-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] Call for paper: the 4th Int'l workshop on workflow systems in e-Science (in CCGrid) Datum: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:36:41 +0100 Von: Zhao, Z. Z.Zhao@uva.nl Organisation: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

---------------------------------------------------- The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science (WSES 09) http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/workshop/wses/ in conjunction with 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009/) May 2009, Shanghai, China -----------------------------------------------------

Aims and scope The development in Internet and Grid technologies has greatly enhanced the activities in scientific research; more and more new scientific advances are achieved by experiments which consist of complex sets of computations and large volumes of data. Workflow systems emerge as a key tool to integrate different computing and data analysis components, and to control the logic between computing tasks in experiments. During the past years, workflow systems attracted enormous research interests. Focusing on different aspects of workflow systems and applications, several workshops on scientific workflows have been organized, such as WORKS and SWF. And workflow systems have also been a main objective of a number of research projects: the Dutch Virtual Laboratory for e-Science (VL-e), and the EU funded Knowledge Workflow Grid (K-WfGrid) and the ViroLab project. Driven by specific applications, a large collection of workflow systems have been prototyped such as VLAM, Taverna and Pegasus. However, due to the diversity of the application domains and more importantly the increasing ambitions of scientists to extend the experiment scenarios, there is still a big gap between the functionality implemented in existing workflow systems and their usability in different application domains. The development of effective workflow systems still faces challenging issues like workflow sharing and discovery, provenance, human in the loop workflow execution, and workflow interoperability.

The workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science (WSES) focuses on practical aspects of scientific workflow management systems: design, implementation, applications in all fields of computational science, interoperability among workflows and the e-Science infrastructure, e.g., knowledge framework, for workflow management. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and developers in the field of e-Science to exchange the latest experience and research ideas on scientific workflow management and e-Science.

WSES09 is the fourth edition in the series of the workshop. The WSES08, WSES 07 and WSES 06 were successfully held in the context of CCGrid 2008, ICCS 2007 and 2006. A special session for WSES 07 will appear in the International Journal of Future Generations of Computer Systems (FGCS), and selected papers of WSES 06 have appeared in a special issue of Scientific Programming Journal. Topics

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of scientific workflow management in e-Science. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics:

* Workflow modeling techniques * Workflow language * Workflow engines * Workflow interoperability * Semantic techniques in workflow * Dynamic workflow control * Workflow provenance * Web 2 in scientific workflow * Workflow verification and validation * AI techniques in workflow management, e.g., planning, runtime control and user support; * Security control in managing workflow * Real-world applications of scientific workflow

Paper submission and publication The papers are limited to 6 pages each and they must follow the IEEE 8.5"x11" two-column format guidelines described at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html. The papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. For accepted papers, advance registration is required in order to include the final camera ready version in the CCGrid 09 proceedings which will be published by IEEE Computer Society. And at least one author should be registered in advance and will present the paper in the workshop. The paper has to be submitted via online submission system.

Important Dates * November 30, 2008 Full paper due * January 15, 2009 Notification * February 15, 2008 Camera-ready paper due

Programme committee * Ilkay Altintas (University of California, USA) * Roger Barga (Microsoft Research, USA) * Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland) * Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA) * David De Roure (University of Southampton, UK) * Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK) * Bob Hertzberger (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) * Andreas Hoheisel (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology, Germany) * Lican Huang (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, China) * Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) * Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA) * Syed Naqvi (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) * Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK)

Organisers Dr. Zhiming Zhao email: z.zhao@uva.nl Tel: +31 20 5257599 Fax: +31 20 5257490 www: staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Dr. Adam Belloum email: A.S.Z.Belloum@uva.nl Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Dr. Jian Cao Email: cao-jian@cs.sjtu.edu.cn Shanghai Jiaotong University 200030, Shanghai, P.R. China