October 2007 - ogsa-wg - lists.ogf.org

[Invitation] Service Level Term @ 2007-10-11 08:00 - 09:00 ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 10 Oct '07

10 Oct '07

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: Service Level Term Time: 2007-10-11 08:00 - 09:00 (Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 9-10am EDT, 8-9am CDT, 6-7am PDT, 10-11pm JST, 2-3pm UK Dial-in numbers for Thursday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446 PIN: 71815 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Social study notification - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1717 Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Minutes approval and AI review (see the bottom of this agenda) Agenda bashing 2) Sample use case (Steve) Steve McGough to set up wiki for the use cases. Define some simple use cases to demonstrate service level terms. o Approx. one page per service describing activity, the service terms, implementation, etc. o Cover: BES (Donal), ByteIO (Andrew/Mark), DMI (Michel) o Issues: Advertising, compensation, payment, repudiation, external, quality of experience Andrew's slide at OGF20 BoF - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14737 3) AoB Minutes approval OGF20 BoF: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14738 June 14: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14614 Aug. 15 F2F: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14730 Action Item review http://forge.ogf.org/short/ogsa-wg/ailist You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NnBicGpudG5iaDRtaGZyaG… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google Calendar account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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IEEE TASE special issue on "Scientific Workflow Management and Applications"
by Jinjun Chen 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Call for papers- Special Issue in IEEE Trans. On Automation Science and Engineering about "Scientific Workflow Management and Applications" - http://www.swinflow.org/si/t-ase.htm. Scientific workflow is a new special type of workflow that often underlies many large-scale complex e-science applications such as climate modeling, structural biology and chemistry, medical surgery or disaster recovery simulation. Compared with business workflows, scientific workflow has special features such as computation, data or transaction intensity, less human interaction, and a large number of activities. Some emerging computing infrastructures such as grid computing with powerful computing and resource sharing capabilities present the potential for accommodating those special features. Currently, many efforts are being on this new workflow area, and workshops such as WaGe07, WORKS07, and NSF funded workshop on challenges of scientific workflows have been or are being held to explore scientific workflow issues. Gradually, research results are published and several scientific workflow management systems such as Gridbus workflow, SwinDeW-G, Kepler and Taverna are developed or evolved from existing systems. However, in general, research and development in scientific workflow management are still in their infancy with obscure knowledge of scientific workflow specific features and techniques. This special issue aims to systematically investigate and shape the special features, challenges and new techniques of scientific workflows as well as corresponding applications and underlying computing infrastructures. Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore and boost the new area. The topics for contributions include, but are not limited to: * Special features of scientific workflows and their hints on new techniques * Scientific workflow modeling, execution and scheduling * Formal representation, scientific workflow patterns * Control flows and data flows in scientific workflows * Web/grid services based scientific workflows * Application programming interface and Graphical user interface * Scientific workflow verification and validation * Exception handling, Quality of Service, performance and security issues in scientific workflows * Underlying infrastructures targeting scientific workflow support * Real-world scientific workflow applications Important Dates March 31, 2008 Paper submission deadline July 31, 2008 Completion of the first round review November 30, 2008 Completion of the second round review January 15, 2009 Final manuscript due July 2009 Tentative publication date Paper Submission All papers are to be submitted through the Manuscript Central for T-ASE at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-ase. Please select Special Issue under Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the IEEE T-ASE publication guidelines http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ieeetase/. Papers will be reviewed following the standard IEEE T-ASE review process. Please address inquiries to jchen(a)ict.swin.edu.au. Guest Editors Jinjun Chen Email: jchen(a)ict.swin.edu.au Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Email: raj(a)csse.unimelb.edu.au W.M.P. van der Aalst Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Email: w.m.p.v.d.aalst(a)tue.nl Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Australia Email: m.rosemann(a)qut.edu.au Bertram Ludäscher University of California at Davis, USA Email: ludaesch(a)ucdavis.edu Yun Yang Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Email: yyang(a)ict.swin.edu.au Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK Email: carole.goble(a)manchester.ac.uk Best wishes, Jinjun ------ Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CITR - Centre for Information Technology Research Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jchen(a)ict.swin.edu.au URL: http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/jchen http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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FW: New entry requirements for Japan Travel
by Andrew Grimshaw 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

All, My brother sent me this. Is what's good for the goose good for the gander? New Japan Travel Requirements Effective 11/23/07 Japan has recently announced a policy change regarding entry at border crossings for Non-Japanese citizens which will go into effect November 23, 2007. This policy change will affect ALL non-Japanese citizens arriving in Japan regardless of travel purpose, duration of stay or previous entries (except for those traveling on diplomatic or special government related clearance). All travelers will be fingerprinted and photographed upon entry through Japanese Immigration. Travelers who refuse to be subject to fingerprinting and photography will be refused entry and immediately deported or possibly detained. As some travelers feel uncomfortable giving up any more information than necessary when traveling abroad, I would advise disclosure of this policy to anyone traveling to Japan as hesitation or refusal may likely turn into a complicated and expensive situation. What we don't know is how this will effect entry times. There is an expectation that this policy change will result in delays as immigration officers explain the new policy to travelers who are unaware of it. I would expect that they will increase staffing and provide handouts for travelers upon arrival in the terminal or otherwise inform people of the new policy, but expect this to cause delays in entry, limo services, etc as delays tend to create a domino effect.

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Call cancelled
by Andreas Savva 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

The Information Services call is canceled. Thanks to Shiraz and Zack for turning up and waiting with me for 20 minutes. Andreas

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OGSA Glossary v1.6: Final call for comments
by Treadwell, Jem 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, The OGSA Glossary v1.6 is now available for any final comments before submission to the OGF Editor. You'll find a copy of the document (draft 8) at http://tinyurl.com/2t4on2. If you have comments please let me have them by the end of Sunday, October 7th. Thanks! - Jem Jem Treadwell Software Engineer HP ESS Software 856.638.6021 office | 856.638.6190 fax | jem.treadwell(a)hp.com 6000 Irwin Road | Mount Laurel | NJ 08054 http://www.hp.com/go/vse <http://www.hp.com/go/software>

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Reminder: OGSA Data Architecture in Public Comment
by Mario Antonioletti 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Hi, This is a short reminder to state that the OGSA Data Architecture is currently undergoing its public comment phase. It is important to get feedback on this document, to let us know if you think anything has been missed out, is wrong or that it is all ok. You can get to the document and comment page from: http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment Thanks in advance, Mario +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mario Antonioletti:EPCC,JCMB,The King's Buildings,Edinburgh EH9 3JZ. | |Tel:0131 650 5141|mario@epcc.ed.ac.uk|http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~mario/ | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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[Invitation] Information service (Laurence Field and Adrian Toth) @ 2007-10-04 08:00 - 09:00 ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: Information service (Laurence Field and Adrian Toth) Time: 2007-10-04 08:00 - 09:00 (Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 9-10am EDT, 8-9am CDT, 6-7am PDT, 10-11pm JST, 2-3pm UK Dial-in numbers for Thursday: Free: +1-888-452-0308 Intl/Toll: +(210) 234-7446 PIN: 71815 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Social study notification - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1717 Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Minutes approval and AI review (see the bottom of this agenda) Agenda bashing 2) Information Services (Felix Ehm) - Identify major usecases - Discuss Information services architecture Laurence and Felix provided document covering the problem description, experience in GIN, overview of existing systems, generalized system and suggested areas for standardization. - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14692 3) Any other business Minutes approval Aug 2 call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14724 Aug. 15 F2F: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14727 Action Item review - http://forge.ogf.org/short/ogsa-wg/ailist You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MTdhYjFkOGpzcjA1dDltMj… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google Calendar account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Glossary draft 007 uploaded
by Treadwell, Jem 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi, In preparation for tonight's call I've uploaded a new draft (007) of the OGSA Glossary. You can find it at http://tinyurl.com/379fkb. The plan is to send the Glossary for final call after today's review. Thanks, - Jem Jem Treadwell Software Engineer HP ESS Software 856.638.6021 office | 856.638.6190 fax | jem.treadwell(a)hp.com 6000 Irwin Road | Mount Laurel | NJ 08054 http://www.hp.com/go/vse <http://www.hp.com/go/software>

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