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e-Science 2008 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science

Program

General Program Schedule

Please note, the IEEE e-Science Conference has a separate schedule and registration from the Microsoft e-Science Workshop—please visit their Web site for details on the Microsoft workshop, December 7–9.

e-Science 2008 is proud to go green with an electronic-only program! Use our interactive program to see a detailed view including abstract. Download or print your own copy of the daily Schedule at a Glance and Workshops and Special Sessions Detailed Program. The daily Schedule at a Glance will also be made available on conference signage.

Physical and virtual conference attendees can create a customized schedule in their Google calendars through the live streaming video feature.


Sunday, December 7

IEEE e-Science Conference
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Hotel Lobby - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Tutorial: Science Gateways as a Way to Support e-Science and Virtual Organizations via the TeraGrid ( Room 232 - Map)
8 a.m.–Noon
Tutorial: Market–Oriented Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware: Building and Managing Utility Grids for e–Science and e–Business Applications (Room 216 - Map)
11:30 a.m–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Conference Center 2nd Floor Lobby - Map)
1–5 p.m.
Tutorial: Overview of Biocep, a Federative, Collaborative, User-Centric, Cloud-Ready, and Grid-Enabled Computational Open Platform (Room 216 - Map)
Microsoft e-Science Workshop
Noon
Registration Opens for Microsoft e-Science Workshop

Monday, December 8

IEEE e-Science Conference
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Slater Foyer - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Workshop: Riding the Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure Wave of Data: Real Time Data Use in Education (IUPUI Library Room 1130 - Map)
8 a.m.–Noon
Tutorial: Streamlining Data Exploration and Visualization through Scientific Workflows and Provenance (Room 236 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Bistro - Map)
1–5:00 p.m.
Workshop: Project Management and User Engagement (Room 232 - Map)
Microsoft e-Science Workshop
8 a.m.–9 p.m.
Microsoft e-Science Workshop Sessions

Tuesday, December 9

IEEE e-Science Conference
7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Slater Foyer - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Workshop: Introduction to Computational Science Resources and Tools (Room 216 - Map)
8 a.m.–Noon
Workshop: International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop 2008—IGIIW 2008 (Room 232 - Map)
8 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Workshop: PRAGMA Workshop on e-Science Highlights (Room 236 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Bistro - Map)
1–5 p.m.
Tutorial: Pegasus Workflow Management System (Room 232 - Map)
Microsoft e-Science Workshop
9 a.m–5 p.m.
Microsoft e-Science Workshop Sessions
IEEE and Microsoft
6–8:30 p.m.
Special Event: Unconference Event (Conrad Hotel Ballroom)
MICROSOFT WORKSHOP CONCLUDES

Wednesday, December 10

IEEE MAIN CONFERENCE BEGINS
Main Conference
7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Slater Foyer - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Main: Laptop Charging Station and Lounge (Room 102 - Map)
9–10 a.m.
Keynote Address: Rich Wolski (Auditorium - Map)
Building Science Clouds using Commodity, Open-Source Software Components
10 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Reconvening 1:30–6 p.m.
Workshop: e-Humanities—An Emerging Discipline (Auditorium - Map)
10 a.m.–Noon, Reconvening 1–5 p.m.
Workshop: SWBES08: Challenging Issues in Workflow Applications (Room 232 - Map)
10–10:30 a.m.
Main: Meandre: Semantic-Driven Data-Intensive Flows in the Clouds (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Towards an Acoustic Environment Observatory (Room 206 - Map)
10:45–11:15 a.m.
Main: Scalable Semantics—the Silver Lining of Cloud Computing (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Distributed Replica-Exchange Simulations on Production Environments Using SAGA and Migol (Room 206 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–Noon
Main: Reducing Time-to-Solution Using Distributed High-Throughput Mega-Workflows (Room 208 - Map)
Main: BioVLAB-Microarray: Microarray Data Analysis in Virtual Environment (Room 206 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Bistro - Map)
1:30–2 p.m.
Main: Detecting Communities in Science Blogs (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Lowering the Barriers to Cancer Imaging (Room 206 - Map)
2:15–2:45 p.m.
Main: myExperiment: Defining the Social Virtual Research Environment (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Soundness and Niceness at Correctness Criteria for Grid Workflows (Room 206 - Map)
2:45–3:15 p.m.
Main: Break (Room 208 - Map)
3:15–3:45 p.m.
Main: Classification of Different Approaches for e-Science Applications (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Grid-Enabled Instrument Representation and Reservation (Room 206 - Map)
4–4:30 p.m.
Main: QoS-Based Web Service Composition Accommodating Inter-Service Dependencies Using Minimal-Conflict Hill-Climbing Repair Genetic Algorithm (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Experiences from Cyberinfrastructure Development for Multi-User Remote Instrumentation (Room 206 - Map)
6–8 p.m.
Poster Session: Evening Poster Reception (Exhibition Hall—Food Court - Map)

Thursday, December 11

Main Conference
7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Slater Foyer - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Main: Laptop Charging Station and Lounge (Room 102 - Map)
9–10 a.m.
Keynote Address: Daniel A. Reed (Auditorium - Map)
Cloud Seeding: Watering Research Flowers
10–11:30 a.m.
Panel Discussion: Assessing the Potential Impact and Challenges of ManyCore Processors on eScience (Auditorium - Map)
10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Workshop: Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environments (PSE) in Distributed Resources: PSE Workshop08 (Room 236 - Map)
10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Workshop: Abstractions for Distributed Applications and Systems (232 - Map)
10–10:30 a.m.
Main: End-to-End e-Science: Integrating Workflow, Query, Visualization, and Provenance at an Ocean Observatory (Room 208 - Map)
Main: A Distributed Algorithm for Determining the Provenance of Data (Room 206 - Map)
10:45–11:15 a.m.
Main: CANCELLED - Service Oriented Utility Grid for 3-Dimensional Topographic Visualization from Satellite Images (Room 208 - Map)
Main: An Extensible, Scalable Architecture for Managing Bioinformatics Data and Analysis (Room 206 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–Noon
Main: A Web Services Architecture for Visualization (Room 208 - Map)
Main: ARCHER: An Enabler of Research Data Management (Room 206 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Bistro - Map)
1–5 p.m.
Workshop: Advances in High-Performance E-Science Middleware and Applications (Auditorium - Map)
1:30–2 p.m.
Main: Contextualization: Providing One-click Virtual Clusters (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Secure, Performance-Oriented Data Management for nonCMOS Electronics (Room 206 - Map)
2:15–2:45 p.m.
Main: Characterizing User-level Network Virtualization: Performance, Overheads, and Limits (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Sensor Metadata Management and Its Application in Collaborative Environmental Research (Room 206 - Map)
2:45–3:15 p.m.
Main: Break (Room 208 - Map)
3:15–3:45 p.m.
Main: SLA-Driven Semantically-Enhanced Dynamic Resource Allocator for Virtualized Service Providers (Room 208 - Map)
Main: A Library for Asynchronous Concurrent Service Orchestration (Room 206 - Map)
4–4:30 p.m.
Main: CloudBLAST: Combining MapReduce and Virtualization on Distributed Resources for Bioinformatics Applications (Room 208 - Map)
Main: The Grid Browser: Improving Usability in Service-Oriented Grids by Automatically Generating Clients and Handling Data Transfers (Room 206 - Map)
6–8 p.m.
Banquet: Conference Awards Banquet (Conference Center Ballroom - Map)

Friday, December 12

Main Conference
7:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Main: Registration Opens (Slater Foyer - Map)
7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Main: Continental Breakfast and Break Service (Continuous—Conference Center Lobby - Map)
7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Main: Laptop Charging Station and Lounge (Room 102 - Map)
8:30–9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Alexander Szalay (Auditorium - Map)
Science in the Cloud
 
9:30–11:30 a.m.
Workshop: e-Science for cheminformatics and drug discovery (Room 236 - Map)
9:30 a.m.–Noon, Reconvening 2–3:30 p.m.
Workshop: eBioinformatics (Room 232 - Map) - Download program
9:30 a.m.–Noon, Reconvening 2–5:00 p.m.
Workshop: Adding Value to Data—Digital Repositories in the e-Science World (Auditorium - Map)
9:30–10 a.m.
Main: Re-Thinking Grid Security Architecture (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Estimating Resource Needs for Time-Constrained Workflows (Room 206 - Map)
10:15–10:45 a.m.
Main: MapReduce for Data Intensive Scientific Analyses (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Forecasting Duration Intervals of Scientific Workflow Activities (Room 206 - Map
11–11:30 a.m.
Main: MRPGA: An Extension of MapReduce for Parallelizing Genetic Algorithms (Room 208 - Map)
Main: Provenance in Dynamically Adjusted and Partitioned Workflows (Room 206 - Map)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Main: Lunch (Continuous Buffet—Bistro - Map)
1–2 p.m.
Keynote Address: Edward Seidel (Auditorium - Map)
2–2:30 p.m.
Main: SWARM: Scheduling Large-Scale Jobs Over the Loosely-Coupled HPC Clusters (Room 208 - Map)
Main: WOOL: A Workflow Programming Language (Room 206 - Map)
2:45–3:15 p.m.
Main: The Rails Toolkit—Enabling End-System Topology-Aware High End Computing (Room 208 - Map)
Main: VO-enabled Service Harmonization in the GEO Grid (Room 206 - Map)
3:30–4 p.m.
Main: Parallel Processing of Large-Scale XML-Based Application Documents on Multi-core Architectures with PiXiMaL (Room 208 - Map)
Main: User Friendly Management of Workflow Results: From Provenance Information to Grid Logical File Names (Room 206 - Map)
IEEE e-SCIENCE CONFERENCE ENDS

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