June 2 - 4, 2003

Melbourne, Australia

Workshop chair

David Walker (Cardiff University)

Background

A problem-solving environment (PSE) provides all the computational resources for solving a particular class of problem. PSEs typically are used to solve complex multi-disciplinary problems, and often involve the collaborative use of distributed resources. In addition, to supporting users in dealing with the complexities inherent in particular problem domains, PSEs must also help users cope with complex hardware and software environments. This is particularly true in relation to Grid computing, where PSEs provide a high-level domain-specific software layer providing access to more generic Grid services for problem description, computation, information management, visualization, and analysis. In this context PSEs are synonymous with application portals.

Call For Workshop Papers

This is a general call for papers about the use of problem-solving environments in Grid computing. Particular areas of interest are those related to academic, industrial, or commercial applications in areas such as bio-informatics, healthcare and medical informatics, earth and environmental science, engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences. In addition, papers describing the software infrastructure of PSEs would be of interest.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

· PSEs for collaborative analysis, planning, and decision support.

· Visualisation within PSEs, including collaborative visualization and computational steering.

· Recommender systems.

· PSEs for data mining and information management.

· The use of ontologies in PSEs.

· PSE support for workflow logging and knowledge capture.

· Accessing Web and Grid services from a PSE.

· Resource discovery and scheduling services for PSEs.

· Visual environments for composing applications as workflows.

· Generic software infrastructure for PSEs.

Timescales for Submission

There is a deadline of December 24^th 2002 for submitted papers.

Activity	Deadline
November 8, 2002	Workshop call for papers
December 24, 2002	Paper submission deadline
February 1, 2003	Notification to authors
February 15, 2003	Final versions of papers
March 1, 2003	Camera ready papers
June 2-4, 2003	ICCS 2003 Workshop in Melbourne

Submission Details

You are invited to submit full papers of 6 to 10 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation. Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for formatting information. All papers selected for this Workshop will be peer-reviewed and published in ICCS conference proceedings. The proceedings of the Conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A selected number of papers will also be published as special issues in appropriate journals. A compressed Postscript or PDF version of your paper should be submitted by email to the workshop chair.

Workshop chair

Professor David Walker
Department of Computer Science

Cardiff University
PO Box 916
Cardiff CF24 3XF

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 29 20874205
Fax: +44 29 20874598

Email: david@cs.cf.ac.uk

ICCS Web site: http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2003/

Workshop Web site: http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/David.W.Walker/WCPSE02/