<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div> First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science:</div><div> Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE)</div><div> </div><div> <a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/</a></div><div> (in conjunction with SC13)</div><div> Sunday, November 17, 2013, Denver, CO</div><div><br></div><div>Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of </div><div>software at all levels and it is now critical to address many new challenges </div><div>related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software. In</div><div>addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to</div><div>learn and adopt a new set of software-related skills and methodologies.</div><div>Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills, and in</div><div>particular a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic</div><div>environments who are an integral and embedded part of successful research teams.</div><div>This workshop will provide a forum for discussion of the challenges, including</div><div>both positions and experiences. The short papers and discussion will be archived</div><div>as a basis for continued discussion, and we intend the workshop to feed into the</div><div>collaborative writing of one or more journal publications.</div><div><br></div><div>In practice, scientific software activities are part of an ecosystem where key</div><div>roles are held by developers, users, and funders. All three groups supply</div><div>resources to the ecosystem, as well as requirements that bound it. Roughly</div><div>following the example of NSF's Vision and Strategy for Software</div><div>(<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12113">http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12113</a>), the ecosystem</div><div>may be viewed as having challenges related to:</div><div><br></div><div> * the development process that leads to new software</div><div> - how fundamental research in computer science or science/engineering</div><div> domains is turned into reusable software</div><div> - software created as a by-product of research</div><div> - impact of computer science research on the development of scientific</div><div> software</div><div> * the support and maintenance of existing software, including</div><div> - software engineering</div><div> - governance, business, and sustainability models</div><div> - the role of community software repositories, their operation and sustainability</div><div> * the role of open source communities or industry</div><div> * use of the software</div><div> - growing communities</div><div> - reproducibility, transparency needs that may be unique to science</div><div> * policy issues, such as</div><div> - measuring usage and impact</div><div> - software credit, attribution, incentive, and reward</div><div> - career paths for developers and institutional roles</div><div> - issues related to multiple organizations and multiple countries,</div><div> such as intellectual property, licensing, etc.</div><div> - mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the role of publishers</div><div> * education and training</div><div> </div><div>This workshop is interested in all of the above topics. We invite short</div><div>(4-page) position/experience reports that will be used to organize panel and</div><div>discussion sessions. These papers will be archived by a third-party service,</div><div>and provided DOIs. We encourage submitters to license their papers under a</div><div>Creative Commons license that encourages sharing and remixing, as we will</div><div>combine ideas (with attribution) into the outcomes of the workshop. An</div><div>interactive site will be created to link these papers and the workshop</div><div>discussion, with options for later comments and contributions. Contributions</div><div>will be peer-reviewed for relevance and originality before the links are</div><div>added to the workshop site; contributions will also be used to determine</div><div>discussion topics and panelists. We will also plan one or more papers to</div><div>be collaboratively developed by the contributors, based on the panels and</div><div>discussions.</div><div><br></div><div>Deadline:</div><div><br></div><div>6 September 2013 (any time of day, no extensions)</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions:</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions of up to four pages should be formatted to be easily readable</div><div>and submitted to an open access repository that provides unique identifiers</div><div>that can be cited, for example <a href="http://arXiv.org">http://arXiv.org</a>, <a href="http://figshare.com">http://figshare.com</a>, etc.</div><div>The submitter should then email the URL and identifier (or any questions) to</div><div><a href="mailto:wssspe@gmail.com">wssspe@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Organizers:</div><div><br></div><div> * Daniel S. Katz, <a href="mailto:d.katz@ieee.org">d.katz@ieee.org</a>, National Science Foundation, USA</div><div> * Gabrielle Allen, <a href="mailto:allen@skoltech.ru">allen@skoltech.ru</a>, Skolkovo Institute of Science and</div><div> Technology, Russian Federation</div><div> * Neil Chue Hong, <a href="mailto:N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk">N.ChueHong@software.ac.uk</a>, Software Sustainability</div><div> Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK</div><div> * Manish Parashar, <a href="mailto:parashar@rutgers.edu">parashar@rutgers.edu</a>, Rutgers University, USA</div><div> * David Proctor, <a href="mailto:djproctor@gmail.com">djproctor@gmail.com</a>, National Science Foundation, USA</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee: </div><div> </div><div> * David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia</div><div> * Aron Ahmadia, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia</div><div> * Samuel Arbesman, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, USA</div><div> * Lorena A. Barba, Boston University, USA</div><div> * Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego, USA</div><div> * Karen Cranston, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, USA</div><div> * Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA</div><div> * David De Roure, University of Oxford, UK</div><div> * Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland</div><div> * Anshu Dubey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA</div><div> * Victor Eruhimov, Itseez, Russian Federation</div><div> * David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK</div><div> * Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University, USA</div><div> * Alexander A. Granovsky, Firefly project, Russian Federation</div><div> * Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA</div><div> * Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation, USA</div><div> * James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div> * James Hetherington, University College London, UK</div><div> * James Howison, University of Texas at Austin, USA</div><div> * Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA</div><div> * Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA</div><div> * Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA</div><div> * Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA</div><div> * Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA</div><div> * Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK</div><div> * Cameron Neylon, PLOS, UK</div><div> * Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK</div><div> * Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA</div><div> * Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany</div><div> * Jennifer M. Schopf, IEEE Computer Society, USA</div><div> * Edgar Spalding, University of Wisconsin, USA</div><div> * Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA</div><div> * Matthew Turk, Columbia University, USA</div><div> * Greg Watson, IBM, USA</div><div> * Scott Wilson, OSS Watch, UK</div><div> * Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
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