IEEE 2009 Third International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2009)
In conjunction with
7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009)
July 10, 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Call for Papers Today, many scientific discoveries are achieved through complex and distributed scientific computations that are represented and structured as scientific workflows. User friendly scientific workflow systems are increasingly being developed to enable e-scientists to integrate, structure, and orchestrate various local or remote data and service resources to perform various in silico experiments to produce interesting scientific discovery. The critical role of scientific workflows in cyberinfrastructure has been recognized by a recent NSF workshop on the challenges of scientific workflows in May 2006, which concluded that “workflows should become first-class entities in cyberinfrastructure architecture. For domain scientists, they are important because workflows document and manage the increasingly complex processes involved in exploration and discovery through computations. For computer scientists, workflows provide a formal and declarative representation of complex distributed computations that must be managed efficiently through their lifecycle from assembly, to execution, to sharing.”The Third International Workshop on Scientific Workflows will expand the scope of the workshop to focus on the increasing convergence of developing concepts and tools in the areas of workflow, information flow, streams, and events. Several concrete efforts have made progress towards this convergence, including data-driven workflows and asynchronous workflows. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from these originally separate areas to discuss the opportunities and challenges that arise from the convergence. The discussion will cover a wide range of topics that link these areas, including applications in scientific and business workflows, workflow platforms, and tools and infrastructure for workflow specification, execution, and monitoring. The workshop will emphasize interactions through panel
sessions in which panelists from different areas give short position
presentations, followed by a discussion with workshop participants. Potential panelists are encouraged to submit
short position papers (one to three pages).
Current panel topics being considered include the discussions on
research opportunities and challenges of convergence from different starting
points (represented by panelists from these areas).
Topics of interest include but not limited to:
PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit a Word or PDF files using (the online submission and review system). The accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the SERVICES 2009 by the IEEE Computer Socity Press and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission March 16, 2009 Decision Notification (Electronic) April 2, 2009 Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration April 17, 2009 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Workshop chairs Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA, shiyong@wayne.edu Calton Pu, Georgia Tech, USA Publicity chairs Yong Zhao, Microsoft Corporation; Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center Publication chair Cui Lin, Wayne State University Program Committee Members Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA Adam Barker, University of Oxford, UK Shawn Bowers, UC Davis Genome Center, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Artem Chebotko, University of Texas at Pan American, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Juliana Freire, University of Utah, USA Xiaolin Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Bertram Ludäscher, UC Davis, USA Marta L. Queirós Mattoso, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA Ioan Raicu, University of Chicago, USA Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Corporation, USA Munindar Singh, North Carolina State University, USA Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK Liqiang Wang, University of Wyoming, USA Ping Yang, Binghamton University, USA Yong Zhao, Microsoft Corporation, USA Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Previous SWF workshops http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf
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