WMCB 2014 - 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data

Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas.
WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China).
Topics
The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Workflow verification and validation
Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution
Cloud workflow architecture
Cloud resource management
Scientific computing in the cloud
Workflow management for big data processing
Programming models for cloud computing
Access control and authorisation for workflow execution
Workflow scheduling in cloud computing
Utility models and service pricing
Service enabled workflow applications
Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing
Social issues in cloud computing
Green cloud computing
Green ICT and smart metering
Cloud workflow applications
Service based workflow modelling
Service Delivery and Composition
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration
Quality of Services for workflow execution
Services Repository and Registry
Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution