[ieeetcsc-discuss] 15th Mardi Gras Conference call for participation

[Daniel S. Katz]

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Call for Participation: 15th Mardi Gras Conference
30 January - 2 February 2008
Baton Rouge, LA
http://mardigrasconference.org/

The 15th Mardi Gras Conference, to be held between January 30th -
February 2nd , 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announces the approaching
deadline for hotel booking (12/31) and issues this general call for 
participation.

The theme of this year’s conference is: from lightweight mash-ups to
lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of distributed computing
requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability,
and the incremental adoption of key capabilities.

The conference will include 3 keynotes presentations, 3 tutorials, 3 
workshops,
15 accepted peer-reviewed papers, and a selection of reviewed posters.

Additionally, the conference will have a banquet at a local Cajun 
restaurant,
and will offer an optional trip to New Orleans to see some of the Mardi Gras
atmosphere and a parade.



Keynotes:

Thursday: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Friday: Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium

Saturday: Larry Smarr, Calit2



Tutorials (Thursday am):

Introduction to the Condor High Throughput Computing System and the 
Metronome Build and Test System, Becky Gietzel

Scientific Workflows: The Pegasus Workflow Management System Example, 
Ewa Deelman, Karan Vahi, Kent Wenger

Swift: Scripting for fast and easy parallel computing with 
loosely-coupled tasks, Ben Clifford, Michael Wilde



Workshops (Wednesday):

Distributed Programming Abstractions Workshop - 
http://www.mardigrasconference.org/DPA_workshop.php

Workshop on Economic Models for Distributed Systems - 
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/emds2008/

Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications - 
http://www.mardigrasconference.org/GEA_workshop.php



Accepted Papers:

Oluwafemi Ajayi, Richard Sinnott and Anthony Stell. Dynamic Trust 
Negotiation For Flexible e-Health Collaborations

Ian Chang-Yen, Denvil Smith and Nian-Feng Tzeng. Structured Peer-to-Peer 
Resource Discovery for Computational Grids

Craig Lee and Nikos Chrisochoides. A (Condensed) Parametric Study of 
Optimistic Computation in Wide-Area, Distributed Environments

Christian David Ott, Erik Schnetter, Gabrielle Allen, Ed Seidel and Jian 
Tao. A Case Study for Petascale Applications in Astrophysics: Simulating 
Gamma-Ray Bursts

Sung Ho Park, Myung Jin Lee and Soon Ju Kang. Multimedia Room Bridge 
Adapter for Seamless Interoperability between Heterogeneous Home Network 
Devices

Shrija Rajbhandari, Omer Rana and Ian Wootten. A Fuzzy Model for 
Calculating Workflow Trust using Provenance Data

Christopher Rapier. High Speed Bulk Data Transfer Using the SSH Protocol

Michael Ruth. Concurrency in a Decentralized Automatic Regression Test 
Selection Framework for Web Services

Gurmeet Singh, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi, Ewa Deelman, Bruce Berriman, John 
Good, Daniel S. Katz and Gaurang Mehta. Workflow Task Clustering for 
Best Effort Systems with Pegasus

Garry Smith, Mark Baker and Javier Diaz Montes. A Web 2.0 User Interface 
for Wide-area Resource Monitoring

Anthony Stell, Richard Sinnott and Oluwafemi Ajayi. Supporting UK-wide 
e-Clinical Trials and Studies

Cornelius Toole and Andrei Hutanu. Network Flow Based Resource Brokering 
and Optimization Techniques for Distributed Data Streaming Over Optical 
Networks

Jeremy Villalobos and Barry Wilkinson. Latency Hiding by Redundant 
Processing: A Technique for Gridenabled, Iterative, Synchronous Parallel 
Programs

Zhifeng Yun, Sun Chang, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen and Ashwin 
Bommathanahalli. Grid-enabled Sawing Optimization: from scanning images 
to cutting solution

Xiaoming Zhang, Zhou Jun Li and Yijie Wang. A Distributed Topology-aware 
Overlays Construction Al-gorithm



Posters:
to be determined



See http://mardigrasconference.org/ for more details, including 
https://www.cct.lsu.edu/register/mardigrasconf/mardigras.php for 
registration, and 
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BTRCPHF-LCT-20080130/index.jhtml 
for hotel booking