Special Issue on Grid Computing

Guest Editors:

Michal Wozniak,
Wroclaw University of Technology,
Poland.

Krzysztof Walkowiak,
Wroclaw University of Technology,
Poland

Call for Papers

This SI focuses on all technical and practical aspects of GRID COMPUTING. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern security threats and countermeasures, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.Authors are solicited to contribute to the workshop by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Communication Security & Information assurance. The special issue will additionally select high quality papers from The Third International workshop on Grid Computing (GridCom-2011) ,(In Conjunction with WiMo - 2011), to be held in Ankara, Turkey, June 2011.

Subject Coverage

Authors are solicited to contribute to this special Issue by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to:

  • Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
  • Architectures and Fabrics
  • Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
  • Core Grid Infrastructure
  • Peer to Peer Protocols in Grid Computing
  • Network Support for Grid Computing
  • Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
  • Networking and Security
  • Performance Measurement and Modelling
  • Metadata, Ontology, and Provenance
  • Middleware and toolkits for Grid Computing
  • Computing and Programming Models
  • Programming Tools and Environments
  • Distributed Problem Solving
  • Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations
  • Information Services
  • Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments
  • Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications
  • QoS and SLA Negotiation
  • Grid Economy and Business Models
  • Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
  • Cluster and Grid Integration Issues
  • Web Services, Semantic Grid and Web 2.0
  • Grid related Applications

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline : July 20, 2011
  • Notification                : August 15, 2011
  • Final manuscript due : August 25, 2011
  • Publication date          :Determined by the Editor-in-Chief

Submission Instructions

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Issue. Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow the guideline of the Journal IJGCA. The extended version of the selected papers from "GRIDCOM 2011" could be submitted to this special issue. The revised version must have at least 30% difference from the conference paper. The manuscripts should be submitted to one of the guest editors by July 20, 2011, through email sigridcom@aircconline.com / secretary@airccse.org.



Special issue Proposal


IJGCA invite proposals for special issues on topics that fall within the scope of this journal. Please email your proposal to ijgcajournal@yahoo.com or ijgcajournal@airccse.org