[provenance-challenge] CFP: Special Issue on Scientific Workflows, Provenance and Their Applications

[Artem Chebotko]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA)

Special Issue on
Scientific Workflows, Provenance and Their Applications

Issue homepage: http://www.cs.panam.edu/~artem/ijca/


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Background and Scope
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Scientific workflows play a crucial role in modern
e-Science where many significant scientific
discoveries are achieved through complex and
distributed computations. For many scientists in
biology, bioinformatics, geosciences, chemistry,
physics, and other domains, scientific workflows
have become an enabling technology to formalize and
automate complex and data intensive in-silico
experiments, streamline the steps they need to go
through from raw datasets to final results.
Scientific workflow management systems (SWfMSs)
support design, execution, and monitoring of
scientific workflows, as well as collection of
scientific workflow execution provenance.

Provenance, which records the history of an in-silico
experiment, has been identified as an important
requirement for scientific workflow environments to
support scientific discovery reproducibility, result
interpretation, and problem diagnosis. The Open
Provenance Model is emerging as a community-driven
standard to facilitate provenance interoperability
in SWfMSs and across various scientific projects.
Provenance collection, representation, and management
remain open questions. With e-scientists being
empowered to routinely execute scientific workflows
numerous times with different settings, parameters,
and inputs in their continuous search for interesting
results, large amounts of provenance data need to be
efficiently stored and queried.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together
the state-of-art research results on scientific
workflows, scientific workflow provenance, and their
applications. Submissions are expected to represent
original, high-quality, significant contributions in
these areas that have neither appeared in nor are
under consideration by other journals.

Key topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Scientific workflow models and languages
    * Scientific workflow design and composition
    * Scientific workflow engines and execution aspects
    * Scientific workflow data management
    * SWfMS design, architecture, and usability
    * Provenance modeling, collection and representation
    * Provenance storage, querying and browsing
    * Provenance usability
    * Provenance access control and security
    * Provenance management systems and tools
    * Scientific workflow and provenance applications,
success stories and best practices


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Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: November 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2011
Camera-ready version: June 1, 2011
Print publication: Sept. - Dec., 2011


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Submission Guidelines
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Please see http://www.cs.panam.edu/~artem/ijca/


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Guest Editors
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    * Artem Chebotko, University of Texas - Pan American, USA.
      Email: artem at cs.panam.edu
    * Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research, USA.
      Email: yoges at microsoft.com
    * Paolo Missier, University of Manchester, UK.
      Email: pmissier at cs.man.ac.uk