Grid Computing

Chair: Thierry Priol

Program Committee Members

Over the last ten years or so, Grid computing has seen tremendous developments of research in various areas, such as grid middleware architectures, resource brokering and scheduling, knowledge and data management, trust and security, to cite a few. Despite all these efforts to design effective and usable Grid infrastructures, there is still a concern about their reliability. Considering the increasing complexity of existing Grid infrastructures and their large scale dimension, next generation grid middleware will have to provide autonomic capability that will adapt themselves to failures and rapid changes in resource availability. This capability would cover all layers of the Grid infrastructures, from the middleware to the applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Agent-based Grid Middleware.
• Autonomic Management in Grid Programming Models.
• Autonomic behaviors of components and services.
• Autonomic Grid Data Management and Storage.
• Dynamic Programming aptation for models.
• Grid Middleware with Autonomic or Self-* behavior.
• Nature-inspired approaches for Autonomic Grid Systems.
• Self-management of large-scale Grid systems.
• Dynamic trust and security policies for Grids.
• Virtualization technologies for autonomic Grids.