The GCC conference has become one of the largest scientific events worldwide in grid and cooperative computing. The 8th international conference on grid and cooperative computing (GCC2009) is to be held from August 27 to 29, 2009 in Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
GCC2009 will be a stimulating forum for researchers and practitioners in related fields, where people get together to exchange ideas, experiences, and up-to-date technological advances. We invite the submission of papers related to various aspects of grid and cooperative computing.
GCC2009 is in technical co-sponsorship with the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Scalable Computing (TCSC).
The main topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Theory of grid computing
- Service-oriented foundation of grid computing
- Peer-to-peer computing
- Novel grid architectures
- Grid middleware
- Cloud Computing
- Service Computing Technologies & Applications
- Cooperative system, architecture and algorithms
- High Performance Computing and Network Communications
- Resource organization and management for grid computing
- Resource virtualization for grid computing
- Grid workflow and service composition
- Grid usage models and portal tools
- Grid programming models and environments
- Engineering approaches for grid applications
- Semantic basis for grid computing
- Grid interoperability
- Grid monitoring and accounting
- Quality of service, performance, and deployment issues
- Security, dependability, survivability, and reliability issues in grid computing
- Domain-specific approaches to grid engineering
- Software engineering support for grid and cooperative computing
- Technologies and practices of computer-supported cooperative work
- Empirical study of real-world applications or industrial case studies
