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WORKS06 Call for Participation
by Ewa Deelman 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science June 20, Paris, France In conjunction with HPDC 2006 <http://hpdc.lri.fr/index.php?section=General&subsection=Home> www.isi.edu/works06 Call for Participation In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows enable scientists to design complex applications 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 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 program will consist of paper presentations and a panel on the Relationship of Workflow and Distributed Programming and Scripting. For the full workshop program, please visit: http://www.isi.edu/works06/program.htm To participate in the workshop please register at http://hpdc.lri.fr/index.php?section=Info&subsection=registration Please make sure to check the "Workflow" workshop on the registration form. (The deadline for advance registration is May 19th). I look forward to seeing you in Paris. Ewa Deelman <mailto:deelman@isi.edu> , WORKS06 Chair

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April 21, CFP GRID2006 extended deadline
by Ewa Deelman 11 Apr '06

11 Apr '06

*** Apologies for multiple copies. Please circulate. *** ======================================================================== ======== GRID 2006 Call for Papers -- Extended dealine: April 21st, 13:00 EDT, 19:00 CEST ======================================================================== ======== GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing Barcelona, 28-29 September www.grid2006.org The Grid conference series is an anual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid 2001, Denver; Grid 2002, Baltimore; Grid 2003, Phoenix; Grid 2004, Pittsburgh; and the sixth event, Grid 2005 in Seattle. All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. Last year's event attracted about 400 registered participants. From the second event through the sixth, we have been known i as the Grid Workshop affiliated with the Supercomputing SC conference series. For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference. The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by Springer-Verlag, and the proceedings of the three most recent workshops were published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We expect this year's proceedings will join those of the last three years in the IEEE Computer Society's Digital Library. Grid 2006 has been labelled a CoreGRID event. SCOPE ====== Grid 2006 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to: * Internet-based Computing Models * Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications * Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management * Middleware and Toolkits * Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools * Resource Management and Scheduling * Networking * Virtual Instrumentation * Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance * Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations * Architectures and Fabrics * Information Services * Security Issues * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Grid Economy * Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids * Performance Evaluation and Modeling * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues * Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications Technical Papers ================ Grid 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work (also not submitted elsewhere for review) reporting solid and innovative results in any aspect of grid computing and its applications. Papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see IEEE author instructions, a LaTeX style sheet and Word format is available, too). All bibliographical references, tables, and figures must be included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page limit will not be reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Proceedings: All papers selected for this conference are peer- reviewed and will be published as a separate proceedings. After the event, the papers will also be published in the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author instructions see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Special Issue: The best 6 to 8 papers from the conference will be selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special issue of the Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS). Important Dates =============== 1 March 2006 Paper submission site open 21 April 2006 Extended deadline for abstract and full paper submission 9 June 2006 Acceptance notification 1 July 2006 Camera-ready copy due 28-29 Sept 2006 Conference Conference Organization ======================= General co-Chairs Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Chair Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Program Vice Chairs Applications: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Data Management: Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA Networking/Security/Infrastructure: Olle Mulmo, Center for Parallel Computers, KTH Sweeden Scheduling/Resource management: Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland Tools/Software/Middleware: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Publicity Chair: Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Proceedings Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Finance Chair: Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Local arrangements chair: Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Tutorial Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Steering Committee ================== Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany Daniel S. Katz, JPL/Caltech, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria

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GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing
by Ewa Deelman 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

GRID 2006 Call for Papers ============================== GRID 2006 the 7th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing Barcelona, 28-29 September www.grid2006.org The Grid conference series is an anual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: Grid 2000, Bangalore, India; Grid 2001, Denver; Grid 2002, Baltimore; Grid 2003, Phoenix; Grid 2004, Pittsburgh; and the sixth event, Grid 2005 in Seattle. All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. Last year's event attracted about 400 registered participants. From the second event through the sixth, we have been known i as the Grid Workshop affiliated with the Supercomputing SC conference series. For this, our seventh event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and this year we will be co-located with the 2006 Cluster conference. The proceedings of the first three workshops were published by Springer-Verlag, and the proceedings of the three most recent workshops were published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. We expect this year's proceedings will join those of the last three years in the IEEE Computer Society's Digital Library. Grid 2006 has been labelled a CoreGRID event. SCOPE ====== Grid 2006 topics of interest (in no particular order) include, but are not limited to: * Internet-based Computing Models * Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications * Distributed and Large-Scale Data Access and Management * Middleware and Toolkits * Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools * Resource Management and Scheduling * Networking * Virtual Instrumentation * Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance * Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations * Architectures and Fabrics * Information Services * Security Issues * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Grid Economy * Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids * Performance Evaluation and Modeling * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues * Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications Technical Papers ================ Grid 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work (also not submitted elsewhere for review) reporting solid and innovative results in any aspect of grid computing and its applications. Papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced pages of text using 10-point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (see IEEE author instructions, a LaTeX style sheet and Word format is available, too). All bibliographical references, tables, and figures must be included in these 8 pages. Submissions that exceed the 8-page limit will not be reviewed. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Proceedings: All papers selected for this conference are peer- reviewed and will be published as a separate proceedings. After the event, the papers will also be published in the IEEE Xplore and the CS digital library. For author instructions see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm Special Issue: The best 6 to 8 papers from the conference will be selected for journal length extension and their publication in a special issue of the Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS). Important Dates =============== 1 March 2006 Paper submission site open 7 April 2006 Full paper submission due 14 April 2006 Last date for paper updates before review process 9 June 2006 Acceptance notification 1 July 2006 Camera-ready copy due 28-29 Sept 2006 Conference Conference Organization ======================= General co-Chairs Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Chair Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Program Vice Chairs Applications: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Data Management: Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA Networking/Security/Infrastructure: Olle Mulmo, Center for Parallel Computers, KTH Sweeden Scheduling/Resource management: Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing Center, Poland Tools/Software/Middleware: Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Publicity Chair: Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Proceedings Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Finance Chair: Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Local arrangements chair: Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Tutorial Chair: Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Steering Committee ================== Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany Daniel S. Katz, JPL/Caltech, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Heinz Stockinger, University of Vienna, Austria

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Joint CFP - BSN'06 - SOS4CO'06 (Final Circulation)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06 Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit paper via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, please use the IEEE double-column paper format at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/FORMAT.DOC. Papers can be at most 8 pages. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper Submission -- February 1, 2006 -- Extended >> February 12, 2006 Notification to Authors -- February 28, 2006 Response from Authors -- March 3, 2006 Organizers Confirm Program -- March 10, 2006 Author Kit Posted Online -- March 17, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due -- March 31, 2006 Organizers Finalize Proceedings -- April 5, 2006 Workshop Day -- June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
by Ewa Deelman 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science In conjunction with HPDC 2006, June 20, Paris, France www.isi.edu/works06 Call for Papers In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows enable scientists to design complex applications 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 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 * Data-driven workflow processing * Adaptive workflows * Workflow monitoring * Workflow optimizations * Performance analysis of workflows * Workflow debugging * Workflow provenance * Interleaving workflow creation and execution * Interactive workflows Papers submitted to this workshop should be in IEEE format (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/) and no longer than 10 pages. 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 HPDC 2006 proceedings CD (pending final decision by HPDC). To submit the papers, please email a PDF or Postscript to deelman(a)isi.edu by February 10, 2006. Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a special issue of the Scientific Programming Journal. Important dates: Paper submission: February 10, 2006 Acceptance notification: March 6, 2006 Final papers due: March 24, 2006 Program Committee Chair: Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Marian Bubak AGH Univ. of Science and Tech. Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck Ian Foster U. of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Geoffrey Fox Indiana University Dennis Gannon Indiana University Yolanda Gil USC/Information Sciences Institute Carole Goble University of Manchester Andreas Hoheisel Fraunhofer Institute Peter Kacsuk MTA Sztaki Research Institute Tevfik Kosar Louisiana State University Miron Livny University of Wisconsin Madison Bertram Ludaescher UC Davis Jarek Nabrzyski Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Johan Montagnat CNRS Cesare Pautasso ETH Zurich Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester Matt Shields Cardiff University Ian Taylor Cardiff University Edward Walker University of Texas Austin

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Joint CFP: BSN'06 & SoS4CO'06
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross posting. ********************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ ********************************************************************* Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter- enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life- cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Please submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper submission: February 1, 2006 Paper notification: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2006 Workshop: June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stéphane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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CFP: Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Please accept our apologies for cross-posting. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06) "Integration For Everyone" Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, May 22-24, 2006 http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com http://www.integrationconsortium.org ********************************************************************** --- OVERVIEW --- The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association of IT professionals focused on application, information, process, service, and system integration technologies. The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year, and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000 corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking. --- THEME --- For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I- BOK) As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts, and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions. --- TOPICS --- Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware. Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress, best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints. We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at: http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf Part A - Business Perspective 1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers 2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers Part B - Application Requirements 3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions 4. User-Centric Integration Solutions Part C - Development Capabilities 5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function 6. Integration Development Methods and Standards 7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices Part D - Technologies and Standards 8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture 9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards 10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure --- IMPORTANT DATES --- * Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006 * Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006 * Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006 * Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006 * Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006 * Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006 --- SUBMISSION --- * Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm * Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc * Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit --- CO-CHAIRS --- John Schmidt President, Integration Consortium Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America Peter Anadranistakis Board of Directors Member, Integration Consortium Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems Dr. Stephane Gagnon VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology --- CONTACT --- Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com

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Joint CFP v2: BSN'06 - SOS4CO'06
by gagnon＠soa7.com 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

(Apologies for cross posting) **************************************************************************** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS BSN'06 - SoS4CO'06 2nd International Workshop on Business Service Networks 2nd International Workshop on Service oriented Solutions for Cooperative Organizations June 26, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co in conjunction with IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06) http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06/ **************************************************************************** Business Services Networks (BSN's) are business networks, that is, a group of cooperative organizations either within an enterprise or between different enterprises, which are based on services. In that context, a service represents a set of encapsulated IT components implementing specific business functions. The service interface is self-describing in order to publish, discover and dynamically bind services using an underlying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), most often implemented using Web Services standards. However, this flexibility with regard to loose-coupling and the interoperability between cooperative organizations is being applied in current projects, especially in industrial projects. This workshop concentrates on all facets of BSN's and the architecture of service-oriented solutions supporting inter-enterprise collaboration, throughout the entire collaboration life-cycle. This includes the consideration of business strategies for the establishment of a BSN with cooperative organizations from different SOA environments and maturity, as well as the design of such cooperation and collaboration starting with the requirements until the final instantiation of the collaboration by discovering, composing, deploying, and invoking services. Based on the composed BSN, the cooperation and collaboration brings new research from the perspectives of business (e.g. provisioning) and technical (e.g. transactions), e.g. monitoring and auditing in a network of organizations. We invite papers addressing business and technical issues of BSN's from various perspectives, including development strategies of new BSNs, design of BSNs, as well as management and execution. We encourage contributions from both academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: BSN Strategy * Business models * Integration alliances and interoperability * Value added for BSN vendors and adopters * Mobile operators, grid services, and utility computing BSN Design * Service-Oriented solutions * Requirements engineering for BSN * Ontologies, document structures, messaging formats, etc. * Match-making of choreographies of different cooperative organizations * Match-making of semantic service descriptions * Negotiating of inter-organizational business processes and workflows * Service discovery on advanced registry concepts beyond UDDI * Quality of Service (QoS) and Cost of Service (CoS) negotiation * Role of Model-Driven Architectures (MDA) for BSN BSN Management & Execution * SOA-Enablement of software vendors * Service Level Agreements (SLA) * International provisioning and adoption barriers * Pricing and marketing on BSN demand software * Monitoring and enforcement of Quality of Service (QoS) * Distributed stateless and stateful transactions * Role of security, privacy and trust in BSN * Auditing of service evolution Submissions: Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. We accept papers in DOC, PDF, and PS format. Submit papers via http://elab.njit.edu/bsnsos4co/submit. It is planned to select the best papers for a journal special issue. Further details will be announced soon. Registration: Please use the CEC/EEE site to register: http://linux.ece.uci.edu/cec06. For accepted submissions, at least one author must register for the workshop in order for the paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled in the workshop program. Important Dates: Paper submission: February 1, 2006 Paper notification: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2006 Workshop: June 26, 2006 Enquiries: Please direct all enquires by email to <bsnsos4co AT njit.edu>. Co-Chairs: Stephane Gagnon, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Christian Huemer, University of Vienna, Austria Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands Raymond Wong, University of New South Wales and Green Pea Software, Australia Program Committee: Antonia Albani, University of Augsburg, Germany Morad Benyoucef, University of Ottawa, Canada William Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jen-Yao Chung, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Eric Dubois, Research Public Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg Birgit Hofreiter, University of Vienna, Austria Jane Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Ottokar Kulendik, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Franky Lam, National ICT Australia, Australia Bendick Mahleko, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Angel Ortiz, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Katia Passerini, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pascal Pecquet, Université de Montpellier I, France Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA William Shui, University of New South Wales, Australia Richard Soley, Object Management Group, USA Cheickna Sylla, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Kerry Taylor, CSIRO, Australia Vladimir Tosic, Lakehead University, Canada Ivana Trickovic, SAP AG, Germany Dan Zhang, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Jia Zhang, Northern Illinois University, USA Aoying Zhou, Fudan University, China Hans Dieter Zimmermann, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany

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Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
by Ewa Deelman 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

---- Apologies for duplicate copies! ------- Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science In conjunction with HPDC 2006, June 19-23, Paris, France www.isi.edu/works06 Call for Papers In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that enables large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows enable scientists to design complex applications 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 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 * Data-driven workflow processing * Adaptive workflows * Workflow monitoring * Workflow optimizations * Performance analysis of workflows * Workflow debugging * Workflow provenance * Interleaving workflow creation and execution * Interactive workflows Papers submitted to this workshop should be in IEEE format (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/) and no longer than 10 pages. 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 HPDC 2006 proceedings CD (pending final decision by HPDC). To submit the papers, please email a PDF or Postscript to deelman(a)isi.edu by February 10, 2006. Selected authors will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to a special issue of the Scientific Programming Journal. Important dates: Paper submission: February 10, 2006 Acceptance notification: March 17, 2006 Final papers due: April 7, 2006 Program Committee Chair: Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Marian Bubak AGH Univ. of Science and Tech. Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck Ian Foster U. of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Geoffrey Fox Indiana University Dennis Gannon Indiana University Yolanda Gil USC/Information Sciences Institute Carole Goble University of Manchester Andreas Hoheisel Fraunhofer Institute Peter Kacsuk MTA Sztaki Research Institute Tevfik Kosar Louisiana State University Miron Livny University of Wisconsin Madison Bertram Ludaescher UC Davis Jarek Nabrzyski Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Johan Montagnat CNRS Cesare Pautasso ETH Zurich Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester Matt Shields Cardiff University Ian Taylor Cardiff University Edward Walker University of Texas Austin

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CFP: Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06)
by gagnon＠soa7.com 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Global Integration Summit 2006 (GIS'06) "Integration For Everyone" Annual Meeting of the Integration Consortium Fairmont Copley Plaza Boston, May 22-24, 2006 http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com http://www.integrationconsortium.org ********************************************************************** --- OVERVIEW --- The Global Integration Summit (GIS) is the annual meeting of the Integration Consortium (IC), the non-profit, user-driven association of IT professionals focused on application, information, process, service, and system integration technologies. The GIS differs from other industry events as it is truly user-driven and vendor-neutral. With an attendance hovering above 200 every year, and involving senior integration executives from leading Global 2000 corporations, the event offers a personal atmosphere for networking. --- THEME --- For our 3rd edition, the theme "Integration For Everyone" seeks to build a unified view of the Integration Discipline. One outcome of the Summit should be to develop a new Integration Body of Knowledge (I-BOK) As such, we welcome IT thought leaders from industry, vendors, analysts, and academia to expose the "State of the Art" in integration solutions. --- TOPICS --- Topics can range from business drivers for integration such as Governance and Regulatory Compliance, to integration approaches and platforms such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), to technical infrastructure issues such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Open Source Middleware. Papers can take the form of conceptual frameworks, research in progress, best practice reports, case studies, and executive viewpoints. We welcome papers that contribute to enriching the I-BOK. Please see below for an outline, with a detailed list of 50 topics available at: http://www.integrationconsortium.org/docs/ibok-v1.pdf Part A - Business Perspective 1. Business Trends and Integration Drivers 2. Industry-Specific Integration Drivers Part B - Application Requirements 3. Application-Specific Integration Solutions 4. User-Centric Integration Solutions Part C - Development Capabilities 5. Strategic Management of the Integration Function 6. Integration Development Methods and Standards 7. Integration Development Tools and Best Practices Part D - Technologies and Standards 8. Integration Platforms and System Architecture 9. Core Integration Technologies and Standards 10. Integration Runtime Infrastructure --- IMPORTANT DATES --- * Papers Submission Deadline >>> January 31, 2006 * Notification of Paper Selection >>> February 20, 2006 * Confirmation by Author to present at GIS 2006 >>> February 28, 2006 * Early Bird Registration Deadline >>> April 1, 2006 * Upload Final Paper and Presentation >>> May 1, 2006 * Global Integration Summit >>> May 22-24, 2006 --- SUBMISSION --- * Instructions: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/callforpapers.htm * Paper Template: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/docs/template.doc * Submission System: http://www.globalintegrationsummit.com/submit --- CO-CHAIRS --- John Schmidt President, Integration Consortium Senior Vice President, Integration, Bank of America Peter Anadranistakis IC Board Member, Integration Consortium Chief Partnership Officer, Online Business Systems Dr. Stephane Gagnon VP Research and Standards, Integration Consortium Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology --- CONTACT --- Please send all enquiries by email to: info(a)globalintegrationsummit.com

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