[kepler-dev] Call for participation WORKS07

[Matthew Jones]

This conference on workflow systems in Monterey looks to be very 
relevant to Kepler, and includes talks by several members of the Kepler 
community.  Its especially relevant to the distributed execution work. 
Is anyone attending beyond Norbert and Deana?

Matt

Ewa Deelman wrote:
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> 2nd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS07)
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>                      In conjunction with HPDC 2007, Monterey Bay, CA
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>                                       www.isi.edu/works07
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> To register: http://www.isi.edu/hpdc2007/registration.htm
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>         In recent years workflows have emerged as a key technology that 
> enables large-scale computations on distributed resources. Workflows 
> enable scientists to design complex analysis that are composed of 
> individual application components or services. Often times these 
> components and services are designed, developed, and tested 
> collaboratively. Because of the size of the data and the complexity of 
> the analysis, large amounts of shared resources such as clusters and 
> storage systems are being used to store the data sets and execute the 
> workflows.
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>       The process of workflow design and execution in a distributed 
> environment can be very complex and involve mapping high-level workflow 
> descriptions onto the available resources, as well as monitoring and 
> debugging of the subsequent execution.  Because computations and data 
> access operations are performed on shared resources, there is an 
> increased interest in managing the fair allocation and management of 
> those resources at the workflow level.
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>          Adequate workflow descriptions are needed to support the 
> complex workflow management process which includes workflow creation, 
> workflow reuse, and modifications made to the workflow over time—for 
> example modifications to the individual workflow components. Additional 
> workflow annotations may provide guidelines and requirements for 
> resource mapping and execution.
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>         Large-scale scientific applications pose several requirements on 
> the workflow systems. Besides the magnitude of data processed by the 
> workflow components, the resulting and intermediate data need to be 
> annotated with provenance information and any other information needed 
> to evaluate the quality of the data and support the repeatability of the 
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>         The Second Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale 
> Science focuses on the entire workflow lifecycle including the workflow 
> composition, mapping, and robust execution.
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>     *Agenda*
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>       *Workflow Systems *(Chair: Ewa Deelman)
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> 09:00 – 09:05
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> Welcome – Ewa Deelman
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> 09:05 – 09:50
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> Keynote Address Keynote Address: myExperiment: Social Networking for 
> Workflow-using e-Scientists, Robert Stevens and Carole Goble
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> 09:50 – 10:15
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> GRIDCC: Real-timeWorkflow system - Andrew Stephen McGough
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> 10:15 – 10:40
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> Cache for Workflows - Carlo Mastroianni and Ian Taylor
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> 10:40 – 11:10
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> Break
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>       *Adaptation and Integration *(Chair: Carlo Mastroianni)
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> 11:10 – 11:35
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> Integrating Existing Scientific Workflow Systems: The Kepler/Pegasus 
> Example- Ewa Deelman
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> 11:35 – 12:00
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> Workflow Adaptation as an Autonomic Computing Problem - Kevin Lee
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> 12:00 – 13:30
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> Lunch
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>       *Workflow Applications and Models *(Chair: Steven McGough)
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> Workflow automation for processing plasma fusion simulation data – 
> Norbert Podhorszki
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> Supporting Large-Scale Science with Workflows - Deana D Pennington
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> 14:20 – 14:45
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> On the Black Art of Designing Computational Workflows – Pedro Gonzalez
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> 14:45 – 15:15
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> Break
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>       *Short Papers *(Chair: Kevin Lee)
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> 15:15 – 15:35
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> WS-VLAM: Towards a Scalable Workflow System on the Grid - Vladimir Korkhov
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> A Semantic Workflow Authoring Tool for Programming Grids - Barbara Cantalupo
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> A Workflow Approach to Designed Reservoir Study - Gabrielle Allen
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