Aims and Scope

The Grid has emerged as a global platform to support on-demand virtual organizations for coordinated sharing of distributed data, applications and processes. Service orientation of the Grid also makes it a promising platform for seamless and dynamic development, integration and deployment of service-oriented applications. The application components can be discovered, composed and delivered within a Grid of services, which are loosely coupled to create dynamic business processes and agile applications spanning organizations and computing platforms. The technologies contributing to such Grids of services include Web Services, Semantic Web, Grid Computing, Component Software and Agent Technology.

The GSEM'04 conference is an international forum for the presentation of the latest theoretical and practical results in technology solutions for engineering and management of Grid services and service-oriented applications.

The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields and interests, including Web Services, Semantic Web, Grid infrastructures, software components, workflow, intelligent agents and negotiation technologies, service management, and those looking for new business and research cooperation opportunities in the area of Grid services and service-oriented applications.

Suggested Topics

We invite research papers, work-in-progress reports and industrial experiences describing advances in all areas of grid service engineering and management, including, but not limited to:

Convergence of Web Services, Semantic Web, Agent Technology and the Grid
Confluence of Service-oriented Architectures based on Web Services with Grid Computing
Usage of Web Services and Agents in a Grid infrastructure
Crosscutting concerns in Grid services (e.g. AOSD)
Modeling, description and discovery of Grid services
Deployment, packaging, and distribution of Grid services
Semantic technologies and their deployment in service Grids
Business semantics, meta data, and ontologies in service Grids
Grid service architectures, infrastructures and deployment environments
Software engineering for Grid service creation, development, and generation (including languages, modeling, OMG's MDA, generative programming techniques, Domain-Specific Languages, feature-based configuration, etc.)
Service provisioning, correctness, and aspects of Quality of Service for Grid services
Workflow planning and composition for Grid services (including languages, algorithms, resources, etc.)
Service composition models and languages
Grid service compatibility and interoperability
Matchmaking and negotiated service composition
Service level agreement negotiation and contracting
Dynamic coordination of grid services and applications
Adaptive management, monitoring and control of Grid services and applications
Formation and management of virtual organizations
Service communication languages and protocols
Grid service policy and meta-policy management
Agents-based grid service infrastructures
Intelligent services and Grid service agents
Agents-based service brokering and composition planning
Agent-based monitoring and control of Grid services
Security, performance and reliability engineering in service Grids
Testing and benchmarking of grid services and infrastructures
Functional and non-functional aspects of Grid services
Social aspects of Grid service integration and interactions
Grid service business models and applications (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom etc.)
Integration and interoperability of grid services and legacy systems
Standardization aspects

Submission Guidelines

Full papers must not exceed 15 pages (see netobjectdays.org Menu For Authors). All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's e-mail address. Authors should submit a full paper via electronic submission to rkowalczyk@it.swin.edu.au. All papers accepted for GSEM'04 are peer-reviewed and will be published in a special proceedings by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
A selection of high quality papers will be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the upcoming special issue of a major international journal.

Important Dates

Extended Submission Deadline: May 7, 2004.
Notification: June 11, 2004.
Final Version Due: July 9, 2004.

Conference Committee

Conference Chairs

R. Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
M. Jeckle (University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany)

Organizers Commitee

P. Braun (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
B. Franczyk (Leipzig University, Germany)
H. Krause (Transit Online, Germany)

Program Committee

S. Ambroszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
P. Braun (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
J. de Bruijn (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
B. Burg (HP, USA)
R. Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
F. Casati (HP Labs, USA)
J. Debenham (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
F. Dignum (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
D. Fensel (DERI, Austria)
I. Foster (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
B. Franczyk (Leipzig University, Germany)
M. Grigg (DSTO, Australia)
J. Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Y. Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
M. Himsolt (DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany)
Y. Huang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
M. Jeckle (University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, Germany)
C. Kesselman (University of Southern California)
S. Kettemann (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
R. Kowalczyk (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
J. P. Martin-Flatin (CERN, Switzerland)
J. Noll (Telenor, Norway)
R. Oberhauser (Siemens, Germany)
L. Padgham (RMIT, Australia)
A. Polze (HPI, Germany)
C. Preist (HP Labs, UK)
J. Rodriguez-Aguilar (iSOCO Lab, Spain)
M.-C. Shan (HP Labs, USA)
K. M. Sim (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
B. Spencer (NRC, Canada)
S. Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
M. Stroebel (BMW, Germany)
H. Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
R. Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
T. van Do (Telenor, Norway)
J. Veijalainen (University of Jyväskylä, Finnland)
M. Weske, (Hasso-Plattner-Institut/Potsdam University, Germany)
J. Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Y. Yang (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
L. J. Zhang (IBM, USA)