[WFM-RG] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS07)

[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  

 

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:  February 10, 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

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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