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Formating instructions for Camera Ready version of your chapter, and Copyright form, can be obtained from the Springer Web site at: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html

Please send your copyright forms to Omer Rana (see surface mail address below)

Authors must also complete a Contributor Agreement form -- available in PDF and MS-Word formats.

The aim of this book is to identify software engineering techniques for Grid environments, along with specialist tools that encapsulate such techniques, and case studies that illustrate the use of these tools. With the emergence of regional, national and global programmes to establish Grid computing infrastructure, it is important to be able to utilise this infrastructure effectively. Specialist software is therefore necessary to both enable the deployment of applications over such infrastructure, and to facilitate software developers in constructing software components for such infrastructure. We feel the second of these is a particularly important concern, as the uptake of Grid computing technologies will be restricted by the availability of suitable abstractions, methodologies, and tools.

Submitted chapters will be selected based on novelty, coherence with the theme, on lessons learned, and general conclusions that can be drawn from these. We particularly encourage work that tries to relate implemented work with theory, and demonstrates how the work is particularly relevant in the context of Grid computing. The exploration of software techniques to address scalable designs and implementations is also an important associated theme. Most importantly the book will explore the development of specialised tools and environments which help to bridge computer science issues of application construction and deployment, with concerns of the application sciences.

Chapters should address one (or more) of these three concerns:

• Adequate Abstractions:
  • these include novel concepts and paradigms to support the development of Grid software
  • integration and scale issues in the Grid and relevant abstractions to support these
  • conceptual models, including organisation issues involving co-ordination in large scale communities -- contributing to the building, understanding, and maintaining of Grid environments

• Methodologies and Lifecycle issues:
  • software design patterns (or skeletons) to support Grid software development
  • modelling common idioms in distributed scientific software programming models for Grid computing
  • supporting tools and development environments
  • stages within the lifecycle of a Grid application -- and support for these via software tools

  There will be less focus on issues of middleware (execution or run-time support environments -- such as Globus or particular OS issues). Instead we will assume that one or more of such an environment already exists. Papers which report new middleware to support execution or run-time environments will be given LOW preference.

• Case Studies:
  • real applications of novel concepts, methods, and tools, put at work in the context of existing/ongoing experiments. These case studies will aim to (at least) partially validate/assess/illustrate the usefulness/soundness/viability of the above approaches.

We also welcome critiques of existing approaches -- and in particular extensions of existing software engineering methodologies and modelling approaches (such as UML) to build Grid software. Experience reports which outline problems with existing approaches are also encouraged.

All authors are required to submit their chapter formatted in the Springer LNCS format -- details available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Please use a minimum of 10pt font size. Your chapter should not exceed 30 single-spaced pages. The chapter should be printable in A4 format. You may submit the chapter to either of the co-editors. Electronic submission in PDF format is preferred -- although you may also submit via surface mail. If you prefer to submit via surface mail, please send us 3 copies of your chapter.

Deadline for submission: November 15, 2003

Jose C. Cunha
jcc@di.fct.unl.pt

CITI Centre,
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2829-516 Caparica
Portugal

Omer F. Rana
o.f.rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk

School of Computer Science
and Welsh e-Science Centre
Cardiff University, PO Box 916,
Cardiff CF24 3XF, UK