In conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2009), Shanghai, China / May 18-21, 2009
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 program committee consists of experts in the field, which provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students.
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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 2009 Proceedings, as well as in the IEEE Digital Library.
Submissions should be made electronically via the online submission site.
Travel Grants
TCSC has offered travel grants to students accepted for previous editions of this symposium. A similar scheme is in the works for this edition, details will be announced shortly.
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline:
December 19th 2008December 28th 2008
- Notification of Acceptance : January 26th, 2009
- Camera-ready submission : February 15th, 2009
- Symposium: TBA
Symposium Organisation
- Peter Tröger (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Email: peter DOT troger AT bth DOT se
- Srikumar Venugopal (University of Melbourne, Australia) Email: srikumar AT csse DOT unimelb DOT edu DOT au
Program Committee
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
- Andreas Polze, HPI, University Pottsdam, Germany
- Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
- Eduardo Huedo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil
- Srikumar Venugopal, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, INRIA, France
- Peter Tröger, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Lars Lundberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
