Call for Papers
SCOPE:
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of resource scheduling and resource management to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed systems including Grids and Clouds.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

* Resource allocation and management
* Advance resource reservation and scheduling
* Load sharing and Load balancing techniques
* Network resource allocation
* Fault-tolerant resource management approaches
* Data access and management
* Scheduling data intensive jobs
* Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes
* Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling
* Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues
* Performance implications of scheduling strategies
* Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes
* Virtualization of resources

PROCEEDINGS:
Proceedings of workshops will be published by the Conference Publishing Services in CD format only and will be available at the conference.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submitted papers should be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger and should not exceed 8 pages including figures and references. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.


IMPORTANT DATES:


Submissions Due: Apr 2, 2012
Review Decisions: Apr 30, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: Jun 8, 2012

PROGRAM CHAIR:
Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, USA)
TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

* Sanjeev Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
* Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
* Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Surendra Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
* Massimiliano Caramia (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
* Julita Corbalan (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
* Tae-Young Choe (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
* Maciej Drozdowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
* Eitan Frachtenberg (Facebook, USA)
* Alfredo Goldman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
* William Jones (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
* Hiroshi Koide (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Shikharesh Majumdar (Carleton University, Canada)
* Aleardo Manacero Jr. (Sao Paulo State University, Brazil)
* Serge Midonnet (University of Marne La Vallee, France)
* Nandini Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, India)
* Vijay Naik (IBM, USA)
* Chanik Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
* Rajiv Ranjan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Morris Riedel (Research Center Julich, Germany)
* Michael Sobolewski (Texas Tech University, USA)
* Achim Streit (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
* Dina Sulakhe (The University of Chicago, USA)
* Yongwei Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
* Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany)
* Ramin Yahyapour (University of Dortmund, Germany)

PUBLICITY COORDINATOR:
Jun Yi (University of Notre Dame, USA)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
For further questions, send e-mail to srmpds@mcs.anl.gov.