Please consider submitting a whitepaper to this workshop. The deadline for whitepapers is June 12. See details below.
Best, Lois Begin forwarded message: > From: "Heroux, Michael A" <[email protected]> > Subject: [SIAM-SC] CSESSP Challenges: Call for Participation > Date: May 16, 2015 11:11:12 AM EDT > To: SIAM-SC list <[email protected]>, SIAM CSE <[email protected]> > > Hi Colleagues, > > The Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and > Productivity Challenges (CSESSP Challenges) Workshop will provide an > opportunity for multi-agency collaboration on the common software challenges > the CSE community faces. > > The organizers are encouraging the submission of short, thoughtful white > papers. > > Meeting details are below and available https://www.nitrd.gov/csessp. > > Thanks. > > Mike > > ----------------------- > > Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity > Challenges (CSESSP Challenges) > > An inter-agency workshop sponsored by the Networking and Information > Technology Research and Development (NITRD) / Software Design and > Productivity (SDP) Coordinating Group (CG). > > October 15th-16th 2015, Washington DC, USA > https://www.nitrd.gov/csessp > > Call for Participation > > Software has emerged as a critical technology in all sectors including > defense, health systems, banking, transportation, energy, science and > engineering, and manufacturing. However, software lifecycle cost is > increasingly becoming the dominant fraction of the total information > technology investment. Additionally, software activities have been a major > factor in large-scale project delays, failures, cost overruns, and > productivity bottlenecks. There is a general consensus that current > approaches produce software that is difficult to maintain, upgrade, and > scale, especially in the face of rapidly changing machine architecture and > new system requirements. > > The CSESSP Challenges workshop will identify the unique issues around > software productivity and sustainability faced by the NITRD computational > science and engineering (CSE) communities, bringing together experts from > academia, industry, government, and national laboratories. The workshop will > focus on general issues and challenges of software systems sustainability and > productivity with the aim of making software a first-class issue in the > specification, design, cost and lifecycles management of science and > engineering infrastructures. In this context, the workshop will discuss > technical issues that impact software sustainability, such as software > requirements engineering, high-productivity software engineering, > reproducibility, software maintenance processes, and scalable, reusable, and > portable software system architectures, to name a few. > > We invite short (1 or 2 page) papers from computational science software > developers, software system engineers, computer system engineers and > architects, software managers, experts in related scientific software fields > and government agency representatives. In the context of improving CSE > software sustainability and productivity, these papers should identify and > describe challenges, new approaches and strategies, best practices or > experiences in related fields, and non-technical issues such as science > policies and economic factors. These papers will be used by the program > committee to structure the workshop, provide background material, and > contribute to selecting attendees. > > Areas of interest for the CSESSP Challenges Workshop include but are not > limited to the following: > > - Characterization of the emerging sustainability and productivity crisis > from laptops to extreme-scale systems. > o Software as a critical national infrastructure and as a virtual facility > for computational science and engineering. > - New approaches to scientific software that significantly improve > sustainability and productivity, including leveraging software engineering > research: > o Strategies and technologies for minimizing the impacts of rapidly > changing architectures and languages on large software systems > o Facilitating software performance, portability, legacy software > factoring, interoperability and reusability. > - Understanding the economics of CSE software and opportunities and new > models of partnership between academia, independent software vendors, the > manufacturing industry and government: > o Understanding licensing and governance issues. > o Opportunities for economic sustainment of software tools. > - Encouraging and developing software ecosystems to support and advance > sustained scientific innovation and discovery: > o Supporting and leveraging changes in computing technologies, science > methods and algorithms. > o Understanding how software tools can contribute to sustainability & > productivity. > - Supporting and encouraging CSE user and developer communities; education > and building a CSE software workforce. > > Submissions: > > Submissions of up to two pages should be formatted to be easily readable and > submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at > https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csessp2015. > > Deadline for Submission: > > 12 June 2015 (any time of day) > > Travel Support: > > Some limited travel support may be available, please check the workshop web > page. > > Important Dates: > > - June 12, 2015 Paper submission deadline > - July 24 2015 Workshop attendees invited > - September 11, 2015 Deadline for acceptances > - October 15-16, 2015 CSESSP Challenges Workshop > > Organizers: > > - Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA > - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories > > Steering Committee: > > - Dai Hyun Kim, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) > - Daniel S. Katz, National Science Foundation > - James Kirby, Naval Research Laboratory > - Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation > - Steven Drager, Air Force Research Laboratory > - T. Ndousse-Fetter, Office of Science, US Department of Energy > - Vivien Bonazzi, NIH/OD/Senior Advisor for Data Science Technologies ADDs > Team > - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology > > Program Committee: > > - Jeff Carver, U of Alabama > - Tom Clune, NASA > - Merle Giles, U of Illinois > - Lois McInnes, Argonne > - Manish Parashar, Rutgers University > - Doug Post, DOD > - Roldan Pozo, NIST > - Ethan Coon, LANL > > > _______________________________________________ > SIAM-SC mailing list > To post messages to the list please send them to: [email protected] > http://lists.siam.org/mailman/listinfo/siam-sc
