Virtual Laboratory
Workshop

at

May 8th - 10th, 2000
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/HPCN2000/

Recently distributed computing based on Local and Wide area networking received a considerable amount of interest. In particular the potentials of computational grids are widely discussed. In all cases, the issue is to harness the large computational and storage capabilities that are provided by such systems. A next step in these developments is to develop new type of application environments on top of these Grids.

Virtual Laboratories are one form of such new application environments. They will, in the near future, allow an experimental scientist either being a physicist, a biologist or an engineer to do his experiment or develop his design.

A Virtual Laboratory environment will consist of equipment (like a mass spectrometer or a DNA micro array) that can be remotely controlled and that will provide data sets that can be stored in the information management part of the laboratory. Interaction with the data can, among others, take place via virtual reality equipment like a CAVE.

In this workshop some more generic aspects of such environments will be discussed. The last session of this workshop that is dealing with information management in particular data integration and text mining will be a combined session with workshop on data mining organized by the Foundation HPCN.

Chairperson: Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam


• L.O. Hertzberger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Workshop Introduction
• K. Neggers, Surf, The Netherlands
  Gigaport network
• W. Loeve, NLR, The Netherlands
  Collaborative Problem Solving

Chairperson: Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam


• R. Williams, California Institute of Technology, USA
  Digital Libraries
• L. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
  Virtual enterprises and remote supervision

Chairperson: Harmen Bussemaker, University of Amsterdam


• H.W. Mewes, MIPS, Germany
  Integrated bio-informatics
• M. Trautwine, Syllogic, The Netherlands
  Text Mining

Chairperson: L.O. Hertzberger, University of Amsterdam