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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#D03505" vlink="#FF7045"><div class=Section1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092'>Reminder about the upcoming provenance special issue journal submission deadline (Dec 15).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092'>Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092'>--Yogesh, Paul & Luc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#376092'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Future Generation Computer Systems</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><br><i>The International Journal of Grid Computing and eScience</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Special Issue on</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><br></span><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Using the Open Provenance Model to Address Interoperability Challenges<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Guest Editors</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>: Yogesh Simmhan, Paul Groth, Luc Moreau <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>June 29, 2009</span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>The Journal Future Generation Computer Systems invites authors to submit papers for the Special Issue on Using the Open Provenance Model to Address Interoperability Challenges. This special issue follows the <a href="http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/ThirdProvenanceChallenge"><span style='color:blue'>Provenance Challenge 3 workshop</span></a> on the same topic, but is open also to contributions by teams that were not represented at the workshop. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>(1) Background</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Data products are increasingly being produced and “mashed-up” by the composition of services and data supplied by multiple parties using a variety of databases, data analysis, management, and collection technologies. This approach is particular evident in e-Science where scientists combine sensor data and shared Web-accessible databases using a variety of local and remote data analysis routines to produce experimental results, which they published and get reused by other scientists. In such environments, provenance (also referred to as audit trail, lineage, and pedigree) plays a critical role as it enables users to understand, verify, reproduce, and ascertain the quality of data products. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>An important challenge in the context of these compositional applications is how to integrate the provenance data produced by different systems to be able to construct the full provenance of complex data products across the different systems involved in their derivation. To that end, a common data model for provenance, <a href="http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/OPM"><span style='color:blue'>the Open Provenance Model (</span></a>OPM<a href="http://twiki.ipaw.info/bin/view/Challenge/OPM"><span style='color:blue'>)</span></a>, was proposed to help ease the integration of provenance data across the heterogeneous environments used for running such applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>To evaluate the suitability of OPM and gain practical experience with interoperability issues related to provenance across heterogeneous systems, 14 teams from across the world have participated in the Third Provenance Challenge since March 2nd. During this challenge, teams have exchanged provenance data between their provenance systems using OPM. They have developed OPM serializations in both RDF and XML, ran provenance queries over the exchanged data, and began to create common tools for use with OPM. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>(2) Topics</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>The aim of the special issue is to provide an archival view of the state-of-the-art of both practical and theoretical issues related to provenance interoperability across systems using the Open Provenance Model. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>We therefore encourage submissions in the following areas: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Theoretical considerations pertaining to the Open Provenance Model <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Semantic inter-operability with the Open Provenance Model <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>System issues and OPM (including integration, performance, storage) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Provenance models and comparisons with OPM <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Real applications making use of OPM; usability of provenance <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Open Provenance Model and databases <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Domain specific specialisations of the Open Provenance Model <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Query languages for OPM <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Interoperable queries over the Open Provenance Model <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Provenance tools that use OPM <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>(3) Instructions to the authors</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Two types of submissions are permitted: <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>short papers should have a maximum length of 6 pages, whereas <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>long papers should be limited to 12 pages. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>Articles should be submitted electronically via the journal’s online submission and peer-review systems at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/"><span style='color:blue'>http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/</span></a>. LATEX and Word format are acceptable. Formatting instructions are available from the submission page. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>(4) Schedule</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Submission deadline: December 15 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Notification of acceptance: March 30 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo9'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"'>Camera ready version: May 15 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'>The schedule may be subject to revisions. Prospective authors are invited to make themselves known to the editors ahead of time to facilitate the harmonization of the issue and ensure that the authors will be informed of any change. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>