CFP: 2nd Intl. Wrkshp on Smart Grid Technologies (SGT06), at ICAC, June 12-16, 2006, Dublin

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

2nd Call for Papers
2nd International Workshop on
Smart Grid Technologies (SGT06)
http://www.iw.uni-karlsruhe.de/sgt06/

To be held at the
3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
Dublin, Ireland, June 12-16, 2006
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/icac2006/

Important Dates
Original submission of papers           March 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance              March 27, 2006
Extended abstracts submission           April 3,  2006
Camera-ready papers submission          April 20, 2006

Theme and Scope of the Workshop

Grid Computing is a novel and active research domain for complex,
dynamic, distributed and flexible  resource sharing. Yet, current grid
work is largely focusing on issues of performance, scalability, and
standardization, while still weak on aspects of intelligence and
adaptability. Agent and multi-agent  technologies provide a promising
approach to make grid technologies and solutions based on grid
technologies smarter and more flexible and adaptable.=20

Self-organizing, agent-based Grids share many properties and research
questions with Autonomic Computing.  Issues related to
self-organization, autonomy, collaboration, and economic models need to
be tackled, e.g.  market-based allocation and scheduling of resources,
pricing, payment, automated negotiation, market  mechanisms, engineering
of Grid-marketplaces and many others. On the other hand, technical
questions  concerning the self-organizing IT systems have to be solved,
including advanced Grid architectures,  semantically enhanced service
description, and specification of resources. =20

Within this workshop we intend to focus on the combination of
agent-based research approaches and the Grid  technology. This is a
novel and promising field, in which fruitful research results are
expected within a  short time.=20

We are calling for contributions in the following and related topics:
* Self-organization in Grid computing
* Theoretic models and approaches to analyze autonomic Grid systems and
services
* Modeling of autonomic Grid environments
* Agent-based mechanisms for Grid markets
* Resource allocation in Grid scenarios using agent-based approaches
* Automated negotiation for Grid resource allocation
* Agent-based simulation of Grid environments and markets
* Engineering of Grid markets and Grid architectures
* Business models for self-organizing Grid applications

The workshop particularly welcomes interdisciplinary papers and those
reporting on industry experiences  and implementations.

Targeted Audience

We propose this workshop as an interdisciplinary forum to address
relationships and synergies between  research on autonomic computing,
intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, and grid computing. The
target group of this workshop are computer scientists (autonomic
computing, artificial intelligence,  distributed systems), economists
(game theory, evolutionary economics, neo-institutional economics),
cognitive science researchers (strategic behavior, automated
negotiation) and practitioners (from the  Grid, IS management, energy
market and financial domains).

Submission Details

All manuscripts (a maximum of 12 pages in length) will be reviewed by
the program committee and judged on  merits including correctness,
originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance
to  the workshop themes. Authors should submit papers electronically
(PDF or postscript) via the SGT  submission web site at
http://conf.wi.uni-bayreuth.de/sgt06/, and should follow IEEE CS format
- style  files can be found at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/.1

We envisage formal post-workshop publication of selected and revised
contributions. Therefore, we are  negotiating with publishers. Extended
abstracts will be included in the main ICAC proceedings.

Program Committee
* Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
* Martin Bichler (Technical University Munich, Germany)
* Juergen Branke (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland)
* Wolfgang Gentzsch (German D-Grid Initiative)
* Gianfranco Giulioni (University of Ancona, Italy)
* Sven Graupner (HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA)
* Sverker Janson (SICS, Sweden)
* Chris Kenyon (IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland)
* Dennis Kundisch (University of Augsburg, Germany)
* Joerg P. Mueller (TU Clausthal, Germany)
* Leandro Navarro (University of Catalonia, Spain)
* Dirk Neumann (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* David Parkes (Harvard University, USA)
* Fethi Rabhi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
* Omer F. Rana (University of Cardiff, UK)
* Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz, Germany)
* Craig Thompson (University of Arkansas, USA)
* Christof Weinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
* Floriano Zini (ITC-irst, Trento, Italy)

Workshop Organizers

Torsten Eymann
University of Bayreuth
Chair for Information Systems, Germany
eymann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Daniel J. Veit (Primary Contact)
University of Karlsruhe
Information Management and Systems, Germany
veit@xxxxxxxxx
+49-721-608-8372