IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing

Technical Area

Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments

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What’s New

·    Call for Participation - The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009), May 4-8, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.

·    Call for Papers – The 1st International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2009), August 10-12, 2009, Chengdu, China.

·    Call for Papers - The 6th IFIP International Conference Network and Parallel Computing (NPC2009), October 19-21, 2009, Gold Coast, Australia.

·    Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering about Scientific Workflow Management and Applications.

·        The Technical Area is established and announced in TCSC Newsletter – Volume 9, No.1 2007.

·        A milestone talk in TCSC Newsletter On Scientific Workflow.

·        A strategic seminar talk about Grid, Scientific and Business Workflows.


Introduction

Scalable computing environments, such as cloud computing environments, virtualisation computing environments, service oriented computing environments, peer-to-peer or decentralised computing environments and so on, enable collaborations between large-scale resources to support complex scientific and business applications such as climate modelling, structural biology and chemistry, medical surgery, disaster recovery, international stock market modelling, financial risk analysis and so on. These complex applications often require the creation of a collaborative workflow management system as part of their sophisticated problem solving processes. By this, e-scientists and e-business people who lack the low-level expertise can still utilise the underlying large-scale scalable computing toolkits such as GT4, CloudSim, SwinCloud, and other toolkits to support the sophisticated problem solving processes in their complex applications. As such, the research and development of workflow management in scalable computing environments become a must and have evoked a high degree of interest.

 

This technical area aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from the areas of scalable computing (such as cloud computing, virtualisation computing, service oriented computing, peer-to-peer or decentralised computing and so on) and workflow or process research to exchange the latest individual research and development ideas, and particularly the latest joint-venture and synergic research and development on workflow support in scalable computing environments.


Research Issues

·        Scientific and business process modeling and reengineering technologies

·        Formal representation, scientific and business workflow patterns

·        Workflow description languages targeting scalable computing environments such as computation or data intensive

·        Applying business workflow technologies to the scientific domain

·        Workflow API and graphical user interface in scalable computing environments

·        Workflow execution engines in scalable computing environments

·        Services that support workflow execution in scalable computing environments

·        Services engineering, composition and programming in scalable computing environments

·        Workflow verification and validation in scalable computing environments

·        Exception handling in workflow systems in scalable computing environments

·        Workflow system performance analysis in scalable computing environments

·        Support tools for managing workflows in scalable computing environments

·        QoS and resource planning, re-planning and scheduling in workflows in scalable computing environments

·        Security control in workflow systems in scalable computing environments

·        Interoperability between workflow systems in scalable computing environments

·        Workflow reasoning and simulation in scalable computing environments

·        Agent-based workflow management in scalable computing environments

·        Adaptive workflow management in scalable computing environments

·        Semantics and knowledge discovery, representation and merging for workflow management in scalable computing environments

·        Real-world scientific and business workflow applications in scalable computing environments


This technical area is in collaboration with Nova Book Series on Process and Workflow Management and Applications.


Groups and Projects

Workflow Patterns and more

Workflow Management for Large Parallel and Distributed Applications

The SwinDew-G Project

The Gridbus Workflow Project

The Swift Project

The Simflow Project

The Kepler Project

The Pegasus project

The Taverna Project

The Triana Project

The Grid Workflow Forum for more projects


Related Conferences

Joint-venture/Synergic:

The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009), May 4-8, 2009, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

The 1st International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2009), August 10-12, 2009, Chengdu, China.

 

The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China.

 

The 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Application in Grid Environments (WaGe2007), August 16-18, 2007, Urumchi, Xinjiang, China.

The 1st International Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE06), Oct. 21-23, 2006, Changsha, China.

The 3rd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows, September 24-28, 2007, Brisbane, Australia.

The 2nd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows, September 4, 2006, Vienna, Austria.

The 1st International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows, September 19-20, 2005, Melbourne, Australia.

The 1st International Workshop on World Wide Work Flow Grid at GridAsia@Singapore, Biopolis, Singapore, June 5-7, 2007, Singapore.

The 2nd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, June 27-29, 2007, Monterey Bay California, USA.

The 1st Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, June 19-23, 2006, Paris, France.

The 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Scientific Workflows, July 9, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

The 2nd International Workshop on Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science, December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India.

The 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science, May 27-30, 2007, Beijing, China.

The 1st International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science, May 28-31, 2006, University of Reading, UK.

IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow 2006), April 8, 2006, Atlanta, GA.


Workflow/Process:

The 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2008), October 20-23, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS2008) November 12-14, 2008, Monterrey Mexico.

The 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’08), June 16-20, 2008, Montpellier, France.

The 6th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM2008), September 1-4, 2008, Milan, Italy.

The 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2008), June 12-16, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

The 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS2008), May 5-7, 2008, Innsbruck, Austria.

The 29th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (Petri nets 2008), June 23-27, 2008, Xi’an, China.

The 2008 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008), December 14-17, 2008, Paris, France.


Grid/Cluster Computing:

The 9th IEEE International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), September 29-October 1, 2008, Tsukuba, Japan.

The 10th  IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2008), September 29 – October 1, 2008, Tsukuba, Japan

The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), May 19-22, 2008, Lyon, France.

The 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC2008), May 25-28, 2008, Kunming, China.

The 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science2008), December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

The 3rd International Conference on Grid Computing, High-performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA’08) in conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'08), November 13 - 14, 2008, Monterrey, Mexico.


Service Oriented Computing:

The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), July 8-11, 2008, Hawaii, USA.

The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008), September 23-26, 2008, Beijing, China.

The 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC2008), December 1-5, 2008, Sydney, Australia.

The 3rd IEEE Asia-Pacific Service Computing Conference (APSCC2008), December 9-12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan.

The 6th European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS’08), November 12-14, 2008, Dublin, Ireland.


Peer-to-Peer/Decentralised Computing:

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P2008), September 8-11, 2008, Aachen, Germany.

The 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HotP2P 2008), April 14-18, 2008 - Miami, Florida, USA.


Others:

The 20th International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), July 11-17, 2009, Pasadena, California, USA.

The 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI08), July 13-17, 2008, Chicago, USA.

The 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS2008), May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.

The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008), December 9-12, 2008, Sydney, Australia.

The 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), May 19-22, 2008, Sydney, Australia.

The 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008), September 21-24, 2008, COEX, Seoul, South Korea.


Contact:

Dr. Jinjun Chen

CITR – Centre for Information Technology Research

Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
John Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia
Office: EN508a, Engineering Building
Phone: +61 3 9214 8739
Fax: +61 3 9819 0823
Email: jchen@swin.edu.au

Steering Committee:

W.M.P. van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Marlon Dumas, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China

Omer F. Rana, The University of Cardiff, UK

Spiridon Reveliotis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Jianwen Su, The University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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