[hpc-announce] CFP: 20th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science

[George Papadimitriou]

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20th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
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Monday, November 17th 2025, St. Louis, MO, USA
Held in conjunction with SC25 <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://sc25.supercomputing.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!Z0yIi9c5L2ZWR4JmsknffW7M46qM6R_gMiihEk_kJq6m1rGxxLWTz5rTlSASBkr8tnS8M_zIsCfnPTkNFXjBiJSsj9SPkQ$ >, The
International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking,
Storage, and Analysis

Submissions deadline: August 1, 2025
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*Call For Papers:*

Scientific workflows have underpinned some of the most significant
discoveries of the past several decades. Workflow management systems (WMSs)
provide abstraction and automation that enable researchers to easily define
sophisticated computational processes, and to then execute them efficiently
on parallel and distributed computing systems. As workflows have been
adopted by multiple scientific communities, they are becoming more complex
and require more sophisticated workflow management capabilities. A workflow
can now analyze terabyte-scale data sets; execute millions of individual
tasks; coordinate heterogeneous resources and tasks from edge to core; and
process near real-time data streams, files, and data placed in different
types of storage systems. The computations can be single core workloads,
loosely-coupled tasks, or tightly-coupled computations, and can run in
heterogeneous distributed computing platforms all within a single workflow

The *Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS)* focuses
on the many facets of scientific workflow composition, management,
sustainability, and application to domain sciences in an increasingly
diverse and a rapidly evolving technology landscape. *WORKS aims to serve
as the central meeting point for all the stakeholders involved in the
evolving workflows community, and to showcase the latest developments and
emerging approaches in the field.*

*Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):*

   - Workflow user environments, portals, and advanced AI-augmented
   front-end workflow tools
   - Data-driven workflow processing (including stream processing workflows)
   - Interactive, adaptive, and dynamic workflows (including workflow
   steering)
   - Workflow execution in distributed and heterogeneous environments (HPC,
   clouds, edge, networks, and AI infrastructures)
   - Agentic workflows
   - End-to-end workflows - from instruments to networks to cross-facility
   enactment
   - Serverless workflows and serverless orchestration
   - Workflows integrating emerging computing,  storage and networking
   technologies (e.g., quantum, DNA)
   - Workflow modeling
   - Workflow composition languages and orchestrators
   - Workflow scheduling and resource management (including energy
   efficiency and cost)
   - Application of AI/ML to workflow management
   - Performance analysis and debugging of workflows
   - Workflow provenance
   - Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques
   - Workflows and autonomous, self-driving labs
   - Interdisciplinary workflow applications
   - Workflow applications and their requirements
   - Reproducible research using workflows
   - Exascale computing with workflows
   - Big Data analytics workflows, AI workflows


*Important Dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE):*

   - Paper and Abstract Submission: August 1, 2025
   - Paper and Abstract Acceptance Notification: September 5, 2025
   - Camera-ready Submission: September 26, 2025
   - Workshop: November 17, 2025


*There will be two forms of presentations:*

   - *Paper presentations *- Resulting from the submission of *Full Papers* (up
   to 12 pages) describing a novel research contribution in the topics listed
   above.
   - *Panel discussions* - Resulting from the submission of *Abstracts *(up
   to 4 pages) - To celebrate the 20th edition of the workshop, we encourage
   abstract submissions from early career researchers with ground-breaking
   ideas, and established researchers with vast experience. The purpose of the
   contributed panel is to support the discussion of emerging ideas in
   contrast with previously successful approaches.


*Review Process:*

*Full Papers* will undergo a thorough, single blind review process. Each
full paper will receive at least three reviews from experts in our Workshop
Program Committee. Each full paper will be presented at the workshop, and
be included in the SC Workshop Proceedings. Our committee will value
efforts towards improving the reproducibility and transparency of the
presented research. We encourage full paper submissions to include
information about relevant software and data artifacts within the paper.
Authors are also encouraged to make available online any products of their
paper (e.g., simulators, graphs, experimental results, logs, etc.).
However, dedicated Artifact Description (AD)/Artifact Evaluation (AE)
appendices are not expected as part of the submission.

*Abstracts *will undergo a thorough, single blind review process and each
will receive at least three reviews from experts in our Workshop Program
Committee. Based on the content of the accepted abstracts, the Workshop
Chairs will organize a Panel discussion during the workshop centered around
the topic of *“Trailblazing vs. Time-Tested: Navigating the Future of
Scientific Workflows”*. One author from each accepted abstract will
participate in the panel discussion. Accepted abstracts will not be
included in the SC Workshop Proceedings. *Unlike some of the previous
editions of WORKS, abstracts will not be compiled into a full paper.*

*Proceedings Publication:*
Accepted full papers from the workshop will be published in the SC
Workshops Proceedings volume, and made available online through the ACM
Digital Library.

*Submissions:*

   - *Full papers: *Submissions are limited to 12 pages. The 12-page limit
   includes figures, tables, references, and appendices.
   - *Abstracts:* Submissions are limited to 4 pages (including figures,
   tables and references).

The format of the paper submissions for Full Papers and Abstracts should be
two-column text in the U.S. Letter pages, as per ACM conference proceedings
guidelines. All submissions must use the ACM conference proceedings
templates available from this link
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please use the “sigconf” option. Word authors, please use the “Interim
Layout”.

Both Abstracts and Full Papers must be submitted through the official SC25
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*More Information:*
For more information, please visit the WORKS website at
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*WORKS 2025 Organizing Committee:*

   - *General Chairs*
      - Silvina Caino-Lores, French Institute for Research in Computer
      Science and Automation (INRIA), France
      - Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), University
      of North Carolina, USA
   - *Publicity Chair and Web Chair*
      - George Papadimitriou, Apple, USA
      - Arthur Jaquard, Inria, France
   - *Steering Commitee*
      - David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
      - Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
      - Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
      - Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA


*WORKS 2025 Program Committee:*

   - Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
   - Changxin Bai, Kettering University, USA
   - Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
   - Alberto Cascajo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
   - Iacoppo Colonnelli, University of Torino, Italy
   - Alexandru Costan, INSA Rennes, France
   - Daniel de Olivera, Fluminese Federal University, Brazil
   - Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
   - Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Sandro Fiore, University of Trento, Italy
   - William Godoy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Daniel S. Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
   - Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Daniel Laney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
   - Ketan C. Maheshwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
   - Marta Mattoso, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
   - Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
   - Paola Olaya, IBM, USA
   - Loïc Pottier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
   - Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
   - Sashko Ristov, University of Innsbruck, Austria
   - Yogesh Simhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
   - Raul Sirvent, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
   - Tyler Skluzacek, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Frédéric Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
   - Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
   - Sean R. Wilkinson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
   - Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory, USA