Conference Call for Papers

The 15th eScience Conference will be held in San Diego, California in the United States of America
from September 24 – 27, 2019.

eScience 2019 welcomes the international community of researchers and software engineers from all
disciplines to present and discuss their scientific practices involving data science and computing.
Researchers from the humanities to physics, engaged in collaborative data- or compute-intensive
research, are invited to attend. The objective of the eScience Conference is to promote innovation in
collaborative, computationally- or data-intensive research across all disciplines, throughout the
research lifecycle.

Science in a digital world presents new opportunities and challenges. One of these challenges is
keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in computer science. Furthermore, some scientific
disciplines are well advanced in exploiting computational technologies and data science, while others
are just scratching the surface. The aim of this conference is cross-fertilization across scientific
disciplines, to advance science by fully exploiting the use of technology and cyberinfrastructure.
Disciplines include, but are not limited to: life sciences, health research, digital humanities and social
sciences, physics, chemistry, astronomy, climate, environmental science, and earth science. Digital
technologies include, but are not limited to: machine learning, natural language processing, real time
data analysis, interoperability and linked data, multi-scale and multi model simulations, high
performance computing, workflow technologies, reproducibility, visualization, open science and image
processing.

The three-day conference program consists of two single track days open for all eScience
contributions. This year, in addition to the main track, the conference offers focused tracks on
Computing for Physics, eScience for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Smart Grid Measurement
and Modeling, and Computer Science: Tools & Infrastructure. This call for papers is for full papers (10
pages) for oral presentations and short papers (2-4 pages) for poster presentations in all tracks of the
conference, all in IEEE format. To be eligible for an oral presentation, you must submit the abstract
of your full paper before Monday April 29, and your full paper before Monday May 6, 2019. Rejected
full papers will also be considered for a poster presentation. All full and short papers are single-blind
peer reviewed and if accepted published in the conference proceedings that will be made available
online through the IEEE Digital Library. It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted
paper attends the conference.

On the day prior to the conference there will be workshops and tutorials. Please refer to the call for
workshops and call for tutorials separately.

In addition, this year, eScience is co-located with the Gateways conference. The two conferences
will offer a shared keynote, presentations about mutually interesting topics, and a shared evening
reception, as well as opportunities for mingling during the breaks. Conference attendees will have
the option to register for one or both conferences, in full or in part. These two audiences share
interests, content, and culture, and we will announce further details of our collaboration in 2019.
This is an opportunity to attend both events!

We aim for a diverse audience. Therefore, we strongly encourage all researchers from all disciplines
and backgrounds to submit:
• state-of-the-art computer science work and demonstrate its application
• research that shows the impact of computational technology and data sciences on science

Key Dates

Workshop Submissions Due: April 1, 2019
Workshop Acceptance Notification: April 22, 2019
Paper Abstracts Due: April 29, 2019
Paper, Tutorial and Poster Submissions: May 6, 2019
Notification of Acceptance: June 24, 2019
Camera-ready Papers: July 15, 2019

Paper Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit full conference papers (up to 10 pages excl. references) for an oral
presentation using the IEEE 8.5 × 11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using singlespaced
10-point font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages. Templates are available from
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Authors are invited to submit a short paper for a poster presentation using the same template, but
limited to 2-4 pages including figures and references.

Contributions should be submitted in PDF format to easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2019

Organization

General Chair
Ilkay Altintas (San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, USA)

Program Chairs
David Abramson (University of Queensland, Australia)
Adam Belloum (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Amarnath Gupta (UC San Diego, USA)

Publication Chair
Nadya Williams (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Publicity Chair
Sandra Gesing (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Workshop Chairs
Kyle Chard (Argonne National Laboratory, University of Chicago, USA)
Simon Caton (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Tutorial Chairs
Rosa Badia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Robert Sinkovits (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Poster Chairs
Shava Smallen (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)
Jianwu Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

Local Chairs
Susan Rathbun (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)
Cindy Wong (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Web Chair
Kate Kaya (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Industry Chair
James Short (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Finance Chair
Fritz Leader (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA)

Track Chairs
Smart Grid Measurement and Modeling
Raymond de Callafon (University of California San Diego, USA)
Computer Science: Tools & Infrastructure
Rafael Ferreira da Silva (University of Southern California, USA)
Zhiming Zhao (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
eScience for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Molly Roberts (University of California San Diego, USA)
Computing for Physics
Frank Wuerthwein (University of California San Diego, USA)