Call for Papers
The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
in conjunction with SC'08, Austin, TX
November 17, 2008
http://www.isi.edu/works08 <http://www.isi.edu/works08>
In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables
large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows enable
scientists to design complex analysis that are composed of individual
application components or services. Often times these components and
services are designed, developed, and tested collaboratively. Because of
the size of the data and the complexity of the analysis, large amounts
of shared resources such as clusters and storage systems are being used
to store the data sets and execute the workflows. The process of
workflow design and execution in a distributed environment can be very
complex and involve mapping high-level workflow descriptions onto the
available resources, as well as monitoring and debugging of the
subsequent execution. Because computations and data access operations
are performed on shared resources, there is an increased interest in
managing the fair allocation and management of those resources at the
workflow level.
Adequate workflow descriptions are needed to support the complex
workflow management process which includes workflow creation, workflow
reuse, and modifications made to the workflow over time-for example
modifications to the individual workflow components. Additional workflow
annotations may provide guidelines and requirements for resource mapping
and execution.
Large-scale scientific applications pose several requirements on the
workflow systems. Besides the magnitude of data processed by the
workflow components, the resulting and intermediate data need to be
annotated with provenance information and any other information needed
to evaluate the quality of the data and support the repeatability of the
analysis.
The Third Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
focuses on the entire workflow lifecycle including the workflow
composition, mapping, and robust execution. The workshop also welcomes
contributions in the applications area, where the requirements on the
workflow management systems can be derived. The topics of the workshop
include but are not limited to:
* Workflow applications and their requirements.
* Workflow representations, including semantic workflow
descriptions.
* Applying business workflows to the scientific domain.
* Workflow composition, tools and languages.
* Workflow user environments, including portals.
* Workflow refinement tools that can manage the workflow mapping
process.
* Workflow execution in distributed environments.
* Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques.
* Interleaving workflow creation and execution.
* Data-driven workflow processing.
* Adaptive workflows.
* Workflow monitoring.
* Workflow optimizations.
* Performance analysis of Workflows
* Workflow debugging.
* Workflow provenance.
* Interactive Workflows.
* Workflow debugging
* Workflow provenance
* Interactive Workflows
* Relevance of Business Workflow Standards
* Workflow interoperability and sharing
Important dates:
* Paper submission: September 12, 2008
* Acceptance notification: October 7, 2008
* Final papers due: October 31, 2008
Papers submitted to this workshop should be in IEEE format
(ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/
<ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/> ) and no longer
than 10 pages. Short papers of up to 6 pages can also be submitted. The
papers should be original and not previously published. Papers will be
refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and
relevance to the workshop topics. Papers presented at the workshop will
be included in the workshop proceedings as part of the IEEE digital
library.
To submit the papers, please email works08(a)isi.edu
Program Committee Chairs:
* Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute
* Ian Taylor, Cardiff University and the LSU Center for
Computation and Technology
Program Committee Members:
* Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam
* Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow / Universiteit van Amsterdam, PL/NL
* David De Roure, Southampton University
* Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck
* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
* Dennis Gannon, Indiana University
* Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute
* Carole Goble, University of Manchester
* Andrew Harrison, Cardiff University
* Peter Kacsuk, MTA Sztaki Research Institute
* Daniel Katz, Louisiana State University
* Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University
* Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis
* Steven McGough, Imperial College London
* Johan Montagnat, Inria Sophia-Napolis
* Jarek Nabrzyski, LSU Center for Computation and Technology
* Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano
* Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester
* David Walker, Cardiff University
* Edward Walker, University of Texas Austin
Ewa Deelman, Ph.D
Research Assistant Professor, USC Computer Science Department
Project Leader, USC Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90202
(310) 448-8408
www.isi.edu/~deelman
