Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island/Spain, August 26-29, 2008

Through recent advancements in network technology, graphics cards, and displays a new type of applications - real-time online interactive applications (ROIAs) - has become more and more popular. Everyday life has been affected and transformed not only by the use of web technology, but also by collaborative multimedia applications, networked computer games, cooperative scientific visualisations, networked virtual environments and real-time graphical displays. Users dislocated all over the globe are enabled to work with a variety of tools and graphical user interfaces to communicate and jointly solve problems using sophisticated graphical interfaces. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a hot topic which will most likely increase the impact on ROIAs. The grid and its technologies is known to provide a sophisticated basis for ROIAs and collaborative work.

This event encourages paper submissions concerning the application and usage of real-time online Gird applications, as well as the technologies supporting them in scientific and industrial context. Authors are expected to emphasize the benefits of their real-time online applications for human users with focus on up-to-date characteristics of hard-, soft and middleware aspects. This workshop offers the possibility to discuss the different approaches Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID and supportive technologies, to show the latest results, products, or research prototypes to potential users, and to establish connections between developers and users of associated technologies.