[CAnet - news] International Workshop on Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid

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 [For those of you who are planning on deploying engineering virtual
organizations, national platforms or large sensor and instruments networks
this might be a useful workshop.  Here are some additional pointers on
instruments for the grid for those who may be interested. Thanks to Herve
Guy for this pointer --BSA]

Grid enabled instruments middleware
www.inocybe.ca

NSF Engineering Virtual Organizations
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07558/nsf07558.htm


CANARIE's Network Enabled Platforms Workshop
http://www.canarie.ca/conferences/platforms/index.html



Second International Workshop on Scientific Instruments and
                        Sensors on the Grid

               Held in conjunction with ISSNIP 2007 
                       Melbourne, Australia
                        December 3-6, 2007
http://www.issnip.org/2007/ 


Grids for computation and storage are mature and are key components of
e-Science. Data for supporting or falsifying theories comes from experiments
that involve making observations with real instruments and sensors and from
simulation (in silico experiments). Efforts are currently underway to
integrate instruments and sensors with computing and storage Grids to create
a complete fabric for conducting e-Science, from observation to publication.
The aim of this workshop is to explore the integration of instruments and
sensors into computing and storage grids. 

Grid-enabling instruments and sensors encompasses themes of remote access by
humans and software agents, expanded availability of instruments by a
broader possibly non-traditional audience, integration of instruments into
software-driven analytical processes and workflows, and infrastructure for
autonomic event detection and response on many scales and in many settings. 
As Grids co-evolve with Web 2.0 technologies, SOA and existing Grid
approaches need to be re-thought. This presents special challenges and
opportunities for instruments and sensor Grids.

Many benefits accrue from sensors and instruments as grid actors.
Utilization and throughput of existing facilities may be improved through
remote access. Instruments can be elements in an experimental workflow
involving planning, observing, analysing, discovering and publishing, and
sensing and computing are brought closer together to support the coupling of

simulation and observation in real-time (e.g. nowcasting in environmental
and earth sciences and structural testing in civil engineering.) In these
applications the sensor network can evolve with the model supporting rapid
testing and modification of theories and optimised parameterisation of
models. 

Beyond these high level benefits, some more mundane ones include the
possibility of automatically acquiring high grade, detailed metadata with
observations that can be used to diagnose problems in the instrument or
experiment. High quality metadata also extends the usefulness of data,
increasing the possibility of re-use in some later study. Investments in
instrumentation can be made more efficiently knowing that research
infrastructure could be universally accessible to the community, and that
one aspect of return on investment, duty cycle or utilization, can be easily
measured. 

This workshop will address these issues and challenges, as they encompass
both real and virtual instruments and sensors. We are soliciting papers on
topics including, but not limited to, the following:

   * Integration of instruments and sensors into Grids 
   * Protocols and service models for Grid-enabled instruments and sensors
   * The role of Web 2.0 technologies and APIs in instrument-driven science
   * A discussion or survey of extant models from Defence or industry that
may be useful in developing a reusable approach to Grid-enabling sensor and
instruments for e-Science 
   * Interoperability and compatibility of Grid-enabled instrumentation and
applications
   * Representation and control of instruments and sensors including safety
issues
   * Remote access to instrumentation and sensors 
   * Virtual organization and security issues
   * Data management and metadata issues related to real-time data sources
   * Social, administrative, and financial issues of Grid-enabled
instruments and sensors 
   * Agent-based and autonomic computing for instrument and sensor networks


Organization

General Chair
Donald F. McMullen, Indiana University

Organizing/Program Committee

Kenneth Chiu, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, USA
Simon Coles, University of Southampton, UK 
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Jeremey Frey, University of Southampton, UK
Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan
Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
Peter Turner, University of Sydney, Australia


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