[Myexperiment-discuss] CFP: 5th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS10)

[David De Roure]

                                Call for Papers

                              The 5th Workshop on
                  Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science

                           in conjunction with SC'10
                                New Orleans, LA
                               November 14, 2010
                           http://www.isi.edu/works10

Scientific workflows are 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 and often such 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  intermediate and resulting data needs to be annotated with provenance and 
other information 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 Fifth 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 SC10. The topics of the 
workshop include but are not limited to:

  *   Workflow applications and their requirements with special emphasis on 
Bio-Computing applications.
  *   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.
  *   Data-driven workflow processing.
  *   Adaptive workflows.
  *   Workflow monitoring.
  *   Workflow optimizations.
  *   Performance analysis of workflows
  *   Workflow debugging.
  *   Workflow provenance.
  *   Interactive workflows.
  *   Workflow interoperability
  *   Mashups and workflows
  *   Workflows on the cloud.
  
Important Dates:
Papers due September 3, 2010
Notifications of acceptance September 30, 2010
Final papers due October 8, 2010

We will accept both short (6 pages) and long (10 page) papers. The papers 
should be in IEEE format.

To submit the papers, please email address@hidden