Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research |
A joint workshop between the
UK-UbiNet
Ubiquitous Computing Network and the
e-Science Programme
National eScience Centre, Edinburgh, UK 18-19 May 2005 |
Final Draft Agenda | NeSC page for this event | Position papers
The digital world of the Grid meets the physical world through a variety of sensors, instruments and interfaces. Projects in the e-Science programme have increasingly become aware of the need to focus on this digital-physical interface of the grid, and the ubiquitous computing community is looking towards the Grid for aspects of processing, data handling, integration and access. Meanwhile there is also interest in applying middleware techniques across these distributed computing domains. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these fields and identify research agendas which bring together ubiquitous computing and e-Science / e-Research / Grid.
This 4th UK UbiNet workshop is jointly organised by the e-Science and UK UbiNet communities, and follows on from a Birds-of-Feather session at the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in September 2004. It is aimed at all members of the ubiquitous/pervasive computing or e-Science research, development and user communities who have an interest in the application of ubiquitous computing to e-Science applications, grid computing to ubiquitous applications (e.g. sensor networks), grid computation and virtualisation over networks of devices, or any other area which draws on both ubiquitous computing and e-Research - see the list of example topics below. As well as bringing people together and sharing results, requirements and issues, the workshop will provide a basis to discuss mechanisms for taking this research community forward, especially in the light of the strategic attention given to some of these areas in forthcoming funding programmes.
The objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions between attendees. The workshop sessions will consist of invited talks plus two or three 10 minute presentations of relevant position papers, followed by a 20-30 minute discussion.
We invite position papers of up to 5 pages in length. These should present work and ideas which touch on both ubiquitous computing and e-Science/e-Research/Grid. Topics include but are certainly not limited to:
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Position papers should be in Word, PDF or HTML format and will be made available on the Web. For planning purposes we request a title and one paragraph abstract one week in advance of the position paper deadline (this will enable us to put the draft agenda together):
Abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to Nicky Harding, email nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk.
The Workshop will be held at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) in Edinburgh, starting in the morning of Wednesday 18 May and finishing in the afternoon of Thursday 19 May. If you would like to attend the workshop please visit the NeSC Web Site for this event: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/530/
Please contact Nicky Harding (email nch@ecs.soton.ac.uk) or David De Roure (email dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk).
The report Next Generation Grids 2 - Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005-2010 and Beyond (PDF) was published in July 2004 by the IST Programme Grid Technologies Unit, written by an Expert Group convened to enhance the original "Next Generation Grid" (NGG) report published in June 2003. This includes two scenarios (a disaster scenario and the 'proactive PDA') and identifies research priorities including pervasive computing.
IEEE Internet Computing, special issue on the wireless grid, Volume 8, Issue 4, July/Aug 2004. Includes Gaynor et al, Integrating Wireless Sensor Networks with the Grid (PDF) and Junseok Hwang, Praveen Aravamudham, Middleware Services for P2P Computing in Wireless Grid Networks. See also the publications page on the Wireless Grids web site.
O. Storz, A. Friday and N. Davies, Towards `Ubiquitous' Ubiquitous Computing: an alliance with `the Grid'. First Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop (Ubisys 2003) in association with Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Seattle, US, 2003 (PDF). Also see N. Davies, A. Friday and O. Storz, Exploring the Grid's Potential for Ubiquitous Computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 3(2): pp. 74-75, 2004.
D.De Roure, Semantic Grid and Pervasive Computing, Proceedings of the GGF9 Semantic Grid Workshop, Chicago, US, 2003 (HTML, PowerPoint).
Karan Bhatia, Nobuhiro Koba, Dimitris Lioupis, Ashley D. Lloyd, Sergio Mendiola, Dejan Milojicic, Krishna Sankar & Ian Taylor Appliance Aggregation Architecture Terminology, Survey, and Scenarios (Word). GGF Appliance Aggregation Architecture Group (APPAGG), March 2003.
M. Atkinson, J. Crowcroft, C. Goble, J. Gurd, T. Rodden, N. Shadbolt, M. Sloman, I. Sommerville, and T. Storey, Computer Science Challenges to Emerge from e-Science, 2002 (PDF). This report discusses "the emergence of a digital infrastructure that is pervasive in nature and accessible through a diverse collection of devices".
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