[ieeetcsc-discuss] Deadline extended to December 9, 2007. CFP 3rd Int'l workshop on WSES in IEEE CCGrid 08

[zhiming at science.uva.nl]

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Deadline extended to December 9, 2007.

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         3rd International Workshop on
         Workflow Systems in e-Science
                  (WSES 08)
             in conjunction with
    8th IEEE International Symposium on CCGrid
(http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/workshop/wses/,
          http://ccgrid2008.ens-lyon.fr)
            May 2008, Lyon, France

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Aims and scope

Grid environments enable collaborations involving large numbers of
people and large scale resources, and promote the emergence of a new
paradigm for scientific research: e-Science. Different layers of
middleware, e.g., for managing Grid resources, computing tasks, data,
and information, form the basic framework for realising an e-Science
environment. By automating the management of experiment routines, a
scientific workflow management system hides the underlying integration
details of the e-Science resources and allows a scientist to focus
on the high level domain specific aspects of the experiments. The
support for scientific workflows is being recognised as a crucial
feature for introducing an e-Science environment to application
scientists from different domains.

The WSES workshop 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. Live demos of
workflow systems and workflow application are welcome.

The WSES 07 and WSES 06 were successfully held in the context of ICCS
in Beijing in May 29 2007 and in Reading University in May 29 2006.
In both years, the workshop attracted around 30 submissions. Each paper
was reviewed by at least three referees, and 17 papers, including 9 regular
ones and 8 short ones, were accepted. The presentations were organized as
three sessions: scientific workflows applications, system architecture and
middleware, and development issues. A special session for WSES 07 will
appear in the International Journal of Future Generations of Computer
Systems (FGCS). 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, including but
not limited to:
* Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware
* Workflow API and graphical user interface
* Workflow modelling techniques
* Workflow specification language
* Workflow execution engine
* Dynamic workflow control
* Workflow verification and validation
* Workflow system performance analysis
* Support tools for managing workflows
* AI techniques in workflow management, e.g., planning, runtime control and
user support;
* Security control in managing workflow
* Real-world applications of scientific workflow
* Different levels of interoperability among workflow systems;
* Automatic composition of scientific workflow;
* Knowledge infrastructure in workflow management;

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. Workshop
papers will be included in CCGrid proceedings published by IEEE Computer
Society. The papers will also be available electronically in the IEEE
digital library. The procedure for paper submission will be available
here soon. Selected best papers, after extension, will be published in
a suitable international journal as a special issue.

Important Dates
* December 9, 2007 Full paper due
* January 3, 2008 Notification
* January 30, 2008 Camera-ready paper due

Programme committee
* Pieter Adriaans (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Ilkay Altintas (University of California, USA)
* Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland)
* Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA)
* Bob Hertzberger(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Andreas Hoheisel (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and
Software Technology, Germany)
* Lican Huang (Zhejiang University, China)
* Peter Kacsuk (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian)
* Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
* Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
* Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
* Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA)
* Syed Naqvi (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
* Maryam Purvis (University of Otago, NZ)
* Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
* Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK)
* Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Organisers
Dr. Zhiming Zhao
email: zhiming at science.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: adam at science.uva.nl
www: staff.science.uva.nl/~adam
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands




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