Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science

WORKS'13 was the eighth workshop in the WORKS series. The call for papers attracted sixteen submissions from Asia, Europe, North and South America. The quality of the papers, peer reviewed by the program committee, were exceptional this year and overall thirteen of the papers were accepted, covering a variety of topics, including provenance and metadata, workflow models, workflow tasks characterization, workflow engines scalability, and distributed computing performance.