1st International Workshop on Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies
http://sites.google.com/site/sweetworkshop2012
inquiries: sweet2012@easychair.org

Held in conjunction with SIGMOD 2012
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 20, 2012
http://www.sigmod.org/2012/

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Papers submission deadline: February, 19th, 2012
Authors notification: April 8th
Deadline for camera-ready copy: May 13th
Workshop: May 20

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The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the potential of cloud-based computing in facilitating the convergence between workflows and large-scale data processing. Concretely, the workshop is expected to provide insight into:

- performance issues: efficient data processing using cloud-based workflows,
- modelling issues: best practices in data-intensive workflow modelling and enactment,
- support technology issues: how the potential synergy between large-scale data processing and workflow technology can be exploited in a principled way.

The workshop aims to address issues of (i) Architecture, (ii) Models and Languages, (iii) Applications of cloud-based workflows. Specific topics include (but, as usual, are not limited to):

Architectures:
¥ cloud-based, scalable workflow enactment architectures,
¥ efficient data storage for data-intensive workflows,
¥ optimizing execution of data-intensive workflows,
¥ workflow scheduling in cloud computing.

Models, Languages:
¥ languages for data-intensive workflows, data processing pipelines and data-mashups,
¥ verification and validation of data-intensive workflows,
¥ programming models for cloud computing,
¥ access control and authorisation models, privacy, security, risk and trust issues,
¥ workflow patterns for data-intensive workflows.

Applications of cloud-based workflow:
¥ bioinformatics,
¥ data mashups,
¥ semantic web data management,
¥ big data analytics.

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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We invite full research or experience papers (up to 12 pages), or short papers (up to 6 pages) describing research in progress,
formatted using the ACM proceedings style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)

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PUBLICATION
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The workshop proceedings will be part published by CEUR and will be included in the ACM DL.

In addition, we have an agreement with the Fundamenta Informaticae journal to fast-track a few selected paper for further publication.

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KEYNOTE
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Dr. Pawel Garbacki from Google Inc.: "Data Processing at Scale"

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CHAIRS
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Jan Hidders, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Jacek Sroka University of Warsaw, Poland
Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK


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Program Committee
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Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Juliana Freire, NYU Poly, USA
Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester, UK
Vasa Curcin, Imperial college, London, UK
Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, NL
Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK
Hugo Hiden, Newcastle University, UK
Matthew Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, USA
Marta Mattoso, COPPE- Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK
Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Google, USA
Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research
Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California, USA
Krzysztof Stencel, University of Warsaw, Poland
Wei Tan, J.T. Watson IBM Research, USA
Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, PL
Jan Van Den Bussche, Hasselt University & Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium
Aad Van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK, USA
Simon Woodman, Newcastle University, UK