[SEM-GRD] Semantic Grid workshop at GGF9

[David De Roure <dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

Hello,

You'll recall that we're planning a Semantic grid mini-workshop 
at GGF9 in Chicago, which will be held October 5-8 2003.

There's some new "process" around GGF workshops such that I need 
to inform the Grid Research Oversight Committee (GROC) (what a 
superb name for a committee!) as to which "type" of workshop we 
want for GGF9, by the end of this week.  The types are explained 
in the text I'm appending to this message.  

Unless anyone feels otherwise, I propose we go for type 1, i.e.
presentations with papers encouraged.  This is along the lines of 
how we ran the two sessions at GGF7, but with fuller presentations.  
The collection of papers would then form an informational document 
for GGF purposes, which is one of the ways we engage with the wider 
GGF community.

Once we have confirmation of the workshop from "The GROC" we can 
sort out the details - I already have a tentative list of invitees 
and obviously I'll throw this discussion open on the list.

We should also start thinking about what we want to do at GGF10 
(March 2004 in Frankfurt) and GGF11 (June 2004 in Honolulu) - the 
former is working sessions only (as is Chicago) and the latter 
has a plenary track.  

How about a "type 2" workshop (mini-symposium) in Hawaii?  It 
seems to me that if one is to hold a mini-symposium then it needs 
to be agreed well in advance so that we can get the publicity out, 
and there may well be competition for space in Hawaii.  We could 
even bid for this by the July 4th deadline for the current round 
of GROC.

Comments welcome (BTW I always seem to get private replies rather 
than replies to this list, which is fine but I'm keen to see a bit 
more discussion here when appropriate...)

Thanks

-- Dave

Type one (invited presentations workshop) would be a series of invited
talks focused on a specific theme.  We would encourage but not necessitate
each speaker to prepare a paper, which could be controlled by the workshop
committee and published as a GGF document. We could further have the
papers collection reviewed for a journal to publish it as a special issue.
It is recommended that a type one workshop be proposed at least two GGFs
in advance (i.e., the submission for a type one workshop to be held in
GGF10 would ideally be made by a week after GGF8), but if it can be
demonstrated that the organizers have had made sufficient advanced
preparations, such as lining up considerable number of speakers already,
then it is possible that the GROC approve a workshop for the GGF meeting
immediately following the proposal time.

Type two (refereed workshop) would contain papers on a focused theme of
interest to GGF.  The difference from 1. is that it would be similar to a
mini-symposium, i.e., there would be a call for papers and a review panel.
Selected contributions would be presented at the workshop and the
proceedings would be published under the GGF banner, as a GGF document or
some other.  Again, we would consider a special issue of a journal as a
venue for the publication. (Note: Type 2 will be instituted after GGF9.)
It is recommended that a type two workshop be proposed at least three GGFs
in advance (i.e., the submission for a type two workshop to be held in
GGF11 would ideally be made by a week after GGF8), but if it can be
demonstrated that the organizers have had made sufficient advanced
preparations, such as having a complete program committee already
organized, then it is possible that the GROC approve a workshop for a GGF
meeting that are two meetings down the road of the proposal time (GGF10 in
the above example).

Type three (discussions and brainstorming workshop) would be a focused
study of a particular problem by a group of GGF participants.  The outcome
of the workshop would be published as a special report to GGF as part of
the standard document series.  The group that proposes such a workshop
would be responsible for delivery of the document. It is recommended that
a type three workshop be proposed at least two GGFs in advance (i.e., the
submission for a type one workshop to be held in GGF10 would ideally be
made by a week after GGF8), but if it can be demonstrated that the subject
matter is of immediate concern to the GGF, then it is possible that the
GROC approve a workshop for the GGF meeting immediately following the
proposal time.