A call for papers has been issued for the Second International Workshop on Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid being held in Melbourne this December.

The workshop will explore the integration of instruments and sensors into computing and storage grids.

Papers are being solicited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

• Integration of instruments and sensors into Grids
• Protocols and service models for Grid-enabled instruments and sensors
• The role of Web 2.0 technologies and APIs in instrument-driven science
• A discussion or survey of extant models from Defence or industry that may be useful in developing a reusable approach to Grid-enabling sensor and instruments for e-Science
• Interoperability and compatibility of Grid-enabled instrumentation and applications
• Representation and control of instruments and sensors including safety issues
• Remote access to instrumentation and sensors 
  
• Virtual organization and security issues
• Data management and metadata issues related to real-time data sources
• Social, administrative, and financial issues of Grid-enabled instruments and sensors 
  
• Agent-based and autonomic computing for instrument and sensor networks
  

Papers are due on 31 July 2007.

The workshop is taking place as part of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2007.

You can find information on the ISSNIP Conference and the workshop at http://www.issnip.org/2007/index.html