[provenance-challenge] CFP: IEEE 4th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010)

[Yogesh Simmhan]

Call for Papers
IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010)

http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf
Miama, Florida, U.S.A., one day between July 5-10, 2010

In conjunction with IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010

Description

Scientific workflows have become an increasingly popular paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex scientific processes to enable and accelerate many significant scientific discoveries. A scientific workflow is a formal specification of a scientific process, which represents, streamlines, and automates the analytical and computational steps that a scientist needs to go through from dataset selection and integration, computation and analysis, to final data product presentation and visualization. The importance of scientific workflows has been recognized by NSF since 2006 and was reemphasized recently in a science article titled "Beyond the Data Deluge"(Science, Vol. 323. no. 5919, pp. 1297 ¨C 1298, 2009), which concluded, "In the future, the rapidity with which any given discipline advances is likely to depend on how well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies."

The goal of SWF 2010 is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their recent research results and best practices of scientific workflows, and identify the emerging trends, opportunities, problems, and challenges in this area. 

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) that show original unpublished research results in all areas of scientific workflows. Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of scientific workflows are welcome. Accepted SWF 2010 papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE SERVICES 2010, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Topics

o Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics o Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management o Scientific workflow architectures, models, and languages o Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, and failure handling

o Streaming data processing in scientific workflows o Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows o Service, Grid, or Cloud-based scientific workflows o Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows

o Scientific workflow composition
o Security issues in scientific workflows o Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows o Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling o Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification

o Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability    
o Scientific workflow applications

Important dates
Paper Submission     March 17, 2010
Decision Notification (Electronic)   April 17, 2010

Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration    April 30, 2010

Workshop chairs: 
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech
Liqiang Wang, University of Wyoming

Publication chairs (pending)
Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research Ioan Raicu, Northwestern University
 
Publicity chair
Jamil alhiyafi,  Wayne State University
 
Program committee

.       Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
.       Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA
.       Adam Barker, University of Oxford, UK
.       Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center, USA
.       Artem Chebotko, University of Texas at Pan American, USA
.       Ian Gorton, PNNL
.       Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam
.       Marta L. Queirós Mattoso, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
.       Luc Moreau, University of South Hampton
.       Ioan Raicu,  University of Chicago, USA
.       Yogesh Simmhan,  Microsoft  Corporation, USA
.       Chung-Wei Hang,  North Carolina State University, USA
.       Hasan Jamil, Wayne State University
.       Ian Taylor,   Cardiff University, UK
.       Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center
.       Wei Tan, ANL
.       Ping Yang,  Binghamton University, USA
.       Ustun Yildiz, UC Davis
.       Yong Zhao,  Microsoft Corporation, USA
.       Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Yogesh Simmhan, Ph.D.  | PostDoc Researcher | eScience Group | Microsoft Research
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