(Submission deadline was extended to December. 17 (Saturday.), 17:00 CET.)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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    1st International Workshop on
   Workflow systems in e-Science 
            (WSES 06) 
      in conjunction with 
International Conference on Computational Science 2006 
(http://staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming/iccs-wses/
 http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2006)
May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK

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AIMS AND SCOPE


Grid environments enable collaborations involving large numbers of people and large scale 
resources, and promote the emergence of a new paradigm for scientific research: e-Science. 
Different layers of middleware, e.g., for managing Grid resources, computing tasks, data, and 
information, form the basic framework for realising an e-Science environment. By automating the 
management of experiment routines, a scientific workflow management system hides the underlying 
integration details of the e-Science resources and allows a scientist to focus on the high level 
domain specific aspects of the experiments. The support for scientific workflows is being 
recognised a crucial feature for introducing an e-Science environment to application scientists 
from different domains.

The WSES workshop focuses on practical aspects of scientific workflow management systems: design, 
implementation, applications in all fields of computational science, interoperability among 
workflows and the e-Science infrastructure, e.g., knowledge framework, for workflow management.  
The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and developers in the field of e-Science to 
exchange the latest experience and research ideas on scientific workflow management and e-
Science.

Live demos of workflow systems and workflow application are welcome.



TOPICS


Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all 
areas of scientific workflow management in e-Science. The workshop solicits novel papers on a 
broad range of topics, including but
not limited to:

    * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware
    * Workflow API and graphical user interface
    * Workflow modelling techniques
    * Workflow specification language
    * Workflow execution engine
    * Dynamic workflow control
    * Workflow verification and validation
    * Workflow system performance analysis
    * Support tools for managing workflows
    * AI techniques in workflow management, e.g., planning, runtime control and user support;
    * Security control in managing workflow
    * Real-world applications of scientific workflow
    * Different levels of interoperability among workflow systems;
    * Automatic composition of scientific workflow;
    * Knowledge infrastructure in workflow management;


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Authors should submit electronically a full (8-page) paper in PDF format to 
(zhiming@science.uva.nl). The papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, 
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Accepted papers should be 
presented at the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings 
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer-Verlag. Selected best papers, 
after extension, will be published in a suitable international journal as a special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES

    * December 17, 2005 Full paper due
    * January 31, 2006 Notification
    * February 10, 2006 Camera-ready paper due


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    * Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland).
    * Rajkumar Buyya (The University of Melbourne, Australia).
    * Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA).
    * Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria).
    * Bob Hertzberger(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
    * Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China).
    * Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).
    * Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK).
    * Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK).
    * Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).


ORGANIZERS

Dr. Zhiming Zhao
email: zhiming@science.uva.nl
Tel: +31 20 5257530
Fax: +31 20 5257490
www: staff.science.uva.nl/~zhiming
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


Dr. Adam Belloum
email: adam@science.uva.nl
www: staff.science.uva.nl/~adam
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands