CFP: IEEE ITCC 2004 - Track on Modern Web and Grid Systems

[Carole Goble <carole@cs.man.ac.uk>]

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                     *     CALL FOR PAPERS     * 
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                                ITCC 2004
IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
                     April 5-7, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada 
                   Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society


                                Track on
                       Modern Web and Grid Systems 
            (http://www.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/itcc2004/cfp.htm ) 
                              Call for Papers  
    
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 
	October 17, 2003: 	Full Paper Due
	November 14, 2003: 	Author Notification
	December 19, 2003:	Camera-Ready Copy 
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 send their paper (5 pages paper, IEEE Proceedings format), including keywords, 
before October 17, 2003 , to the Track Chair. Electronic submission (PostScript or PDF) is strongly encouraged. 
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