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---------------- WORKS 2025 Workshop -----------------20th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science
https://works-workshop.org/ Monday, November 17th 2025, St. Louis, MO, USA
Held in conjunction withÂ
SC25, The International Conference on High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Submissions deadline: August 1, 2025
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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; and process near real-time data streams, files, and data placed in different types of storage systems. 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
TheÂ
Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS)Âfocuses 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.Â
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.Â
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, networks, and AI infrastructures)
- Agentic workflows
- End-to-end workflows - from instruments to networks to cross-facility enactment
- Serverless workflows and serverless orchestration
- Workflows integrating emerging computing, Âstorage 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, AI workflows
Important Dates - All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE):- Paper and Abstract Submission: August 1, 2025
- Paper and Abstract Acceptance Notification: September 5, 2025
- Camera-ready Submission: September 26, 2025
- Workshop: November 17, 2025
- Paper presentationsÂ- Resulting from the submission ofÂFull PapersÂ(up to 12 pages) describing a novel research contribution in the topics listed above.
- Panel discussionsÂ- Resulting from the submission ofÂAbstractsÂ(up to 4 pages) - To celebrate the 20th edition of the workshop, we encourage abstract submissions from early career researchers with ground-breaking ideas, and established researchers with vast experience. The purpose of the contributed panel is to support the discussion of emerging ideas in contrast with previously successful approaches.
Review Process:
Full PapersÂwill 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.
AbstractsÂwill 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 topic ofÂâTrailblazing vs. Time-Tested: Navigating the Future of Scientific Workflowsâ. One author from each accepted abstract will participate in the panel discussion. Accepted abstracts will not be included in the SC Workshop Proceedings.ÂUnlike 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 ACM Digital Library.
Submissions:- Full papers:ÂSubmissions are limited to 12 pages. The 12-page limit includes figures, tables, references, and appendices.
- Abstracts:ÂSubmissions are limited to 4 pages (including figures, tables and references).
The format of the paper submissions for Full Papers and Abstracts should be two-column text in the U.S. Letter pages, as per ACM conference proceedings guidelines. All submissions must use the ACM conference proceedings templates available fromÂ
this link. Latex users, please use the âsigconfâ option. Word authors, please use the âInterim Layoutâ.
More Information:For more information, please visit the WORKS website atÂ
https://works-workshop.org/Â
WORKS 2025 Organizing Committee:- General Chairs
- Silvina Caino-Lores, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), France
- Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), University of North Carolina, USA
- Publicity Chair and Web Chair
- George Papadimitriou, Apple, USA
- Arthur Jaquard, Inria, France
- Steering Commitee
- 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 2025 Program Committee:
- Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Changxin Bai, Kettering University, USA
- Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Alberto Cascajo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Iacoppo Colonnelli, University of Torino, Italy
- Alexandru Costan, INSA Rennes, France
- Daniel de Olivera,ÂFluminese Federal University, Brazil
- Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
- Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Sandro Fiore,ÂUniversity of Trento, Italy
- William Godoy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Daniel S. Katz,ÂNational Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
- Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Daniel Laney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Ketan C. Maheshwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Maciej Malawski,ÂAGH University of Krakow, Poland
- Marta Mattoso, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Paola Olaya, IBM, USA
- LoÃc Pottier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
- Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Sashko Ristov,ÂUniversity of Innsbruck, Austria
- Yogesh Simhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Raul Sirvent, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
- Tyler Skluzacek,ÂOak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- FrÃdÃric Suter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
- Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
- Sean R. Wilkinson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Orcun Yildiz, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
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