8th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012

Program

In addition to the keynote, panel, and workshop information, the lists of peer-reviewed accepted IEEE eScience papers, and accepted Early Results and Works-in-Progress poster papers are also available.

Monday 8 October
7:30—8:30	Microsoft eScience registration
8:30—9:30	Microsoft eScience sessions
9:30—10:00	Crystal Foyer coffee and IEEE eScience & OGF registration
10:00—12:00	Microsoft eScience sessions Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – XHPC 2012 Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eSoN 12 OGF sessions (3x)
12:00—13:30	Crystal B lunch
13:30—15:00	Microsoft eScience sessions Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – XHPC 2012 Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eSoN 12 OGF sessions (3x)
15:00—15:30	Crystal B beverage break
15:30—17:00	Microsoft eScience sessions (15:30–18:00) Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – XHPC 2012 Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eSoN 12 OGF sessions (3x)
17:00—17:30	beverage break
17:30—19:00	OGF sessions (3x)
Tuesday 9 October
7:30—8:30	Crystal Foyer continental breakfast
8:30—10:00	Microsoft eScience sessions (8:30–9:30, followed by break) Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – SoftwarePractice Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eScience Meets the Instrument Picasso Room eScience workshop – NECS 2012 OGF sessions (3x)
10:00—10:30	Crystal B beverage break for IEEE eScience and OGF
10:30—12:00	Microsoft eScience sessions (10:00–12:00) Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – SoftwarePractice Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eScience Meets the Instrument Picasso Room eScience workshop – NECS 2012 OGF sessions (3x)
12:00—13:30	Crystal B lunch
13:30—15:00	Microsoft eScience sessions Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – SoftwarePractice Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eScience Meets the Instrument OGF sessions (3x)
15:00—15:30	Crystal B beverage break
15:30—17:00	Microsoft eScience sessions Gold Coast Room eScience workshop – SoftwarePractice Water Tower Room eScience workshop – eScience Meets the Instrument OGF sessions (3x)
17:15—18:00	Crystal B Jim Gray – Microsoft eScience Awards Pre-Reception
18:00—21:00	Crystal B Jim Gray – Microsoft eScience Awards and Banquet (open to all attendees)
Wednesday 10 October
7:30—8:30	Crystal B continental breakfast
8:30—10:00	Crystal B IEEE eScience Welcome and Opening, IEEE eScience keynote: Gerhard Klimeck Mythbusting Knowledge Transfer with nanoHUB.org: A software as a service cloud focused on end-to-end application users, application developers, and 24/7 service OGF sessions (3x)
10:00—10:30	Crystal B beverage break
10:30—12:00	Crystal A IEEE eScience session – Workflow 1 Chair: Ioan Raicu Crystal C IEEE eScience session – Ecology Chair: Shaowen Wang Comiskey Room IEEE eScience session – Process of eScience Chair: Steven Newhouse OGF sessions (3x)
12:00—13:00	Crystal B lunch
13:00—15:00	Crystal B IEEE eScience keynote: Dr. Gregory Wilson Dark Matter, Public Health, and Scientific Computing Crystal B IEEE eScience plenary panel: Designing and Operating Cities using Open Data OGF sessions (3x)
15:00—15:30	Crystal B beverage break
15:30—17:00	Crystal A IEEE eScience session – Workflow and the User Chair: Paul Watson Crystal C IEEE eScience session – Applications and Data Chair: Ewa Deelman Comiskey Room IEEE eScience session – Technologies Chair: Michela Taufer OGF sessions (3x)
18:00—20:00	Columbus G-L IEEE eScience poster session and reception
Thursday 11 October
7:00—8:30	IEEE eScience Steering Committee meeting and breakfast
7:30—8:30	Crystal B continental breakfast
8:30—10:00	Crystal B IEEE eScience keynote: Carole Goble The Reality of Reproducibility of Computational Science GLIF plenary (9:00 - 10:30), followed by break
10:00—10:30	Crystal B beverage break
10:30—12:00	Crystal A IEEE eScience session – Data Provenance Chair: Yolanda Gil Crystal C IEEE eScience session – Biology Chair: George Djorgovski Comiskey Room IEEE eScience session – Semantics Chair: David DeRoure GLIF plenary (11:00 - 12:30)
12:00—13:00	Crystal B lunch
13:00—15:00	Crystal A IEEE eScience session – Data Mining and Machine Learning Chair: Beth Plale Crystal C IEEE eScience session – Runtime and Middleware Chair: Baoping Yan Comiskey Room IEEE eScience session – Data Infrastructures Chair: Tanu Malik GLIF sessions
15:00—15:30	Crystal B beverage break
15:30—17:00	Crystal B IEEE eScience plenary: eScience 2013 announcement & Funding Agency Plans panel (European Research Council; National Science Foundation; Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Science) GLIF sessions
18:30—22:30	eScience optional social event – STEM-Trek Pop-Up Friendraiser
Friday 12 October
7:30—8:30	Crystal B continental breakfast
8:30—10:00	Crystal B IEEE eScience keynote: Leonard Smith Predictability and Understanding of Our Climate Risk: Approximations, Bugs and Insight GLIF sessions
10:00—10:30	Crystal B beverage break
10:30—12:00	Crystal A IEEE eScience session – Data Access and Management Chair: Daniel S. Katz Crystal B IEEE eScience session – Application Systems and Frameworks Chair: Patrick Wiedner Crystal C IEEE eScience session – Workflow 2 Chair: Gabrielle Allen GLIF sessions
12:00—13:00	Crystal B lunch
13:30—15:00	GLIF plenary
15:00—15:30	beverage break
15:30—17:00	GLIF plenary

 

Peer-reviewed IEEE eScience papers

• Workflow 1

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 10:30 – 12:00  |  Chair: Ioan Raicu

  • Daniel Garijo, Pinar Alper, Khalid Belhajjame, Oscar Corcho, Yolanda Gil and Carole Goble.
    Common Motifs in Scientific Workflows: An Empirical Analysis
  • Jun Zhao, Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Khalid Belhajjame, Graham Klyne, Esteban Garcia-Cuesta, Aleix Garrido, Kristina Hettne, Marco Roos, David De Roure and Carole Goble.
    Why workflows break - Understanding and combating decay in Taverna workflows
  • Weiwei Chen and Ewa Deelman.
    WorkflowSim: A Toolkit for Simulating Scientific Workflows in Distributed Environments

• Ecology

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Shaowen Wang

  • Ping Wang, Linyun Fu, Evan Patton, Deborah McGuinness, F. Joshua Dein and R. Sky Bristol.
    Towards Semantically-enabled Exploration and Analysis of Environmental Ecosystems
  • Scott Jensen, Beth Plale, Xiaozhong Liu, Miao Chen, David Leake and Julie England.
    Generalized Representation and Mapping for Social-Ecological Data: Freeing Data from the Database
  • Jun Yu, Steve Kelling, Jeff Gerbracht and Weng-Keen Wong.
    Automated Data Verification in a Large-scale Citizen Science Project: a Case Study

• Process of eScience

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Steven Newhouse

  • Robert Darby, Simon Lambert, Brian Matthews, Michael Wilson, Kathrin Gitmans, Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen, Salvatore Mele and Jari Suhonen.
    Enabling Scientific Data Sharing and Re-use
  • Shirley Crompton, Brian Matthews, Erica Yang, Cameron Neylon and Simon Coles.
    Collaborative Information Management In Scientific Research Processes
  • Cristina Aiftimiei, Alberto Aimar, Andrea Ceccanti, Marco Cecchi, Alberto Di Meglio, Florida Estrella, Patrick Fuhrmann, Emidio Giorgio, Balázs Kónya, Jon Kerr Nilsen, Morris Riedel and John White.
    Towards next generations of software for distributed infrastructures : the European Middleware Initiative

• Workflow and the User

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 15:30–17:00  |  Chair: Paul Watson

  • Dimka Karastoyanova, Dimitrios Dentsas, David Schumm, Mirko Sonntag, Lina Sun and Karolina Vukojevic.
    Service-based Integration of Human Users in Workflow-driven Scientific Experiments
  • Hoang Nguyen and David Abramson.
    WorkWays: Interactive Workflow-based Science Gateways
  • Neil Killeen, Jason Lohrey, Michael Farrell, Wilson Liu, Slavisa Garic, David Abramson and Gary Egan.
    Integration of modern data management practice with scientific workflows

• Applications and Data

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 15:30–17:00  |  Chair: Ewa Deelman

  • Yi Liu, Carlos Driemeier and Roberto Cesar-Jr.
    Data-Oriented Research for Bioresource Utilization:a Case Study to Investigate Water Uptake in Cellulose Using Principal Components
  • Tristan Wietsma and Barbara Minsker.
    Adaptive Sampling of Streaming Signals
  • Marty Humphrey.
    Calibration of Watershed Models using Cloud Computing

• Technologies

  SESSION  |  Wednesday, 15:30–17:00  |  Chair: Michela Taufer

  • Badi' Abdul-Wahid, Li Yu, Dinesh Rajan, Haoyun Feng, Eric Darve, Douglas Thain and Jesus A. Izaguirre.
    Folding Proteins at 500 ns/hour using Work Queue
  • Henning Perl, Yassene Mohammed, Michael Brenner and Matthew Smith.
    Fast Confidential Search for Bio-Medical Data Using Bloom Filters and Homomorphic Cryptography
  • Sergey Kovalchuk, Pavel Smirnov, Sergey Kosukhin and Alexander Boukhanovsky.
    Virtual Simulation Objects Concept as a Framework for System-Level Simulation

• Data Provenance

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Yolanda Gil

  • Peng Chen, Beth Plale and Mehmet Aktas.
    Temporal Representation for Scientific Data Provenance
  • You-Wei Cheah and Beth Plale.
    Provenance Analysis: Towards Quality Provenance
  • Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Christine Froidevaux and Jiuqiang Chen.
    Scientific Workflow Rewriting while Preserving Provenance

• Biology

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Goerge Djorgovski

  • Ian Stokes-Rees and Piotr Sliz.
    An integrated science portal for collaborative compute and data intensive protein structure studies
  • Taghrid Samak, Dan Gunter and Zhong Wang.
    Prediction of Protein Solubility in E. coli
  • Mina Cintho, Roberto Marcondes Cesar and João Eduardo Ferreira.
    Data-intensive analysis of HIV mutations

• Semantics

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: David DeRoure

  • Katherine Wolstencroft, Stuart Owen, Carole Goble, Quyen Nguyen, Olga Krebs and Wolfgang Müller.
    RightField: Semantic Enrichment of Systems Biology Data using Spreadsheets
  • Matthew Gamble, Jun Zaho, Graham Klyne and Carole Goble.
    MIM: A Minimum Information Model Vocabulary and Framework for Scientific Linked Data
  • Mohammad Rezwanul Huq, Peter M.G. Apers, Yoshihide Wada, Ludovicus P.H. van Beek and Andreas Wombacher.
    From Scripts Towards Provenance Inference

• Data Mining and Machine Learning

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 13:00–15:00  |  Chair: Beth Plale

  • Jong Youl Choi, Mohammad H. Abbasi, David Pugmire, Scott Klasky, Judy Qiu and Geoffrey Fox.
    Mining Hidden Mixture Context With ADIOS-P To Improve Predictive Pre-fetcher Accuracy
  • Jurandy Almeida, Jefersson Alex Dos Santos, Bruna Alberton, Ricardo Torres and Leonor Morellato.
    Remote Phenology: Applying Machine Learning to Detect Phenological Patterns in a Cerrado Savanna
  • S. George Djorgovski, Ashish Mahabal, Ciro Donalek, Matthew Graham, Andrew Drake, Baback Moghaddam and Michael Turmon.
    Flashes in a Star Stream: Automated Classification of Astronomical Transient Events
  • Irfan Azeezullah, Friska Pambudi, Tung-Kai Shyy, Nigel Ward, Jane Hunter and Robert Stimson.
    Statistical Analysis and Visualization Services for Spatially Integrated Social Science Datasets

• Runtime and Middleware

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 13:00–15:00  |  Chair: Baoping Yan

  • Andre Luckow, Mark Santcroos, Ole Weidner, Andre Merzky, Pradeep Kumar Mantha and Shantenu Jha.
    P*: A Model of Pilot-Abstractions
  • Elif Dede, Zacharia Fadika, Jessica Hartog, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Dan Gunter and Richard Shane Canon.
    MARISSA: MApReduce Implementation for Streaming Science Applications
  • Ryousei Takano, Hidemoto Nakada, Takahiro Hirofuchi, Yoshio Tanaka and Tomohiro Kudoh.
    Cooperative VM Migration for a Virtualized HPC Cluster with VMM-Bypass I/O devices
  • Mircea Moca and Gilles Fedak.
    Using Promethee Methods for Multi-Criteria Pull-based Scheduler on DCIs

• Data Infrastructures

  SESSION  |  Thursday, 13:00–15:00  |  Chair: Tanu Malik

  • Richard O. Sinnott, Christopher Bayliss, Gerson Galang, Phillip Greenwood, George Koetsier, Damien Mannix, Luca Morandini, Marcos Nino-Ruiz, Chris Pettit, Martin Tomko, Muhammed Sarwar, Robert Stimson, William Voorsluys, Ivo Widjaja.
    A Data-driven Urban Research Environment for Australia
  • Luca Cinquini, Dan Crichton, Chris Mattmann, Gavin Bell, Bob Drach, Dean Williams, John Harney, Galen Shipman, Feiyi Wang, Philip Kershaw, Stephen Pascoe, Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Neill Miller, Estanislao Gonzalez, Sebastian Denvil, Mark Morgan, Sandro Fiore, Zed Pobre and Roland Schweitzer.
    The Earth System Grid Federation: An Open Infrastructure for Access to Distributed Geo-Spatial Data
  • Sherif Abdelhamid, Richard Alo, S M Arifuzzaman, Pete Beckman, Md Hasanuzzaman Bhuiyan, Keith Bisset, Edward Fox, Geoffrey Fox, Kevin Hall, S.M.Shamimul Hasan, Anurodh Joshi, Maleq Khan, Chris Kuhlman, Spencer Lee, Jonathan Leidig, Hemanth Makkapati, Madhav Marathe, Henning Mortveit, Judy Qiu, Ravi S. S., Zalia Shams, Ongard Sirisaengtaksin, Rajesh Subbiah, Samarth Swarup, Nick Trebon, Anil Vullikanti and Zhao Zhao.
    CINET: A CyberInfrastructure for Network Science
  • Liana Diesendruck, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Mayank Kejriwal and Kenton Mchenry.
    A Framework to Access Handwritten Information within Large Digitized Paper Collections

• Data Access and Management

  SESSION  |  Friday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Daniel S. Katz

  • Hui Zhang, Wenjun Wu and Zhenan Li.
    Open Social based Group Access Control Framework for e-Science Data Infrastructure
  • Yun Tian and Philip Rhodes.
    Partial Replica Selection for Spatial Datasets
  • Junwu Luo, Bo Lang, Danchen Zhang and Chao Tian.
    Image Retrieval in the Unstructured Data Management System AUDR

• Application Systems and Frameworks

  SESSION  |  Friday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Patrick Widener

  • Peter Sempolinski, Douglas Thain, Daniel Wei and Ahsan Kareem.
    A System for Management of Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations for Civil Engineering
  • Raúl Ramos-Pollán, Fabio Augusto González Osorio, Juan Carlos Caicedo Rueda, Ángel Cruz-Roa, Jorge Eliécer Camargo Mendoza, Jorge Andrés Vanegas, John Edilson Arévalo Ovalle, Paola Katherine Rozo Bernal, Santiago Alonso Pérez Rubiano, Jose David Bermeo López and Juan Sebastián Otálora Montenegro.
    BIGS: A Framework for Large-Scale Image Processing and Analysis Over Distributed and Heterogeneous Computing Resources
  • Christian Haas, Simon Caton, Daniel Trumpp and Christof Weinhardt.
    A Simulator for Social Exchanges and Collaborations – Architecture and Case Study

• Workflow 2

  SESSION  |  Friday, 10:30–12:00  |  Chair: Gabrielle Allen

  • Michael Reiter, Uwe Breitenbücher, Dimka Karastoyanova and Oliver Kopp.
    Quality of Data Driven Simulation Workflows
  • Sonja Holl, Olav Zimmermann and Martin Hofmann-Apitius.
    A new Optimization Phase for Scientific Workflow Management Systems
  • Kary Ocaña, Daniel Oliveira, Jonas Dias, Eduardo Ogasawara and Marta Mattoso.
    Discovering Drug Targets for Neglected Diseases Using a Pharmacophylogenomic Cloud Workflow

 

Peer-reviewed IEEE eScience Early Results and Works-in-Progress Poster Papers

• Michael Albrecht, Douglas Thain and John Bent.
  An Evaluation of Embedded Storage for Exascale and the Value of Asynchronous Data Transfer
• Rossen Apostolov, Berk Hess, Erwin Laure, Agusti Emperador, Ramon Gone and Josep Ll Gelpi.
  Improving the Efficiency and Scalability of Life Science Software
• Yuqi Bai, An Yan and Baolei Lv.
  Modeling Earth Observation Satellite Data Semantically
• Bartosz Balis, Tomasz Bartyński, Marian Bubak, Grzegorz Dyk, Tomasz Gubała and Marek Kasztelnik.
  A Framework for Early Warning Systems
• Bartosz Balis, Marian Bubak and Tomasz Grabiec.
  Graphical Query Construction over Scientific Data Sets using Semantic Technologies
• Tomasz Bednarz, Dadong Wang, Yulia Arzhaeva, Piotr Szul, Shiping Chen, Alex Khassapov, Neil Burdett, Tim Gureyev and John Taylor.
  Cloud-Based Image Analysis and Processing Toolbox for Biomedical Applications
• Tseng-Yi Chen, Hsin-Wen Wei, Mei-Ru Sun, Yu-Yu Lai and Wei-Kuan Shih.
  IPSO Application: Information Management System of IPv6-enable Sensor Device Implementation
• Arun Datta and Nitin Sukhija.
  C-Grid: Enabling iRODS for Community Health Research
• Yolanda Gil.
  From Application Codes to Domain Tasks in Workflows: Towards Extending the Flexibility and Portability of Workflow Approaches
• Antonio Gomes and Vivian Medeiros.
  Towards Fully Configurable Support to Non-Functional Attributes in Scientific Workflows
• Jenni Harrison, Luke Edwards, Mathew Wyatt, Daniel Marrable and Mark Gray.
  Collaborative and Annotation Tools for Analysis of Marine Imagery and video (CATAMI)
• Spiros Koulouzis, Reginald Cushing, Adam Belloum and Marian Bubak.
  Cloud Federation for Sharing Scientific Data
• Virginia Kuhn, Ritu Arora, Alan Craig, Michael Simeone, Dave Bock, Kevin Franklin and Luigi Marini.
  Large Scale Video Analytics: On-demand, iterative inquiry for moving image research
• Ya-Chi Liu and Kai Chang.
  Nano-Optical Device Design with the Use of Open-Source Parallel Version FDTD Software Installed on Texas A&M Supercomputer Eos and Commercial Finite Element Package
• Luigi Marini, Peter Bajcsy, Smruti Padhy, Antoine Vandercreme, Rob Kooper, Benjamin Long, Michal Ondrejcek, Paul Saba, Devin Bonnie, Joe Chalfoun and Kenton Mchenry.
  Versus: A Framework for General Content-Based Comparisons
• Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Mark Turner, Derek Mortimer, Simon Woodman and Paul Watson.
  The Cutting Edge: Discoverability for Historical Artefacts
• Terrence McLaren, Nick Tenczar, Luigi Marini, Tristan Wietsma, Barbara Minsker, Paris Collingsworth, Kristin Tepas and Brian Miller.
  Monitoring the Great Lakes
• Hidemoto Nakada, Hirotaka Ogawa and Tomohiro Kudoh.
  Stream Processing with Bigdata by SSS-MapReduce
• Piotr Nowakowski, Tomasz Bartyński, Tomasz Gubała, Daniel Harężlak, Marek Kasztelnik, Maciej Malawski, Jan Meizner and Marian Bubak.
  Cloud Platform for VPH Applications
• Edward Pharr, Aspen Olmsted and Paul Anderson.
  Metabolite Annotations and Semantic Web Integration with gLIMS
• Dinesh Rajan, Badi' Abdul-Wahid, Joe Fetsch, Li Yu, Jesus Izaguirre, Sekou Remy and Douglas Thain.
  A Case Study in Elastic Scientific Application Design using Work Queue
• Rafael Santos, Rogério Andrade, Nandamudi Vijaykumar and Eduardo Barbosa.
  Web Services for Environmental Data Access for Popular Applications
• Clayton Turner and Paul Anderson.
  Learn2Mine: An Open-Source Cloud-Based Informatics Platform For Integrated Teaching and Data Exploration
• Pengfei Xuan, Kimberly Ferguson, Christin Marshall, John McCann, Linh B. Ngo, Yueli Zheng and Amy W. Apon.
  An Infrastructure to Support Data Integration and Curation for Higher Educational Research
• Jun Yi, Rajkumar Kettimuthu and Venkat Vishwanath.
  Toward Characterization of Data Movement in Large-Scale Scientic Applications

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal deadline: 23 January 2012
• Workshop notification: 6 February 2012
• Abstract submissions: 4 July 2012 (no longer required)
• Paper submissions: 11 18 July 2012 (firm)
• Paper notification: 22 August 2012
• Early Results and Works-in-Progress Poster submission: 24 August 2012
• Early Results and Works-in-Progress Poster author notification: 4 September 2012
• Camera ready papers due: 10 September 2012
• Hotel room block registration deadline: 16 19 September 2012
• Advance registration deadline: 28 September 2012
• Microsoft eScience Workshop: 8-9 October 2012
• Workshops: 8-9 October 2012
• Conference Sessions: 10-12 October 2012