Wei Tan

PhD, Research Professional Associate

Computation Institute
University of Chicago
Argonne National Laboratory

wtan at mcs.anl.gov

                  Brief Bio

              Research Interests

              Research Experience

              Publications

              Invited talks

              Awards

              Professional Services

Brief Bio.

I am a Research Professional Associate at the Computation Institute, the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab. I received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in Jan, 2008. My doctoral work addressed flexible BPEL service composition and distributed workflow execution. From Jan to July 2007, sponsored by the IBM PhD Fellowship program, I visited IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, while there I conducted research on BPEL-based job flow management in batch job execution systems.

Research Interests.

Scientific and business workflows.
Service-oriented science.
Grid computing.
Petri net.

Research Experience.

11/2007-
· Staff, Computation Institute, the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab
· NIH funded caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) project.
· Research & development of workflow management system to support scientific investigation.
01/2007-07/2007
· Graduate Co-Op, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
· BPEL4Job: BPEL based job flow management in grid/distributed environment.
· With 1 paper accepted by ICSOC’07, 1 prototype system delivered.
05/2005- 12/2006
· Visiting student, IBM China Research Lab, Beijing, China
· Research on flexible service composition approaches and systems in SOA.
· With 1 patent filed, 3 papers published, and 2 prototype systems delivered.
09/2002-12/2006
· Research assistant, Dept. Automation, Tsinghua University
· Projects funded by National High-tech. Plan of China, National Science Foundation of China, etc.
· Distributed workflow management, adaptive web service composition and orchestration.

Publications.

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2010

M. Brian Blake, Wei Tan, Florian Rosenberg. Composition as a Service. IEEE Internet Computing. 2010, no.1: 80-84

2009

Wei Tan, Paolo Missier, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri, Carole Goble. A Comparison of Using Taverna and BPEL in Building Scientific Workflows: the case of caGrid. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. (Accepted)
Wei Tan, Yushun Fan, Mengchu Zhou, Zhong Tian. Data-driven Service Composition in Building SOA Solutions: A Petri Net Approach. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.(Accepted)
Wei Tan, Yushun Fan, Mengchu Zhou. A Petri Net-based Method for Compatibility Analysis and Composition of Web Services in Business Process Execution Language. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 2009, vol. 6, issue 1: 94-106 (pdf)
Wei Tan, Kyle Chard, Dinanath Sulakhe, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster, Stian Soiland-Reyes, Carole Goble. Scientific workflows as services in caGrid: a Taverna and gRAVI approach.IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July, 2009. (Research track, acceptance rate 15.6%)
Kyle Chard, Wei Tan, Joshua Boverhof, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster. Wrap Scientific Applications as WSRF Grid Services using gRAVI.IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July, 2009. (Research track, acceptance rate 15.6%)

2008

Wei Tan, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri. Scientific workflows that enable Web-scale collaboration: combining the power of Taverna and caGrid. IEEE Internet Computing. 2008, vol.12, no.6: 30-37 (pdf)
Yanchong Zheng, Yushun Fan, Wei Tan. Towards Workflow Simulation in Service Oriented Architecture: an Event Based Approach. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 2008, 20 (4): 315-330 (pdf)
Wei Tan, Yushun Fan, Ian Foster, Ravi Madduri. Workflow in a Service Oriented Cyberinfrastructure Environment. in: Junwei Cao (Ed.). Cyberinfrastructure Technologies and Applications. Nova Science Publishers, 2008. (book chapter)
Wei Tan, Ravi Madduri, Kiran Keshav, Baris E. Suzek, Scott Oster, Ian Foster. Orchestrating caGrid Services in Taverna. IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2008.Sept, 2008, Beijing, China.
Wei Tan, Paolo Missier, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster. Building Scientific Workflow with Taverna and BPEL: a Comparative Study in caGrid. 4th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA'08), in conjunction with 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Dec, 2008.
Kyle Chard, Cem Onyuksel, Wei Tan, Dinanath Sulakhe, Ravi Madduri, Ian Foster. Build Grid Enabled Scientific Workflows using gRAVI and Taverna. SWBES08: Challenging Issues in Workflow Applications Workshop, in conjunction with 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Dec, 2008.

2007

Wei Tan, Yushun Fan. Dynamic Workflow Model Fragmentation for Distributed Execution. Computers in Industry. 2007, (58): 381-391 (pdf)
Wei Tan, Liana Fong, Norman Bobroff. BPEL4Job: a Fault-handling Design for Job Flow Management. Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2007. Sept, 2007 (pdf)
Wei Tan, Fangyan Rao, Yushun Fan, Jun Zhu. Compatibility Analysis and Mediation-aided Composition for BPEL Services. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2007.

2006

Wei Tan, Zhong Tian, Fangyan Rao, Li Wang, Ru Fang. Process Guided Service Composition in Building SoA Solutions: A Data Driven Approach. IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2006.
Wei Tan, Yushun Fan. Decentralized Workflow Execution for Virtual Enterprises in Grid Environment. Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments, 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006).
Yanchong Zheng, Yushun Fan, Wei Tan. Interactive-Event-Based Workflow Simulation in Service Oriented Computing. 5th International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2006).

2003-2005

Wei Tan, Yushun Fan. Model fragmentation for distributed workflow execution: A Petri net approach. 5th International School and Symposium on Advanced Distributed Systems (ISSADS 2005), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3563. Springer Verlag, 2005.

Tan Wei, Fan Yushun. Research on service matching and composition in network manufacturing environment. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS), 2005 (10) (in Chinese)
Tan Wei, Fan Yushun. Research on architecture and key technology for Business Process Management. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems (CIMS), 2004 (7) (in Chinese)
Tan Wei, Fan Yushun. Research on workflow system based on web service technology. The 1st National Scientific conference on Networked Manufacturing and Mass Customization, 2003. (in Chinese)

Patents

US Patent (Pub. No. 20080255903). Business process execution method, business process engine and method for deploying a business process engine.
China Patent (App. No. 200710090499.X). Business process execution method, business process engine and method for deploying a business process engine.
China Patent (App. No. 200810055620.X). Workflow model fragmentation method supporting decentralized execution.

Invited talks.

Scientific workflows that enable Web-scale collaboration: caBIG and beyond. Invited by Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, China. Jan 12, 2010
Orchestrating caGrid Services in Taverna. IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2008, Beijing, China, Sept. 24, 2008. (PPT)
BPEL4Job: a Fault-handling Design for Job Flow Management. Fifth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 18, 2007. (PPT)
Building Scientific Workflow with Taverna and BPEL: a Comparative Study in caGrid. 4th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA'08), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 1, 2008. (PPT)

Awards.

caBIG™ Teamwork Award 2008. National Cancer Institute, 2008. [Read More...]
IBM PhD Fellowship. IBM Corp, 2006-2007 (Only 50+ awardees globally).
Outstanding Poster Award (collaboration with Prof. Ian Foster and Mr. Ravi Madduri and other colleagues). Biomedical Informatics Without Borders Meeting, 2008.[Abstract...][pdf]

Professional Services.

Program Committee

IEEE Workshop on Health Care Management 2010 (WHCM 2010)
21th International Conference onDatabase and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010)
IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2010)
4th International Workshop on Workflow Management (ICWM2009)
20th International Conference onDatabase and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009)
1st Intl. WS. on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2009)

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from 2010)
International Journal of Web Service Research (JWSR), Manuscript Manager (from 2009)
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A (from 2008)
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (from 2008)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (from 2008)
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (from 2009)
Information Science (from 2008)
Journal of Computer Science and Technology (from 2009)
IEEE International Conference on Web Service (2007)
IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (2007)
Workshop on Workflow Systems in Grid Environments (WSGE 2006)
29th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (Petri Nets 2008, ATPN 2008)
Journal of Database Management
Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems

Address.

Office:
Argonne National Labs:
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
TCS/240, Room 5147
9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439
phone:(630)-252-7150
email: wtan at mcs.anl.gov

University of Chicago:
Searle Chemistry Laboratory
5735 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

URL http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wtan/
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