[Swift-user] deadline extension 08/16/11 -- SI on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in JGC

[Ioan Raicu]

Hi all,
Due to numerous requests, we have extended the deadline for the Special 
Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds in the Springer Journal 
of Grid Computing to August 16th, 2011. Please see below for the CFP 
announcement.

Regards,
Ioan Raicu and Tevfik Kosar
Guest Editors of the 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

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			    *** Call for Papers ***					
		      Springer Journal of Grid Computing
	    Special Issue on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds
	     http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/JGC-DataCloud-2012/
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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
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- 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
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*	Papers Due:			August 16, 2011
*	First Round Decisions:		October 15, 2011
*	Major Revisions if needed:	November 15, 2011
*	Second Round Decisions:		December 15, 2011
*	Minor Revisions if needed:	January 15, 2012
*	Final Decision:			February 1, 2012
*	Publication Date:		June 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION
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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 papers (PDF format) must be submitted online at
http://grid.edmgr.com/ before the extended deadline of August 16th, 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.

Guest Editors
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Special Issue Guest Editors
*	Tevfik Kosar (tkosar at buffalo.edu), University at Buffalo
*	Ioan Raicu (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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Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Email:  iraicu at cs.iit.edu
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