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ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Section on Scientific Workflows
by Carole Goble 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Subject: CFP: ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Section on Scientific Workflows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ C A L L F O R P A P E R S SIGMOD RECORD, September 2005 Issue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Section on Scientific Workflows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guest editors: Bertram Ludaescher & Carole Goble University of California at Davis, USA & University of Manchester, UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today computational scientists across all disciplines (from biology, medicine, ecology, and other life sciences to chemistry, physics, geosciences, and astronomy) create ever increasing amounts of often highly complex data. Generated raw and derived data may come from wet lab experiments (possibly under control of a LIMS), large-scale data-intensive and compute-intensive simulations, or real-time observations e.g. from remote sensors. Technical challenges include not only the volume of data, but also the complexity of data of "metadata-intensive" applications. In order to support scientists in their data management and analysis tasks, scientific workflows have recently gained increased interest and momentum as a unifying mechanism for handling scientific data. While loosely related to the more traditional business workflows studied earlier by the database community, scientific workflows pose a quite different set of challenges due to the special nature of scientific data and the specific needs for large-scale data collection, querying, analysis, and visualization. Scientific workflows are often designed or depicted in a block diagram style, with connections indicating data-flow (and sometimes control-flow) between individual tasks. A comprehensive scientific workflow system should be able to schedule workflow tasks (typically in a distributed/Grid environment), monitor and control execution, allow on-the-fly visualization and computational steering, support user-interaction, facilitate "pause & rerun" of workflows, keep track of data provenance, and support various static and dynamic analysis and optimization techniques. Moreover, the underlying scientific workflow model and paradigm should facilitate component and subworkflow reuse. We invite contributions on all aspects of database technologies for scientific workflows (SWFs) including but not limited to: - conceptual modeling and design of SWFs - computation models for SWFs - scheduling, resource allocation, and planning for SWFs - static analysis, validation, verification of SWFs - distributed and Grid-based SWFs - web-service based SWFs (incl. overcoming limitations of web services) - data-intensive, compute-intensive, metadata-intensive SWF applications - data mining, data analysis, and statistics in SWFs - highly interactive SWFs - long running and non-interactive SWFs - transaction management and SWFs - fault tolerance in SWFs - scientific visualization and SWFs - problem-solving environments for SWFs (scientific workflow systems) - coupling SWF systems with other systems (databases, LIMS, statistics packages, visualization tools, etc) - data and workflow provenance in SWFs - knowledge representation and semantic extensions to SWFs ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper submission deadline : May 21th, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 26th, 2005 Camera ready copies due : July 10th, 2005 Submitted articles should not exceed 6 pages in the 2-column, 10-point SIGMOD Record format (see http://www.sigmod.org/record/author.html) Please email your contributions in PDF format, using Subject: SIGMOD-Record/SWF to LUDAESCH(a)UCDAVIS.EDU. -- Bertram Ludaescher Dept. of Computer Science & UC Davis Genome Center University of California at Davis One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 530-754-8576 (ph), 530-752-4767 (fax) ludaesch(a)ucdavis.edu

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CFP: Special Issue of JWSR about Semantically Augmented Metadata
by Felix Heine 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Special Issue on “Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering” The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) --> Submission Deadline: May 15, 2005 <-- http://www.upb.de/pc2/cfp-idea Guest Editors: Odej Kao, Felix Heine Introduction ------------ In large-scale distributed system, semantically rich metadata is a key issue, e.g. for machine-processible description of entities. Examples are the behavioral description of interfaces in service oriented architectures, as well as the description of resources in Grid environments. Semantically rich descriptions are necessary preconditions for automatic management, automatic configuration, and user-friendly discovery of entities. They are a vital part of future information repositories and brokering applications, in order to resolve interoperability problems in large heterogeneous environments. Researchers from different fields are working on these topics. The Grid community has started the Semantic Grid initiative, which exploits technologies from the Semantic Web community like Ontologies and Description Logics. Research targets the description of resources, services and workflows, but also the description of contents of databases and many more application specific issues. Researchers from the software engineering community are developing different technologies following a similar goal, e.g. graph-based approaches to describe the behavior of services to support the software engineering process, and for online composition of modules and services. The Semantic Web community has e.g. designed the OWL-S ontology for service description. Objective of the Special Issue ------------------------------ This special issue aims to bridge research communities which focus on the common goal of augmenting metadata to semantically-rich information. Papers of interest include surveys of the methods presently used in these fields, papers highlighting the relationship between different methods, and papers presenting new approaches, also from fields not mentioned here. Recommended topics include but are not limited to the following: ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Semantically rich metadata - Ontologies for resource and service description - Graph-based service description - Metadata based on Description Logics - Standards for the description of services - New methods for service description - Architectures for white-, yellow and green pages - Algorithms for semantically rich matching of descriptions - Description and matching of workflows - Semantic metadata for databases SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 15, 2005, papers for this special theme issue on “Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering”. All submissions must be original and not be under review by another publication. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 15, 2005 about the acceptance status and sent paper organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by November 15, 2005. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a blind review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. The special issue of the journal is tentatively scheduled to be published by Idea Group, Inc. <www.idea-group.com>, publisher of the “Idea Group Publishing,” “Information Science Publishing,” “IRM Press,” CyberTech Publishing" and "Idea Group Reference". Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded electronically to: ------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Heine, fh(a)upb.de Program Committee (preliminary) ------------------------------- John Brooke, University of Manchester Gregor Engels, Paderborn University Carole Goble, University of Manchester Volker Haarslev, Concordia University, Montreal Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola Ralf Möller, TU Hamburg-Harburg Dave Snelling, Fujitsu Benno Stein, University Weimar -- Felix Heine Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing Paderborn University, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102 Paderborn, Germany phone: +49 (0) 5251 60-6322 fax: +49 (0) 5251 60-6297 mailto:fh@upb.de http://www.upb.de/pc2/

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GGF13 - secretary needed
by David De Roure 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

For attention of those at GGF13 I need someone to take notes of the discussion at the Semantic Grid session on Wednesday. Would anyone be willing to volunteer? Many thanks -- Dave

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CFP Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research
by David De Roure 18 Mar '05

18 Mar '05

Announcing the Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research on May 18-19 in Edinburgh, UK, held in conjunction with the UK e-Science programme. Position papers are due April 22nd. Workshop web page http://www.semanticgrid.org/ubinesc.html Registration page http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/530/ See below for a text version of the workshop Web page. This workshop addresses the intersection of the Semantic Grid and the physical world. The background includes the NGG+ report and this GGF9 paper http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf9/gpc/ Please circulate this call to any of your colleagues who are interested in research which touches in some way on aspects of both ubiquitous computing (equally ambient intelligence, pervasive computing) and e-Science/e-Research/grid computing, including of course semantic aspects. Thanks -- Dave Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research http://www.semanticgrid.org/ubinesc.html A joint workshop between the UK-UbiNet Ubiquitous Computing Network and the e-Science Programme National eScience Centre, Edinburgh, UK 18-19 May 2005 The digital world of the Grid meets the physical world through a variety of sensors, instruments and interfaces. Projects in the e-Science programme have increasingly become aware of the need to focus on this digital-physical interface of the grid, and the ubiquitous computing community is looking towards the Grid for aspects of processing, data handling, integration and access. Meanwhile there is also interest in applying middleware techniques across these distributed computing domains. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners across these fields and identify research agendas which bring together ubiquitous computing and e-Science / e-Research / Grid. Target audience The workshop is jointly organised by the e-Science and UK UbiNet communities, and follows on from a Birds-of-Feather session at the UK e-Science All Hands Workshop in September 2004. It is aimed at all members of the ubiquitous/pervasive computing or e-Science research, development and user communities who have an interest in the application of ubiquitous computing to e-Science applications, grid computing to ubiquitous applications (e.g. sensor networks), grid computation and virtualisation over networks of devices, or any other area which draws on both ubiquitous computing and e-Research - see the list of example topics below. As well as bringing people together and sharing results, requirements and issues, the workshop will provide a basis to discuss mechanisms for taking this research community forward, especially in the light of the strategic attention given to some of these areas in forthcoming funding programmes. Agenda The objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions between atendees. The workshop sessions will consist of an invited talk plus two or three 10 minute presentations of relevant position papers, followed by a 20-30 minute discussion. Position Papers We invite position papers of up to 5 pages in length. These should present work and ideas which touch on both ubiqutious computing and e-Science/e-Research/Grid. Topics include but are certainly not limited to: * e-Science applications which use devices for data acquisition, interaction or notification * Sensor networks and the grid, including pollution monitoring etc * Grid instruments and appliances * Medical devices and the grid * Grid in the home * Ambient intelligence and the Grid * Ubicomp HCI for devices on the Grid * Computation on networks of devices * Self-organisation (self-configuration, self-management, self-healing) in Grid and pervasive distributed systems * Using grid to integrate pervasive applications * Middleware issues for ubiquitous devices * Virtualisation over networks of devices * Metadata, context, and information systems issues in Grid and pervasive * Description, discovery and composition of services and/or devices * Semantic grid and pervasive computing * Agent based computing and multiagent systems for grid and pervasive Position papers should be in Word, PDF or HTML format and will be made available on the Web. For planning purposes we request an abstract one week in advance of the position paper deadline: * Abstracts due Friday April 15, 2005 * Position papers due Friday April 22, 2005 Abstracts and papers should be submitted electronically to Nicky Harding, email nch(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk. Invited talks * Environmental e-Science, Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham * Smart Laboratories to Smart Papers, Jeremy Frey, CombeChem and User Task Force * UbiGrid, Oliver Storz/Adrian Friday, University of Lancaster * Appliance Aggregation, Dimitris Lioupis, University of Patras * The myTea project, monica schraefel, University of Southampton * FireGrid Dave Berry, University of Edinburgh * Self-organisation in Environmental Sensor Networks, Ian Marshall, University of Kent (title TBC) * Resource Management Strategies for Sensor Network Ensembles, Omer Rana, Welsh e-Science Centre Registration The Workshop will be held at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) in Edinburgh, starting in the morning of Wednesday 18 May and finishing in the afternoon of Thursday 19 May. If you would like to attend the workshop please visit the NeSC Web Site for this event: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/530/ Organising and Programme Committee * David De Roure, University of Southampton (Chair) * Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham * Morris Sloman, Imperial College * Oliver Storz, University of Lancaster * Ian Marshall, University of Kent * Peter Dickman, University of Glasgow * Omer Rana, University of Cardiff Enquiries Please contact David De Roure <dder(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> or Nicky Harding <nch(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> -- Prof David De Roure phone +44 (0)23 8059 2418 Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing fax +44 (0)23 8059 2865 School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton email dder(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/

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Semantic Grid RG session in GGF-13
by Kashif Iqbal 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hi Dave, Semantic Grid RG session is now visible on the following link: http://www.gridforum.org/Meetings/GGF13/GGF13_Scheduled_WG_RG.htm But it did not appear yet in the GGF schedule on http://www.gridforum.org/ Can you please let me know about the final schedule (Date and Time, if possible), as I need to book flights according to it? It looks difficult for me to attend the whole GGF due to some other commitments. Thanks, Best regards, Kashif Kashif Iqbal PhD Researcher Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway Phone: +353-91-495212 NUIG ext-5212 Fax: +353-91-512541

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