Grid computing has become one of the most important topics appeared and widely developed in the computing field in the last decade. The research area of grid computing is making rapid progress, owing to the increasing necessity of computation in the resolution of complex applications.

Clusters are, in some sense, the predecessors of the grid technology. Clusters interconnect nodes through a local high-speed network, using commodity hardware, with the aim of reducing the costs of such infrastructures. Supercomputers have been replaced by cluster of workstations in a huge number of research projects, being the grid technology the natural evolution of clusters.

One of the major goals of grid computing is to provide efficient access to data. Grids provide access to distributed computing and data resources, allowing data-intensive applications to improve significantly data access, management and analysis. Nowadays, there is a huge number of data-intensive applications, e.g. data mining systems extracting knowledge from large volumes of data. Existing data-intensive applications have been used in several domains, such as physics, climate modelling, biology or visualization. Grid systems responsible for tackling and managing large amounts of data in geographically distributed environments are usually named data grids.

The great challenge of grid computing is the complete integration of heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing space. The achievement of this goal will involve revolutionary changes in the field of computation, because it will enable resource-sharing across networks, being data one of the most important ones.

This workshop is intended for researchers in grid computing, who want to extend their background on this area and more specifically to those that use grid environments for managing and analysing data.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Computational grids
• Data integration on grids
• Grid-based data mining
• Grid solutions for data-intensive applications
• Grid infrastructures for data analysis
• High-performance computing for data-intensive applications
• Grid computing infrastructures, middleware and tools
• Grid computing services
• Grid and cluster computing
• Collaboration technologies
• Data analysis and management
• Databases and the grid
• Extracting knowledge from data grids
• Agent-based management of data in distributed systems
• Agent architectures for grid environments
• Semantic Grid
• Data grids for bioinformatics
• Security in data grids

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Authors instructions can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The paper submission site is located at:

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

	Abstract Submission Deadline		June 24, 2005 July 1st, 2005
	Paper Submission Deadline		June 24, 2005 July 1st, 2005
	Acceptance Notification		July 29, 2005 August 2, 2005
	Final Version Due		August 20, 2005
	OTM Conferences		October 31 - November 4, 2005

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

• Pilar Herrero
  Facultad de Informática
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  Campus de Montegancedo S/N
  28660 Boadilla del Monte
  Madrid (Spain)
  Phone: (+34) 91.336.74.56
  Fax: (+34) 91.336.65.95E
  mail: pherrero@fi.upm.es
  
  
• María S. Pérez
  Facultad de Informática
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  Campus de Montegancedo S/N
  28660 Boadilla del Monte
  Madrid (Spain)
  Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80
  Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73
  Email: mperez@fi.upm.es
  
  
• Víctor Robles
  Facultad de Informática
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  Campus de Montegancedo S/N
  28660 Boadilla del Monte
  Madrid (Spain)
  Phone: (+34) 91.336.73.80
  Fax: (+34) 91.336.73.73
  Email: vrobles@fi.upm.es
  
  
• Jan Humble
  School of Computer Science & IT
  University of Nottingham
  Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK
  Phone: +44 (115) 951 4226
  Fax: +44 (115) 951 4254
  email: jch@cs.nott.ac.uk
  
  

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Jemal Abawajy (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia)
• Akshai Aggarwal (University of Windsor, Canada)
• Nedim Alpdemir (University of Manchester, UK)
• Mark Baker (University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK)
• Steve Benford (University of Nottingham,UK)
• José Luis Bosque (URJC, Madrid, Spain)
• Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)
• Mario Cannataro (University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy)
• Jesus Carretero (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
• Elizabeth Chang (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
• Steve Chiu (Idaho State University, USA)
• Toni Cortes (UPC, Barcelona, Spain)
• Vincenzo de Florio (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
• María Eugenia de Pool (Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana)
• Stefan Egglestone (University of Nottingham,UK)
• Alvaro Fernandes (University of Manchester,UK)
• Felix García (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
• Chris Greenhalgh (University of Nottingham,UK)
• Alastair Hampshire (University of Nottingham,UK)
• Eduardo Huedo (CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain)
• Kostas Karasavvas (National e-Science Centre, UK)
• Daniel Katz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Domenico Laforenza (Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI), Pisa, Italy)
• Ignacio Llorente (UCM-CAB, Madrid, Spain)
• Phillip Lord (University of Machester,UK)
• Bertram Ludaescher (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego,USA)
• Gianluca Moro (University of Bologna, Italy)
• José María Peña (UPM, Madrid, Spain)
• Omer Rana (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
• Francisco Rosales (UPM, Madrid, Spain)
• Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester,UK)
• Manuel Salvadores (Imbert Management Consulting Group, Spain)
• Alberto Sánchez (UPM, Madrid, Spain)
• Heinz Stockinger (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Oliver Storz (Lancaster University,UK)
• Domenico Talia (Universita' della Calabria, Italy)
• David W. Walker (University of Wales in Cardiff, UK)
• Laurence Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)