1. The paper submission deadline has been extended to Sept. 29, 2005!
2. The date of author notification has been extended to Oct. 16, 2005!

The Australasian Symposium on Grid Computing and e-Research (AusGrid 2006) will be held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week(ACSW 2006), Hobart, Jan. 16 - Jan. 19, 2006. This symposium follows on from three successful Australian Grid workshops (held in Melbourne in 2002 , Gold Coast in 2003 and Newcastle in 2005) which were organized by the Australian Grid Forum to promote grid computing research, applications and collaboration in Australia and around the world.

Scope of the Symposium

Interest in Grid computing in Australia and internationally is rapidly growing, driven by real-world applications of increasing scale and complexity.

The Australian Government Department of Education, Science, and Technology (DEST) is actively supporting e-Research by initiating projects that provide a national grid infrastructure and grid-enable applications in areas such as physics, astronomy, chemistry, geoscience, earth sciences and life sciences. Recently, it formed an e-Research Coordination Committee  to develop a framework that encourages further update of Grid computing and its usage in various application domains. The Australian Research Council is also implementing an initiative to support Grid Computing and e-Research in Australia.

Topics of interest for the symposium include:

• Grid applications and e-Research.
• Grid computing middleware and tools.
• Data Grids - applications, middleware, infrastructure, data and metadata management and integration.
• Grid infrastructure - experiences with building, managing and using grids.
• Grid portals and problem-solving environments.
• Grid economy.
• Web services and Grid services.
• Semantic Web and Semantic Grid.
• Collaboration using the Grid and Access Grids.
• Performance evaluation and modelling.
• Next generation grid.

The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of grid computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers.

We expect to provide time for a panel session or group discussion on topics of particular interest.

This symposium also serves as the fourth meeting of the Australian Grid Forum. The forum's steering committee meeting will also be held in conjunction with the symposium. This provides an opportunity for all participants to influence activities of the forum.

Australasian Computer Science Week

The Australasian Computer Science Week is the annual meeting for computer science researchers and educators held in the Australasian region. It includes the Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC), the premiere generalist forum for Australasian computer science academics, as well as several specialist conferences and workshops. Registration for ACSW enables participation in all the ACSW conferences and workshops, including AusGrid 2006.

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