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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
The 4th Workshop on
Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
in conjunction with SC’09
Portland, OR
November 16, 2009
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:
Important dates:
Paper submission: July 31, 2009 Please submit the paper to works09@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@isi.edu