Grid Asia 2008

Research Track


Workflow and Grid Integration Systems
Chair: A/Prof. Tan Tin Wee (National University of Singapore)
1030-1100 When Reality Attacks! Four years of Building Workflow Middleware for Real Scientists
by Tom Oinn (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
1100-1120 KOOPlatform: BioWorldWideWorkflow Integration, Bio-eManufacturing and BioSurveillance
by Lim Teck Sin (KOOPrime)
1120-1145 Goalnet: Intelligence in Workflow Orchestration
by Lane Shen (Nanyang Technological University)
1145-1205 Wildfire/GEL: an Integrated Solution for Building and Executing Workflows
by Arun Krishnan (Teleconferencing)
1205-1230 Quascade-MP2 Workflows
by Bertil Schmidt (University of New South Wales Asia)
 
  Knowledge Discovery and the Semantic Web
Chair: Dr. Christopher J O Baker (I2R)
1400-1440 The History of the Semantic Grid
by David C De Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
1440-1510 Bio services Transfer in a Grid Environment
by Miao Chunyan (Nanyang Technological University)
1510-1530 Semantic Web Technologies for Biological Knowledge Aggregation
by Olivo Miotto (National University of Singapore)

 
  Knowledge Discovery and the Semantic Web
Chair: A/Prof. Martti Tammi (Nanyang Technological University)
1600-1640 The Expo Ontology: Describing Scientific Experiments
by Ross King (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)
1640-1720 Automatic Generation of Drug Metabolic Pathway from ADME Ontology on OWL-DL
by Akihiko Konagaya (RIKENS, Japan)
1720-1800 Using Ontology to Classify Members of a Protein Family
by Robert Stevens (University of Manchester, UK)

Thursday, 7 June
  Workflow Engineering
Chair: Prof. Yike Guo (Imperial College, UK)
1100-1140 Architecting the Virtual Organization
by Robert Gill (GlaxoSmithKline)
1140-1210 Bioinformatics Workflow Management: Thoughts and Case Studies from Industry
by Mark Schreiber (Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases)
1210-1230 IXodus, a Knowledge Discovery Process based on the SIMDAT-Pharma GRID Technologies
by Robert Kamuzinzi (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

 
  Workflow Engineering
Chair: Prof. Yike Guo (Imperial College, UK)
1400-1500 TBA
by Jon Pyke (The Process Factory, UK)
1500-1530 Workflows in Academia: from Coordinated Chaos to Best of Breed
by Vasa Curcin (Imperial College, UK)

 
  Workflow Engineering
Chair: Prof. Yike Guo (Imperial College, UK)
1600-1700 Panel Discussion: "Workflow Standardization for Interoperability in Industry and Academia"
Panelists: Jon Pyke (The Process Factory, UK), Prof. Carol Globe (University of Manchester, UK), David De Roure (University of Southampton, UK)
1700-1715 TBA
by Dr. Simon See (Sun Microsystems)
1715-1730 TBA
by Tim Littlejohn (IBM)
1730-1750 Concluding Message

Grid Scheduling & Filesystem
Chair: A/Prof. Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University)
1030-1100 An Advance Reservation-based Computation Resource Manager for Global Scheduling
by Hidemoto Nakada (AIST, Japan)
1130-1200 A Dataflow System for Unreliable Computing Environments
by Chao Jin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
1200-1230 Performance Evaluation of Gfarm Version 1.4 as a Cluster Filesystem
by Yusuke Tanimura (AIST, Japan)

 
  Grid Workflow
Chair: A/Prof. Lee Bu-Sung (Nanyang Technological University)
1400-1430 Temporal Decomposition and Scheduling of Grid Workflow
by Pung Hung Keng (National University of Singapore)
1430-1500 A Flow Model of Web Services for the Grid
by Endang Purwanto Sulaiman (Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore)
1500-1530 A Comparison Study between Distributed and Centralized Job Workflow Execution Models
by Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University)

 
  Grid Environment & Programming
Chair: A/Prof. Teo Yong Meng (National University of Singapore)
1600-1630 Rendering-on-Demand Service Across Heterogeneous Grid Environment
by Lee Bu-Sung (Nanyang Technological University)
1630-1700 A Top-Down Methodology for Building Semantic-Rich Service-Oriented CVE
by Gang Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
1700-1730 Collaborative Workspace Over Service-Oriented Grid
by Shen Zhiqi (Nanyang Technological University)
1730-1800 OPAL OP: An Extensible Grid-Enabling Wrapping Approach for Legacy Applications
by Kohei Ichikawa (Osaka University, Japan)
1800-1830 Security Monitoring Extension for MOGAS
by Shingo Takeda (Osaka University, Japan)

Thursday, 7 June
Grid Applications
Chair: A/Prof. Teo Yong Meng (National University of Singapore)
1100-1130 Distributed Automatic Frame Generation for Cartoon Animation
by Seah Hock Soon (Nanyang Technological University)
1130-1200 Phenotype Genotype Exploration on a Desktop GPU Grid
by Bertil Schmidt (University of New South Wales Asia)
1200-1230 Digital Media Portal for the Grid
by Lee Bu-Sung (Nanyang Technological University)

 
  Poster Session
Chair: A/Prof. Francis Lee (Nanyang Technological University)
1400-1420 Exploring the PC Grid Technology for Research Computation - The NUS Experience
by Tan Chee Chiang (National University of Singapore)
1420-1440 Grid Computing for Stochastic Super-Resolution Imaging: Fundermentals and Alogorithms
by Kai-Kuang Ma (Nanyang Technological University)
1440-1500 Supporting Large-Scale Collaboration Virtual Environment in Grid
by Qingping Lin (Nanyang Technological University)
1500-1520

Designing an Experimental Gaming Platform for Trading Grid Resources
by Danny Oh (Singapore Management of University)

1520-1530 Closing Remarks

Pacific Wave Applications Meeting
Thursday, 7 June
Grids & Networking
0945-1035 Building International e-Communities in Cyber-infrastructure, Research, and Education
by Dr. Yoshio Tanaka (AIST, Japan) & remote PRAGMA speakers
Recent Advanced Grid Network Research Experiments & Results
by Prof. Joel Mambretti (Northwestern University, USA)

 
  Genomics & Bio Sciences
1100-1230 The Bright and Dark Side of Bioinformatics
by Prof. Wong Limsoon (National University of Singapore)
CAMERA: Building a "Community Cyber-infrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research & Analysis"
by Dr. Kayo Arima (University of California San Diego, USA)
BeSTGRID - An e-Research Nexus for New Zealand Bioscience
by Prof. Neil Gemmell (University of Canterbury, NZ)

 
  Grids & Networking
1400-1530 Globus MEDICUS - Federation of DICOM Imaging Devices into HealthGrids
by Dr. Jonathan Silverstein (University of Chicago)
Network Resilience in R&E network: Post Boxing Day Fiber cut
by A/Prof. Lee Bu-Sung (SingAREN)
Frameworks to Exploit Regional & Global Networks
by George McLaughlin (Pacific North West Giga Pop)

 
  Digital Arts & Gaming
1600-1800
Research Directions for Computer Gaming and Artificial Intelligence
by Dr. Alexander Nareyek (National University of Singapore)
Game Intelligence & Behavior Modeling: Computational Learning and Binary Neural Networks
by A/Prof. Narendra S. Chaudhari (Nanyang Technological University)
Cluster/PC-Grid rendering in Temasek Polytechnic
by Allan Toh (Temasek Polytechnic)
CACAni - Next Generation of Digital Animation
by Dr. Tian Feng (Nanyang Technological University)

   
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