The author kit for papers in the workshop proceedings is available here.

The e-Science conference features a number of high-profile workshops that are co-located with the main conference program.

Please see below for more information on the individual workshops and consult the individual workshop pages for details on their submission deadlines.

Microsoft Research e-Science Workshop
Computing Advances in Life Sciences
D³science
Interoperability in Scientific Computing
Measuring the Impact of e-Science Research
Computing for Citizen Science
Distributed Multiscale Computing
Towards a Global Research Data Infrastructure
Cloud Interfaces and Virtualization for e-Science and Industry
EU-IndiaGrid2 – Sustaining e-Infrastructure across Europe and India – Project results and achievements

Microsoft Research

Description: The conference organizers are pleased to announce that Microsoft Research will collocate its annual e-Science Workshop together with this year's IEEE e-Science conference in Stockholm. The plans for the Microsoft Research Workshop are well underway. Workshop subjects will include e-Science in the Cloud, new advances in Digital Humanities, Semantics in Action, Environmental Informatics and a session devoted to whether "NUI" is natural for scientists. In addition, Microsoft will announce the winner of the 2011 Jim Gray e-Science Award and will also sponsor a gala dinner on Wednesday evening. More information can be found on http://research.microsoft.com/eScience.

Computing Advances in Life Sciences

Description: Computationally intensive simulations and processing of large data sets have become a necessity in Life Science research. Full utilization of the available computing platforms has increased the demand for software optimized for performance, scalability and high throughput. The workshop will bring together leading researchers to share their experiences in software development across all Life Science fields such as biology, biophysics, biochemistry, ecology, medicine, medical imaging, neuroscience, pharmacology and systems biology. The focus will be on discussions regarding methods, algorithms and frameworks for exploiting a wide spectrum of hardware resources such as clusters, grids and clouds; many-core and hybrid systems; GPGPUs, FPGAs and other non-traditional architectures. The workshop is organized by the EU funded project ScalaLife and the HealthGrid association which are establishing community structures for provision of support to various aspects on computing in Life Sciences.

Organizing Committee:
Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
rossen@kth.se

Yannick Legré, HealthGrid Initiative, France
yannick.legre@healthgrid.org

Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
smith@dcsec.uni-hannover.de

Organizing Projects:
ScalaLife - Scalable Software Services for Life Science: http://www.scalalife.eu
HealthGrid - Human Grid Initiative: http://www.healthgrid.org
M-Eco - Medical Ecosystem: http://www.meco-project.eu/

Workshop Contact:
Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
rossen@kth.se

Workshop Website:
CALS2011

Workshop Submission Page:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cals2011

Session Type:
Invited speakers
Paper session

D³science

Description: This workshop is interested in data-intensive, distributed, and dynamic (D³) science. It will also focus on innovative approaches for scalability in the end-to-end real-time processing of scientific data. We refer to D³ applications as those are data-intensive, are fundamentally, or need to be, distributed, and need to support and respond to data that may be non-persistent and is dynamically generated. We are also looking to bring researchers together to look at holistic, rather than piecewise, approaches to the end-to-end processing and managing of scientific data.

The workshop builds on a 3-year UK research theme on Distributed Programming Abstractions and an ongoing UK/USA research them on Dynamic Distributed Data-intensive Programming Abstractions and Systems. It is intended to lead to a funding proposal for transcontinental collaboration, with contributors as potential members of the collaboration, and as such, we are particularly interested is discussing both existing and future projects that are suitable for transcontinental collaboration.

Organizers:
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Neil Chue Hong, University of Edinburgh, UK
Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University & Louisiana State University, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

Contact:
d.katz@ieee.org

Website:
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/D3Science/

Paper Submission:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=d3science

Session Type:
As of yet, uncertain

Interoperability in Scientific Computing

Description: Approaches to modelling take many forms. The mathematical, computational and encapsulated components of models can be diverse in terms of complexity and scale, as well as in published implementation (mathematics, source code, and executable files). Many of these systems are attempting to solve real-world problems in isolation. However the long-term scientific interest is in allowing greater access to models and their data, and to enable simulations to be combined in order to address ever more complex issues. Markup languages, metadata specifications, and ontologies for different scientific domains have emerged as pathways to greater interoperability. Domain specific modelling languages allow for a declarative development process to be achieved. Metadata specifications enable coupling while ontologies allow cross platform integration of data.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from across scientific disciplines whose computational models require interoperability. This may arise through interactions between different domains, systems being modelled, connecting model repositories, or coupling models themselves, for instance in multi-scale or hybrid simulations. The outcomes of this workshop will be to better understand the nature of multidisciplinary computational modelling and data handling. Moreover we hope to identify common abstractions and cross-cutting themes in future interoperability research applied to the broader domain of scientific computing.

Organizers:
David Johnson, University of Oxford, UK
Steve McKeever, University of Oxford, UK

Contact:
david.johnson@cs.ox.ac.uk

Website:
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/david.johnson/wisc11/

Session type:
Paper session

Measuring the Impact of e-Science Research

Description: In recent years, e-Science and e-Research have grown considerably, encompassing large compute resources, massive data sets, diverse multi-domain collaborations, and a range of applications from science and engineering through to arts, humanities and the social sciences. This growth is a result of huge investments of people and money to advance science. As the scope of eScience continues to grow a fundamental challenge for policy makers is measuring the impact of eScience research on various domains to assess returns on investment. The goal of this workshop is to explore methods, frameworks and systems, which if put in place can provide suitable ways for policy makers to measuring investments in large collaborative projects and its impact on a variety of applications.

In this workshop we shall focus on open access regimes that form the basis of policy frameworks for allowing use of public sector information, and allowing better access to publicly funded research. We shall also focus on empirical frameworks that measure science investments and correlate it to common scientific outcomes such as, publications, patents, blogs, and social networks as well as economic outcomes, such as demonstrating the benefits of scientific investments to the public. We believe the workshop will provide an excellent venue to discuss steps that are currently being taken, and the steps that will need to be taken in the future, to better enable us to report and measure scientific activities.

Organizers:
Tanu Malik, University of Chicago, USA
David Newman, University of California, Irvine, USA
Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Lab, USA

Contact:
tanum@uchicago.edu or newman@ics.uci.edu

Website:
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/MESR/

Session Type:
Paper sessions

Computing for Citizen Science

Description: The number and variety of citizen science projects worldwide is on the rise as a result of the Internet, affordable smart mobile devices and social media. Online communities of volunteers are now contributing data to projects that range from astronomy to bird watching and air quality.

Although there exists a wide range of citizen science projects globally, with many overlapping and common IT-related issues and challenges, there have been little or no prior workshops that have focussed on the sharing of technologies, approaches and ideas across citizen science projects. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers, designers and implementers of software tools that are being developed for citizen science projects and to focus on solutions for overcoming the specific IT issues and challenges associated with such projects. Examples of the issues that will be considered include:

• Smart phone, mobile and GPS-enabled devices and interfaces for remote/field data collection and upload;
• The use of online social networking sites for attracting, training and retaining citizen scientists;
• Standards for sharing and interoperability of citizen science data;
• Methods for improving the quality and validating citizen science data;
• Databases and repositories for storing data, images and video generated by citizen scientists;
• Statistical analysis and visualization tools for citizen science data;
• Integration and correlation of citizen science data with scientific data collected by professionals;
• Publishing, attributing and linking citizen science data to publications;

Organizers:
Jane Hunter, The University of Queensland, Australia
Gaetano Borriello, The University of Washington
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University
Kathleen Schwille, National Geographic Society
Donald Hobern, Atlas of Living Australia
Matt Jones, DataONE/NCEAS at UCSB
Steve Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Chris Lintott, Galaxy Zoo

Contact:
j.hunter@uq.edu.au

Website:
http://itee.uq.edu.au/~eresearch/workshops/compcitsci2011/index.html

Session Type:
Paper session

Distributed Multiscale Computing

Description: Multiscale models are composite mathematical models consisting of submodels that describe phenomena at different characteristic length and time scales to allow researchers to study the dynamics of the combined complex system. Each of these submodels can be rich in complexity. The combination of two or more models in a micro-macro fashion is common practice in many fields, e.g. chemical engineering, weather prediction or astrophysics. However, we can form multiscale models in a greater variety of ways, thereby describing even more complex multiscale systems that require multidisciplinary expertise. To model these systems efficiently with high accuracy, researchers require large scale computing facilities that support computational strategies, software and services specifically suited for distributed multiscale computing.

This workshop provides a forum for multiscale modelers, framework developers and experts from the distributed infrastructure communities to identify and discuss challenges in and solutions for modeling multiscale systems, as well as their execution on distributed e-infrastructures. With single scale models being well-tested and mature field in many areas, multiscale modeling is now one of the greatest challenges in science today. We aim to bring together modelers of multiscale problems, developers of multiscale applications and frameworks, as well as experts from infrastructure (HPC, Grid and Cloud) communities. The DMC workshop will provide the opportunity to present and discuss the latest advances in distributed multiscale computing and to discuss the establishment of dsitributed multiscale computing standards based on the concepts and techniques presented in the workshop.

Organizers:
Eric Lorenz, University of Amsterdam, NL
Katarzyna Rycerz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, PL
Derek Groen, Centre for Computation Science, Chemistry Department, University College London, UK
Bartosz Bosak, PSNC, Poznan, PL

Contact:
E.Lorenz@uva.nl

Website:
http://www.computationalscience.nl/dmc2011/

Session Type:
Paper session

Towards a Global Research Data Infrastructure

Description:The EC funded GRDI2020 project (http://www.grdi2020.eu) aims at outlining the main priorities in the field of Global Research Data Infrastructures in a GRDI Roadmap, anchored on sound technical and organizational recommendations produced by two GRDI2020 Working Groups. In this workshop we will present the GRDI Roadmap as well as several underpinning technological and organizational topics such as Data Security, Data Preservation, Data Interoperability, Open Access, Data Quality and Curation, Virtual Research Environments etc.

The topics will be discussed presented by well renowned experts in the field, working together with GRDI2020, with the goal of stimulating discussions with the larger community.

Organizers:
Donatella Castelli, CNR
Sara Garavelli, Trust-IT
Hilary Hanahoe, Trust-IT
Yannis Ioannidis, Athena RC
Fotis Karagiannis, Athena RC
Erwin Laure, KTH
Costantino Thanos, CNR

Contact:
erwinl@pdc.kth.se

Session Type:
Invited presentations

Website:
http://www.grdi2020.eu/Pages/SelectedDocument.aspx?id_documento=2601dc7b...

Cloud Interfaces and Virtualization for e-Science and Industry

Description:Early development of the production infrastructure to support cloud
interfaces and virtualisation, and the user communities' use and development
of this infrastructure. Special focus on the creation and usability of cloud testbeds for academic and industry users. Topics on private, public and hybrid cloud services for eScience will be presented and discussed. Detailed examples will be given from EGI.eu, Venus-C, StratusLab, PDC and SNIC Cloud.

Organizers:
Aake Edlund, KTH
Steven Newhouse, EGI.eu
Cal Loomis
Andrea Manieri, Engineering

Contact:
ake.edlund@gmail.com

Session Type:
Invited presentations

Website:
http://www.pdc.kth.se/events/event-repository/escience-2011-workshop-clo...

EU-IndiaGrid2 – Sustaining e-Infrastructure across Europe and India – Project results and achievements

Description:
The EC funded EU-IndiaGrid2 project - Sustainable e-infrastructures across
Europe and India – (http://www.euindiagrid.eu) acts as a bridge across European and Indian e-infrastructures to foster evolution in these regions to ensure sustainable scientific, educational and technological collaboration.

The project has played a key role in enhancing and increasing Euro-India cooperation on e-Infrastructures and is at the core of a series of impressive developments in the Indian e-Infrastructures contributing to the improvement of e-Infrastructure capabilities and cooperation between Europe and India.

The EU-IndiaGrid e-Infrastructure has successfully supported a set of applications which, with effective deployment and increasing usage of the Grid service, achieved excellent results in the domains of High-Energy Physics, Biology, Material Science, Earth and Atmospheric Science. According to the present vision, e-Infrastructures provide a core of services, including network, computing and storage for the benefit of a wide set of applications optimizing resource utilisation.

e-Science 2011 is timed perfectly for the project to present a workshop highlighting the achievements and results of the last 2 years as the project comes to a close This workshop will give an overview of project results including perspectives and use cases from the various user communities; an update on the current situation and capabilities of the EU-India Grid, including an examination of interoperability challenges faced by the project; a look forward at the future sustainability of the EU-India Grid; and a training session for users wishing to use the ReGCM application to port applications on to the grid.

Organizers:
Alberto Masoni, INFN
Stefano Cozzini, CNR/IOM and ICTP
Subrata Chattopadhyay, C-DAC
Nicholas Ferguson, Trust-IT Services
Deepak Singh, ERNET

Contact:
n.ferguson@trust-itservices.com

Session Type:
Invited presentations

Website:
http://www.euindiagrid.eu/index.php/events/details/31-eu-indiagrid2--7th...