START submission system before November 21, 2003. Instructions about submission can be found here. If electronic submission is not possible for some reasons, send the paper to the Track Chair via email.

Authors that have submitted their paper using email should not resubmit it.

Note: The Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. A special issue of an international journal is being planned consisting of selected papers from this conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for the journal.

TRACK CHAIR

Prof. Mario Cannataro

University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro

Via T. Campanella 115, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy

Email: cannataro@unicz.it, cannataro@icar.cnr.it