(Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP.)

Dear colleagues:

First announcement

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    2nd International Workshop on
   Workflow systems in e-Science 
            (WSES 07) 
      in conjunction with 
International Conference on Computational Science 2007 
(http://www.iccs-meeting.org/)
May 27-30, 2007, Beijing, China
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AIMS AND SCOPE
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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 as 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.

The WSES 06 was successfully held in the context of International Conference of 
Computational Science 2006 in Reading University in May 29 2006. The workshop 
attracted 29 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least three referees, and 17 
papers, including 9 regular ones and 8 short ones, were accepted. The presentations 
were organized as three sessions: scientific workflows applications, system 
architecture and middleware, and development issues. One discussion session was 
organized at the end of the workshop. Selected papers are to be appeared in a special 
issue of Scientific Programming Journal.

TOPICS
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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
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Authors should submit electronically a full (8-page) paper to the workshop via the 
ICCS 2007 paper submission system. 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 1, 2006 Full paper due 
* February 3, 2007 Notification 
* February 19, 2007 Camera-ready paper due 


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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* Pieter Adriaans (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
* Ilkay Altintas (University of California, USA).
* Marian Bubak (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland).
* Ewa Deelman (University of Southern California, USA).
* Bob Hertzberger(University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
* Andreas Hoheisel (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology, Germany).
* Lican Huang (Zhejiang University, China).
* Peter Kacsuk (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungarian).
* Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
* Minglu Li (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China).
* Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA).
* Shiyong Lu (Wayne State University, USA).
* Syed Naqvi (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK).
* Peter Rice (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK). 
* Ian Taylor (Cardiff University, UK).
* Zhiwei Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China).


ORGANIZERS
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Dr. Zhiming Zhao
email: zhiming@science.uva.nl
Tel: +31 20 5257599
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