Objective

The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) focuses on the theory and practice of scalable network computing systems such as clusters and Grids. The IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for students in the area of Scalable Computing to obtain feedback on their dissertation topics and advice on initiating a research career. The goals of this Symposium are to provide advice to students for a successful thesis completion, to enable students to evaluate their research in the context of global trends, and to engender fruitful interactions between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience that consists of both their peers and a committee of expert researchers.

Scope

The symposium is open to all Ph.D. students carrying out research on topics related to TCSC's areas of interest . Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to :

• Architectures and Systems for cluster and Grid computing
• Middleware for clusters and Grids
• Resource management paradigms for scalable computing.
• Programming Models, Tools, Problem Solving Environments and Applications
• Trust and Security for scalable systems
• Service-Oriented Grid computing including discovery, composition and orchestration
• Community and collaborative computing networks
• Scheduling and load balancing
• Economic and Utility computing models for clusters and Grids
• Peer-to-Peer systems, and
• any other topic in scalable systems

Submissions

Each submission will have a Ph.D. student as the sole author or as the primary author with his/her thesis advisor(s) and should contain the following points:

• A specific research proposal that describes the problem that the dissertation aims to address.
• The significance of the proposal and its relevance to Scalable Computing.
• Related work and their shortcomings that the candidate's research aims to address.
• Explanation of the proposed approach and the research methodology adopted.
• The results obtained so far, remaining objectives and the challenges expected to be tackled.
• Expected contributions of the research and the novelty and benefits of the suggested solutions.

Submissions should also specify how long the students have worked on their doctoral research and the expected date of completion. It is expected that students submitting to the Symposium would have one to two years left in their candidature so that they have enough time to incorporate the suggestions made at the Symposium.

The submissions will be limited to 6 pages of double column text, using single spaced 10 point size type on Letter(8.5"x11"), following the IEEE Computer Society guidelines . The proceedings of the Symposium will be published as part of the CCGrid 2007 Proceedings, as well as in the IEEE Digital Library.

The submission link is here.

Travel Grants

TCSC is offering a limited number of travel grants to students who have their work accepted at the Symposium; the grant will cover part of the travel costs for the student to attend the Symposium. Details regarding the grants are being worked out and will be announced at the Symposium website.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: December 10th, 2006 December 16th 2006
• Notification of Acceptance : January 13, 2007 January 22nd, 2007
• Camera-ready submission : January 29, 2007
• Symposium: May 14-17, 2006

Symposium Program

Rio de Janeiro - Brasil, Windsor Barra Hotel. Wednesday, May 16th 2007 in room LIBERDADE (1st floor) 10:30 - 12:30 ============= Introduction (Markus Lorch) Opening Talk "Challenges of Research in Scalable Systems" (Rajkumar Buyya) Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks (Al-Mukaddim Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya) L U N C H 14:00 - 16:00 ============ PACE: Augmenting Personal Mobile Devices with Scalable Computing (Xun Luo) Performance Evaluation in Grid Computing: A Modeling and Prediction Perspective (Hui Li) Detecting, Managing and Querying Replicas and Versions in a Peer-to-Peer Environment (Deise Saccol, Nina Edelweiss,Renata Galante) B R E A K 16:30 - 18:30 ============= Overdrive Controllers for Distributed Scientific Computation (Justin Wozniak) A Model for Automatic On-Line Process Behavior Extraction, Classification and Prediction in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (Evgueni Dodonov, Rodrigo Mello) Open Discussion TCSC Doctoral Symposium and Young Researcher Forum

Symposium Organisation

• Markus Lorch (IBM, Germany) Email: lorchm AT acm DOT org
• Srikumar Venugopal (University of Melbourne, Australia) Email: srikumar AT csse DOT unimelb DOT edu DOT au

Technical Program Committee

• Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, USA
• Jim Basney, NCSA, USA
• Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Tevfik Kosar, Lousiana State University, USA
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
• Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil
• Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Douglas Thain, Notre Dame University, USA