[Swift-user] CFP: Springer Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds

[Ioan Raicu]

    Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds


      Springer Journal of Grid Computing

http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/JGC-DataCloud-2012/index.html

Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming 
increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational 
and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching 
hundreds of terabytes and even
petabytes. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the 
management of data resources and dataflow between the storage and 
compute resources is becoming the main bottleneck. Analyzing, 
visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major 
challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the "fourth 
paradigm" in scientific discovery after empirical, theoretical, and 
computational scientific approaches.

The Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds will provide 
the scientific community a dedicated forum, within the prestigious 
Springer Journal of Grid Computing, for presenting new research, 
development, and deployment efforts in running data-intensive computing 
workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. This special issue will 
focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet the new data 
intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current 
supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe this venue 
will be an excellent place to help the community define the current 
state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services 
for future clouds supporting data intensive computing.


        Topics

    * Data-intensive cloud computing applications, characteristics,
      challenges
    * Case studies of data intensive computing in the clouds
    * Performance evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers
    * Energy-efficient data cloud design and management
    * Data placement, scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds
    * Accountability, QoS, and SLAs
    * Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment
    * Distributed file systems for clouds
    * Data streaming and parallelization
    * New programming models for data-intensive cloud computing
    * Scalability issues in clouds
    * Social computing and massively social gaming
    * 3D Internet and implications
    * Future research challenges in data-intensive cloud computing


        Important Dates

    * Papers Due:                     July 15, 2011
    * First Round Decisions:        October 1, 2011
    * Major Revisions if needed:   November 1, 2011
    * Second Round Decisions:    December 1, 2011
    * Minor Revisions if needed:   January 13, 2012
    * Final Decision:                   February 1, 2012
    * Publication Date:               June 2012


        Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished technical papers. 
All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, 
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, 
and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers 
may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, 
conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to 
another forum during the review process. Submitted papers may not exceed 
20 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 
inch pages (1" margins), including figures, tables, and references; note 
that accepted papers will likely be between 15 to 20 pages, depending on 
a variety of factors; for more information for preparing the submitted 
papers, please see 
http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10723, 
under "Instructions for Authors". The final papers (PDF format) must be 
submitted online at http://grid.edmgr.com/ before the deadline of July 
15th, 2011 at 11:59PM PST. For any questions on the submission process, 
please email the guest editors at jgc-datacloud-2012 at datasys.cs.iit.edu 
<mailto:jgc-datacloud-2012 at datasys.cs.iit.edu>.


        Guest Editors

Special Issue Guest Editors

    * Tevfik Kosar (tkosar at buffalo.edu <mailto:tkosar at buffalo.edu>), 
      University at Buffalo
    * Ioan Raicu (iraicu at cs.iit.edu <mailto:iraicu at cs.iit.edu>),
      Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory


        Editors-in-Chief

    * Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory

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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Office: 1-312-567-5704
Email:  iraicu at cs.iit.edu
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