The 2007 IEEE Workshop on Scientific Workflows

(SWF’2007)

Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A., July 9 (one day), 2007
in conjunction with ICWS 2007

 

Description

Today, many significant scientific discoveries are achieved through complex and distributed scientific computations. As a result, a new field called “e-science” has recently emerged that is gaining tremendous interest from both academia and industry. Scientific workflows play a critical role in e-science and cyberinfrastructure since scientists can use them to automate the steps needed to go through from raw datasets to potential scientific discovery. A scientist should be able to not only compose, execute, monitor, and re-run large-scale data-intensive and compute-intensive scientific workflows, but also use them to reproduce scientific discovery.

 

Although existing workflow systems are able to support complex computations and data repositories in a distributed environment, they do not meet the newly emerging requirements from scientists to handle streaming data, accommodate interactive steering, support event-driven analysis, and enable collaborative scientific research involving many scientists across disciplines and geographically distributed over the world. Recently, the National Science Foundation recognized the critical role of scientific workflows in cyberinfrastructure by organizing a workshop on the challenges of scientific workflows in May 2006. The workshop 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 goal of The 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Scientific Workflows is to foster a community of researchers to investigate various research issues and technologies of scientific workflows.  Authors are invited to submit papers that show original unpublished research results for various aspects of scientific workflows. Surveys of the state-of-the art and key research issues are also welcome. Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of scientific workflows are welcome.

 

List of Topics

 

Important Dates

 

Paper submissions

Authors should submit electronically a full paper (PDF file only) limited to 8 pages in IEEE Proceedings format by following the instructions at http://www.easychair.org/SWF2007/. At least one author is required to register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Submissions should include the paper title, abstract, names of authors, their affiliations, email addresses, mailing addresses. The contact author should be footnoted with full contact information including email and telephone number.

 

 

Workshop Chairs

 

Dr. Shiyong Lu

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202
Homepage: http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong

Email: shiyong@wayne.edu
Tel: 313-577-1667
Fax: 313-577-6868

 

Dr. Farshad Fotouhi

Professor & Chair

Department of Computer Science

Wayne State University

5143 Cass Ave.

Detroit, Michigan 48202

Homepage: http://www.cs.wayne.edu/fotouhi

Email: fotouhi@wayne.edu

Tel: 313-577-2478

Fax: 313-577-3395

 

Program Committee

·        Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, U.S.A.

·        Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, U.S.A.

·        Adam Barker, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

·        Rajkuma Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

·        Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University, U.S.A.

·        Carole Goble, University of Manchester, U.K.

·        Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago, U.S.A.

·        Jing Hua, Wayne State University, U.S.A.

·        Xiaolin Li, Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.

·        Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

·        Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, U.S.A.

·        Yogesh Simmhan, Indiana University

·        Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, U.K.

·        Liqiang Wang, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.

·        Guizhen Yang, SRI international, U.S.A.

·        Ping Yang, Binghamton University, U.S.A.

·        Zijiang Yang, Western Michigan University, U.S.A.

·        Yong Zhao, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

·        Zhiming Zhao, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands