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WORKS 09 Call for Papers
by Ewa Deelman 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

------------- 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

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Special Issue on Scientific Workflows IJBPIM
by Ewa Deelman 12 May '09

12 May '09

Call for Papers Special Issue on Scientific Workflows International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) <https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=115> Description Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for scientists to formalize and structure complex scientific processes to enable and accelerate many significant scientific discoveries. A scientific workflow is a formal specification of a scientific process, which represents, streamlines, and automates the analytical and computational steps that a scientist needs to go through from dataset selection and integration, computation and analysis, to final data product presentation and visualization. A scientific workflow management system (SWFMS) is a system that supports the specification, modification, execution, failure recovery, and monitoring of a scientific workflow using the workflow logic to control the order of executing workflow tasks. The goal of this special issue is to present critical challenges, requirements, and issues related to scientific workflows. This collection of manuscripts will discuss key aspects in the development of a broad range of novel and innovative scientific workflow technologies. The emphasis of the special issue is on critical challenges in the development of various scientific workflows specifically as they relate to business workflow and service technologies. Particular emphasis will be placed on examples where innovative solutions to these challenges have resulted in scientific workflows which impact the scientific discovery process. Topics include but are not limited to: List of topic * Scientific workflow provenance management * Scientific workflow provenance analytics * Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management * Scientific workflow architectures, models, and languages * Scientific workflow monitoring and failure handling * Streaming data processing in scientific workflows * Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows * Service, Grid, or Cloud-based scientific workflows * Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows * Scientific workflow composition * Security issues in scientific workflows * Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows * Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling * Scientific workflow modeling, verification, and validation * Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability * Scientific workflow real-life applications Important dates * July 1, 2009, paper submission * October 1, 2009, notification * January 1, 2010, camera-ready version * Planned publication, middle of 2010 Guest editors * Shiyong Lu <http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/> , Wayne State University, U.S.A., Email: shiyong(a)wayne.edu * Ewa Deelman <http://www.isi.edu/~deelman/> , USC Information Sciences Institute, U.S.A., Email: deelman(a)isi.edu * Zhiming Zhao <http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/> , University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Email: z.zhao(a)uva.nl Submission details Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Papers should be submitted to http://199.212.32.161/myreview/SubmitAbstract.php. Please also send an abstract and a copy of your paper to Shiyong(a)wayne.edu to ensure a reliable submission. Contact information All enquires about the special issue should be sent to Shiyong Lu at shiyong(a)wayne.edu. Ewa Deelman, Ph.D. USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, CA 90092 Tel: 310 448-8408 Fax: 310 823-6714 email: deelman(a)isi.edu <mailto:deelman@isi.edu> http://www.isi.edu/~deelman

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IEEE APSCC 09 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Chai Teck Yoong 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

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Call for Participation: The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
by Ian Taylor 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Sorry for any duplicate emails ... --------- Call for Participation for The 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science in conjunction with SC'08, Austin, TX November 17, 2008, Monday, 01:30PM - 05:30PM, Room 11A/11B The agenda is: Session 1 (Chair: Dan Katz ) 01:30 – 01:35 Welcome 01:35 – 01:50 WS-PGRADE: Supporting parameter sweep applications in workflows : Peter Kacsuk, Krisztian Karoczkai, Gabor Hermann, Jozsef Kovacs, Gergely Sipos 01:50 – 02:15 A Chemical Workflow Engine to Support Scientific Workflows with Dynamicity Support : Manuel Caeiro, Zsolt Nemeth, Thierry Priol 02:15 – 02:40 CASJobs: A Workflow Environment Designed for Large Scientific Catalogs : Nolan Li, Alex Szalay 02:40 – 03.05 Characterization of Scientific Workflows : Shishir Bharathi, Ann Chervenak, Ewa Deelman, Gaurang Mehta, Mei-Hui Su, Karan Vahi 03:05 – 03:15 Break Session 2 (Chair: Peter Kacsuk) 03:15 – 03:40 Monitoring Infrastructure for Grid Scientific Workflows: Bartosz Balis and Marian Bubak 03:40 – 04:05 Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta- Negotiations and SLA-Mappings : Ivona Brandic, Dejan Music, Schahram Dustdar, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya 04:05 – 04:30 Pegasus on Virtual Grid: A Case Study of Workflow Planning over Captive Resources : Yang-Suk Kee, Ewa Deelman, Karan Vahi, Eunkyu Byun, Jin-Soo Kim, 04:30 – 04:55 A Semantic Workflow Mechanism to Realize Experimental Goals and Constraints : Edoardo Pignotti, Peter Edwards, Gary Polhill, Nick Gotts, Alun Preece, 04:55 – 05:20 A General and Scalable Solution for Heterogeneous Workflow Invocation and Nesting : Tamas Kukla, Tamas Kiss, Peter Kacsuk, and Gabor Terstyanszky, 5:20 Closing which consists of the papers selected for inclusion in the workshop (final acceptance rate of 53%) The SC conference page can be found here: http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/view/wksp101 Abstract: Scientific workflows are being used in number of scientific disciplines such as astronomy, bioinformatics, earth sciences, engineering, and others. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. This workshop focuses both on application experiences and the many facets of workflow management that operate at a number of levels ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include but are not limited to: designing workflow composition interfaces; mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, fault detection and tolerance. Program Committee Chairs: · Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute · Ian Taylor, Cardiff University and the LSU Center for Computation and Technology Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff. Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and CCT, LSU. www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com Tel: +44-781110 3142

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Works 08: Full Paper Deadline Extension
by Ian Taylor 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Dear All, Sorry for any duplicate emails ... After a number of requests we have decided to extend the deadline for full papers for WORKS 2008 until the 19th September. However, we request a paper title and abstract by the 12th September. Full CFP is below, Ian --------- 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 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: · Abstract submission: September 12, 2008 . Full Paper Submission: September 19th, 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/) 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 abstracts and 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 Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff. Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and CCT, LSU. www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com Tel: +44-781110 3142 Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff. Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and CCT, LSU. www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com Tel: +44-781110 3142

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Deadline approaching: WORKS08--Sept 12th
by Ewa Deelman 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

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

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FW: Journal of Grid Computing extends page budget
by Ewa Deelman 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

FYI, this message from the JOGC editors. _Ewa -------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Kacsuk Peter [mailto:kacsuk@sztaki.hu] Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 3:20 PM Dear All, We write you on behalf of the Journal of Grid Computing to announce that after the successful first five years of the journal Springer will increase the page budget from the current 480 pages/year up to 600 pages/year. It means that from next year we can publish 25% more papers than in the previous years. We hope this announcement encourages you to submit more papers and propose thematic special issues for the future. We would also ask you to distribute this announcement within your community (project, country, grid, VO, institute, etc.). Regards, Ian Foster and Peter Kacsuk (Co-editors-in-chief)

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The 3Rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS08)
by Ewa Deelman 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Call for Papers The 3Rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS08) in conjunction with SC'08, Austin, TX November 17, 2008 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/) 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, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester David Walker, Cardiff University Edward Walker, University of Texas Austin

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Fwd: [jcc@di.fct.unl.pt: Re: a PARA'08 minisymposium]
by Andrew Harrison 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Something that may be of interest... > > > The idea of this session is to particularly focus on issues of > abstractions > for workflows -- especially on techniques that could support better > description of abstract workflows to aid their mapping and subsequent: > (i) sharing; (ii) optimization across multiple workflow systems. > > > ================================================================= > > Minisymposium on Workflow Abstractions for Parallel and Distributed > Computing in e-Science > by > José C. Cunha(*), Cecília Gomes(*), and Omer F. Rana(**) > > (*) CITI/Dept. Informatics, Fac. Science and Technology, Univ. Nova de > Lisboa, Portugal > > (**) School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK > > > To be held at the > PARA 2008 STATE-OF-THE-ART IN > SCIENTIFIC AND PARALLEL COMPUTING > Trondheim, Norway > May 13-16, 2008 > http://para08.idi.ntnu.no/ > > > Abstract: Recent research in scientific applications has shown an > increasing need to improve the software tools and environments that > support complex computational processes for simulation, visualization, > with high degrees of user interaction, and involving large data > sets. In > order to meet the new characteristics of such large-scale, dynamic and > distributed computations, there have been efforts in developing more > adequate parallel and distributed computing models and supporting > environments, and in adapting them to increasingly powerful cluster > and > grid architectures. > > Workflow-based environments provide a useful approach to provide > adequate abstraction levels for scientists and engineers, and also > allow > flexibility in the mappings between the application abstractions and > the > lower layers of the underlying computing platforms. Such approaches > can > contribute to a new generation of more flexible and dynamic > environments, that may ease the tasks of application development and > the > management of the life-cycle of scientific experiments. > > This minisymposium aims to bring together experts working on the > development of abstractions and models for the specification and > coordination of workflows exploiting parallel and distributed > computing, > namely to handle workflow structure and behavior, manipulation and > management of dynamic workflows, coordination and control of their > parallel and distributed execution. The focus of this minisymposium is > on how best to define abstract worflows before they are converted to > concrete/executable versions. Case studies of scientific applications, > with reports from experiments and lessons learned, illustrating the > above and related dimensions, are also welcomed. > > > A limited number of contributed, 20 minute talks will be selected for > this minisymposium. A tentative title and a short abstract should be > submitted via the PARA'08 submission system before March 5, 2008 (max > 150 words in plain text). An extended abstract (of 3-4 pages in > Springer LNCS format) should be submitted before March 10. > > Detailed instructions for authors can be found at: > > http://para08.idi.ntnu.no/author-info.html > > Make sure to submit your paper under "MS:Workflows for e-Science" > > The abstract should be max 150 words + keywords typed into the > submission system and the text of the extended abstract must be > in .tex > and PDF and follow Springer LNCS format > > (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) > > After acceptance, full papers formatted according to the rules of the > Springer LNCS and the PARA 2008 Workshop should be sent before May 2, > 2008, in order to be reviewed for publishing in the Springer LNCS PARA > 2008 volume. > > Summary - Important Dates: > > * March 5, 2008 - Title and short abstract > * March 10, 2008 - Extended abstracts (3-4 pages in Springer LNCS > format) > * May 02, 2008 - Full paper deadline > * May 13-16, 2008 - Tutorials and workshop > * September 15, 2008 - Camera ready paper for publication in > Springer LNCS > > For specific information about this Minisymposium, please > contact Jose C. Cunha (e-mail: jcc -at- di.fct.unl.pt) > School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 3AA, Wales, UK tel: 02920 879184 email: a.b.harrison(a)cs.cf.ac.uk

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Workflow Interoperability and Sharing Survey for WFM-RG
by Ian Taylor 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Dear Researcher, As part of the work of the OGF Workflow Management Research Group, we are gathering user scenarios and experiences on workflow interoperability and sharing, which we intend will lead into a research document. Andrew Harrison (group secretary) has created an on-line form to gather information for such a research group document, which can be found here: http://bender.astro.cf.ac.uk/wfmrg/ We would appreciate your help in taking the time to answer these questions and provide us with your opinions on these topics. As a background: There are a number of existing workflow tools and systems used by different projects in the eScience community. Many of these projects have a long history of activity and have, as a result, developed specialist knowledge in certain domains as well as particular capabilities that support the scenarios the project has been addressing. The relative maturity of these projects means that imposing standards which would disrupt their development or diminish the availability of their specialisms could be counter-productive. At OGF20 and OGF21, the Workflow Management Research Group (WFM-RG) focussed on gathering and disseminating workflow sharing and interoperability scenarios and requirements in an attempt to begin developing standards and mechanisms that allow diverse workflow systems to interoperate without undermining their individual strengths or development procedures. This document is a request for input into that process. It will not take long to complete. We would like to thank all those in advance who contribute. All the best, Ian and Ewa Lecturer, School of Computer Science, Cardiff. Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and CCT, LSU. www.cs.cf.ac.uk/user/I.J.Taylor/ & www.p2pgridbook.com Tel: +44-781110 3142

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