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Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on
Automation Science and Engineering
Special Issue on Scientific Workflow Management and Applications http://www.swinflow.org/si/t-ase.htm
With support from IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments |
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Scientific workflow is a new special type of workflow that often underlies many large-scale complex e-science applications such as climate modeling, structural biology and chemistry, medical surgery or disaster recovery simulation. Compared with business workflows, scientific workflow has special features such as computation, data or transaction intensity, less human interaction, and a large number of activities. Some emerging computing infrastructures such as grid computing with powerful computing and resource sharing capabilities present the potential for accommodating those special features. Currently, many efforts are being on this new workflow area, and workshops such as WaGe07, WORKS07 and NSF funded workshop on challenges of scientific workflows have been or are being held to explore scientific workflow issues. Gradually, research results are published and several scientific workflow management systems such as Gridbus Workflow, SwinDeW-G, Kepler and Taverna are developed or evolved from existing systems. However, in general, research and development in scientific workflow management are still in their infancy with obscure knowledge of scientific workflow specific features and techniques. This special issue aims to systematically investigate and shape the special features, challenges and new techniques of scientific workflows as well as corresponding applications and underlying computing infrastructures. Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore and boost the new area. The topics for contributions include, but are not limited to: · Special features of scientific workflows and their hints on new techniques · Scientific workflow modeling, execution and scheduling · Formal representation, scientific workflow patterns · Control flows and data flows in scientific workflows · Web/grid services based scientific workflows · Application programming interface and Graphical user interface · Scientific workflow verification and validation · Exception handling, Quality of Service, performance and security issues in scientific workflows · Underlying infrastructures targeting scientific workflow support · Real-world scientific workflow applications Important Dates April 30, 2008 Paper submission deadline (extended from previously March 31 2008) September 30, 2008 Completion of the first round review (extended from previously August 31 2008 due to the extension of submission deadline) December 30, 2008 Completion of the second round review February 28, 2009 Final manuscript due August 2009 Tentative publication date Guest Editors Swinburne University of Technology The University of Melbourne Email: jchen@swin.edu.au Email: raj@csse.unimelb.edu.au
W.M.P. van der Aalst Michael Rosemann Eindhoven University of Technology Queensland University of Technology Email: w.m.p.v.d.aalst@tue.nl Email: m.rosemann@qut.edu.au University of California at Davis Swinburne University of Technology Email: ludaesch@ucdavis.edu Email: yyang@swin.edu.au
University of Manchester Email: carole.goble@manchester.ac.uk Paper Submission All papers are to be submitted through the Manuscript Central for T-ASE at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-ase. Please select “Special Issue” under Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the IEEE T-ASE publication guidelines http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ieeetase/. Papers will be reviewed following the standard IEEE T-ASE review process.
Please address inquiries to jchen@swin.edu.au.
References · IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering – http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ieeetase/. · IEEE TCSC (Technical Committee on Scalable Computing) Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments - http://www.swinflow.org/tcsc/wmsce.htm. · A talk in TCSC Newsletter On Scientific Workflow 2007. · A seminar talk about Grid, Scientific and Business Workflows 2007. · The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China. · SwinDeW-G Swinburne Decentralised Workflow for Grid 2007. |
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