The first MGC workshop was held in 2003, with the Middleware Conference, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, were we saw a variety of efforts in Middleware for Grid Computing, with 16 technical presentations and discussions on several stimulating topics including, Classic Grids, Object Oriented technologies, Service- based Grids, Open grid Service Architecture, Agent Grid, Interactive Grid, Grid Economy / Scheduling, and Portlets. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2004 Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal (CPE).
The second workshop was held in Toronto, Canada with an unprecedented number of quality submissions. Fifteen papers and nine posters were selected out of forty-eight submissions. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a CPE special issue in 2006.
The third workshop, in Grenoble, France, received a good number of high-quality submissions and sixteen papers were selected out of the thirty-eight submissions, and four have been invited for posters. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2007 CPE special issue.
The fourth MGC edition, held in Melbourne, Australia, had fourteen high-quality papers selected out of forty- two submissions. Additionally 7 posters have been accepted. The presenters highlight issues and solutions in one or more of the themes identified for the workshop. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2008 CPE special issue.
The fifth MGC workshop, held in California – US, was categorized into three tracks, including Applications, Conceptual Views/Theory and Development Techniques-Technologies. Ten papers were selected out of thirty three submissions. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2009 CPE special issue.
The sixth edition of the MGC workshop, held in Leuven - Belgium, had eleven papers selected out of the thirty-three originally submitted. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2010 CPE special issue.
The seventh MGC, held in Urbana - Champaign, Il. - US, was named International Workshop on Middleware forGrids, Clouds and e-Science and included new research topics. Six papers were selected out of the eighteen originally submitted. Thoroughly revised, extended selected papers were published in a 2011 CPE special issue.
The eighth MGC, was held in Bangalore – India, were we had nine papers selected out of the nineteen originally submitted. Extended, thoroughly revised selected papers are under reviewing process for a 2012 CPE special issue.
The ninth MGC, was held in Lisbon – Portugal, were we had five papers selected out of the thirteen originally submitted. Extended, thoroughly revised selected papers are under reviewing process for a CPE special issue to appear.
The MGC series of workshops have been generating substantial interest in the community and it is anticipated that this interest will continue. Far from exhausting the topics of interest, they have paved the way for a 10th edition of the workshop in the series.
For the MGC 2012 workshop, researchers are encouraged to submit and present original work related to Cloud, and e-Science middleware to be considered for publication. Within this overall scope, MGC 2012 will emphasize issues of scalability in terms of grid and cloud mechanisms for computation and data scaling as well as adaptive and semantic mechanisms for scaling capabilities across disciplines and over time. Overall topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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