1st International Workshop on Collaborative methodologies to Accelerate Scientific Knowledge discovery in big data (CASK) 2014

Call for Papers

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1st International Workshop on Collaborative methodologies to Accelerate 
Scientific Knowledge discovery in big data (CASK) 2014

Oct 27-30, 2014, Washington DC, US

In conjunction with: 
2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2014)

        http://bigscientificdata.org/cask14/
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Introduction
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Big Data has become an increasingly important part of life, and has become a 
common buzzword used to describe many aspects of data intensive computing. One 
of the unique aspects that we see to this new age of science is in terms of new 
methods to collaborate and share ideas, data, and services. Service Oriented 
Architectures have become commonplace in Enterprise computing, but its role in
scientific data has been often underplayed. Commonly scientists will write 
software for themselves, and occasionally share their programs with their 
colleagues. As computing moves to new levels of performance, by using 
accelerators and many cores, one must rethink how scientific codes are produced 
and move to new frameworks which promote collaboration.

In this workshop we want researchers to discuss techniques, infrastructure, 
science drivers, and new ways to promote this new way of computing for 
scientific applications. We will want to address fundamental issues in 
workflows on and off large-scale high performance systems, clouds, IPads, and 
mobile devices. Our overall view is that we can accelerate the scientific 
knowledge discovery process by embracing new technologies where researchers can 
share codes, workflows, data, and ultimately knowledge. Topics of interest in 
this workshop will span from methods to share all aspects of code, data, and 
workflows.  We will investigate the topic of how do you share Big Data, when 
data gets to extreme sizes.  What new services need to be developed in order to 
promote Big Data for science and engineering aspects? How can we get 
researchers across the globe to develop shareable code and participate in the 
greater science community? Just like math was a common language that 
researchers could share and everyone understand, what are the new pieces of 
software which must be developed in order to ensure collaboration across the 
end to end lifecycle of scientific data?  The workshop will provide a venue to 
show what has worked across different communities, and how to bring 
collaboration to new scientific communities.  The workshop will bring together 
DOE and NSF researchers along with researchers in the enterprise to present 
papers, along with give invited talks. We will also conclude with a panel with 
many leading experts in the field. We will also feature one panel which will 
include experts in scientific and enterprise Big Data.


Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Data at Rest (Storage)
* Data in Motion (Data Streaming)
* Storage Systems (Database, file systems)
* Resource Management
* Query and Search
* Acquisition, Integrating, Cleaning and Best Practice
* Privacy
* Provenance
* Algorithms
* Analytics
* Visualization
* Near Real-time Decision Making
* Data Fusion
* Workflows
* Programming Models (e.g. MapReduce, MPI, etc.)


Important Dates
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* Papers Due: September 1st, 2014
* Notification of Acceptance: September 20th, 2014
* Camera Ready Papers Due: October 5th, 2014


Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts 
should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size 
(8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format 
for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 
inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) 
wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times 
fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be 
returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and 
make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) 
paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be 
reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, 
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the 
conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be 
submitted through the CASK 2014 paper submission system 
(https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CASK2014).

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not 
currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not 
following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action 
may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of 
the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions 
received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately 
structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC 
Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE 
Computer Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital 
Library. Selected papers from CASK 2014 will be invited to extend and submit to 
the Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud in the IEEE Transaction on 
Cloud Computing (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/CFP_TCC-MTC15.pdf).


Chairs and Committees
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Workshop Co-Chairs:

* Chen Jin (Palantir Technology)
* Ioan Raicu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
* Scott Klasky (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Program Co-Chairs:

* Raju Vatsavai (North Carolina State Univ. & Oak Ridge National Lab.)
* Judy Qiu (Indiana University)
* George Ostrouchov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
* Tahsin Kurc (Stony Brook University)
* Daniel S. Katz (University of Chicago)
* Bogdan Nicolae (IBM Research)
* Doug Thain (University of Notre Dame)
* Josh Wills (Cloudera)
* Zhengzhang Chen (NEC Labs)
* Kunpeng Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago)

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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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