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Call for Papers  
IEEE 2011 Fifth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2011)
http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~shiyong/swf
Washington DC, U.S.A., one day between July 5-10, 2011
In conjunction with IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2011


Description
Scientific workflows have become an increasingly popular paradigm for scientists to 
formalize and structure complex scientific processes to enable and accelerate many 
significant scientific discoveries. A scientific workflow is a formal specification 
of a scientific process, which represents, streamlines, and automates the analytical 
and computational steps that a scientist needs to go through from dataset selection 
and integration, computation and analysis, to final data product presentation and 
visualization. The importance of scientific workflows has been recognized by NSF 
since 2006 and was reemphasized recently in a science article 
titled "Beyond the Data Deluge" (Science, Vol. 323. no. 5919, pp. 1297 ¨C 1298, 2009), 
which 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."

An emerging trend in scientific workflow management research and systems is the convergence 
of concepts, techniques, and tools from both scientific workflow and enterprise workflow areas. 
Although scientific workflow systems and enterprise workflow areas have evolved in parallel, 
each has adopted and incorporated the best practices and ideas from the other area. One of 
the main areas of interest is this emerging convergence. A concrete example is the leverage 
of enterprise workflow tools and systems in solving scientific/engineering workflow problems, 
particularly in data centers and cloud computing environments. In response to this trend, 
this year, we like to expand the scope of SWF to include topics for enterprise workflows as 
well to foster the interaction between these two areas.


 

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original unpublished research results in all areas of scientific workflows and enterprise 
workflows. Topics of interest are listed below; however, submissions on all aspects of scientific 
workflows and enterprise workflows are welcome. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings 
of IEEE SERVICES 2011, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

 

 

Topics
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     February 21, 2011
Decision Notification (Electronic)   March 21, 2011
Camera-Ready Submission & Pre-registration    April 8, 2011



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


For any questions, please send e-mails to shiyong@wayne.edu or calton.pu@cc.gatech.edu.
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