GCA 2012 - The International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Software integration technologies in grid systems
Policy requirements and implications
Software engineering support for grid computing
Grid technology and security
Grid computing virtual organization and policy
Grid computing security
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
Creation and management of virtual enterprises
Information/knowledge grids
Architectures for grid computing
Data grid management systems
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
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 progress?
Major grid initiatives
Grid computing scenarios and applications in science, engineering, and commerce (life science, CFD grids, business process grids, physics grids, ...)