C: Paper and Referee Metadata

    * Paper Number Cnnn: 541
    * Date: 20 July 2001 (received), 3 October 2001 (reviewed)
    * Paper Title: Programming Environments for Multidisciplinary Grid Communities

    * Author(s): Naren Ramakrishnan, Layne T. Watson, Dennis G. Kafura, Calvin J. Ribbens, and Clifford A. Shaffer

    * Referee: Kamil Iskra, Dick van Albada

    * Address:
	Section Computational Science
	Universiteit van Amsterdam
	Kruislaan 403
	1098 SJ Amsterdam
	The Netherlands

Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and
details in following sections.

   1. publish as is
   2. accepted provided changes suggested are made
   3. reject

1 or 2

D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only)

E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor)

The paper provides a clear and interesting insight into the issue of 
building grid environments for multidisciplinary communities, providing 
typical scenarios and common problems, followed by the description of 
several problem solving environments built by the authors and the more
elaborate discussion of their contribution.

The only serious concern that I have is the length of the paper, which
is currently 32 pages or, excluding references and the table of
contents (sic!), 23 full pages of text and figures.  And the paper
doesn't currently use the right style for typesetting.  Once it's
converted it will probably be more like 40 pages.  While there were 
no page limits in the call for papers, I do think this is a bit much.
All sections of the paper could be shortened, partly by omitting 
examples, partly by being more concise.

While the paper contains an impressive number of references to the
work of others, a separate "State of the art" type of section briefly
describing other similar efforts would certainly be a plus.

This is actually not very relevant, but section 1.3 (GCEs for
Multidisciplinary Grid Communities: Characteristics) mentions "gcc
2.0.8".  There was never such a version.  See
http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html

F: Presentation Changes

As already mentioned, the paper doesn't currently use the right style
for typesetting.

The quality of most of the figures generated from bitmaps (3, 4, 5,
13) is definitely unsatisfactory: they are so blurred that it's hardly
possible to see anything.

I spotted a single typo: "deployment of of JavaBeans"
(section 3.6).