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		INGRID2011 - e-Science & e-Infrastructure
		
				 June 6-8, 2011
				Santander, Spain

		Conference Website: http://www.ingrid.cnit.it/

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IMPORTANT DATES
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    * Paper submission:           March 15, 2011
    * Special session proposals:  March 15, 2011
    * Acceptance notification:    April 15, 2011
    * Camera ready copy due:      May 15, 2011
    * Workshop days:              June 6-8, 2011

Sophisticated research equipment, broad international cooperation and
top-level expertise are required in many problems in science, industry
and commerce. The development and dissemination of techniques and
technologies that allow virtualized, remote and shared access to
industrial or scientific instruments are essential for the progress of
society. The possibility of using scientific or industrial equipment
independently of their physical location helps towards equality of
opportunity for and unification of communities, and subsequently
provides new momentum for industry, science, and business.
The current edition of the Workshop focuses on post processing of
experimental data in Grand Challenges e-Infrastructure systems. Handling
of instrument output data is one of the major tasks (just after remote
control of equipment) of remote instrumentation systems. Due to
complexity of this process, which can operate on huge amounts of data
and consists of many stages, there is a need for sophisticated
approaches. These cover many aspects of data processing and storage at
different functional layers, from physical to application. Moreover,
INGRID 2011 encompasses other Remote Instrumentation (RI) aspects
related to: middleware architecture, high-speed networking, wireless
Grid for acquisition devices and sensor networks, QoS provisioning for
real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology. We do
not forget about future trends concerning RI systems’ development and
actions related to standardization of remote instrumentation mechanisms.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Contributions are solicited on all advanced research issues concerning
the theme of the Workshop, and particularly in (but not limited to) the
following topics:

Remote instrumentation:
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- Remote instrumentation services (RIS)
- Virtualization technologies in remote instrumentation
- Standards and standardization processes for RIS systems

Grand challenges e-Science applications:
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- Infrastructure for e-Science applications
- Customization of work environment for e-Science requirements
- Optimization of e-Science applications

Grids, Clouds & HPC for e-Science:
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- Workflow management for large-scale experiments
- Visualization techniques
- Grid integration of experimental and computational processes
- Deployment of large scale applications for online engineering
- Supporting interactive applications in the grid environment

Distributed data management:
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- Management of large scientific data sets
- Networking solutions in support of scientific data transport
- Distributed data acquisition in sensor networks
- Data management in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Metadata and advanced information systems for instruments and sensors

Any other e-Science and e-Infrastructure related topics will be
carefully analyzed.


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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The Workshop will be structured in technical sessions, some of which
will be organized by leading researchers in the field, and will
accommodate both invited and regular papers, selected on an open-call
basis. INGRID 2011 allows also additional possibilities to be actively
engaged in the conference program:
1) Special sessions – proposals for special sessions are welcome. Please
provide the session description (1-1.5 page) including a draft session
program. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members
of the International Program Committee.
2) Extended abstracts – in alternative to full paper submission authors
can provide an extended abstract (1-2 pages). The abstracts positively
approved give a chance to make a presentation at the conference. A
subsequent full paper will be reviewed independently, with a chance to
add the paper to the post-workshop proceedings (or to a special issue of
an international journal).


- Manuscripts to be considered as regular papers should be original work
limited to 20 double-spaced pages.
- Extended Abstracts should be limited to 2 double-spaced pages.
- Any paper submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in or
submitted to other technical conferences/journals.
- Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The preferred format for
electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader, or Postscript.
All submissions must be done through the Web site
(http://www.ingrid.cnit.it).
- Electronic versions of the papers will be available at the Workshop.
- The proceedings will be published in book form after the Workshop
(contacts with Springer, which published the previous Workshops’ books,
are currently undertaken).



COMMITTEES
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
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Isabel Campos, Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain
(iscampos@ifca.unican.es)
Sandro Zappatore, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy
(sandro.zappatore@unige.it)


STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy
(franco@dist.unige.it)
Norbert Meyer, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC),
Poland (meyer@man.poznan.pl)


STEERING COMMITTEE
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Luigino Benetazzo, University of Padova, Italy; Geoffrey Fox, Indiana
University, USA; Peter Kacsuk, Computer and Automation Research
Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary; Dieter Kranzlmüller,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany; Vasilis Maglaris,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece; Jesus Marco de Lucas,
IFCA CSIC, Spain, Maciej Stroiński, PSNC, Poland; Tatsuya Suda,
University of California at Irvine, USA; Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of
Wuerzburg, Germany.


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Marcin Lawenda, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC),
Poland (lawenda@man.poznan.pl)
Roberto Pugliese, ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy (pugliese@elettra.trieste.it)


WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT
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Elizabeth Brait  Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain
e-mail: ingrid2011@ifca.unican.es