[WFM-RG] WORKS07-Paper submissson deadline extended to February 17th, 2007

[Ewa Deelman]

2nd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS07)

 

                     In conjunction with HPDC 2007, Monterey Bay, CA

 

                                          June 25 2007

 

                                      www.isi.edu/works07

 

Paper submission deadline extended to February 17, 2007

 

 

 Keynote Speaker: Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK

 

 

        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 Second 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

 *           Relevance of Business Workflow Standards

 

 

 Important dates:

 

             Paper submission:  Deadline extended to February 17, 2007

             Acceptance notification: March 17, 2007

             Final papers due: April 6, 2007

 

 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 IEEE HPDC 2007 workshop proceedings.

 

 To submit the papers, please check the website www.isi.edu/works07. The
workshop will use the same submission system as HPDC.

 

 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 Univ. of Science and Tech.

Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck  

Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University  

Dennis Gannon, Indiana University  

Yolanda Gil, USC Information Sciences Institute  

Carole Goble, University of Manchester  

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  

Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center  

Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich  

Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester  

Matt Shields, Cardiff University  

David Walker, Cardiff University  

Edward Walker, University of Texas Austin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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