IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering is calling for papers for a special issue on Scientific Workflow Management and Applications. Image courtesy of IEEE T-ASE

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering is calling for papers for a special issue on Scientific Workflow Management and Applications, to be published in July 2009.

Paper submissions are due 31 March 2008, with final manuscripts due 15 January 2009. Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore and boost the new area.

The special issue aims to systematically investigate and shape the special features, challenges and new techniques of scientific workflows, as well as corresponding applications and underlying computing infrastructures.  

Topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:

• Special features of scientific workflows and their hints on new techniques
• Scientific workflow modeling, execution and scheduling
• Formal representation, scientific workflow patterns
• Control flows and data flows in scientific workflows
• Web/grid services based scientific workflows
• Application programming interface and graphical user interface
• Scientific workflow verification and validation
• Exception handling, quality of service, performance and security issues in scientific workflows
• Underlying infrastructures targeting scientific workflow support
• Real-world scientific workflow applications

All papers are to be submitted through the Manuscript Central for T-ASE; please select “Special Issue” under Manuscript Category of your submission. All manuscripts must be prepared according to the IEEE T-ASE publication guidelines. Papers will be reviewed following the standard IEEE T-ASE review process.