Apology for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students.
===================================================================
Call for Tutorial Proposals
2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference
(IEEE APSCC 2009)
December 7th - 11th, 2009; Biopolis, Singapore
http://apscc09.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/
*** Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009 (23:59 GMT)
===================================================================
Services Computing is a new cross-discipline that covers the science and
technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and
IT/telecommunication services. The goal of services computing is to
develop new computing technology and thereby enable more advanced
IT/telecommunication services to support business services more
efficiently and effectively. IEEE APSCC 2009 is an important forum for
researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding
advancements in the state of art and practice of
IT/telecommunication-driven business services and application services,
as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future
directions of Services Computing.
We solicit proposals for tutorials for presentation at the IEEE APSCC
2009 conference. Proposals must provide an in-depth survey of the chosen
topic with the option of describing a particular piece of work in
detail. A meaningful summary of open issues in the topic is highly
recommended. The main research topics of the IEEE APSCC 2009 conference
include, but are not limited to:
* Business Process Integration and Management;
* Cloud/Utility/Web Computing;
* Foundations of Services Computing;
* Mobile/Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing;
* Service-centric Computing Models; and
* Telecommunication Services.
Proposals must be no more than five (5) pages, using an 11 pt or larger
font for the body of the text of the proposal, and must include enough
details to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered
and the depth to which it will be covered. Tutorial proposals should
include the following elements:
* Title of the tutorial;
* Tutorial Length (typically 3 or 5 hours);
* A description of the tutorial topic(s);
* Organization of the tutorial;
* A description of how the tutorial will contribute to the field of
services computing;
* Intended audience and any prerequisite knowledge for attendees; and
* Details about the speaker(s) including full name, affiliation,
mailing address, e-mail address, and a short biography.
Please submit proposals by E-mail (in PDF format) to Brahim Medjahed
(brahim(a)umd.umich.edu) AND Qin Zheng (qinz(a)ihpc.a-star.edu.sg) by June
29, 2009 (23:59 GMT).
*** Important Dates
Tutorial Proposal Submission: June 29, 2009 (23:59 GMT)
Tutorial Proposal Notification: July 20, 2009
IEEE APSCC 2009 Events: December 7 - 11, 2009
*** Tutorial Chairs
Medjahed, Brahim (University of Michigan, USA)
Zheng, Qin (Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore)
------------- Apologies for multiple emails ---------------
Please find attached the call for papers for WORKS09 which will take
place at SC09. We hope you will consider submitting a paper to the
workshop and will attend it this year in Portland.
-Ewa and Ian
Call for Papers
The 4th Workshop on
Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
in conjunction with SC'09
Portland, OR
November 16, 2009
http://www.isi.edu/works09 <http://www.isi.edu/works09>
In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables
large-scale computations and service management 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. The size of the data and the complexity of the analysis
often lead to large amounts of shared resources, such as clusters and
storage systems, 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 can involve multiple stages
including their textual or graphical specification, the mapping of the
high-level workflow descriptions onto the available resources, as well
as monitoring and debugging of the subsequent execution. Further, since
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.
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. Further, 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.
The Fourth Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
focuses on the entire workflow lifecycle including the workflow
composition, mapping, robust execution and the recording of provenance
information. The workshop also welcomes contributions in the
applications area, where the requirements on the workflow management
systems can be derived. Special attention will be paid to Bio-Computing
applications which are the theme for SC09. The topics of the workshop
include but are not limited to:
* Workflow applications and their requirements with
special emphasis on Bio-Computing applications.
* 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.
* Formal Description of Workflows
Important dates:
Paper submission: July 31, 2009 Please submit the paper
to works09(a)isi.edu <mailto:works08@isi.edu>
Acceptance notification: September 18, 2009
Final papers due: October 9, 2009
Papers submitted to this workshop should be in ACM format
(http://www.acm.org/publications/instructions_for_proceedings_volumes)
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 ACM
digital library.
To submit the papers, please email works09(a)isi.edu
