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8th IEEE International Conference on eScience http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/escience2012/ October 8-12, 2012 Chicago, IL, USA

Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices, often in communities and projects that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations, and national boundaries. The eScience 2012 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present the results of the latest applications research and product/tool developments and to highlight related activities from around the world. Also, we are now entering the second decade of eScience and the 2012 conference gives an opportunity to take stock of what has been achieved so far and look forward to the challenges and opportunities the next decade will bring.

A special emphasis of the 2012 conference is on advances in the application of technology in a particular discipline. Accordingly, significant advances in applications science and technology will be considered as important as the development of new technologies themselves. Further, we welcome contributions in educational activities under any of these disciplines.

As a result, the conference will be structured around two e-Science tracks:

• eScience Algorithms and Applications • eScience application areas, including: • Physical sciences • Biomedical sciences • Social sciences and humanities • Data-oriented approaches and applications • Compute-oriented approaches and applications • Extreme scale approaches and applications • Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience • Novel hardware • Novel uses of production infrastructure • Software and services • Tools The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)journal.

SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. (Up to 2 additional pages may be purchased for US$150/page)

Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer to https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2012

(Note that paper submitters also must submit an abstract in advance of the paper deadline. This should be done through the same site where papers are submitted.)

It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission (required): 4 July 2012 Paper submission: 11 July 2012 Paper author notification: 22 August 2012 Camera-ready papers due: 10 September 2012 Conference: 8-12 October 2012