International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06)
October 23, 2006, Changsha, China
http://www.swinflow.org/confs/WaGe06/WaGe06.htm
To be held in conjunction with the
The 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006)
Sponsors: Hunan University of Science and Technology
Supported by IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Technical Area on “Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments”
Special Issue: The selected 6 best papers of this workshop have been accepted in a special issue in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
Grid environments enable collaborations involving a large number of large scale resources to support complex scientific and business applications, such as climate modeling, structural biology and chemistry, medical surgery, disaster recovery, international stock market modeling. Such complex applications often require the creation of a collaborative workflow management system as part of their sophisticated problem solving processes so that e-scientists and business people who lack the low-level expertise can still utilize the current generation of grid toolkits, such as GT4, Gridbus, myGrid, UNICORE or other toolkits. As a result, the research and development of workflow systems in grid environments become a must and have evoked a high degree of interest.
The WSGE workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from the areas of grid, cooperative computing and workflow research to exchange the latest experience and research ideas on workflow support in grid environments. Another important focus of this workshop is to explore whether and how to apply existing business process management technologies into grid workflow system management.
Topics
The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in the area of workflow management in grid environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
· Scientific and business process modeling and reengineering technologies
· Formal representation, scientific workflow patterns
· Workflow description languages targeting computation or data intensive tasks
· Applying business workflow technologies to the scientific domain
· Grid workflow API and graphical user interface
· Grid workflow execution engines
· Grid services that support workflow execution
· Grid services engineering, composition and programming
· Web services engineering, composition and programming
· Grid workflow verification and validation
· Exception handling in grid workflows
· Grid workflow system performance analysis
· Support tools for managing grid workflows
· QoS and resource scheduling in grid workflows
· Security control in grid workflow systems
· Interoperability between grid workflow systems
· Grid workflow reasoning and simulation
· Real-world scientific and business applications of grid workflow
Submission Requirements
Please email your manuscripts in PDF to jchen@ict.swin.edu.au with the email subject as “WSGE06 paper submission”. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register to GCC2006 and attend the workshop to present the work.
Publication of Papers
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings together with other GCC2006 workshops published by IEEE Computer Society. A selection of high quality paper authors will be invited to extend and enhance their papers for a special issue in a major international journal.
Important Dates
Deadline for Paper Submission: May 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: June 25, 2006
Camera Ready Copies: July 10, 2006
Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Rajkuma Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China
Program Committee
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid Germany, and RENCI, North Carolina, USA
Karthik Gomadam, LSDIS Lab, University of Georgia, USA
Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia
Yanbo Han, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand
Jane Hunter, The University of Queensland, Australia
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Omer F. Rana, University of Cardiff, UK
Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Andrew Wendelborn, University of Adelaide, Australia
Mengchu, Zhou, The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia