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Technical Session on 

   Network Support and Services for Computational Grids 

   http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~cpham/ICCS 

at the 

   2002 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2002) 

   Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 21-24, 2002. 

   http://www.science.uva.nl/events/ICCS2002/ 

Computational Grids are foreseen to be one of the most critical yet 
challenging technologies to meet the exponentially growing demands for 
high-performance computing in a large variety of scientific 
disciplines. This technical session focuses on the networking aspects of 
computational grids to make them efficiently usable by a large number of 
scientists. Focusing on these aspects, paper submissions are invited in 
the following topics of interest: 

    * High-performance transport protocols, 
    * Reliable multicast protocols for data dissemination, 
    * TCP stack optimizations, 
    * Grid optical networking, 
    * Grid security (IPSec, VPN, multi-domain authentication 
      systems...), 
    * Grids and the new generation of Internet, 
    * Prediction of grid network performance, 
    * End-to-end network performance measurement, analysis and 
      prediction, 
    * Quality of Service (QoS) for grid networking, 
    * Grid traffic engineering and control, 
    * Network-aware middleware and services, 
    * Instruments and tools for monitoring, diagnosis, 
      prediction, and control, 
    * Emerging network technologies (lambda-switching, DiffServ, 
      IntServ, MPLS, and active networks) for grids, and 
    * Other networking technologies for data, computational, 
      instrument and other grid environments. 

We also solicit APPLICATION STUDIES AND EXPERIENCE REPORTS from 
practitioners who applied various networking techniques in real-world 
grid applications. Success stories that demonstrate the practical 
benefits of specific grid technologies are obviously welcome. 
We also encourage those for whom these techniques did not prove 
successful to characterize the problems and difficulties, and thereby 
formulate the challenges for future research. 

Paper Submission: 
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We invite you to submit a full paper of 6 to 10 pages (A4), describing 
new and original results, for oral presentation. The submitted paper 
must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS 
(Springer Verlag). Please follow the ICCS 2002 guidelines (see 
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~cpham/ICCS) for more information on paper 
submission. 

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to 
register and present the paper. 

Please include a cover page which lists the following: 

   * name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of each author 
   * name of the presenting author; name of the contact author 
   * a maximum of 5 keywords 

A PostScript or PDF version of your paper must be submitted 
electronically to one of the contact person. Hard copies should be sent 
only if electronic submission is absolutely not possible. 

Proceedings: 
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The papers accepted in the technical session will be included in the 
proceedings of the ICCS conference expected to be published in the 
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. 

Important Dates: 
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   December 1, 2001: Full paper (in LNCS style) due 
   December 20, 2001: Notification of acceptance and pre-registration 
due 
   January 15, 2002: Camera-ready papers 
   April 21-24, 2002: ICCS 2002 conference, Amsterdam 

Contacts: 
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Congduc Pham: RESAM Univ Lyon 1, ENS-LYON, Bat LR5, 
                46 allee d'Italie 
                69364 Lyon Cedex 7 
                FRANCE 
                Congduc.Pham@ens-lyon.fr 

Nageswara Rao: Computer Science and Mathematics Division 
                Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
                Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6355 
                USA 
                raons@ornl.gov 

ONLINE INFORMATION: 
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Up-to-date information about ICCS 2002 can be obtained on the World Wide 
Web at URL: 

http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~cpham/ICCS