The 18th PRAGMA workshop was held at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on March 3-4.

Computer Network Information Center Delegation, including Director NAN Kai of Collaboration Environment Research Center (CERC), Director CHI Xuebin of Supercomputing Center, attended the workshop. Dr. DONG Kejun from CERC made a presentation titled “Collaboration Environment for e-Science: Duckling and Applications”, giving an introduction to the Collaboration Environment Suite, Duckling, and providing a demonstration of several applications plug-ins such as Activity Arrangement Tool, Data Analysis and Management System.

The workshop website at http://pragma18.pragma-grid.net is powered by Duckling, which provides workshop information publishing, user registration, abstract submission and review and logistics arrangement. Attendees including program committee chair of this workshop, Dr. Wilfred Li, gave positive assessment to the website and suggested the 19th PRAGMA workshop program committee to use Duckling.