Grid 2008 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to:

• Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
• Architectures and Fabrics
• Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
• Cluster and Grid Integration
• Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations
• Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
• Grid Economy and Business Models
• Information Services
• Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance
• Middleware and Toolkits
• Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
• Networking and Security
• Performance Measurement and Modeling
• Problem Solving Environments
• Programming Models, Tools and Environments
• QoS and SLA Negotiation
• Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments
• Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications

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TECHNICAL PAPERS

Grid 2008 invites authors to submit original papers. Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length and be submitted as a PDF file. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. A separate conference proceedings will be published and will also be a part of the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library.
For author instructions visit

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IMPORTANT DATES

1 March 2008 Technical Paper Submission Open
18 April 2008 Technical Paper Submission Due
9 June 2008 Paper Acceptance Notifications
22 July 2008 Poster submissions Due
10 August 2008 Poster Acceptance Notifications

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)

Program Co-Chairs: Kento Aida (NII, Japan), Henri Casanova (University of Hawaii, USA)

Program Vice Chairs:

Applications
Daniel S. Katz (Louisiana State University, USA)

Data Management
Ann Chervenak (Information Sciences Institute, USA)

Knowledge Management and Semantic Grid
Isao Kojima (AIST, Japan)

Networking/Security/Infrastructure
Marty Humphrey (University of Virginia, USA)

Scheduling/Resource Management/Runtime Environments Emmanuel Jeannot
(INRIA, France)

Tools/Software/Middleware
David Abramson (Monash University, Australia)

Poster Chair: Susumu Date (University of Osaka, Japan)

Proceedings Chair:Sornthep Vannarat (NECTEC, Thailand)

International Relation Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech, Japan)

Local Arrangement Chair: Hidemoto Nakada (AIST, Japan)

Financial Chair: Katsuya Nishi (Beyond Computing, Japan)

Publicity Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda (University of Tokyo, Japan) Wolfgang Ziegler (Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany) Wilfled Li (UCSD, USA)
Yoshio Tanaka (AIST, Japan)

Conference Secretaries: Yuko Oshima (AIST,Japan) Mayumi Takita(ICS Convention Design Inc., Japan)

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