Call For Paper

The Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2004) will be held from Oct. 21 to 24, 2004 in Wuhan. It will serve as a forum to present current work by researchers in the grid computing and cooperative computing area. GCC 2004 is the follow-up of the highly successful GCC 2003 in Shanghai, China, and GCC 2002 in Sanya, China.
Wuhan is rich in culture and history. Its civilization began about 3,500 years ago, and is of great importance in Chinese culture, military, economy and politics. It shares the same culture of Chu, formed since the ancient Kingdom of Chu more than 2,000 years ago. Numerous natural and artificial attractions and scenic spots are scattered around. Famous scenic spots in Wuhan include Yellow Crane Tower, Guiyuan Temple, East Lake, and Hubei Provincial Museum with the famous chimes playing the music of different styles.
GCC 2004 will emphasize the design and analysis of grid computing and cooperative computing and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. In addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will have several workshops, a poster session, tutorials, and vendor exhibitions.
GCC 2004 invites the submission of papers in grid computing, Web services and cooperative computing, including theory and applications. The conference is soliciting only original high quality research papers on all above aspects.

The main topics of interest include, but not limited to:

Resource Grid and Service Grid
Information Grid and Knowledge Grid
Grid Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
Grid Portal
Grid Service, Web Service and their QoS
Service Orchestration
Grid Middleware and Toolkits
Software glue Technologies
Grid Security
Innovative Grid Applications
Advanced Resource Reservation and Scheduling
Performance Evaluation and Modeling
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
P2P Computing, automatic computing and so on
Meta-information Management
 

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to GCC 2004.
All papers submitted for this conference will be peer-reviewed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. Accepted papers will be published as separate proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (cited by SCI).
It is also planned that a selection of papers from GCC 2004 proceedings will be extended and published in international journals.Best papers from GCC 2004 will be published in two special issues of International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) and International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC) after conference.

IMPORTANT DATES  
March 1, 2004 Workshop Proposal Due
May 15, 2004(extended) Conference Paper Due
May 30, 2004 Tutorial Proposal Due
June 15, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
July 5, 2004 Camera-Ready Paper Due