[WFM-RG] WORKS 09 Call for Papers

[Ewa Deelman]

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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 

 


Call for Papers


The 4th Workshop on 

Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science

 in conjunction with SC'09

Portland, OR 

November 16, 2009

http://www.isi.edu/works09 <http://www.isi.edu/works09> 

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:

	*	Workflow applications and their requirements with
special emphasis on Bio-Computing applications. 
	*	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. 
	*	Formal Description of Workflows 

 

Important dates:

            Paper submission:    July 31, 2009 Please submit the paper
to works09 at isi.edu <mailto:works08 at 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 at isi.edu 

 

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