ITCC 2005 - Next-Generation Web and Grid Systems track

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Next-Generation Web and Grid Systems
International Conference on Information Technology
ITCC 2005
(New conference date) April 4-6, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Submission Deadline:	Author Notification:	Camera Ready Copy:
November 15, 2004	December 17, 2004	January 18, 2005

Track Chair
Mario Cannataro

Associate Professor
University of Catanzaro, Italy
Email: cannataro@unicz.it

Program Committee
Mario Cannataro,
    University of Catanzaro
Sara Comai
    Politechnic of Milan
David De Roure (tbc)
    University of Southampton
Flavius Frasincar
    Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Martin Gaedke
    University of Karlsruhe
Carole Goble (tbc)
    University of Manchester
Manolis Koubarakis
    Technical University of Crete
Salvatore Orlando,
    University Ca' Foscari of Venezia
Alexandra Poulovassilis
    Birkbeck College, Univ. London
Omer Rana
    Cardiff University
Fabrizio Silvestri
    ISTI-CNR
Vojtech Svatek
    University of Economics,
    Czech Republic
Domenico Talia,
    University of Calabria
Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (tbc)
    USC/Information Sciences Institute
Pierangelo Veltri
    University of Catanzaro
Ning Zhong
    Maebashi Institute of Technology

Description:

In these last years the World Wide Web and the Internet have been used not only to communicate and share information, but more and more as a deployment infrastructure for distributed applications. On the other hand, Grid systems allow the flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual organizations and world-wide distributed high-performance applications.

Although Web and Grid systems followed different paths in their development, they share many problems and most probably will employ common solutions. Next-generation Web and Grid systems should be able to produce, use, and deploy knowledge, offering knowledge-empowered middleware and services.

The main goal of the track is to bring together researcher of Web and Grid communities to discuss key problems and identify overlapping areas in solutions and approaches for semantic middleware and knowledge-based services for Next-Generation Web and Grid Systems.

Key challenges in today's Web and Grid Systems are: (i) the need to deal with data sources and computational resources that are distributed, heterogeneous, and dynamic, exploiting adaptively available computational models, resources discovery protocols, metadata management systems, ontologies and semantic modelling of web and grid resources; (ii) the need to take decisions using implicit knowledge available at different layers (from the network to the application layer), employing specialized components or services for data mining, knowledge elicitation and sharing.

Some emerging models and technologies that fulfill some requirements of Next-Generation Web and Grid systems are the following.

Adaptive Web Systems are able to adapt themselves to different user requirements and to manage, in an integrated way, the sources of heterogeneity, due to world-wide diffusion and access.
The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web with machine processable content.
The Semantic Grid attempts to extend Semantic Web approaches and solutions to take into account Grid characteristics.
Knowledge Grids offer high-level tools and techniques for distributed knowledge extraction from data repositories on the Grid, such as (i) synthesizing useful and usable knowledge from data; (ii) leveraging the Grid infrastructure to perform sophisticated data-intensive largescale computation.
Peer-to-Peer is at once a set of protocols, a computing model, and a design philosophy for distributed, decentralized, and self-organizing systems.
Ubiquitous computing describes distributed computing devices, such as personal devices, wearable computers, and sensors in the environment, and the software and hardware infrastructures needed to support applications on these computing devices.

Topics:
-Knowledge Grids
-Semantic Grids
-Semantic Web
-Computational models for Web and Grid
-Middleware software for Web and Grid
-Ontology management systems for Web and Grid
-Metadata management systems for Web and Grid
-Data management on Web and Grid systems
-Ubiquitous computing on Web and Grid
-Mobile Grids
-Peer-to-Peer computing on Web and Grid
-Web-based and Grid-based Problem Solving Environments
-Adaptivity in Web and Grid systems
-Data, Text, Web and Log Mining for Knowledge Discovery services on Web and Grid
-Search Engines for Web and Grid
-Storing, browsing, searching and querying of compressed/synthesized data on Web and Grid

Paper Submission:
Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or be unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit a 6-page paper of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format to the track chair. IEEE Proceedings format available at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Electronic submission in the PDF or Word or PS format is strongly encouraged. For instructions on electronic submissions see (http://www.softconf.com/start/ITCC2005/submit.html).

Important Note: authors are kindly requested to send their paper also via email to the track chair cannataro@unicz.it.

Evaluation Process:
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Per ITCC policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Press. Selected track papers presented in the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal.

Best Student Paper:
The Best Student Paper will be awarded at the conference. To be eligible, the student must be the sole author of the paper, or the first author and primary contributor. (The winner of the award will present the paper in a plenary session at the conference). A cover letter to the General Chair/Track Chair must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition at the time of submission.

Deadlines:
Submission : October 29, 2004, new deadline is November 15, 2004
Author Notification: December 17, 2004,
Camera Ready (6 pages): January 9, 2005, new date is January 18, 2005

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