CFP: 21st Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science [Deadline Extended]

[George Papadimitriou]

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21st Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
https://works-workshop.org/

Sunday, November 15th 2026, Chicago, IL, USA
Held in conjunction with SC26, The International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis

Submissions deadline: August 7, 2026 (Final Extension)
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Call For Papers:

Scientific workflows have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past several decades. Workflow management systems (WMSs) provide abstraction and automation that enable researchers to easily define sophisticated computational processes, and to then execute them efficiently on parallel and distributed computing systems. As workflows have been adopted by multiple scientific communities, they are becoming more complex and require more sophisticated workflow management capabilities. A workflow can now analyze terabyte-scale data sets; execute millions of individual tasks; coordinate heterogeneous resources and tasks from edge to core; process near real-time data streams, files, and data placed in different types of storage systems; and incorporate AI agents for multiple purposes. The computations can be single core workloads, loosely-coupled tasks, or tightly-coupled computations, and can run in heterogeneous distributed computing platforms all within a single workflow

The Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS) focuses on the many facets of scientific workflow composition, management, sustainability, and application to domain sciences in an increasingly diverse and a rapidly evolving technology landscape. WORKS aims to serve as the central meeting point for all the stakeholders involved in the evolving workflows community, and to showcase the latest developments and emerging approaches in the field.
 
Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• Workflow user environments, portals, and advanced AI-augmented front-end workflow tools
• Data-driven workflow processing (including stream processing workflows)
• Interactive, adaptive, and dynamic workflows (including workflow steering)
• Workflow execution in distributed and heterogeneous environments (HPC, clouds, edge, grids, and AI infrastructures)
• AI-driven and agentic workflows
• End-to-end workflows - from instruments to networks to cross-facility enactment
• Serverless workflows and serverless orchestration
• Workflows integrating emerging computing,  storage and networking technologies (e.g., quantum, DNA)
• Workflow modeling
• Workflow composition languages and orchestrators
• Workflow scheduling and resource management (including energy efficiency and cost)
• Application of AI/ML to workflow management
• Performance analysis and debugging of workflows
• Workflow provenance
• Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques
• Workflows and autonomous, self-driving labs
• Interdisciplinary workflow applications
• Workflow applications and their requirements
• Reproducible research using workflows
• Exascale computing with workflows
• Big Data analytics workflows

Important Dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE):

• Paper and Abstract Submission: August 7, 2026 (Final Extension)
• Paper and Abstract Acceptance Notification: September 4, 2026
• Camera-ready Submission: September 25, 2026
• Workshop: November 15, 2026

There will be two forms of presentations:

• Paper presentations - Resulting from the submission of Full Papers (up to 8 pages) describing a novel research contribution in the topics listed above.
• Panel discussions - Resulting from the submission of Abstracts (up to 4 pages) - We encourage abstract submissions from early career researchers with ground-breaking ideas, and established researchers with vast experience and a vision for the future. The purpose of the contributed panel is to support the discussion of emerging ideas in contrast with previously successful approaches.

Review Process:

Full Papers will undergo a thorough, single blind review process. Each full paper will receive at least three reviews from experts in our Workshop Program Committee. Each full paper will be presented at the workshop, and be included in the SC Workshop Proceedings. Our committee will value efforts towards improving the reproducibility and transparency of the presented research. We encourage full paper submissions to include information about relevant software and data artifacts within the paper. Authors are also encouraged to make available online any products of their paper (e.g., simulators, graphs, experimental results, logs, etc.). However, dedicated Artifact Description (AD)/Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendices are not expected as part of the submission.

Abstracts will undergo a thorough, single blind review process and each will receive at least three reviews from experts in our Workshop Program Committee. Based on the content of the accepted abstracts, the Workshop Chairs will organize a Panel discussion during the workshop centered around the contributed topics. One author from each accepted abstract will participate in the panel discussion. Accepted abstracts will not be included in the SC Workshop Proceedings. Unlike some of the previous editions of WORKS, abstracts will not be compiled into a full paper.

Proceedings Publication:

Accepted full papers from the workshop will be published in the SC Workshops Proceedings volume, and made available online through the IEEE Xplore.

Submissions:

• Full papers: Submissions are limited to 8 pages.
• Abstracts: Submissions are limited to 4 pages.

Submissions are limited to 8 two-column pages (U.S. letter – 8.5″ x 11″), excluding the bibliography, using the IEEE proceedings template. The IEEE conference proceeding templates for LaTeX and MS Word provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download in this link. Latex users, please use the "conference" mode. To enhance the accessibility, accuracy, and longevity of references in all submitted manuscripts, authors are strongly encouraged to include Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for all cited works whenever available. Page limits include all figures, tables, references, and appendices.

Both Abstracts and Full Papers must be submitted through the official SC26 submission site: http://submissions.supercomputing.org/

More Information:
For more information, please visit the WORKS website at https://works-workshop.org/
 
WORKS 2026 Organizing Committee:

• General Chairs
• Silvina Caino-Lores, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), France
• Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), UNC Chapel Hill, USA
• Publicity Chair
• George Papadimitriou, Apple, USA
• Steering Committee
• David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
• Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
• Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA

WORKS 2026 Program Committee (Tentative):

• Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Changxin Bai, Kettering University, USA
• Silvina Caino-Lores, INRIA, France
• Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
• Alberto Cascajo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Iacoppo Colonnelli, University of Torino, Italy
• Alexandru Costan, INSA Rennes, France
• Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil
• Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
• Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Sandro Fiore, University of Trento, Italy
• Sandra Gesing, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA
• William Godoy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Amal Gueroudji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Daniel S. Katz, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
• Jakob Luettgau, INRIA, France
• Ketan C. Maheshwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Krakow, Poland
• Anirban Mandal, RENCI, USA
• Marta Mattoso, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Raffaele Montella, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
• Paula Olaya, NVIDIA, USA
• Loïc Pottier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Bruno Raffin, INRIA, France
• Sashko Ristov, University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Raul Sirvent, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
• Renan Souza, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Frédéric Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
• Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Cong Wang, RENCI, USA
• Sean R. Wilkinson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory, USA