CESNET Conference 2008 - Call for Papers

[Jan Gruntorád <jan.gruntorad@xxxxxxxxx>]

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

please fine below Call for Papers for the CESNET 2008 Conference.

 

With regards

                                           Jan

 

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Call for Papers
CESNET Conference 2008
Prague, Czech Republic, 25 – 26 September 2008

Security, middleware, and virtualization: Glue of future networks

CESNET Conference 2008 is organised by CESNET, two years after the 10^th
CESNET anniversary conference in 2006. This conference also fulfils the
promised beginning of a tradition of regular bi-annual conferences
focusing on advances in high-speed communication technologies, Grids,
related middleware and their sophisticated applications.
CESNET was established on 6 March 1996 as an association of major Czech
universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences with the aim of building
and developing the national broadband computer network for science,
research and education. From the very beginning of its existence, CESNET
has assumed a leading position in the research and development of
high-speed networks and communication technologies in the Czech
Republic. Shortly after its foundation, CESNET joined the international
networking community and its specialists actively participated in a
number of international research projects since 1997. Nowadays, CESNET
operates and develops the CESNET2 national research network and performs
applied research in a number of areas such as optical transmission
technologies, programmable hardware, Grids, network monitoring,
authentication/authorisation infrastructure and mobility, collaborative
environments and multimedia processing and transmission. CESNET
participates in pan-European projects GN2 and EGEE II/III and other
international activities.

More information about CESNET is available from http://www.ces.net.

Conference topics
This year conference focuses on areas that stay behind not only the
network itself, but are the basic building bricks of general
e-Infrastructures. The three major topics are:

Security – conceptual, technical, and organizational aspects of the
broadly understood security in networks, Grids, and generic
e-Infrastructures; classical (like Kerberos and PKI) and novel
(federations) approaches to authentication; new authorization
mechanisms, tools, and infrastructures that could serve networks and
Grids together; security in sensor networks and peer to peer systems;
security in healthcare and other sensitive application areas; the
concept of trust and its implementation in distributed systems

Middleware – software components that lie between network or local
system and application and the vision of the hidden complexity of
large-scale distributed systems like networks and grids; planning and
scheduling algorithms and systems; multimedia and other large capacity
demanding content distribution; overlay and user empowered networks,
resilitent overlay networks; security related middleware

Virtualization – virtual networks; computing nodes and data depots;
virtual clusters and Grids; novel techniques in network virtualization;
virtual organizations; user and resource management; new addressing;
identification paradigms.

Submission
Full papers must be submitted in English, the official language of the
conference, no later than 16 May 2008. Submissions should be sent using
the paper submission form on http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/cesnet08/

Important dates
· Notification of acceptance: 13 June 2008
· Early registration closed: 31 July 2008

Programme committee
Ludek Matyska - CESNET, Czech Republic (chair)
Jan Gruntorad - CESNET, Czech Republic (vice chair)
Jim Basney - NCSA, USA
Mauro Campanella - GARR, Italy
Bob Cowles - SLAC, USA
Mario Freire, University of Coimbre, Portugal
Eva Hladka - CESNET, Czech Republic
Kate Keahey - ANL, USA
Daniel Kouril - CESNET, Czech Republic
Erwin Laure - CERN, Switzerland
Ladislav Lhotka - CESNET, Czech Republic
Miron Livny - University of Wisconsin, USA
Vasilis Maglaris - GRNET, Greece
Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France
Syed Naqvi - CETIC, Belgium
Milan Sarek - CESNET, Czech Republic
Shuji Shimizu - Kyushu University, Japan
Milan Sova - CESNET, Czech Republic
Christoph Witzig, SWITCH, Switzerland

Contacts
CESNET, Zikova 4, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic
Tel: +420 224 355 207. Fax: +420 224 320 269, e-mail:
conference08@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:conference08@xxxxxxxxx>
Complete details about the submission, registration, programme and venue
are available on the conference website:
http://www.ces.net/conference08