MGC 2005

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 third edition ran with the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference. Papers were published with ACM and selected extended versions invited to a special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience for 2006.

• 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