Event Announcement: Workshop on Managing and Delivering Grid Services
The 1st Workshop on Managing and Delivering Grid Services (MDGS 2011) will be held on August 29th 2011 in conjunction with 17th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2011), Aug 29th to Sep 2nd, Bordeaux, France
The goal of MDGS2011 is to bring together experts from Grids computing and other e-Infrastructures with experts in IT Service Management in order to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in service management and how to apply these techniques to Grids environments. Researchers and practitioners in the fields of Grid computing and Service Level Management are invited to submit full, short, and position papers that demonstrate current research in all areas of service level management and delivery for grids.
Topics of interest include:
- Best Practice for service delivery, SLAs and SLM in Grids and federated e-Infrastructures
- Challenges in introducing SLM and SLAs to e-Infrastructures
- Problem statements and progress reports on managed service delivery in Grids
- Use cases and real life scenarios that require SLM and/or managed service delivery
- Technical aspects of SLAs in Grids (e.g. tools, automated enforcement, chaining etc.)
- SLA and SLM based trust management including VOs
For a full list of topics of interest and other information, please see http://www.gslm.eu/mdgs2011
Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style. Please submit via https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mdgs2011
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission deadline: May 15th, 2011, 23:59 EST
- Full papers: June 5th, 2011, 23:59 EST
- Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2011
- Final review comments: October 1st, 2011
- Camera-ready papers due: October 15th, 2011
