Workshops in the conference:

Index:

• 1: Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems, 8th International Workshop
• 2: 2nd Workshop on Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2011)
• 3: 6th Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications
• 5: Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science
• 6: Third Workshop on Emerging Parallel Architectures
• 8: Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - DDDAS 2011
• 9: Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers
• 10: Computational Science of Mesoscopic Methods for Fluid Dynamics
• 11: Fifth Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2011)
• 13: Sixth international Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning (iWAPT2011)
• 15: Fourth Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science
• 16: Second International Workshop on Computational Stochastics
• 17: Dynamic Network Analysis
• 18: First International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES)
• 19: High-dimensional data visualization
• 21: Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
• 22: Large Scale Computational Physics
• 23: Workshop on Climate Change Data Challenges - C2DC
• 27: International Workshop on Flow and Transport: Computational Challenges
• 28: Knowledge representation and applied models and metadata in computational science
• 29: 8th Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence
• 31: Executable Paper Challenge
• 33: Large scale computational molecular science
• 34: Poster Session

Submission and Deadlines:

All papers (both workshop and main track) for ICCS 2011 should be submitted through our submission system.
Please, select the appropriate workshop there.

Unless stated otherwise submission deadlines for workshops are the same as those listed in our important dates. All deadlines after February 15 are synchronised.

Workshops:

• 1: Simulation of Multiphysics Multiscale Systems, 8th International Workshop
  Contact: V.V. Krzhizhanovskaya
  Simulation of multiphysics and multiscale systems poses a grand challenge to computational science, with vast applications in chemical engineering, plasma physics, material science, biophysics, aerospace and automotive sectors. Most of the real-life systems involve interactions amongst a wide range of physical phenomena. In addition to that, the time and length scales of the individual processes involved often differ by orders of magnitude. Numerical simulation of these multiphysics and multiscale problems requires development of sophisticated models and methods for their integration, as well as efficient numerical algorithms and advanced computational techniques.
  This workshop aims to bring together computational physicists, numerical specialists and computational scientists to push forward this challenging multidisciplinary research field, and to foster cross-fertilization between all fields of applications.
  Specific topics include (but are not limited to):
  -- Modeling of multiphysics and/or multiscale systems. Of particular interest are: Monte Carlo methods, particle-based methods, mesoscopic models such as cellular-automata, lattice gas and lattice-Boltzmann methods, computational fluid dynamics and computational solid mechanics;
  -- Multiphysics and/or multiscale modeling of biological or biomedical systems. This includes computational models of tissue- and organo-genesis, tumor growth, blood vessels formation and interaction with the hosting tissue, biochemical transport and signaling, biomedical simulations for surgical planning, etc.
  -- Novel approaches to combine different models and scales in one problem solution;
  -- Challenging applications in industry and academia, e.g. time-dependent 3D systems, multiphase flows, fluid-structure interaction, chemical engineering, plasma physics, material science, biophysics, automotive industry, etc.;
  -- Advanced numerical methods for solving multiphysics multiscale problems.
  http://staff.science.uva.nl/~valeria/SMMS
  
  
• 2: 2nd Workshop on Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2011)
  Contact: X.S. Yang and S. Koziel
  The workshop "Computational Optimization, Modelling and Simulation (COMS 2011)'' will be a part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2011). This will be a second event of the COMS workshop series with the first held during ICCS 2010 in Amsterdam. COMS 2011 intends to provide a forum and foster discussion on the cross-disciplinary research and development in computational optimization, computer modeling and simulations. It will focus on new optimization algorithms, new trends, and latest developments in numerical techniques as well as application studies of optimization in science, engineering and industry.
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  A post-conference special issue of the international journal: "Computational Optimization and Applications" (http://www.springer.com/mathematics/journal/10589 ) will be published from selected high-quality submissions.
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  Topics include (but not limited to):
  * Computational optimization, engineering optimization and design
  * Bio-inspired computing and metaheuristic algorithms
  * Simulation-driven design and optimization of computationally expensive objectives
  * Surrogate- and knowledge-based optimization algorithms
  * Scheduling and network optimization
  * Integrated approach to optimization and simulation
  * Multiobjective optimization
  * New optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization
  * Design of experiments
  * Application case studies in engineering and industry.
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  Scientific Program Committee:
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  * D. Echeverría, Stanford University, USA
  * Z. W. Geem, IGlobal University, USA
  * G.A. Gray, Sandia National Labs, USA
  * O. Kolb, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
  * R. S. Parpinelli, University of Santa Catarina State, Brazil
  * B. Protas, McMaster University, Canada
  * J. Sklenar, University of Malta, Malta
  * L. Wright, National Physical Laboratory, UK
  * Q. J. Zhang, Carleton University, Canada
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  Authors wishing to have their contribution considered for the workshop should submit the paper before January 1, 2011, using the online submission system of the ICCS 2011 conference (select "Computational Optimization, Modeling and Simulation (COMS 2011)" in the "Workshop" field). Information about paper format and submission procedure can be found on the conference website at http://www.iccs-meeting.org/.
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  Workshop Organizers:
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  Dr. Xin-She Yang
  Mathematical and Scientific Computing
  National Physical Lab
  Teddington, London TW11 1LW
  England
  E-mail: xin-she.yang@npl.co.uk
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  Dr. Slawomir Koziel
  Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center
  Reykjavik University
  101 Reykjavik
  Iceland
  E-mail: koziel@ru.is
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  Dr Leifur Leifsson,
  Engineering Optimization & Modeling Center
  Reykjavik University
  101 Reykjavik
  Iceland
  Email: leifurth@ru.is
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• 3: 6th Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Applications
  Contact: P. Ramasami
  Computational chemistry uses of computers in attempts to solve chemical problems. It uses theoretical methods implemented in software for computations.
  At the outset of the 21st Century, computational chemistry is leading to a wide range of possibilities usually interdisciplinary due to explosive increase in computer power and software capabilities. Computational chemistry is also integrating the chemistry curriculum.
  The objectives of this workshop are to highlight the latest scientific advances within the broad field of computational chemistry in academia, industry and society.
  This workshop will provide the opportunity for researchers coming from corners of the world to be on a single platform for discussion, exchanging ideas and developing collaborations.
  It will also be a suitable platform for researchers from different fields to meet so that ideas for new interdisciplinary research can emerge.
  This will be the sixth workshop after being successful events in ICCS since 2003. This workshop will also be a special event as we will celebrate the International Year or Chemistry (IYC 2011) and 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize awarded to Madame Marie Curie.
  This workshop will consider only original work and the submissions will be selected after peer reviewing.
  The accepted full manuscripts will be published in Procedia Computer Science.
  Topics will include aspects of computational chemistry such as (but are not limited to):
  (i) Methods: Force fields, semiempirical,ab initio, density functional theory
  (ii) Applications: Kinetics, reaction mechanisms, catalysis, molecular properties, conformational analysis, thermodynamics, molecular dynamics
  (iii) Research involving computational chemistry
  (iv) Computational chemistry in chemistry education
  (v) Interdisciplinary computational research involving chemistry is specially invited
  http://www.uom.ac.mu/Faculties/FOS/Chemistry/cca/
  
  
• 5: Tools for Program Development and Analysis in Computational Science
  Contact: J. Tao
  The use of supercomputing technology, parallel and distributed processing, and sophisticated algorithms is of major importance for computational scientists. Yet, the scientists' goals are to solve their challenging scientific problems, not the software engineering tasks associated with it. For that reason, computational science and engineering must be able to rely on dedicated support from program development and analysis tools.
  The primary intention of this workshop is to bring together developers of tools for scientific computing and their potential users. Paper submissions by both tool developers and users from the scientific and engineering community are encouraged in order to inspire communication between both groups. Tool developers can present to users how their tools support scientists and engineers during program development and analysis. Tool users are invited to report their experiences employing such tools, especially highlighting the benefits and possible improvements.
  http://www.lrz.de/iccs2011/
  
  
• 6: Third Workshop on Emerging Parallel Architectures
  Contact: B. Schmidt
  The computing landscape has undergone significant transformation with the emergence of more powerful processing elements such as GPUs, FPGAs, Cell B.E., multi-cores, etc. On the multi-core front, Moore's Law has transcended beyond the single processor boundary with the prediction that the number of cores will double every 18 months. Going forward, the primary method of gaining processor performance will be through parallelism. Multi-core technology has visibly penetrated the global market. Accordingly to the latest Top500 lists the HPC landscape has evolved from supercomputer systems into large clusters of dual or quad-core processors. Furthermore, GPUs, FPGAs and heterogeneous multi-cores have been shown to be formidable computing alternatives, where certain classes of applications witness more than one order of magnitude improvement over their GPP counterpart. Therefore, future computational science centers will employ resources such as FPGAs, GPUs and Cell architectures to serve as co-processors to offload appropriate compute intensive portions of applications from the servers.
  This workshop provides a forum for exploring the capabilities of emerging parallel architectures to accelerate computational science applications. Papers are being sought on a wide variety of topics related to the field of using emerging parallel architectures for computational science including but not limited to:
  - Application studies on emerging architectures such as GPUs, FPGAs and Cell B.E.
  - Parallel algorithms and methodologies on emerging architectures
  Languages, models, tools, and compilation techniques for emerging architectures
  - Hybrid computer systems consisting of a combination of GPUs, FPGAs, etc.
  - Use of emerging architectures in clusters, grids and supercomputers
  Submission Guidelines:
  Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original, unpublished research and recent developments. All accepted oral papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of Procedia Computer Science (for formatting information see for Latex and for MSword). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the ICCS 2011 paper submission system: http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2011/papers/upload.php.
  Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format.
  Important Dates:
  Full paper submission: January 15, 2011 (extended)
  Acceptance notification: February 20, 2011
  Camera ready papers: March 7, 2011
  Early registration opens: February 15, 2011
  Early registration ends: March 31, 2011
  Workshop Co-Chairs:
  Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
  Douglas Maskell, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ASBSchmidt/archives/2008/09/entry_42.html
  
  
• 8: Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems - DDDAS 2011
  Contact: C.C. Douglas
  This workshop covers several aspects of the Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) concept, which is an established approach defining a symbiotic relation between an application and sensor based measurement systems. Applications can accept and respond dynamically to new data injected into the executing application. In addition, applications can dynamically control the measurement processes. The synergistic feedback control-loop between an application simulation and its measurements opens new capabilities in simulations, e.g., the creation of applications with new and enhanced analysis and prediction capabilities, greater accuracy, longer simulations between restarts, and enable a new methodology for more efficient and effective measurements. DDDAS transforms the way science and engineering are done with a major impact in the way many functions in our society are conducted, e.g., manufacturing, commerce, transportation, hazard prediction and management, and medicine. The workshop will present such new opportunities as well as the challenges and approaches in technology needed to enable DDDAS capabilities in applications, relevant algorithms, and software systems. The workshop will showcase ongoing research in these aspects with examples from several important application areas. All related areas in Data-Driven Sciences are included in this workshop.
  
  
• 9: Agent-Based Simulations, Adaptive Algorithms and Solvers
  Contact: M. Paszynski
  The aim of this workshop is to integrate results of different domains of computer science, computational science and mathematics.
  We invite papers oriented toward simulations, either hard simulations by means of finite element or finite difference methods, or soft simulations by means of evolutionary computations, particle swarm optimization and other.
  The workshop is most interested in simulations performed by using agent-oriented systems
  or by utilizing adaptive algorithms, but simulations performed by other kind of systems are also welcome.
  Agent-oriented system seems to be the attractive tool useful for numerous domains of applications.
  Adaptive algorithms allow significant decrease of the computational cost by utilizing computational resources on most important aspect of the problem.
  To give - rather flexible - guidance in the subject, the following topics are suggested.
  These of theoretical brand, like:
  -multi-agent systems in high-performance computing,
  -adaptive algorithms,
  -adaptive solvers,
  -agent-oriented approach to adaptive algorithms,
  -finite element or finite difference methods,
  -mathematical modeling and asymptotic analysis.
  And those with stress on application sphere:
  -application of adaptive algorithms in simulation,
  -simulation and multi-agent systems,
  -application of adaptive algorithms in finite element and finite difference simulations,
  -application of multi-agent systems in computational modeling,
  -multi-agent systems in integration of different approaches.
  http://home.agh.edu.pl/iacs
  
  
• 10: Computational Science of Mesoscopic Methods for Fluid Dynamics
  Contact: J. Bernsdorf
  The workshop addresses theory and applications of mesoscopic methods for computational fluid dynamics, such as the lattice Boltzmann (LB), discrete velocity methods (DVM), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC). A special focus wil be on computational aspects, such as efficient implementation on modern HPC architectures (massively parallel, multicore, GPU, etc.), algorithmic improvements, or coupling in the context of multiscale or multi-discipline applications.
  http://www.grs-sim.de/conferences/ICCS_Workshop10/
  
  
• 11: Fifth Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2011)
  Contact: A.B. Shiflet
  The Fifth Workshop on Teaching Computational Science (WTCS 2011) solicits submissions that describe innovations in teaching computational science in its various aspects, e.g. computer science, modeling and simulation, at all levels and in all contexts. Typical topics include, but are not restricted to, innovations in the following areas:
  
  
• 13: Sixth international Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning (iWAPT2011)
  Contact: T. Katagiri
  iWAPT2011 provides opportunities for researchers and practitioners in all fields related to automatic performance tuning to exchange ideas and experiences on algorithms, libraries, and applications tuned for recent computing platforms. This workshop will consist of a few invited speaker presentations, and several presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Main topics of interest are Performance modeling; Adaptive algorithms; Numerical algorithms and libraries; Scientific applications; Parallel and distributed computing; Computing with GPGPU and accelerators; Database management system; Numerical precision and stability; Resource restrictions; Low-power computing; Empirical Compilation; Automatically-tuned Code Generation; Frameworks and theories of automatic tuning and software optimization; Autonomic computing and context-aware computing.
  iWAPT2011 will be advertised via iWAPT conference home page (http://iwapt.org/) and several international and domestic mailing lists, such as NA-Digest, SWoPP ML, which is one of biggest Japanese mailing list for parallel and distributed computing. Past 5 iWAPT conferences were listed in the iWAPT conference home page.
  http://iwapt.org/
  
  
• 15: Fourth Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science
  Contact: M. Cannataro
  Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges.
  Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient's clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing.
  This 4th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed.
  TOPICS OF INTEREST
  The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics:
  -sequence and structure bioinformatics
  -genomics, interactomics, proteomics
  -systems biology
  -biomedical image analysis
  -biomedical simulation
  -data management
  -data integration
  -data visualization-workflow modelling
  -distributed biomedical applications
  -high performance computing
  -dedicated hardware and architectures
  -parallelisation techniques
  -service orientation
  -volunteer computing
  -peer-to-peer computing
  http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/iccs2011/
  
  
• 16: Second International Workshop on Computational Stochastics
  Contact: K. Yamazaki
  Stochastic models and methods are widely used in a broad range of scientific domains including mathematics and computer science, engineering, economics, natural and life sciences, where the complexity of many relevant problems often renders purely analytical treatment impossible and calls for efficient computational solution approaches.
  Such approaches are usually spread over conferences focused on the application domain rather than the stochastic nature of models or solution approaches. But similar challenges occur in many different fields, to the point where their computational solution has implications far beyond any one real-world system. However, this "big picture" is sometimes difficult to grasp, and many researchers do not notice each other's progress, despite actually working on the same topic. It is highly desirable to bring them together under the common umbrella of computational stochastics in order to present recent results, exchange knowledge, discuss open problems and new directions.
  This workshop is intended to provide a joint interdisciplinary forum for researchers applying probability and statistics in different scientific domains. The goal is to establish a meeting where stochastic models and methods are the common objective and the focus is on computational or algorithmic approaches.
  The workshop solicits papers on all branches of computational stochastics such as numerics of stochastic processes, statistical computation, Monte Carlo methods, stochastic simulation, and stochastic optimization. Contributions are welcome from all areas where computational stochastic methods are developed or applied, e.g. networking and Internet applications, telecommunications, operations research, finance, insurance risk, bioinformatics, chemical biophysics, cell biology, and systems biology, amongst many others.
  We also welcome papers that take a more abstracted or theoretical view, studying fundamental models and problem classes that may have applications in many areas. Such models often provide both theoretical and computational insights that help to bring out the big picture in terms of general solution techniques, algorithms, and computational approaches.
  Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to:
  * Numerical Solutions of Markov Chains, SDEs and SPDEs
  * Stochastic Simulation of Complex Systems, Networks and Processes
  * Stochastic Programming, Modeling and Algorithms
  * Stochastic Optimization, Approximation, Search and Learning
  * Stochastic Time Series Analysis, Forecasting and Control
  * Stochastic Sensitivity Analysis, Perturbation Analysis
  * Statistical Inference, Bayesian Statistics, Variational Bayes
  * Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Perfect Simulation, Exact Sampling
  * Adaptive and Sequential Monte Carlo, Particle Filtering
  http://www-csfi.sigmath.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/faculty/personal/yamazaki/computational_stochastics-2011.html
  
  
• 17: Dynamic Network Analysis
  Contact: G.K. Kampis
  Over the last 15 years the analysis of networks (also termed 'network science') has established itself as a promising new field to deal with large, inherently complex systems composed of many interconnected components, offering insights to problems from such diverse domains as sociology, economics, physics, computer science, ecology, virology and so on.
  Recently, a radical new development is observable in network studies: the shift of focus from static networks to dynamic processes expressed as networks. Most of the classical work in network analysis has been devoted to static networks. However, real-life networks are essentially dynamic, and there is an increasing interest in their inherent features: in how time-dependent equivalents of classic network measures can be defined for descriptive analysis, or how dynamics relates to time constrained samples in a cumulative network.
  Also, in real networks the changes often occur for endogenous, network-internal reasons that are more complicated than can be grasped by a simple growth rule: for instance, the change of a node's internal attributes can imply changes in its connectivity, and so on. (In an epidemic network, the recovered patient does not infect any more, and no more infection links are formed from this node.) Interests of this kind put questions of the interrelated dynamics of and on networks into a new focus of investigation. Several important problems ranging from virology to contact networks and ecological theory similarly invite a treatment of dynamic networks on their own.
  The workshop aims at providing a comprehensive assessment of these novel developments, inviting contributions from theoreticians and practitioners of network science.
  
  
• 18: First International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES)
  Contact: K. Nakajima
  The IHPCES workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion on the state-of-the-art research in high-performance computational earth sciences. Emphasis will be on novel advanced high-performance computational algorithms, formulations and simulations, as well as the related issues for computational environments and infrastructure for development of high-performance computational earth sciences. Presentations and audience from the broad geoscience communities are highly welcome. The workshop facilitates communication among diverse scientific groups between geoscientists, applied mathematicians, computational and computer scientists to exchange advanced knowledge, insights and science discoveries. These kinds of interactions are particularly encouraged at the post-petascale and exascale where multidisciplinary collaborations for high-performance computational earth sciences are highly required. Contributions are solicited in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
  * Large-scale simulations using modern high-end supercomputers in earth sciences, such as atmospheric science, ocean science, solid earth science, and space & planetary science, as well as multi-physics simulations, and modeling/simulations of natural disaster mitigation.
  * Advanced numerical methods for computational earth sciences, such as FEM, FDM, FVM, BEM/BIEM, Mesh-Free method, Particle method, and etc.
  * Numerical algorithms and parallel programming models for computational earth sciences.
  * Optimization and reengineering of applications for both conventional multi- and many cores processors, or specified accelerators such as GPU.
  * Strategy, implementation and applications of pre/post processing and handling of large-scale data sets for computational earth sciences, such as parallel visualization, parallel mesh generation, I/O, data mining and etc.
  * Frameworks and tools for development of codes for computational earth sciences on Peta/Post-Peta/Exa Scale Systems.
  http://nkl.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2011/
  
  
• 19: High-dimensional data visualization
  Contact: M. Verleysen
  Data visualization plays an important role in data analysis and mining, by helping to find specificities of data (clusters, outliers, densities,...) that in turn determine the choice for analysis tools and algorithms. Recently, there has been an increasing scientific activity in the development of nonlinear algorithms for visualizing data. While algorithms are now established, there is still a lack of applicability in real-world situations, on high-dimensional data, and of objective criteria to assess the quality of the visualization. This workshop will concentrate on recent developments, including the applicability to high-dimensional data, the methodology to choose methods, and their objective evaluation.
  http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011
  
  
• 21: Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
  Contact: F.M. Hoffman
  From field-scale measurements to global climate simulations and remote sensing, very large and long time series databases of Earth Science data are difficult to analyze and interpret. Data mining techniques--like cluster analysis, empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs), phase-space reconstruction, and neural networks--are being applied to problems of segmentation, feature extraction, model-data comparison, and validation. The size and complexity of Earth Science data, however, exceed the limits of most analysis tools. Scalable tools running on parallel supercomputers are required to analyze data of this size. This workshop will demonstrate how data mining techniques are applied in the Earth Sciences and describe innovative computer science methods that support analysis and discovery in Earth Sciences.
  http://www.climatemodeling.org/workshops/dmess2011/
  
  
• 22: Large Scale Computational Physics
  Contact: F. Yuasa
  The workshop shall focus on the numerical and symbolic methods, the algorithms and the tools (software and hardware) for developing and running large-scale physics computations. Special interest will go to: scalability, parallelism and high numerical precision. System architectures will also be presented as long as they are actually
  supporting physics calculations: Massively parallel systems, GPU, many-cores, grid/cloud computing, ...
  Topics will be chosen from areas including high energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, material physics, quantum physics, plasma physics, laser physics, complex and turbulent systems.
  
  
• 23: Workshop on Climate Change Data Challenges - C2DC
  Contact: G. Aloisio
  The session will explore data management challenges in the climate change domain. In particular we solicit novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
  - data preservation, data curation, long term access
  - metadata schemas, mark-up languages
  - multi-dimensional data modeling
  - data discovery, metadata management, harvesting
  - semantic interoperability, ontologies
  - data access, integration, provenance, storage, analysis, mining
  - exa-bytes systems, challenges and issues
  The session will be advertised sending the CFP to the relevant mailing lists, websites and colleagues working in the scientific areas related to the proposed session.
  http://adm05.cmcc.it:8080/C2DC/Home.html
  
  
• 27: International Workshop on Flow and Transport: Computational Challenges
  Contact: S. Sun
  Modeling of flow and transport is an essential component of many scientific and engineering applications, with increased interests in recent years. Application areas vary widely, and include groundwater contamination, carbon sequestration, air pollution, petroleum exploration and recovery, weather prediction, drug delivery, material design, chemical separation processes, and many others. However, accurate mathematical and numerical simulation of flow and transport remains a challenging topic from many aspects of physical modeling, numerical analysis and scientific computation. Mathematical models are usually expressed via nonlinear systems of partial differential equations, with possibly rough and discontinuous coefficients, whose solutions are often singular and discontinuous. An important step of a numerical solution procedure is to apply advanced discretization methods (e.g. finite elements, finite volumes, and finite differences) to the governing equations. Local mass conservation and compatibility of numerical schemes are often necessary to obtain physical meaningful solutions. Another important solution step is the design of fast and accurate solvers for the large-scale linear and nonlinear algebraic equation systems that result from discretization. Solution techniques of interest include multiscale algorithms, mesh adaptation, parallel algorithms and implementation, efficient splitting or decomposition schemes, and others.
  The aim of this special issue is to bring together researchers in the aforementioned field to highlight the current developments both in theory and methods, to exchange the latest research ideas, and to promote further collaborations in the community. We invite original research articles as well as review articles describing the recent advances in mathematical modeling, computer simulation, numerical analysis, and other computational aspects of flow and transport phenomena of flow and transport. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
  (1) advanced numerical methods for the simulation of subsurface and surface flow and transport, and associated aspects such as discretization, gridding, upscaling, multiscale algorithms, optimization, data assimilation, uncertainty assessment, and high performance parallel and grid computing;
  (2) spatial discretization schemes based on advanced finite element, finite volume, and finite different methods; schemes that preserve local mass conservation (such as mixed finite element methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods) are of particular interest;
  (3) decomposition methods for improved efficiency and accuracy in treating flow and transport problems; decomposition methods for nonlinear differential equations and dynamical systems arising in flow and transport; temporal discretization schemes for flow and transport;
  (4) a-priori and a-posteriori error estimates in discretizations and decompositions; numerical convergence study; adaptive algorithms and implementation;
  (5) modeling and simulation of single-phase and multi-phase flow in porous media or in free space, and its applications to earth sciences and engineering;
  (6) modeling and simulation of subsurface and surface transport and geochemistry, and its application to environmental sciences and engineering;
  (7) computational thermodynamics of fluids, especially hydrocarbon and other oil reservoir fluids, and its interaction with flow and transport;
  (8) computational modeling of flow and transport in other fields, such as geological flow/transport in crust and mantle, material flow in supply chain networks, separation processes in chemical engineering, information flow, biotransport, and intracellular protein trafficking, will also be considered.
  For advertising, we will first send the workshop announcement to our research collaborators and our contacts on numerous universities in USA, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia and Europe (with Germany, France, and Spain). We will then ask them to forward the announcement to their colleagues.
  
  
• 28: Knowledge representation and applied models and metadata in computational science
  Contact: M.-A. Sicilia
  Computational science techniques require in many cases models and representations of knowledge for the complex processes supporting research in the different fields, and complex models are also required to capture the research context itself. This has resulted in the development of ontologies, metadata schemas and other kinds of models that are shared, reused and enriched for computational science tasks continuously. Relevant examples are scientific ontologies as the Gene Ontology or the Plant Ontology and metadata schemas as the Ecological Metadata Language (EML), but many other models that are less used are regularly used in computational science research.
  The KREAM workshop aims at gathering high quality research results about the use of knowledge representations, schemas and models in computational science for concrete applications, or papers dealing with the analysis, development or evaluation of the representations themselves.
  
  
• 29: 8th Workshop on Computational Finance and Business Intelligence
  Contact: Y. Shi
  The workshop focus on computational science aspects of asset/derivatives pricing & financial risk management that relate to business intelligence. It will include but not limited to modeling, numeric computation, soft computing, algorithmic and complexity issues in arbitrage, asset pricing, future and option pricing, risk management, credit assessment, interest rate determination, insurance, foreign exchange rate forecasting, online auction, cooperative game theory, general equilibrium, information pricing, network band witch pricing, rational expectation, repeated games, etc.
  Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes on Computer Science. In addition, Green Futures, Inc., China has sponsored $3,000 to the workshop for “Green Future Award of Computational Finance and Business Intelligence” since ICCS 2008. An international award committee will select the awardees from the accepted and registered papers. Once a paper is selected, the author(s) are required to attend the workshop at Tsukuba, Japan when the awards will be presented.
  
  
• 31: Executable Paper Challenge
  Contact: P.M.A. Sloot
  Executable Paper Grand Challenge is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used.
  It asks:
  1. How can we develop a model for executable files that is compatible with the user's operating system and architecture and adaptable to future systems?
  2. How do we manage very large file sizes?
  3. How do we validate data and code, and decrease the reviewer's workload?
  4. How to support registering and tracking of actions taken on the ‘executable paper?'
  The purpose of the Executable Paper Challenge is to invite scientists to put forth their ideas pertaining to these pressing and unsolved questions.
  http://www.executablepapers.com/abstract-requirements.html
  
  
• 33: Large scale computational molecular science
  Contact: S. Nagase and S. Sakaki
  This workshop will cover recent developments of molecular theory such as electronic structure theory, quantum dynamics, and MD simulation, in an attempt to focus on large scale molecular calculations. Also, recent applications of molecular theory to large complex systems such as biological system, molecular device and molecular properties, excited state, chemical reaction, and catalysis will be presented. All those topics are interesting and attractive in both fundamental chemistry and applied chemistry. We aim to present new ideas about method development, and new understanding of molecular geometry, properties, and reactivity. Another purpose is to discuss how we can use the next generation super computer system for molecular theory and its application.
  Topics include:
  * Fundamental Electronic Structure Theory; Recent Development
  * Large Scale Electronic Structure Theory; Recent Development
  * Large Scale Computational Method
  * Methodology of MD simulation; Recent Development
  * Electronic Structure Theory Calculations of Biological Systems
  * Electronic Structure Theory Calculations of Large Scale Carbon Compounds such as Fullerlene, Carbon Nanotube, and Graphen.
  * Electronic Theory Calculation of Complex Systems containing Transition-Metal and/or Heavy Non-Transition Metal Elements
  * Theoretical and Computational Studies of Molecular Properties related to Molecular Devices
  * MD Simulation of Solution Systems
  * MD Simulation of Biological Systems including Protein, DNA, and so on.
  * Scheduling and network optimization
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  Scientific Program Committee:
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  * Shigeru Nagase; IMS, Japan
  * Shigeyoshi Sakaki, Kyoto University, Japan
  * .Kazuo Takatsuka, Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan
  * Susumu Okazaki, Nagoya University, Japan
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  Authors who wish to present their contribution in this workshop must submit the paper before Jan. 8 th, 2011, with the online submission system of the ICCS 2011 conference (select "Computational Optimization, Modeling and Simulation (COMS 2011)" in the "Workshop" field). Information about paper format and submission procedure is provided in on the conference website at http://www.iccs-meeting.org/.
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  Workshop Organizers:
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  * Professor Shigeru Nagase
  Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan
  E-mail: nagase@ims. Ac.jp
  * Professor. Shigeyoshi Sakaki
  Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto,
  Japan
  E-mail: sakaki@moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  
  
• 34: Poster Session
  Contact: G.D. van Albada