MGC 2003

As network performance outpaced computational power and storage capacity, a new paradigm evolved to enable the sharing and coordinated use of geographically distributed resources — supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, special devices and services, clustered and used as one. Controlling so broad a base of resources is the job of a middleware layer, and MGC was the workshop that looked at grid systems from exactly that perspective, bringing together the classic grid middleware tradition, object-oriented and component middleware, and service-oriented middleware. The first edition saw sixteen technical presentations on classic grids, object-oriented technologies, service-based grids, OGSA, agent grids, interactive grids, grid economy and scheduling, and portlets; revised versions of the papers were invited to a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (vol. 16 no. 5, 2004).

• Classic Grid Middleware
• Object-oriented technologies and component middleware
• WSRF/OGSA/Web services
• Grid Middleware Architectures
• Grid Services
• Grid Middleware Security
• Resource Management and Scheduling
• Strategies and protocols for obtaining QoS
• Semantic Grid Middleware
• Managing Information in Grid Middleware
• Grid Object Metadata and Schemas
• Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
• Performance Evaluation and Modeling
• Evolution of and experiences with Grid systems
• Wireless Grids
• Data Grid Middleware
• Dependability and Fault Tolerance in Grids
• Virtualization in Grids
• Agent-based Approaches in Grid Middleware
• Peer to Peer Protocols in Grid Computing
• Network Support for Grid Computing
• Grid Application Frameworks
• Portals and Portlet Containers