Call for Papers
GCC 2005
The 4th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing

November 30-December 3, 2005, Beijing, China
www.ict.ac.cn/gcc2005

The International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing GCC obtained great success in the past three years. It has become a major annual forum in Grid and Cooperative Computing area, with 400-500 registered participants.
GCC 2005 will inherit its tradition and further promote its quality and international impact.  It will emphasize the theory, method, and design of grid and cooperative computing as well as applications in science, culture, engineering and business. Researchers and practitioners will get together to present up-to-date achievement in this international forum. 
The conference solicits original high quality papers on the following topics.
l	Fundamental theories on Grid and Cooperative Computing
l	Grid Computing, grid services and grid security
l	Grid applications
l	Grid monitoring, management and organization tools
l	Grid middleware and toolkits
l	Collaboration Grids
l	Knowledge Grid, Information Grid, and Service Grid
l	Grid information representation and management
l	Advanced resource reservation and scheduling
l	Performance evaluation and modeling
l	P2P computing and autonomic computing
l	Information and Software integration technologies 
l	Software engineering and cooperative computing 
l	Computer-supported cooperative work 

Submission Instructions:
Detailed submission instructions, e.g. a description of the requested camera-ready format, will be made available before the submission dates at the conference web site.
Papers should be written in English. Papers must not be published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. PDF copies of manuscripts may be mailed to kg@ict.ac.cn.

Important dates: 
July    8, 2005         Conference Paper Due
August  8, 2005         Notification of Acceptance/Rejection    
August 26, 2005         Camera-Ready Paper Due

Proceedings:
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag (pending). 

General Co-Chairs:
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
Tony Hey, University of Southampton, UK

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Steering Committee:
Andrew Chien, University of California at San Diego, USA
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Guojie Li, China Computer Federation
Zhiwei Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaodong Zhang, College of William and Mary, USA

Publicity Chair:
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China

Program Committee Members:
Mark Baker (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Yaodong Bi (University of Scranton, USA)
Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Guihai Chen (Nanjing University, China)
Guangrong Gao (University of Delaware Newark, USA)
Ning Gu (Fudan University, China)
Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan)
Jun Han (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Yanbo Han (Institute of Computing Tech., CAS, China)
Chun-Hsi Huang (University of Connecticut, USA)
Hai Jin (HuaZhong University of Sci.&Tech., China)
Francis Lau (Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)
Keqin Li (State University of New York, USA)
Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Xiaoming Li (Peking University, China)
Xiaola Lin (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Junzhou Luo (Southeast University, China)
Huaikou Miao(ShangHai University,China)
Geyong Min (University of Bradford, UK)
Jun Ni (University of Iowa, USA)
Lionel Ni (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)
Depei Qian (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Yuzhong Qu (Southeast University, China)
Hong Shen (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Alexander V. Smirnov (St.-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian)
Xian-He Sun (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Yuzhong Sun (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China)
David Taniar (Monash University, Australia)
Huaglory Tianfield (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
David W Walker (Cardiff University, UK)
Shaowen Wang (University of Iowa, USA)
Jie Wu (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
Zhaohui Wu (Zhejiang University, China)
Nong Xiao (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Cheng-Zhong Xu (Wayne State University, USA)
Guangwen Yang (Tsinghua University, China)
Laurence Tianruo Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Zhonghua Yang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Xiaodong Zhang (NSF, USA and College of William and Mary, USA)
Weimin Zheng (Tsinghua University, China)
Wanlei Zhou (Deakin University, Australia)
Xinrong Zhou (Abo Akademi University, Finland)
Jianping Zhu (The University of Akron, USA)

Information:
Further questions may be addressed to: kg@ict.ac.cn