MDGS 2011 - Managing and Delivering Grid Services 2011 (MDGS2011)

The workshop will have two keynote speeches, one from the Grid and the other from the ITSM community, as well as a number of panel discussions, technical and poster sessions. Authors are invited to submit position and research papers, as well as posters that demonstrate current research in different areas related to service level agreement and management. The workshop solicits contributions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

Best Practice in service delivery, SLAs and SLM and their application to Grids and federated e-Infrastructures
Challenges in introducing SLM and SLAs to e-Infrastructures
Problem statements and progress reports on managed service delivery in Grids
Use cases and real life scenarios that require SLM and/or managed service delivery
Managing resources provisioning and user expectations via SLAs and SLM
SLA-based resource discovery, scheduling and resource reservation
Non-technical aspects of managing SLAs
Technologies and tools for management and observation of SLAs
Automatic SLA enforcement in Grids
SLA and SLM based trust management including VOs
Multi-party SLAs and SLA chaining
Formats and standards for SLA specifications
Submission

Contributors should initially submit an abstract, followed by a full paper not exceeding 10 pages in length. Papers should be submitted in the Springer LNCS style. See http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...

Accepted papers will be published in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science Euro-Par 2011 workshop volume after the conference. Paper submission must be performed electronically. Please submit papers for MDGS 2011 via the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=...

Important dates

Abstract Submission deadline: June 12th, 2011, 23:59 EST
Full papers: June 19th, 2011, 23:59 EST
Notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2011
Final review comments: October 1st, 2011
Camera-ready papers due:October 15th, 2011
Organisers

The MDGS2011 workshop is being organized by members of the gSLM project. The gSLM project is funded by the European Commission in order to improve interaction between the IT Service Management Community and operators of Grids and other e-Infrastructures.

Thomas Schaaf (Ludwig-Maximiians-Universität, Munich)
Owen Appleton (Emergence Tech Limited, London)
Adam S.Z. Belloum (University of Amsterdam)
Joan Serrat-Fernández (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Tomasz Szepieniec (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow)
The event features a Program Committee of experts from the SLM and grid fields:

Nazim Agulmine, University of Evry, France
Michael Brenner, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom
Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
Laurent Lefebre, INRIA, France
Edgar Magana, CISCO research labs, USA
Patricia Marcu, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Carlos Merida, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Steven Newhouse, European Grid Initiative, Netherlands
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany
Philipp Wieder, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
Ramin Yahyapour, Technische Universität Dortmund
Nazim Agulmine, University of Evry, France Michael Brenner, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Alex Galis, University College London, United Kingdom Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Germany Laurent Lefebre, INRIA, France Edgar Magana, CISCO research labs, USA Patricia Marcu, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Germany Carlos Merida, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Steven Newhouse, European Grid Initiative, Netherlands Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany Philipp Wieder, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Ramin Yahyapour, Technische Universität Dortmund
Useful Links

MDGS website http://gslm.eu/mdgs2011
Euro-Par website http://europar2011.bordeaux.inria.fr/
gSLM project website http://gslm.eu/