WiDE 2024

The WiDE workshop aims to bring together researchers working on all aspects of distributed workflows. Workflow models represent a powerful abstraction for designing complex applications and executing them on large-scale distributed architectures. However, modelling, orchestrating, and monitoring distributed workflows pose unique challenges that raise many research questions. Managing distributed workflows is a complex task which covers a broad range of diverse topics and their need to interoperate: design patterns and languages, orchestration tools, scheduling and fault-tolerance algorithms, performance monitoring, benchmarking procedures, distributed FAIRness, end-to-end privacy and security, and many more. Plus, the modular nature of modern applications and the heterogeneity in contemporary hardware require workflow systems to support a large ecosystem of execution environments (from HPC to cloud, to the Edge), optimisation policies (performance vs. energy efficiency) and computational models (from classical to quantum). In the same spirit that inspired the Workflow Community Initiative, the WiDE workshop will allow researchers to share their knowledge on specific aspects of the topic and gain insights from different points of view. Direct exchange of views and ideas will be further encouraged by an open discussion session at the end of the event.

Keynote Speaker: Michael R. Crusoe

Michael R. Crusoe is one of the co-founders of the Common Workflow Language project, and the CWL project leader. For the Workflow Community Initiative, he is the Director of APIs and Standards. Currently he is employed via Zuse Institute Berlin and FU Berlin, the later on behalf of the ELIXIR Compute Platform, where is his co-leading the 2024-2026 work package for Sustainability, Accounting and Provenance for Federated Analytics. A Debian Developer, he is part of the Debian-Med team of volunteer packagers of bioinformatics software and tools. While he is originally from the USA, since 2019 Michael has made a home with his husband in Berlin, Germany.

Program

The WiDE Workshop will be held on Monday, April 22nd, 2024 at the Royal Olympic Hotel. The technical program is detailed below:

09:00Welcome
09:10Keynote: Reflections on (Distributed) Workflows from a Workflow Standards Perspective - A plea for centering the user and an invitation for collaboration
10:10Paper: Workflows’ applications in computational environmental science: a survey
10:30Coffee break
11:00Paper: Secure Generic Remote Workflow Execution with TEEs
11:20Paper: Advanced Resource Allocation in the Context of Heterogeneous Workflows Management
11:40Paper: An ad-hoc file system accelerated workflow application for accidental fire fast response
12:00Open discussion
12:30Lunch break

Scope

The WiDE 2024 workshop will be held in conjunction with the EuroSys 2024 conference in Athens, Greece. All papers submitted to WiDE 2024 will be published in the ACM Digital Library within the EuroSys 2024 common workshops proceedings.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Distributed workflow benchmarking
  • Workflow design patterns
  • Distributed provenance and FAIRness
  • Scheduling and fault-tolerance
  • Federated and privacy-preserving workflows
  • I/O orchestration for distributed workflows
  • Practical applications of distributed workflows
  • Scheduling workflows in heterogeneous environments
  • Workflows for Big Data analytics
  • Workflows for AI and AI for workflows
  • Workflows for the convergence of HPC, Big Data and ML
  • Workflows in the Computing Continuum
  • Workflow models, languages and tools for heterogeneous distributed systems

Paper Submission

The WiDE workshop follows a double-blind review procedure. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, they should not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments), and they should use care in referring to their own related work.

Submissions may have at most 6 pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, etc. Bibliographic references are not included in the 6-page limit. In addition, submissions may include as many additional pages as needed for supplementary material in appendices. Note that members of the program committee are free to not read this material when reviewing the paper.

All submissions must use A4 or US letter paper size, with all text and figures fitting inside a 178 x 229 mm (7 x 9 in) block centered on the page, using two columns separated by ≥8 mm (0.33″) of whitespace. Use ≥10-point font (typeface Times Roman, Linux Libertine, etc.) on ≥12-point (single-spaced) leading for all text including figure and table captions. Graphs and figures should be readable when printed in grayscale, without magnification. All pages should be numbered. Authors are encouraged to hyperlink their references.

ACM SIGPLAN paper templates are available in MS Word and LaTex. For any paper parameters not defined above, assume that the required value is the one used in the ACM SIGPLAN templates. Any papers that deviate significantly from the formatting instructions will be administratively rejected.

The WiDE workshop promotes Open Science. Publishing Open Access data, code, and article preprints on arXiv.org, TechRxiv.org, or any not-for-profit preprint server approved by the ACM Author Rights and Publishing Policy does not in any way prevent the submission to the WiDE workshop.

Important Dates

All dates below are Anywhere on Earth (AoE):

  • Manuscript submissions (extended): Saturday, February 23, 2024
  • Acceptance decisions: Saturday, March 02, 2024
  • Camera-ready sumbissions: Friday, March 15, 2024

Organization

Workshop Chairs

Program Committee

  • Silvina Caíno-Lores, INRIA, Rennes, France
  • Barbara Cantalupo, University of Torino, Italy
  • Tainã Coleman, University of South California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Josè Luis Gonzales Compean, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Diana Di Luccio, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
  • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
  • Tanu Malik, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Anirban Mandal, RENCI, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Ketan Maheshwari, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
  • Doriana Medić, University of Torino, Italy
  • Claudia Misale, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • Paula Olaya Garcia, University of Tennessee Knoxville, TN, USA
  • Tyler Skluzacek, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
  • Renan Souza, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, USA