ERCIM News No.59 - October 2004 - Special theme: Grids

	ERCIM News No. 59, October 2004 - Contents
	KEYNOTE
	Grids: A Crucial Technology for Science and Industry by Fabio Colasanti, Director-General, European Commission, Directorate-General for "Information Society"
	JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS
	CoreGRID Kick-off Meeting by Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
	8th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces for All" by Constantine Stephanidis
	DELOS Information Day by Costantino Thanos, ISTI-CNR, Italy
	EUROPEAN SCENE
	The EU Information Society Technologies Programme Advisory Group - ISTAG by Michael Wilson
	Euro-Legal
	NEWS FROM W3C
	Tim Berners-Lee Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
	Celebrating W3C's Tenth Anniversary
	COPRAS European Project Kick-off Meeting
	W3C Spanish Office to promote W3C Standards in Tour of Spain
	Multimodal Web Workshop and Seminars
	Four W3C Workshops this Fall
	Latest W3C Recommendations
	Semantic Web Standardization in Europe: SWAD-Europe by Dan Brickley, Libby Miller and Kate Sharp
	SPECIAL THEME: Grids - The Next Generation
	Introduction - Grids: The Next Generation by Keith Jeffery, CCLRC, UK and Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI, Hungary
	Next Generation Grids : The Work of the European Commission Expert Group by Keith Jeffery, CCLRC, UK
	Grid Infrastructure:
	GridPP: A UK Computing Grid for Particle Physics by Sarah Pearce, University of London, UK
	The CERN openlab for DataGrid Applications by Andreas Unterkircher, Sverre Jarp and Andreas Hirstius, CERN, Switzerland
	Fraunhofer Grid Alliance – From Grid-Based e-Science to Industrial Applications by Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Anette Weisbecker, Jürgen Falkner, Thilo Ernst, Uwe Der, Andreas Hoheisel, Klaus-Peter Eckert and Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany
	The Production-Level Hungarian ClusterGrid Initiative by Péter Stefán, Office for National Information and Infrastructure Development (NIIF/HUNGARNET), Hungary
	Effective Aggregation of Idle Computing Resources for Cluster Computing by Bruno Richard and Philippe Augerat, Icatis Grenoble, France
	The European Learning Grid Infrastructure Integrated Project by Pierluigi Ritrovato and Matteo Gaeta, Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di Salerno, Italy
	DILIGENT: A Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology by Donatella Castelli, ISTI-CNR
	Grid Architecture:
	The Cost of Quality for Cycle-Harvesting Grids by Chris Kenyon, IBM Research, Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland
	JGrid: A Jini Technology-Based Service Grid by Zoltan Juhasz, University of Veszprem, and Gergely Sipos, SZTAKI, Hungary
	The GRASP Project: Innovative Middleware for Next Generation Grid-Based Application Service Providers by Theo Dimitrakos
	Akogrimo - The Grid goes Mobile by Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany; Theo Dimitrakos and Keith Jeffrey, CCLRC, UK
	Grid Middleware:
	A Component-Based Software Infrastructure for Grid Computing by Christian Pérez, INRIA, France
	Data Access and Integration by Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre, UK
	Building a Multi-Domain Grid by Freek Dijkstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam and David Groep, NIKHEF, The Netherlands
	Resource Management in an Optical Grid Testbed by Helmut Grund and Wolfgang Ziegler, Institute for Scientific Computing and Algorithms SCAI, Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany
	Grid Resource Management using Software Agents by Isaac Chao, Ramon Sangüesa and Oscar Oardaiz, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
	Multi-Agent Systems for Efficient Quality of Service Routing in Grids by Eric Ayienga, Okello-Odongo, University of Nairobi; Bernard Manderick, and Ann Nowe,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
	Grid Programming:
	Enabling High-Level Access to Grid Computing Services by José Miguel Alonso, Vicente Hernández, Germán Moltó, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/SpaRCIM, Spain
	Trusted Grid Workflows: Assigning ‘Reputation’ to Grid Service Providers by Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, Wales, UK; Julian Padget, University of Bath, Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
	A High-Level Grid Application Environment to Grid-Enable Legacy Code by Péter Kacsuk, Zoltán Farkas, Tamás Boczkó , SZTAKI, Hungary; Tamás Kiss, Ariel Goyeneche, Thierry Delaitre, University of Westminster, UK
	JOpera: Visual Composition of Grid Services by Cesare Pautasso ETH Zurich, Switzerland
	Grid Applications:
	Grid-enabled Weka: A Toolkit for Machine Learning on the Grid by Rinat Khoussainov, Xin Zuo and Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin, Ireland
	The eMinerals Minigrid: An Infrastructure to Support Molecular Simulation Scientists by Martin Dove, University of Cambridge, UK
	Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid by Peter Sloot and Alfons Hoekstra, University of Amsterdam
	Photorealistic Visualisation with Grid-Based Technology by Mika Pennanen and Markus Ylikerälä, VTT Information Technology, Finland
	Solving Optimization Problems with Grid-Enabled Technologies by Enrique Alba and Antonio J. Nebro, University of Málaga/SpaRCIM, Spain
	Bioinformatics in the Semantic Grid by Kai Kumpf and Martin Hofmann, Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Fraunhofer ICT Group, Germany
	New Projects:
	CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for Large-Scale, Distributed Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies by Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
	GridCoord - Co-ordinating Europe-wide Initiatives in Grid Research by Marco Vanneschi , Pisa University, Italy
	TrustCoM - A Trust and Contract Management Framework enabling Secure Collaborations in Dynamic Virtual Organisations by Theo Dimitrakos, Michael Wilson CCKRC, UK, and Santi Ristol , ATOS Origin, Spain
	Grid.it - Next Generation Grid Platforms and their Applications by Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR and Marco Vanneschi, Pisa University, Italy
	R&D AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
	Grammar Enables Effective Multimedia Search Queries by Fedde van der Lijn, CWI and Menzo Windhouwer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	From Textual Use Cases to Behaviour Specifications by Vladimir Mencl, Charles University/CRCIM, Czech Republic
	GHT*: A Peer-to-Peer System for Metric Data by Michal Batko and Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic; Claudio Gennaro, ISTI-CNR, Italy
	CWI's FACS Cluster - Facilitating the Advancement of Computational Science by Stefan Blom, Sander Bohte and Niels Nes, CWI, The Netherlands
	SynDEx: System-Level CAD Software for Optimizing Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems by Yves Sorel, INRIA, France
	Large-Scale Simulations of Diffusion in Cell Biology by Ivo F. Sbalzarini, Anna Mezzacasa, Ari Helenius and Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich/SARIT, Switzerland
	Real-Time MIMO Testbed for Next Generation Wireless LANs by Andreas Burg and Helmut Bölcskei
	EVENTS
	Reports:
	16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence by Vicent J. Botti, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/SpaRCIM, Spain
	Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2004 by Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Italy
	For conference announcements, see: Calendar of Events and Conferences related to IT and Applied Mathematics
	Book Review The Portable Internet
	IN BRIEF
	SpaRCIM - The First Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI 2005) is to take place between 13-16 September, 2005 .. more
	CWI - CWI has started a new line of research on fundamental and practice-oriented cryptology ..more
	FNR - The National Research Fund of Luxembourg launched the second call of its multiannual research programme 'Security and efficiency of new practices in e-commerce for all socio-economic actors' .. more
	ISTI-CNR - Paolo Cignoni is the first recipient of the Eurographics 'Young Researcher' award .. more
	INRIA - Gilles Kahn, Chairman of INRIA and INRIA's representative on ERCIM's board of directors was appointed member at the French National Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies .. more

ERCIM News No. 59, October 2004 - Contents