You are invited to submit a paper for APAC07, the APAC Conference and Exhibition on Advanced Computing, Grid Applications and eResearch to be held at the Rendezvous Observation City Hotel, Perth, Western Australia from Monday 8^th to Friday 12^th October 2007.

For more details about the conference go to www.apac.edu.au/apac07/

IMPORTANT DATES:

15 June 2007        Technical Paper Submissions Due

3 August 2007      Notification of Acceptance

17 August 2007    Final Manuscript Due

17 August 2007    Advanced Registration

SCOPE OF PAPERS:

As an indication of possible topics for submissions, the scope of the technical streams will include the following areas:

·   System Benchmarking and Optimisation

·   Computational Tools and Techniques

·   Grid Middleware and Tools

·   Web Services, Portals and Workflows

·   Software Engineering and Tools for eResearch

·   Visualisation Tools and Techniques

·   Data Management and Digital Repositories

·   Authorisation, Authentication and Identity Management

·   HPC and Grid Applications in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Papers might cover experiences with building advanced computing and grid infrastructure and with using this infrastructure to support scientific and industrial applications. 

Papers might report on experimental and theoretical results, case studies and technology demonstrations.

We encourage papers that can take advantage of the computing and communications infrastructure that will be available at APAC07. The exhibition area will have high-speed Internet connectivity to AARNet for demonstrations involving remote computing systems and facilities.

Originality, technical excellence and relevance to the APAC07 conference will be the key acceptance criteria for papers.

All submitted technical papers will undergo a formal review process.  The proceedings of the conference will be published on a CD ROM (with an ISBN).

GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION:

Your paper should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages of text using 12-point Times Roman type on A4 pages.

You should submit your paper in a PostScript (level 2) file. Each submission should also enclose the following information: paper title, author name, abstract, up to five keywords, as well as the contact information of the responsible author (postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax numbers).

One author of each accepted paper is required to register for APAC07 by 17 August 2007 and present the paper at the conference.

Please lodge papers at:  http://apac07.vpac.org

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Further information is available from the above website, or by contacting the Chair of the Technical Program Committee, Bill Appelbe, bill@vpac.org

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Sponsors currently include:

Comments after APAC’05 included:

APAC’05 was an enjoyable meeting for me, I got to meet a lot of people doing very interesting work and it was very nice to finally visit Australia.

As an honours student I was delighted to attend APAC’05. I was able to present my research and received offers from various institutions around the world as a result of the experience.

Thanks so much again for helping us host our workshop/keynote. We were truly blown away by all the support we received and excellent contacts we made.