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IT4RIs: Interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences
in conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience
http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/z.zhao/workshop/it4ris/,
(http://escience2015.mnm-team.org/)
September 3/4, 2015, Munich, Germany
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Aims and scope
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Research infrastructures are expected to become important pillars not only for supporting their own communities, but also for inter-disciplinary research. This requires policies, models and e-infrastructure to optimize technological implementation, define workflows, and ensure coordination, harmonization, integration and interoperability of data, applications and other services between research infrastructure initiatives in the specific thematic area. This workshop focuses on practical aspects of research infrastructure design, development, operation and user community support. The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and developers to exchange the latest experience and research ideas on requirements and on building common operations, interoperability solutions, semantic linking framework and data/service harmonization that support interdisciplinary big data sciences.
Topics

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research on a broad range of topics related to interoperable infrastructures for interdisciplinary big data sciences, including but not limited to:
* Research community requirements and support
* The nature and potential of data-intensive (interdisciplinary) scientific methods
* Strategies for linking and reusing combinations of simulation-result and observational data
* Research Infrastructure reference model
* Semantic linking among research infrastructures
* Interoperable data citation and identification
* Data harmonization
* Interoperable data processing workflows and provenance
* Interoperable data and service catalogues
* Interoperable infrastructure operation including policy and security models
* Interoperable infrastructure trust models
* Interoperable data access and transport services

Paper submission and publication
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The papers must follow the IEEE 8.5"x11" two-column format, and submit via online submission system. We welcome full papers (up to 10 pages, substantive work) and short papers (up to 6 pages, work in progress). Submissions will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. An author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper in the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, US. Selected high quality papers will be considered for a special journal issue.

Important Dates
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-Submission deadline: May 10, 2015
-Notification: June 10, 2015
-Camera ready: June 21, 2015
-Workshop: September 3-4, 2015

Programme committee
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-Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, NL
-Alessandro Spinuso, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, NL
-Alex Vermeulen, Lund University, SE
-Andrew Jones, Cardiff University, UK
-Anneke Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, Delft University of Technology, NL
-Ari Asmi, University of Helsinki, FI
-Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, NL
-Chee Sun Liew, University of Malaya, MY
-Damien Lecarpentier, CSC IT center for science LTD, FI
-Donatella Castelli, National Research Council, IT
-Federica Magnoni, INGV, IT
-Hai Jin, Huazhong Scientific Technology University, CN
-Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
-Ingrid Mann, EISCAT ERIC, SE
-Jean Daniel Paris, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l誆nvironnement, FR
-Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, CN
-Mairi Best, EMSO ERIC, IT
-Paola Grosso, University of Amsterdam, NL
-Paolo Laj, the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et G巓physique de l誆nvironnement (LGGE), FR
-Peter van Tienderen, University of Amsterdam, NL
-Ricardo Graciani, University of Barcelona, ES
-Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, UK
-Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US
-Vlado Stankovski, Univerza v Ljubljani, SI
-Werner Kutsch, ICOS Headoffice, FI
-Wo Chang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
-Wouter Los, University of Amsterdam, NL
-Yannick Legre, Egi.eu, the NL

Organisers
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Dr. Zhiming Zhao
email: z.zhao@uva.nl
Tel: +31 20 5257599
Fax: +31 20 5257490
www: staff.fnwi.uva.nl/zzhao
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
1098SJ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
email: Malcolm.Atkinson@ed.ac.uk
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Prof. Keith Jeffery
Email: Keith.Jeffery@keithgjefferyconsultants.co.uk
Natural Environmental Research Council, EPOS Project, UK