The 16th eScience Conference (eScience 2020) will be held in Osaka, Japan from September 8 – 11, 2020.
The eScience 2020 conference promotes innovation in collaborative research and education across all disciplines,
throughout the research lifecycle.

The eScience conference has a long history of hosting a wide range of well-attended workshops
broadly related to eScience. These workshops play a crucial role in the conference
by providing opportunity for researchers to present their work
and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community.

eScience 2020 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held with the main conference on September 8, 2020.

Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing their own program committee, paper submission system,
collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time,
ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions,
and assigning session chairs. Proposals that show clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging
or developing interest guaranteed to generate significant interest in the community will be prioritized.

The proceedings of the workshops will be included in the eScience 2020 proceedings. As such,
workshop organizers must follow the publication timeline of the main conference.
For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered for
eScience 2020 to present the paper in person.

/ Key Dates /

Workshop Submissions Due: Friday March 06, 2020
Workshop Submissions Due: Friday March 20, 2020
Workshop Submissions Due: Friday April 3, 2020 (Final extension)
Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday March 20, 2020
Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday April 3, 2020
Workshop Acceptance Notification: Friday April 17, 2020 (Final extension)
All Camera-ready Submissions Due: Friday August 07, 2020
Workshop Date: Tuesday September 08, 2020

/ Workshop Proposal Submission Guidelines /

Workshop proposals should be submitted via email to escience2020-workshops@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp
and include the following information:

・Workshop name
・Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words)
・Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks)
・Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees
・A draft call for papers
・Expected number of submissions/accepted papers
・Prior history of this workshop, if any

We invite proposals for half and full-day tutorials to be held at eScience 2020 on September 8, 2020. The eScience 2020 Tutorial Program is intended to disseminate information to conference attendees on recently emerging topics and trends in eScience, provide surveys and overviews of related digital technologies, and teach new and/or state-of-the art tools and techniques relevant to the eScience audience. We encourage submissions that fall in the area of the conference, and specially those that have a practical (hands-on) part that help attendees on learning the new technologies presented in the tutorial.

Please send any inquiries to [escience2020-tutorials@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp]

eScience 2020 Tutorials Program Co-Chairs:
Atsuko Takefusa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan

/ Schedule /

Tutorial Submissions Due: Friday April 10, 2020
Tutorial Acceptance Notification: Friday June 12, 2020
Tutorial Date: Tuesday September 08, 2020

/ Submission Guidelines /

Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email to escience2020-tutorials@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp.
Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include the following elements

– Title and length (either half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) of the tutorial
– Short abstract (300 words)
– Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required
– Previous offerings of the tutorial if any
– Detailed contact information of all presenters (and indication of the main contact person)
– Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant teaching experience

The extended abstract (no longer than 2 pages) should include the following sections

– Motivation
– Brief outline of the topics to be covered
– Detailed agenda of the tutorial
– Links to related resources
– Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees