[DistComp] CFP reminder: IEEE 2012 Sixth International Workshop on Scientific and Engineering Workflows (SWF 2012)

[Paolo Missier]

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Call for Papers
IEEE 2012 Sixth International Workshop on Scientific and Engineering Workflows (SWF 2012)
http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, one day between June 24-29, 2012
As part of IEEE SERVICES 2012, In conjunction with IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD 2012

Description

Today, many science and engineering disciplines have become increasingly data-intensive.
Massively complex new instruments and simulators are generating massive data sets that
are described as big data. For example, in Physics, the Large Hadron Collider will
eventually generate about 15 petabytes (1 petabye is about 1,000,000 gigabyes) of data
per year. In neuroscience, a complete map of the brain's neural circuitry would generate
about 1000 exabytes (an exabyte is about 1000 petabytes). The coming data deluge poses
great challenges to the whole lifecycle of data management, from data collection, data
storage, to data processing and visualization. In the meanwhile, workflow has become a
popular paradigm for scientists and engineers to formalize and structure complex processes
to solve increasingly data-intensive scientific and engineering problems. The importance
of workflow is well recognized by NSF as well as by numerous workshops. As a recent Science
article concluded, "In the future, the rapidity with which any given discipline advances
is likely to depend on how well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database,
workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies."

The theme of this year¡¯s SWF workshop is ¡°Advances in Data and Event-Driven Workflows¡±,
recognizing the data-centric and event-driven approach of scientific and engineering workflows,
as opposed to the traditional process-centric approach to workflow management. Built upon the
successful history of SWF (http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf/) since 2007, this year, we
broaden the scope of SWF to include engineering workflows as well, soliciting papers to share
the challenges, experiences, and lessons in applying workflow technologies to various data-driven
science and engineering problems

Authors are invited to submit regular papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) that show
original unpublished research results in all areas of scientific and engineering workflows.
Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of scientific
and engineering workflows are welcome. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings
of IEEE SERVICES 2012, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed by EI and
DBLP.

Topics
o Data-driven workflows
o Event-driven workflows
o Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics
o Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management
o Scientific workflow architectures, models, and languages
o Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, and failure handling
o Streaming data processing in scientific workflows
o Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows
o Service, Grid, or Cloud-based scientific workflows
o Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows
o Scientific workflow composition
o Security issues in scientific workflows
o Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows
o Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling
o Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification
o Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability
o Scientific workflow applications
o Enterprise service workflow management and enterprise services computing
o Enterprise workflow cooperation and collaboration


Important dates
Paper Submission     March 15, 2012
Decision Notification (Electronic)   April 20, 2012
Camera-Ready Submission&  Pre-registration    May 1, 2012

Workshop chairs:
Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University
Calton Pu, Georgia Tech

For any questions, please send e-mails toshiyong at wayne.edu  orcalton.pu at cc.gatech.edu.
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School of Computing Science, Newcastle University,  UK
http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/Paolo.Missier
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