International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM)
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:
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Scientific
workflow provenance management
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Scientific
workflow provenance analytics
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Scientific
workflow data, metadata, service, and task management
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Scientific
workflow architectures, models, and languages
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Scientific
workflow monitoring and failure handling
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Streaming data
processing in scientific workflows
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Pipelined, data,
workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows
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Service, Grid, or
Cloud-based scientific workflows
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Data, metadata,
compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows
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Scientific
workflow composition
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Security issues
in scientific workflows
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Data integration
and service integration in scientific workflows
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Scientific
workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling
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Scientific
workflow modeling, verification, and validation
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Scalability,
reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability
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Scientific
workflow real-life applications
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July 1, 2009,
paper submission
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October 1, 2009,
notification
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January 1, 2010,
camera-ready version
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Planned
publication, middle of 2010
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Shiyong Lu, Wayne State
University, U.S.A., Email: shiyong@wayne.edu
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Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences
Institute, U.S.A., Email: deelman@isi.edu
·
Zhiming Zhao, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Email: z.zhao@uva.nl
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@wayne.edu to ensure a reliable
submission.
All enquires about the
special issue should be sent to Shiyong Lu at shiyong@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@isi.edu
http://www.isi.edu/~deelman