Submission Deadline: June 30, 2008 (Extended)!

Organized by:
Institute of Advanced Computing and Digital Engineering,
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Conference Committee
General Chair:
Jianping Fan
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), CAS, China
General Co-chair:
Miron Livny
University of Wisconsin, USA
PC Chair:
Guangwen Yang
Tsinghua University, China
PC Co-chair:
Denis Caromel
University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France
Finance and Organization Chair:
Shengzhong Feng, Ling Chen
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), CAS, China


Topics：
Recent years have seen rapid advances in various grid-related technologies, grid middleware as well as grid applications. The GCC conference has become one of the world-wide largest scientific events in the area of grid and cooperative computing. The 7th international conference on grid and cooperative computing (GCC2008) is to be held Oct. 24-26, 2008 in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen is situated in the southern province of Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong.
GCC2008 is to cater for a stimulating forum for researchers and practitioners in related fields, where people get together to exchange ideas, experiences and up-to-date technological advances. Hereby, we call for submission of papers that are related to various aspects of grid and cooperative computing.
The main topics of interest include, but not limited to:
  - Theory of grid computing
  - Service-oriented foundation of grid computing
  - Peer-to-Peer Computing
  - Novel grid architectures
  - Service Computing Technologies & Applications
  - Cooperative system, architecture and algorithms
  - High Performance Computing and Network Communications
  - Parallel & Distributed Architectures, Applications and Algorithms
  - Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management
  - Grid middleware
  - Resource organization and management for grid computing
  - Empirical study of real-world applications or industrial case studies
  - Resource virtualization for grid computing
  - Grid workflow and service composition
  - Grid usage models and portal tools
  - Grid programming models and environments
  - Engineering Approaches to grid applications
  - Semantic basis for grid computing
  - Grid interoperability
  - Grid monitoring and accounting
  - Quality of services, performance and deployment issues
  - Security, dependability, survivability and reliability issues in grid computing
  - Domain-specific approaches to grid engineering
  - Software engineering support for grid and cooperative computing

Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be considered for publication in International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), and International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications (ITSSA).
For details on how to submit papers, please consult the conference webpage http://www.siat.ac.cn/gcc2008


Important Dates:
Deadline of paper submission:  June 30, 2008 ( extended! )
Notification of acceptance:  July 31, 2008
Registration and Delivery of camera-ready files deadline:  August 31, 2008
Conference dates:  October 24-26, 2008

Invited Keynote Speaker (ordered alphabetically): (to be increased)
Dr. Jack Dongarra
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Turning Fellow at Manchester University, Distinguished Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Tennessee...
Dr. Geoffrey Charles Fox
Professor of Computer Science and Physics at Indiana University, Distinguished Scientist of Laboratory for Community Grid at Indiana University...
Dr. Carl Kesselman
Fellow of British Computing Society, Co-leader of the Globus Project, Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California...
Dr. Thierry Priol
Senior scientist and Research Director at INRIA, Leader of PARIS project-team, Scientific Coordinator of the CoreGRID Network of Excellence...