<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi all,</div><div>I think this workshop seems relevant to the Swift community.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br><div>Ioan</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>================================================</div><div>Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.</div><div>Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)</div><div>Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)</div><div>================================================</div><div>Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT</div><div>Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL</div><div>================================================</div><div>Office: 1-312-567-5704</div><div>Email:  <a href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a></div><div>Web:    <a href="http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/">http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/</a></div><div>Web:    <a href="http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/">http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/</a></div>================================================<br>================================================</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Jan Hidders <<a href="mailto:A.J.H.Hidders@tudelft.nl">A.J.H.Hidders@tudelft.nl</a>><br><b>Date:</b> January 25, 2012 4:02:18 PM CST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:iraicu@cs.iit.edu">iraicu@cs.iit.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Reminder of CFP for SIGMOD workshop SWEET'12</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Dear Ioan Raicu,</span><br><span></span><br><span>Given your expertise in the relevant area we would like to remind you of the SIGMOD workshop SWEET'12 on scalable workflow enactment engines and technologies. Enclosed you will find the final call for papers. Please note that the submission deadline, 19 February, is rapidly approaching. We hope you will have the opportunity to submit a high quality paper.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On behalf of the organizers,</span><br><span></span><br><span>  Jan Hidders, TU Delft, The Netherlands</span><br><span>  Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK</span><br><span>  Jacek Sroka, University of Warsaw, Poland</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>*************************</span><br><span>* Final Call for Papers *</span><br><span>*************************</span><br><span></span><br><span>SWEET'12</span><br><span>1st International Workshop on Scalable Workflow Enactment Engines and Technologies</span><br><span><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/sweetworkshop2012">http://sites.google.com/site/sweetworkshop2012</a></span><br><span>inquiries: <a href="mailto:sweet2012@easychair.org">sweet2012@easychair.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Held in conjunction with SIGMOD 2012</span><br><span>Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 20, 2012</span><br><span><a href="http://www.sigmod.org/2012/">http://www.sigmod.org/2012/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>IMPORTANT DATES:</span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>Papers submission deadline: February, 19th, 2012</span><br><span>Authors notification: April 8th</span><br><span>Deadline for camera-ready copy: May 13th</span><br><span>Workshop: May 20</span><br><span></span><br><span>-----</span><br><span>FOCUS</span><br><span>-----</span><br><span>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:</span><br><span></span><br><span>- performance issues: efficient data processing using cloud-based workflows,</span><br><span>- modelling issues: best practices in data-intensive workflow modelling and enactment,</span><br><span>- support technology issues: how the potential synergy between large-scale data processing and workflow technology can be exploited in a principled way.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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):</span><br><span></span><br><span>Architectures:</span><br><span>+ cloud-based, scalable workflow enactment architectures,</span><br><span>+ efficient data storage for data-intensive workflows,</span><br><span>+ optimizing execution of data-intensive workflows,</span><br><span>+ workflow scheduling in cloud computing.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Models, Languages:</span><br><span>+ languages for data-intensive workflows, data processing pipelines and data-mashups,</span><br><span>+ verification and validation of data-intensive workflows,</span><br><span>+ programming models for cloud computing,</span><br><span>+ access control and authorisation models, privacy, security, risk and trust issues,</span><br><span>+ workflow patterns for data-intensive workflows.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Applications of cloud-based workflow:</span><br><span>+ bioinformatics,</span><br><span>+ data mashups,</span><br><span>+ semantic web data management,</span><br><span>+ big data analytics.</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>We invite full research or experience papers (up to 12 pages), or short papers (up to 6 pages) describing research in progress,</span><br><span>formatted using the ACM proceedings style (<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</a>)</span><br><span></span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>PUBLICATION</span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>The workshop proceedings will be part published by CEUR and will be included in the ACM DL.</span><br><span></span><br><span>In addition, we have an agreement with the Fundamenta Informaticae journal to fast-track a few selected paper for further publication.</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span>KEYNOTE</span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span>Dr. Pawel Garbacki from Google Inc.: "Data Processing at Scale"</span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span>CHAIRS</span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span>Jan Hidders, TU Delft, The Netherlands</span><br><span>Jacek Sroka University of Warsaw, Poland</span><br><span>Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, UK</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span>Program Committee</span><br><span>---------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, LRI, Universite Paris-Sud, France</span><br><span>Juliana Freire, NYU Poly, USA</span><br><span>Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester, UK</span><br><span>Vasa Curcin, Imperial college, London, UK</span><br><span>Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, NL</span><br><span>Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK</span><br><span>Hugo Hiden, Newcastle University, UK</span><br><span>Matthew Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, USA</span><br><span>Bertram Ludaescher, UC Davis, USA</span><br><span>Marta Mattoso, COPPE- Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil</span><br><span>Norman Paton, University of Manchester, UK</span><br><span>Jelena Pjesivac-Grbovic, Google, USA</span><br><span>Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research</span><br><span>Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California, USA</span><br><span>Krzysztof Stencel, University of Warsaw, Poland</span><br><span>Wei Tan, J.T. Watson IBM Research, USA</span><br><span>Giovanni Tummarello, DERI, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland</span><br><span>Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, PL</span><br><span>Jan Van Den Bussche, Hasselt University & Transnational University of Limburg, Belgium</span><br><span>Aad Van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK, USA</span><br><span>Simon Woodman, Newcastle University, UK</span><br><span>Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia</span><br><span>Jianwu Wang, University of California, San Diego, USA</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>