Science Gateways are a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data collections that are integrated together via a Web portal or a desktop application, providing access to resources and services of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs). Nowadays, computing resources that may be used in Science Gateways go beyond the usual Grid. Computing resources such as the hybrid Cloud (Cloud, Fog, Edge), the Internet of Things (IoT) and various off-the-shelf methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be readily used for scientific applications. Additionally, technologies such as Blockchain and Smart Contracts may be used for secure aggregation of resources for scientific work at an unprecedented large scale.

Science Gateways offer the potential to open the utilisation of DCIs to wider audiences by providing a customised and easy to use user interface to access large computational and data resources. The complexity of the underlying infrastructure can be completely hidden from the end-users by a suitably tailored interface. As interest in Science Gateways has accelerated in the past few years, there is an increasing number of new user communities in practically all possible areas of scientific interest.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and scientists from different scientific domains, along with software engineers and Science Gateways developers, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new issues, to shape future directions for research, foster the exchange of ideas, standards and common requirements and push towards the wider adoption of Science Gateways in e-Science.The final day of the workshop will be dedicated to invited presentations of Science Gateways and Scientific Visualization in Astronomy particularly focussed to the Square Kilometre Array. This event is sponsored by the SKA Visual Analytics (SKAVA) project funded by INAF under the Astrophysics Fundamental Research Grant (Techno Grant).

Submission Guidelines

We invite the submission of papers related to Science Gateways. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• AI and ML for science gateways
• Social research on science gateways
• E-infrastructures hosting and supporting science gateways
• Architectures, frameworks and technologies for Science Gateways
• Science Gateways sustaining collaborative communities
• Research data management and Big Data visual analytics through Science Gateways
• Support for scalability and data-driven methods in Science Gateways
• Improving the reproducibility of science in Science Gateways
• Science Gateway usability, portals, workflows and tools
• Software engineering approaches supporting scientific work
• Aspects of Science Gateways, such as security and stability

We particularly encourage submissions from application scientists and community members reporting their firsthand experiences with science gateways. There are three forms of presentation:

• Talks
• Lightning talks
• Demonstrations

Submission of a full paper may result in a talk, while submission of an abstract may result in a lightning talk or demonstration. Presenters of full papers will be allotted a 30-minutes time slot (25 min talk, 5 min questions) to provide a summary and update on their work. Meanwhile, presenters of abstracts will be given a 15-minutes (10 min talk, 5 min questions) time slot.

All contributions will be subject to standard peer review for quality, relevance, and novelty, which will determine acceptance and the form of presentation. All submissions will be kept confidential prior to publication in the proceedings. Full papers must not exceed six A4 pages and must be written in clear and readable English. Abstracts must not exceed 500 words and may include a diagram. They should also be written in clear, readable English. Authors of abstracts should include the word “Abstract:” in the title.

Papers and abstracts will only be accepted electronically in PDF format and must be submitted through our EasyChair website. Please find templates for papers and abstracts at IWSG Paper and Abstract Templates.

Committees

PC Chairs

• Eva Sciacca, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Catania, Italy 
• Fabio Roberto Vitello, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Catania, Italy 
• Sandra Gesing, San Diego Supercomputer Center, US Research Software Engineer Association

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the workshop chairs.