In conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon - France / May 18-22, 2008
News: Information about student grants and reimbursement is available
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.
The first edition of the symposium was held during CCGrid 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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 2008 Proceedings, as well as in the IEEE Digital Library.
Submissions should be made electronically via the online submission site.
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 (expected to be around $5000 like earlier) will be announced at the Symposium website.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: December 7th 2007 (extended to Dec. 12th for final version, abstract needed by 7th)
- Notification of Acceptance : January 11th, 2008
- Camera-ready submission : January 30th, 2008
- Symposium: May 19-22, 2008
Symposium Organisation
- Srikumar Venugopal (University of Melbourne, Australia) Email: srikumar AT csse DOT unimelb DOT edu DOT au
- Markus Lorch (IBM, Germany) Email: lorchm AT acm DOT org
Program Committee
- Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, USA
- Jim Basney, NCSA, USA
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Eduardo Huedo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
- Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
- Tevfik Kosar, Lousiana State University, USA
- Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
- Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil
- Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, INRIA, France
