GCA 2013 - The 2013 International Conference on Grid & Cloud Computing and Applications (GCA'13)

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration. All accepted papers will be published in printed conference books/proceedings (they will also be available on the web). The proceedings will be processed for indexing into science citation databases that track citation frequency/data for each paper. These science citation databases include: Inspec / IET / The Institute for Engineering and Technology, CiteSeerX citation index, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, and other science databases. Like prior years, extended versions of selected papers (about 40%) will appear in journals and edited research books (publishers include: Springer, Elsevier, ...).
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Software engineering support for grid computing
Software integration technologies in grid systems
Policy requirements and implications
Grid technology and security
Grid computing virtual organization and policy
Grid information services
Grid middleware and toolkits
Grid monitoring, management, and organization tools
Cloud computing
Evolution of grid standards
User development environment and programming tools for grid computing
Internet-based computing models
Resource management, scheduling, and run-time environments
Creation and management of virtual enterprises
Information/knowledge grids
Autonomic & utility computing on global grids
Grid computing virtualization
Architectures for grid computing
Data grid management systems
Metadata, ontologies, and provenance
Resource management, reservation, scheduling, and load balancing
Resource discovery
Performance evaluation and modeling
Web services and web security in grid computing
P2P computing
Wireless enhanced grid systems
Grid and cluster integration
e-Science and e-Business applications
Programming models, tools and environments
Grid architectures and fabrics
Grid object metadata and schemas
e-Science and virtual instrumentation
Grid survivability
Grid enabled virtual organizations
e-Business applications
Case studies
Grid application and deployment environments
Interconnects and protocols for grids
Evolution of grid - any recent progress?
Major grid initiatives
Grid computing scenarios and applications in science, engineering, and commerce (life science, CFD grids, business process grids, physics grids, ...)