German e-Science 2007

The "German e-Science Conference 2007" (GES2007) - organised by Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and German Rectors' Conference (HRK) and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) – will bring together the experts from four different e-Science areas:

• Grid Computing,
• Knowledge Networking,
• e-Learning and
• Open Access.

The conference serves as the forum for developers and users of e-Science applications from international institutions and IT industry to present the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and highlight related activities from around the world. Presentations will be given as talks, poster sessions and demonstrations. The GES2007 will be an excellent market place to exchange the latest ideas in the different domains and to meet international experts of the e-Science community.

During the first day of the conference invited speakers will give highlight talks on e-Science. On the second day, keynotes will be given in each of the four e-Science areas. Four parallel workshops on the e-Science topics will be held during the second and third day.

CALL for abstract/papers

The workshops on Grid Computing, Knowledge Networking and e-Learning are open for contributions. You are invited to submit an abstract/a paper for these open workshops. The focus on the abstracts/papers is described in the sections below.

Author Guidelines

Abstracts/Papers will be peer-reviewed by a scientific programme committee. The abstracts should comprise at least two pages up to a maximum of four pages. After an abstract has been accepted, regular papers of about eight to ten pages have to be submitted to the scientific programme committee in order to be reviewed and published as part of the conference proceedings. More information about the publication policy and author instructions can be found under http://www.ges2007.de/AuthorGuidelines.

Important Dates

• Papers due December 22, 2006
• Paper acceptance March 1, 2007
• Camera ready papers due April 1, 2007
• Conference May 2.-4., 2007

Conference Organisation

General Chairs

Reinhard Maschuw, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

Elmar Schultz, German Rectors' Conference (HRK), Germany

More Information can be found under http://www.ges2007.de

Grid Computing – Focus

In the future, Grids will be an essential tool for scientific progress in many areas. To this end, Grids must provide a wide range of easy to use services that are tailored to the needs of a large number of research communities. However, the proliferation of Grids differs significant among those communities. Therefore, most Grid services are predominantly focused on the early adopters and developers. Due to their Grid experience, those groups are already working on defining complex services to enhance their existing solutions while newcomers in the Grid world at first must specify their particular needs and the differences to already established Grid solutions. Finally, Grid middleware experts need to find new approaches to enable interoperability between Grids of different communities. It is the goal of this conference to foster the interaction and collaboration between those different interest groups.

Topics

Therefore in this conference, we primarily but not exclusively solicit papers that belong to the following categories

• Grid interoperability
• Adoption of Grids in science
• Advances of Grid research
• New approaches in Grid middleware
• Examples of innovative Grid solutions

Abstracts for presentations covering both, theoretical and practical aspects of Grid computing are invited. This also includes experience reports on production systems, new Grid prototypes, and work in progress in scientific, commercial or administrative domains.

E-Learning – Focus

E-learning can be considered as an instrument to provide new organizational contexts for learning (e.g. removing the boundaries of time and space within the organisation of learning environments). Furthermore, it has the potential to improve the learning process itself (e.g. by providing new modes of content delivery or a higher intensity of interactivity). Within that frame, new learning environments have been developed exploiting the potential of new technologies for new types of learning. What experiences have been gained? What effects related to the objectives of the organizational or psychological aspects of learning could be measured? To what extent are the new developments sustainable? Has e-learning contributed to leverage new learning cultures? These are just a few examples of questions to be addressed in the presentation.

Topics

Based on the focus stated above various topics can be identified. Topics may include, but are not limited to

• Game-based learning
• Cyber media / "augmented reality"
• Informal learning
• Self-organization of learning
• Business models

Abstracts for presentations covering both, theoretical and practical aspects of e-learning are invited. Qualitative, quantitative, experience-based case studies and reports on work in progress from academics, teachers, and practitioners as well as from commercial and governmental projects are welcome.

Knowledge networking – Focus

Based on new technologies, research processes will be made easier, improved and intensified. New ways of network centric scientific work will improve the effectiveness of scientists by thoroughly exploiting the new technical opportunities (internet, digitization, communication, Open Access). Many aspects of scientific work, e.g. information retrieval, processing, evaluation, distribution and storage of information, will be influenced. Thus, it is necessary to establish a sustainable infrastructure for scientific information, communication and the distribution of research results. Through data integration and networking of resources, the knowledge space offered to the scientist will be seamlessly unfolded, equipped with innovative services. The opening up of previously inaccessible material in electronic form will allow interactive, collaborative work to be carried out and new questions to be pursued.

Topics

In this conference, we invite papers which are focussed primarily but not exclusively on the following topics:

• Sustainable infrastructure for scientific information and communication
• Flexible, scalable and interoperable software tools
• New services for scholarly communication
• Integration of new tools into existing scientific practice
• Innovative subject-specific user interfaces
• Tools for meta-searches, specialized searches and reference linking
• Data integration and networking of resources
• Environments for shared work with digital resources

Abstracts for presentations covering theoretical and/or practical issues related to knowledge networking are invited. Case studies and reports on work in progress from academics as well as from commercial information providers and governmental projects are welcome.

Abstract Submission Information

For the abstract submission please have the following information ready:

• The title and coauthors of your paper
• Preferred allocation of your paper (oral or poster). Note that the final selection of contributions for oral presentation will be based on the review of submitted abstracts by the programme committee.
• The abstract in electronic form as PDF (the abstracts should explicitly mention objectives, new results and conclusions or significance of the work).

You can then submit your abstract electronically via the GES2007 login system when available.