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Kluwer is considering launching a new journal on grid computing and wants your feedback. Your answers and suggestions will help us to determine the need and market for the proposed International Journal of Grid Computing, and to make improvements on the concept. All respondents will enter a prize draw, the winner of which will receive $1,000 worth of Kluwer publications of their choice. Grids Journal Aims and Scope Grid computing is an emerging technology that enables large-scale resource sharing and coordinated problem solving within distributed, often loosely coordinated groups-what are sometimes termed "virtual organizations." By providing scalable, secure, high-performance mechanisms for discovering and negotiating access to remote resources, Grid technologies promise to make it possible for scientific collaborations to share resources on an unprecedented scale, and for geographically distributed groups to work together in ways that were previously impossible. Similar technologies are being adopted within industry, where they serve as important building blocks for emerging service provider infrastructures. Even though the advantages of this technology for classes of applications has been acknowledged, research in a variety of disciplines, including not only multiple domains of computer science (networking, middleware, programming, algorithms) but also application disciplines themselves, as well as such areas as sociology and economics, is needed to broaden the applicability and scope of the current body of knowledge. Topics that fit within this theme include: Protocols, middleware, and services for security, discovery, sharing, management, etc., of computing, storage, data, and other resources-within dynamic, distributed communities. Scaling issues in various dimensions: number of sites, number of users, number of resources, aggregate performance, and amount of data. Peer-to-peer and Internet computing. Design environments, application development tools, languages, and compilation techniques for Grid computing. Grid applications and system solutions in science, engineering, and commerce. Novel uses of Grid computing concepts and technologies, for example in sensor nets and education. Advanced collaboration technologies for collaborative work, information sharing, and problem solving. The implications of Grid technologies for emerging optical and wireless infrastructures. The human and/or market dynamics that may influence resource sharing decisions and the choice of collaboration modalities within small and large communities. Proposed Editorial Board The editorial board will represent a cross section of sub-disciplines within Grid computing, and a geographic cross section of Grid computing laboratories around the world. A proposed list of board members is provided below: Ian Foster - Co-Editor in Chief Peter Kacsuk - Co-Editor in Chief David Abramson, Monash University (Melbourne, Victoria - Australia) Malcolm Atkinson, U.K. eScience Center (Glasgow - UK) Ruth Aydt (Univ. of Illinois - USA) Henri Bal, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam - Netherlands) Fran Berman, University of California San Diego (San Diego, California - USA) Franck Cappello, CNRS (Paris - France) Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California - USA) Andrew Chien, University of California San Diego (San Diego, California - USA) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge (Cambridge - U.K.) David Culler, University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, California - USA) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, Tennessee - USA) Fabrizio Gagliardi (CERN - Switzerland) Jim Gray, Microsoft (San Francisco, California - USA) Tony Hey, University of Southampton (Southampton - UK) Bill Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California - USA) Ken Kennedy, Rice University (Houston, Texas - USA) Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California (Marina del Rey, California - USA) Domenico Laforenza (CNUCE - Italy) Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin - USA) Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo - Japan) Paul Messina, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California - USA) Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Poznan (Poznan - Poland) Alexander Reinefeld (Berlin - Germany) Ed Seidel, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam - Germany) Satoshi Sekiguchi (Japan) Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - USA) Zhiwei Zu, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) Special editors: GGF Editor - Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne, Illinois - USA) Industrial Editor - Wolfgang Gentzsch, (Sun Microsystems - USA)