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WORKS'11 workshop submission deadline extension
by Ian Taylor 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Sorry for the cross posting ... ================================================================ WORKS'11 Call for Papers The 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science in conjunction with SC 11, Seattle, USA, Nov. 12-18 2011 http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ ================================================================ Data Intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are a key technology that enable the set up of large data sets analysis experiments in all scientific areas, exploiting capabilities of large-scale distributed and parallel computing infrastructures. Workflows enable scientists to design complex analysis that are composed of individual application components or services and often such components and services are designed, developed, and tested collaboratively. On large-scale computing infrastructures routinely used for e-Sciences today, workflow management systems provide both a formal description of distributed processes and an engine to enact applications composed of wealth of concurrent processes. The size of the data and the scale of the data analysis flows often lead to complex and distributed data sets management. Workflow formalisms including adequate structures for data sets representation and concurrent processing are needed. Besides the magnitude of data processed by the workflow components, the intermediate and resulting data needs to be annotated with provenance and other information to evaluate the quality of the data and support the repeatability of the analysis. 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. Data-driven computations are increasingly considered to tackle the wealth of data generated by scientific instruments. Yet, scientific experiments also require the description of complex control flows. 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 Sixth 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. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Data Intensive Workflows. - Data-driven workflow processing. - Workflow composition, tools and languages. - Workflow execution in distributed environments. - Workflows on the cloud. - Exascale computing with workflows. - Workflow refinement tools that can manage the workflow mapping process. - Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques. - Workflow user environments, including portals. - Workflow applications and their requirements. - Adaptive workflows. - Workflow monitoring. - Workflow optimizations. - Performance analysis of workflows - Workflow debugging. - Workflow provenance. - Interactive workflows. - Workflow interoperability. - Mashups and workflows. === Important Dates: Papers submission: September 18, 2011 Event: November 14, 2011 === Program Committee Chairs: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France === Program Committee Members (tentative): Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow / Universiteit van Amsterdam Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck Carole Goble, University of Manchester Andrew Harrison, Cardiff University Peter Kacsuk, MTA Sztaki Research Institute Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University Dagmar Krefting, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin Bertram Ludaescher, University of California Davis Stephen McGough, Newcastle University Gaurang Mehta, University of Southern California Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck Omer Rana, Cardiff University David De Roure, Oxford University Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester Gabor Terstyanszky, University of Westminster David Walker, Cardiff University Michael Wilde, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Qishi Wu, University of Memphis === Paper submission The workshop submission system is EasyChair, accessible from http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/paper_submission.php Papers submitted to this workshop should be in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates, latex users should use the Alternate style), 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. Ian Taylor, Reader, and Software Consultant http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Ian.J.Taylor/ http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-taylor/

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WORKS 11 Workshop at Supercomputing: Call for Papers
by Ian Taylor 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I am sorry if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ... Ian ================================================================ WORKS'11 Call for Papers The 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science in conjunction with SC 11, Seattle, USA, Nov. 12-18 2011 http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ ================================================================ Data Intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are a key technology that enable the set up of large data sets analysis experiments in all scientific areas, exploiting capabilities of large-scale distributed and parallel computing infrastructures. Workflows enable scientists to design complex analysis that are composed of individual application components or services and often such components and services are designed, developed, and tested collaboratively. On large-scale computing infrastructures routinely used for e-Sciences today, workflow management systems provide both a formal description of distributed processes and an engine to enact applications composed of wealth of concurrent processes. The size of the data and the scale of the data analysis flows often lead to complex and distributed data sets management. Workflow formalisms including adequate structures for data sets representation and concurrent processing are needed. Besides the magnitude of data processed by the workflow components, the intermediate and resulting data needs to be annotated with provenance and other information to evaluate the quality of the data and support the repeatability of the analysis. 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. Data-driven computations are increasingly considered to tackle the wealth of data generated by scientific instruments. Yet, scientific experiments also require the description of complex control flows. 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 Sixth 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. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Data Intensive Workflows. - Data-driven workflow processing. - Workflow composition, tools and languages. - Workflow execution in distributed environments. - Workflows on the cloud. - Exascale computing with workflows. - Workflow refinement tools that can manage the workflow mapping process. - Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques. - Workflow user environments, including portals. - Workflow applications and their requirements. - Adaptive workflows. - Workflow monitoring. - Workflow optimizations. - Performance analysis of workflows - Workflow debugging. - Workflow provenance. - Interactive workflows. - Workflow interoperability. - Mashups and workflows. === Important Dates: Papers submission: September 4, 2011 Event: November 14, 2011 === Program Committee Chairs: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France === Program Committee Members (tentative): Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow / Universiteit van Amsterdam Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck Carole Goble, University of Manchester Andrew Harrison, Cardiff University Peter Kacsuk, MTA Sztaki Research Institute Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University Dagmar Krefting, Institut fur Medizinische Informatik Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin Bertram Ludaescher, University of California Davis Stephen McGough, Newcastle University Gaurang Mehta, University of Southern California Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck Omer Rana, Cardiff University David De Roure, Oxford University Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester Gabor Terstyanszky, University of Westminster David Walker, Cardiff University Michael Wilde, Computation Institute, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Qishi Wu, University of Memphis === Paper submission The workshop submission system is EasyChair, accessible from http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/paper_submission.php Papers submitted to this workshop should be in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates, latex users should use the Alternate style), 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. Ian Taylor, Reader, and Software Consultant http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Ian.J.Taylor/ http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-taylor/

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Call for Papers: The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011)!
by d.lin＠icitst.org 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Computer Chapter December 11–14, 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011) is Technical Co-sponsored by IEEE UAE Computer Chapter. The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The topics in ICITST-2011 include but are not confined to the following areas: Internet Application and Technology: * Internet Architecture * Internet of things * Broadband Access Technologies * Application Agents * Boundary Issues of Internet Security * Database Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * IPSec Quality of Service * Knowledge Management * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems Ubi/Cloud Computing: * Authentication and Access Control for Data Protection in Ubi/Cloud Computing * Context-Awareness and its Data Mining for UbiCom * Data Grids * Distributed Information Systems * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for UbiCom * Ubiquitous Systems * USN/RFID Service * Smart Homes and its Business Model for UbiCom Service * Security and its Data Management for UbiCom * Peer to Peer Data Management * New Novel Mechanism and Application for Ubi/Cloud Computing Information Security: * Trust, Privacy and Data Security * Network Security Issues and Protocols * Security Challenges and Content Authoring * Cryptography * Secure Communications * Authentication Techniques * Chaos-based Data Security * MANET Security * Wireless Sensor Network Security * Organization Considerations in Security Policy Formulation and Implementations * Digital Forensics and Crimes * Biometrics * Cyber Security Multimedia and Web Services: * Intelligent Multimedia and its Data Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Multimedia Security * Web Databases * Web Metrics and its Applications * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0. * Web Services * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology Infonomics and e-Technology: * Infonomics * Information Visualization * Information Management * Information Quality * Technology-Enabled Information * e-Learning * e-Commerce * e-Business * e-Government * e-Society * System Design and Security for e-Services * Synchronizing e-Security IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: August 26, 2011 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: July 31, 2011 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: May 31, 2011 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: June 05, 2011 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2011 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: August 15, 2011 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 10, 2011 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: September 30, 2011 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: August 31, 2011 Camera Ready Paper Due: October 14, 2011 Early Registration Deadline (Authors only): May 01 to October 14, 2011 Late Registration Deadline (Authors only): October 14 to November 15, 2011 Participants Registration: May 01 to December 14, 2011 Conference Dates: December 11-14, 2011 For more details, please contact info(a)icitst.org

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials: ICITST-2010!
by d.lin＠icitst.org 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter, November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) The ICITST has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice, Internet Technologies, Secured Transactions, Application of Agents, Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com, Cybernetics, Data Mining, E-Society, Web Sevices, Semantic Web and Ontology, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security, Digital Information Management and identify emerging research topics. The ICITST-2010 encourages you to submit workshop or tutorial proposals. The workshop or tutorial duration can be one day or half a day. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a workshop that is related to ICITST-2010 topics. The workshops and tutorials provide researchers the opportunity for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. It offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. The format of each workshop or tutorial is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. The preference is for one day workshops, but other schedules will also be considered. Important Dates: Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Submission: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop or Tutorial Acceptance: May 15, 2010 The proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop or Tutorial. 2. A statement of goals for the workshop. 3. The names and addresses of the organisers. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. 5. A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers). 6. The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop. 7. The topic of the workshop should be relevant to the main conference and details of any previous workshops. 8. The URL of the workshop web site. If you are interested in organising workshop or tutorial for the ICITST-2010, please email your proposal to workshop-tutorial(a)icitst.org Your proposal will be reviewed by the Steering Committee. For further details, please visit http://www.icitst.org/Workshops.html

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials: ICITST-2010!
by d.lin＠icitst.org 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010) Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter, November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) The ICITST has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice, Internet Technologies, Secured Transactions, Application of Agents, Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com, Cybernetics, Data Mining, E-Society, Web Sevices, Semantic Web and Ontology, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security, Digital Information Management and identify emerging research topics. The ICITST-2010 encourages you to submit workshop or tutorial proposals. The workshop or tutorial duration can be one day or half a day. All the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. You can consider organising a workshop that is related to ICITST-2010 topics. The workshops and tutorials provide researchers the opportunity for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. It offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. The format of each workshop or tutorial is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. The preference is for one day workshops, but other schedules will also be considered. Important Dates: Workshop or Tutorial Proposal Submission: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop or Tutorial Acceptance: May 15, 2010 The proposal must include: 1. The name of the workshop or Tutorial. 2. A statement of goals for the workshop. 3. The names and addresses of the organisers. 4. The names of potential participants, such as program committee members. 5. A description of the plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers). 6. The expected number of attendees and the planned length of the workshop. 7. The topic of the workshop should be relevant to the main conference and details of any previous workshops. 8. The URL of the workshop web site. If you are interested in organising workshop or tutorial for the ICITST-2010, please email your proposal to workshop-tutorial(a)icitst.org Your proposal will be reviewed by the Steering Committee. For further details, please visit http://www.icitst.org/Workshops.html

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AHM 2010: CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
by Ian Taylor 29 Mar '10

29 Mar '10

Sorry for the cross posting ... *AHM 2010: CALL FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS* The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010) will be held at the City Hall, Cardiff, from 13-16 September 2010. Please visit the AHM 2010 website for further information: http://www.allhands.org.uk/abstracts The meeting provides a forum in which information on e-Science projects from all disciplines can be communicated and where the capabilities being developed within projects can be demonstrated. Authors are invited to submit abstracts of unpublished, original work of not more than 3 pages in length using single spaced 10 point size on A4 pages - including 2 pages of text and (optionally) 1 page of figures and tables. Authors are asked to submit to one of the following Themes, or as a 'general paper': * Theme 1: Infrastructures, Systems and Tools for e-Research * Theme 2: Algorithms and Data Structures for e-Research * Theme 3: Applications of e-Research * Theme 4: Foundations of e-Science/e-Research * Theme 5: Organisation, Trust, Security and Validation * Theme 6: Sharing, Collaboration and Interfaces for e-Research This year, we would especially like to encourage industry collaborators to engage fully in the conference, including contributing to papers. As in previous years, selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers to be considered for inclusion in a special edition of a high-quality journal (details to be confirmed). Abstracts will otherwise not be published as part of the conference. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the Programme Committee and categorised under one of the following: * Invitation to submit a full paper for possible inclusion in the Special Issue and inclusion as a presentation. * Inclusion as a presentation only. * Inclusion as a poster only. * Not suitable for inclusion *IMPORTANT DATES:* *14 May 2010* - Deadline for abstract submission *2 July 2010* - Decisions to authors > Senior Lecturer, Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics,. www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com

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Call for Papers: ICITST-2010!
by d.lin＠icitst.org 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Apologies for cross-postings! Kindly email this Call for Papers to your colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students. CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************ The 5th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2010), Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE UK/RI Communications Chapter November 8–11, 2010, London, UK (www.icitst.org) ************************************************************ The ICITST is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of secured Internet transactions and to fostering discussions on information technology evolution. The ICITST aims to provide a highly professional and comparative academic research forum that promotes collaborative excellence between academia and industry. The objectives of the ICITST are to bridge the knowledge gap between academia and industry, promote research esteem in secured Internet transactions and the importance of information technology evolution to secured transactions. The ICITST-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICITST papers are indexed by DBLP. The topics in ICITST-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas: * Application of agents * Application security * Blended Internet security methods * Biometrics * Boundary issues of Internet security * Broadband access technologies * Challenges of content authoring * Data mining security * E-society * Globalisation of information society * Government, and corporate Internet security policy * Internet architecture * Infonomics * IPSec quality of services * Patentability * Regulation, self-regulation, and co-regulation Web services * Secured database systems * Synchronising e-security * Software Architectures * Technology-enabled information * Trust, privacy, and data security * Wireless transactions * Context-Awareness and its Data mining for Ubi-com service * Human-Computer Interface and Interaction for Ubi-com * Smart Homes and its business model for Ubi-com service * Intelligent Multimedia Service and its Data management for Ubi-com * USN / RF-ID for Ubi-com service * Network security issues, protocols, data security in Ubi-com * Database protection for Ubi-com * Privacy Protection and Forensic in Ubi-com * Multimedia Security in Ubi-com * Quality of Service Issues * Authentication and Access control for data protection in Ubi-com * Information visualization * Web services * Service, Security and its Data management for U-commerce * New novel mechanism and Applications for Ubi-com * Information Management * Multimedia Information Systems * Information Retrieval * Natural Language Processing * Digital Libraries * Data and Information Quality Management * Data Grids, Data and Information Quality * Database Management * Web Databases * Temporal and Spatial Databases * Data Mining * Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 * E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government * Web Metrics and its applications * XML and other extensible languages * Semantic Web and Ontology * Human-Computer Interaction * Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems * Knowledge Management * Ubiquitous Systems * Peer to Peer Data Management * Interoperability * Mobile Data Management * Data Models for Production Systems and Services * Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain * Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes * Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis * Security and Access Control * Embedded Systems * Defence Systems * Information Content Security * Software Architecture * System design and verification * Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security * Distributed information systems IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission Date: May 31, 2010 Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: April 01, 2010 Proposal for Workshops and Tutorials: April 30, 2010 Notification of Workshop and Tutorial Acceptance: March 15, 2010 Proposal for Industrial Presentation: April 30, 2010 Notification of Extended Abstract Acceptance/Rejection: May 15, 2010 Notification of Industrial Presentation Acceptance: May 15, 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection: June 30, 2010 Camera Ready Extended Abstract Due: July 31, 2010 Camera Ready Paper Due: July 31, 2010 Early Registration Deadline: January 01 to July 31, 2010 Late Registration Deadline: July 31 to November 08, 2010 Conference Dates: November 08-11, 2010 The ICITST also encourages organisations to submit their Job Fair Booth Reservations and/or Exhibit Proposals. If your organisation is interested, kindly submit a brief Proposal (not more than 1 side of A4 page) to jobfair(a)icitst.org For more details, please visit www.icitst.org

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Special Issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE)
by Ewa Deelman 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Call for Papers Grid Computing and its Applications Special Issue of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE) http://www.scpe.org (Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/yc6p3qx) Special Issue of the Scalable Computing: Practice and Experiences (SCPE) journal is currently being prepared and will be based primarily on extended and modified versions of papers accepted for two Workshops organized within the framework of the PPAM'2009 Conference (http://www.ppam.pl) * Grid Applications and Middleware (http://www.ppam.pl/?page=gamw) and * Large Scale Computations in Grids (http://lascog09.info.uvt.ro/) In an effort to broaden the scope of the Special Issue, we would like to invite submissions of additional papers matching one or more topic of either Workshop: GAMW Topics: * Cloud and grid computing * Virtualization Technologies * Customization of Virtualization Environments * Workflows, application representations * Collaborative Environments on the Grid * Distributed Application Toolkits and Frameworks * Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the distributed ecosystem * Distributed Data management * Experience on the characteristics of applications or particular application software that make them well suited for the grid, such as checkpoint/restart functionality, new challenges in data/information management * Application requirements for grid and cloud middleware as well as fabric infrastructures, including networks LaSCoG Topics: * Large-scale algorithms * Symbolic and numeric computations * High performance computations for large scale simulations * Large-scale distributed computations * Agent-based computing * Data models for large-scale applications * Cloud computing * Security issues for large-scale computations * Science portals * Data visualization * Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction * Programming models * Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable grids * Collaborative science applications * Business applications * Data-intensive applications Papers have to be formatted according to the instructions found at: http://www.scpe.org/?a=instruction All submissions will be refereed by at least two referees. Schedule: - submission of the paper: March 30, 2010 - acceptance decision April 30, 2010 - final versions of papers due: May 30, 2010 Please submit your papers to: marcin.paprzycki(a)ibspan.waw.pl. The initial submission should consist of a PDF file ONLY. A complete set of files (sources) will be required for final versions of accepted papers. Sincerely Yours, Ewa Deelman Norbert Meyer Marcin Paprzycki Dana Petcu Special Issue Editors

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WORKS09: Call for Participation
by Ian Taylor 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Dear Colleague, Sorry for multiple copies of this email ... Please find attached the call for participation for WORKS09 which will take place at SC09. We hope you will consider coming to the workshop this year in Portland. -Ewa and Ian Call for Participation for 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 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. The list of accepted papers can be found here: http://www.isi.edu/works09/program.php and a schedule will be posted shortly. Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff. Contractor, Naval Research Lab, USA www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com Tel: +44-781110 3142

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IEEE APSCC 09 Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Chai Teck Yoong 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

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)

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