CLAG 2005 CFP

The Second International Workshop on

Collaborative and Learning Applications of Grid Technology and Grid Education

CLAG + Grid.edu 2005

To be held in conjunction with the

IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005)

May 9 - 12, 2005, Cardiff, United Kingdom

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/ccgrid2005/

Cardiff

News || Scope || Paper Submission || Committee

NEWS

March 15, 2005: list of accepted papers.
December 14, 2004: submission deadline postponed to December 20, 2004
November 9, 2004: It is expected that Future Generation Computer Systems, the International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications will publish extendend versions of a selection of the best papers concerning collaborative and learning applications of grid technology.
October 28, 2004: CLAG 2005 and Grid.edu 2005 merge into a single workshop creating new synergies!!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Short Description of the Field:
Education and collaboration are now emerging as very important application fields of grid technologies. On the one hand, the grid may also enable access to large amounts of heterogeneous resources that can be employed for educational purposes. Examples include remote laboratories, 3D virtual environments and educational services. Thus, the use of grid computing could provide significant benefits for education at different levels: K-12, high school, university, skill training and learning for life. On the other hand, there is an increasing interest in developing new tools and applications in order to support collaboration between users within a grid context. Distributed high quality visualization, distributed grid workflow management, and enhance group and presence management and visualization contribute to realize Grid-based collaboratories. Such collaboratories are being developed for the scientific community, but in the near future they will be adapted for collaborative work or collaborative learning purposes, as it has happened to other technologies developed by the scientific community. Complementary to these is the desire to create a forum for the discussion of innovative and exemplary materials and approaches to education about the grid and emerging grid technologies and standards.

Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is one of the major research fields in technology-enabled education that has grown out of wider research into e-learning and collaborative computing. Paticularly, CSCL focuses on the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a mediational tool within collaborative methods of learning (e.g. peer learning and tutoring, reciprocal teaching, project or problem-based learning, simulations, games). CSCL applications can thus also benefit from grid computing by leveraging current research efforts focusing on the use of the grid for education and collaboration.
Scope:

This workshop focuses on the use of the grid for education and/or collaboration in general and for collaborative learning in particular, and on grid education. For this reason, CLAG 2005 aims at bringing together educators and researchers in grid computing, e-learning, collaborative computing, and CSCL to present their latest work integrating these fields. To foster collaboration among researchers from different backgrounds we would like to organize two panels. The first panel will discuss 1) how to incorporate collaboration into grid-based e-learning systems, and 2) how to develop current scientific grid-based collaboratories into more generic collaborative learning environments. The second panel will discuss the development of curriculum for grid education at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

We are soliciting high quality papers reporting original work on a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to:

Advanced grid-based environments for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Grid-based applications for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Service-oriented development of applications for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

QoS in grid-based application for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Use of existent grid-based collaborative environments within an educational context

Use of existent grid applications within an educational context

Grid middleware for collaboration

Virtual laboratories for e-learning

Service orchestration for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Semantic grid and ontologies for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Grid-based agents for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

P2P grids for e-learning/collaboration/collaborative learning

Innovative and exemplary materials, modules, and approaches for teaching grid technologies in general, and as applied to collaboration environments

Case studies and experiences in grid education in professional and academic settings

Curriculum for grid education, particularly as related to the knowledge units defined by the IEEE/ACM Computing Curriculum 2001

PAPER SUBMISSION

Paper Submissions:

CLAG+Grid.edu 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. CLAG+Grid.edu 2005 also encourages the submission of outstanding "work-in-progress" papers. Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic submission by email is strongly encouraged. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Please email your papers to oardaiz@ac.upc.es or migbot@yllera.tel.uva.es which is the preferred method for submission. Put "CLAG+Grid.edu 2005 submission" in the subject of the email.

Proceedings:

All papers selected for this workshop are peer-reviewed and will be published as a part of the CCGrid 2005 Proceedings. It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA.

Special Issue:

Authors of a selection of the best papers related to collaborative learning applications of grid technology will be invited to present extended versions to be considered for publication in a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems, the International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications.

Important Dates:

December 20, 2004: NEW submission deadline

January 18, 2005: Notification of acceptance

February 7, 2005: Final manuscript due

COMMITTEE

Program Committee (as of November 5):

Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University, Australia

Stefano Cerri, LIRMM, CNRS & Un. Montpellier II, France

Weiqin Chen, University of Bergen, Norway

John Cherniavsky, National Science Foundation, USA

Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

Yannis Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain

Pedro Garcia, University Rovira y Virgili, Spain

Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez, University of Valladolid, Spain

Patrick Jermann, École Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Leandro Navarro, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain
Pierluigi Ritrovato, Consorzio di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Italy
Heinz Stockinger, CERN, Switzerland
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Flavia Donno, CERN, Switzerland
Paul Gray, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, Lousiana Tech University, USA
Jens Mache, Lewis & Clark College, USA
Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Bina Ramamurthy, University of Buffalo, USA
Tony Solomonides, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Paul A. Farrell, Kent State University, USA

Workshop Chairs:

Oscar Ardaiz-Villanueva, Technical University Catalunya, Spain, oardaiz at ac.upc.es

Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, University of Valladolid, Spain, migbot at tel.uva.es

Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA, aapon at uark.edu

Barry Wilkinson, Western Carolina University, USA, wilkinson at email.wcu.edu

PREVIOUS WORKSHOP ISSUES

First International Workshop on Collaborative Learning Applications of Grid Technology CLAG 2004

Firt International Workshop on Grid Education Grid.edu 2004