Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:18:47 GMT

                   Workshop on

       Emerging Technologies for Next generation GRID (ETNGRID-2004)
        13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies:

        Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2004)
              http://www.diit.unict.it/users/csanto/etngrid04/
               University of Modena, Italy, June 14-16, 2004
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The Grid  was originally  designed as a  large network of  computer

systems able  to offer  an environment  where computing and storage

resources are shared on-demand.
To  date, the  development  of standards,  such  as the   Open Grid

Service  Architecture  (OGSA),  along with the  introduction of new

paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an

environment  that is not only  suited  for  computational-intensive

applications,   but  also  for computing   scenarios   typical   of

distributed   systems,   like   service  and information providing,

multimedia environments, ubiquitous computing, etc.
For  these  and   other  reasons,  the   Grid    is   becoming   an

interesting and challenging environment supporting  both   old  and

new   services  for cooperative  applications. A relevant  research

effort  is thus  needed  not  only  to  investigate innovative Grid

infrastructures but also to  make the current Grid  model  suitable

for these emerging usage scenarios.
The  objective  of   this  workshop  is   to   gather   researchers

working  on different   emerging  Grid   computing aspects relevant

to  enterprise collaboration,  covering  issues  ranging  from  the

middleware  layer  to application development and user interaction.
The  goals  of  the workshop  include  (but  are  not  limited  to)

discovering new  application scenarios, proposing   new programming

abstractions and  tools,  identifying  the challenging problem that

still  need  to  be  solved,  and reporting results and experiences

gained   by   researchers   in   building   Grid-based  middleware,

applications and alike.
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