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PhD students and post-doctoral fellows are eligible for full scholarships for participation provided by the conference organization. Candidates should register by June 30th. For more details, please check the pages at http://escience.ime.usp.br/scholarships.


e-Science Workshop of Works in Progress
in conjunction with The 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science

WWP@IEEE-eScience2014
Monday, October, 20, 2014, Guarujá-SP, Brazil


Call for papers
IEEE e-Science 2014 will host a workshop of works in progress. Although the workshop is open to any interested researcher, the intended target audience is mainly of graduate students at any stage of their research, as well as post-docs starting a career in this area. Students and young researchers are invited to present their projects, preliminary findings, including prototypes, benchmark datasets, and case studies. Students who are still on a preliminary stage in their proposals, or formulating their specific research goals, are particularly encouraged to participate. This conference will provide participants a great opportunity of contact with key researchers in the field, gathering and discussing ideas worth pursuing in their projects. Attendees willing to learn about cutting-edge research in the field are also welcome. The workshop will take place in a single day, prior to the start of IEEE e-Science. Workshop registration will entitle participants to the entire conference.
The workshop will bring together junior and senior researchers, to increase their interaction and expand the community. In the workshop, researchers and graduate students will discuss their work directions from the perspective of peers and experienced researchers of the program committee. The presentations shall be followed by helpful feedback and possibly novel perspectives on the topics of research and on future steps.
Submitted papers will be evaluated by the program committee, who will evaluate their merit and adequacy. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE. It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attend the conference. All authors are expected to attend the full day of presentation and to participate in the discussions.

Scope of the workshop
The topics of interest are, but not limited to:
• Improving scientific communication through e-Science
• Scientific data repositories, e-Science trends and initiatives
• e-Science tendencies for scholarly communication
• e-Science collaboration via shared data
• Cloud infrastructure for e-Science
• System architecture for e-Science libraries
• The use of social networking concepts in eScience and eResearch
• New forms of collaborative computing and resource sharing
• Crowdsourcing of scientific applications
• Definition of novel principles, models and methodologies for harnessing digital relationships
• Extraction of implicit social networks from scientific activities
• e-Science challenges in Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Interoperability in Scientific Computing
• Measuring the Impact of e-Science Research
• e-Infrastructure
• Maintainable Software Practices in e-Science
• Collaborative research using eScience infrastructure and high speed networks
• Big Data Processing: Lessons from Industry and Applications in Science


Submission instructions
Authors are invited to submit papers containing unpublished, original work (not under review elsewhere) of up to 4 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Papers will be published with 4 pages, and posters will have 2 pages.

Templates are available from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the workshop's paper submission system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wwpieeeescience2014

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the eScience 2014 registration fee. All papers will be reviewed by an International Program Committee (with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper).


Important dates
• Paper Submissions Due: June 23, 2014
• Notification of Acceptance: July 14, 2014
• Camera Ready Versions Due: July 21, 2014
• Workshop: October 20, 2014


Workshop Schedule

9:00 – 9:10 Workshop Introduction
9:10 – 10:00 Invited talk
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Technical session 1 / Poster session 1
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Technical session 2 / Poster session 2
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Technical session 3 / Poster session 3
17:30 – 18:00 Summary and final remarks

Organizers
Roberto Marcondes – University of São Paulo – DBLP: http://goo.gl/g5vZdE
Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira - DBLP: http://goo.gl/mpAVrH
João Eduardo Ferreira – University of São Paulo – DBLP: http://goo.gl/oK0n5f
Jose F Rodrigues Jr – University of São Paulo – DBLP: http://goo.gl/EZIV5W

Program committee (tentative)
Abani Patra - SUNY at Buffalo
Alberto Krone-Martins - SIM / Universidade de Lisboa
Alexey Lastovetsky - University College Dublin
Anshu Dubey - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aristóteles Goés Neto - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana
Arun Konagurthu - Monash University
Beth Plale - Indiana University
Bill Howe - University of Washington
Eduardo Ogasawara - CEFET/RJ
Fabio Porto - National Laboratory of Scientific Computation
Fernanda Araujo Baiao - UNIRIO
Francisco Brasileiro - UFCG
G Geethakumari - Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
Gilberto Pastorello - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hongliang Li - College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University
Jane Hunter - University of Queensland
Jianjun Yu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lukasz Miroslaw - Wroclaw University of Technology
Lutz Gross - School of Earth Sciences, The University of Queensland
Madhusudhan Govindaraju - SUNY Binghamton
Maria Claudia Cavalcanti - Instituto Militar de Engenharia
Marina Jirotka - University of Oxford
Marisa F. Nicolás - LABINFO, Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica
Marta Mattoso - COPPE - UFRJ
Mikhail Zhizhin - Russian Academy of Sciences
Mircea Moca Babes-Bolyai - University of Cluj-Napoca
Narayan Ganesan - Stevens Institute of Technology
Paul Bonnington - Monash University
Regina Braga - UFJF
Richard Chbeir - LIUPPA Laboratory
Rosane Minghim - University of São Paulo
Rui Mao - Shenzhen University
Sergio Serra - COPPE - UFRJ
Silvia Olabarriaga - University of Amsterdam
Simon Lin - Academia Sinica
Simon Cox - University of Southampton
Susumu Date - Osaka University
Suzanne Shontz - Mississippi State University
Sverker Holmgren - Division of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University
Timoleon Kipouros - University of Cambridge
Vanessa Braganholo - UFF
Vasa Curcin - Imperial college, London
Xiaoru Yuan - School of EECS, Peking University
Yuanchun Zhou - Chinese Academy of Sciences

Supporting institutions:
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society
Microsoft Research
Univerity of Sao Paulo
Fundacao de Amparao a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (Fapesp)
eScience Research Network