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             Journal of Supercomputing
Special Issue on Secure, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services
        http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/JOS.html

Co-Guest Editors:
Christophe Cerin (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
Jean-Luc Gaudiot (University of California, Irvive, USA)
Kuan-Ching Li (Providence University, Taiwan)

Introduction

Grid systems are expected to connect large number of heterogeneous
resources (PC, Data-bases, HPC clusters, instruments, sensors,
visualization tools, etc.), to be used by many users and to execute a
large variety of applications (number crunching, data access,
multimedia, etc) and may concern with many scientific fields (helth,
economy, computing etc).

Grid are distributed systems and like for them, the notion of
security, the way we manage such large system and the way we control
the grid system are of particular interest. For instance,
'controllable' means: how we measure the activity of the grid and how
we report it. The 'manageable' term means: 'how we deploy the grid
architecture, the grid softwares, and how we start jobs (under
controllable events such as the availability of resources). At least,
the 'security' term refers to the traditional fields of
authentication, fault tolerance but refers also to safe execution (how
to certify results, how to adapt computation according to some
metric). Moreover it seems natural that all of these services should
collaborate making the building of middleware a challenging problem.

The idea of this special issue was announced during GPC2007 in
Paris. This special issue aims at gathering papers in the fields of
Grid / Distributed systems. This special issue is also open for
contributions in connected fields: P2P systems, Sensors Networks,
Networking, Large Scale Heterogeneous Distributed databases.  Topics

We invite authors to submit original and unpublished work. We also
require that the submission is not concurrently submitting to another
special issue or conference. We may accept 'extended work' but only if
it includes some origninal/new insights. Papers will be reviewed by
three reviewers. We inform authors that papers without evaluation
(either theoretical or experimental) will not be considered. In other
words, papers should be more than 'position papers' or a small
arrangement with a previous publication. We will also appreciate
survey papers. When submitting, authors implicitly recognize and
accept these rules.

So, we solicit novel papers on a broad range of topics that include
and are not limited to the following keywords:

 * Grid monitoring and controling (forecasting...) systems
 * Grid management systems (deployment of infrastructures and applications)
 * Grid security (authentication, adaptation, results' certification)
 * Aggregation of secure/manageable components into grid middlewares
 * Algorithms related to resource brokers, load balancing and heterogeneity
 * Applications and experiences with secure/manageable/controllable 
   grid infrastructures 

Schedule

Submissions Due: extended deadline --> December 20, 2007
Review Decisions: January 15, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: February 31, 2008
Publication: Spring, 2008

Formating rules and how to submit

The authors will be required to prepare their manuscripts according to
JOS style file that can be downloaded from the following link
(http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/JOS.html) and then, follow the
'Instructions for Authors' tab.

The paper length is no more than 20 pages. Please use the journal's
web site to post or modify your submission. Springer has created an
entry for the issue in the submission system. Be sure to choose the
article type "Sp Iss: Grid Services; Cerin, et al" in the submission
process. 
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