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<div class="gmail_quote">Le 10 juin 2016 17:15, "Abigail Cabunoc Mayes" <<a href="mailto:abigail@mozillafoundation.org">abigail@mozillafoundation.org</a>> a écrit :<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Call for Submissions:<br>
<br>
4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)<br>
(<a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/</a>)<br>
<br>
Location: School of Computer Science, Kilburn and IT Buildings, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK<br>
Dates: 2 ½ days from <span><span>Sept. 12th noon</span></span> – <span><span>Sept. 14th 5 pm, 2016</span></span><br>
Immediately preceding and co-located in Manchester with First Conference of Research Software Engineers<br>
(RSE Conference) (<span><span>Sept 15-16</span></span> at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK)<br>
<br>
Follow @wssspe, tweet with #wssspe<br>
<br>
A nominal registration fee may be charged.<br>
<br>
Abstract:<br>
<br>
Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of research software at all levels. It<br>
is now critical to address many new challenges related to the development, deployment, maintenance, and<br>
sustainability of open-use research software: the software upon which specific research results rely. Open-use<br>
software means that the software is widely accessible (whether open source, shareware, or commercial).<br>
Research software means that the choice of software is essential to specific research results; using different<br>
software could produce different results.<br>
<br>
In addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a new set of<br>
software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills,<br>
and in particular, a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic environments who are an<br>
integral and embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides a forum for discussion of these<br>
challenges, including both positions and experiences, and a forum for the community to assemble and act.<br>
<br>
WSSSPE4 will consist of two separate tracks with some joint sessions:<br>
<br>
Track 1 – Building a sustainable future for open-use research software has the goals of defining a vision of the<br>
future of open-use research software, and in the workshop, initiating the activities that are needed to get there.<br>
The idea of this track is to first think about where we want to be 5 to <span><span>10 years from now</span></span>, without being too<br>
concerned with where we are today, and then to determine how we can move to this future.<br>
<br>
Track 2 – Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software has the goal of improving the quality of<br>
today’s research software and the experiences of its developers by sharing practices and experiences. This<br>
track is focused on the current state of scientific software and what we can do to improve it in the short term,<br>
starting with where we are today.<br>
<br>
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br>
<br>
• Development and Community<br>
• Best practices for developing sustainable software<br>
• Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations<br>
• Software tools that aid sustainability<br>
• Academia/industry interaction<br>
• Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software<br>
• Engineering design for sustainable software<br>
• Metrics for the success of scientific software<br>
• Adaptation of mainstream software practices for scientific software<br>
• Professionalization<br>
• Career paths<br>
• RSE as a brand<br>
• RSE outside of the UK or Europe<br>
• Increase incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better software<br>
• Training<br>
• Training for developing sustainable software<br>
• Curriculum for software sustainability<br>
• Credit<br>
• Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for software<br>
• Future credit and citation ecosystem<br>
• Software contributions as a part of tenure review<br>
• Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions<br>
• Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software<br>
• Software publishing<br>
• Journals and alternative venues for publishing software<br>
• Review processes for published software<br>
• Software discoverability/reuse<br>
• Proposals and case studies<br>
• Reproducibility and testing<br>
• Reproducibility in conferences and journals<br>
• Best practices for code testing and code review<br>
<br>
Important Dates:<br>
• Submission of lightning talks: <span><span>July 10</span></span><br>
• Submission of Track 1 idea papers: <span><span>July 10</span></span><br>
• Submission of Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations of previously<br>
published works, and demos: <span><span>July 10</span></span><br>
• Submission of travel support requests: <span><span>July 10</span></span><br>
• Lightning talk decisions announced: <span><span>Aug 1</span></span><br>
• Track 1 idea papers decisions announced: <span><span>Aug 1</span></span><br>
• Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations of previously published works,<br>
and demo decisions announced: <span><span>Aug 1</span></span><br>
• Travel support decisions announced: <span><span>Aug 2</span></span><br>
<br>
Submission types and formats:<br>
• Lightning talks: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 5 to 7 minute talk,<br>
either on Track 1: Building a sustainable future for open-use research software or Track 2: Practices & experiences<br>
in sustainable scientific software. Lightning talks may be based on either novel or previously published work, but<br>
must contain a core idea that will contribute to the discussion in the workshop.<br>
• Idea papers: a longer paper, up to 8 pages, that presents implementable proposals related to Track 1: Building a<br>
sustainable future for open-use research software. Track 1 participants will build on the proposals and ideas in<br>
these papers, with the goal of initiating the planning, development, and execution of some of the ideas during the<br>
workshop itself. Given the magnitude and importance of the task at hand, the WSSSPE4 organizing committee<br>
encourages these proposals to be developed on an open, public, and inclusive basis. Submitters are invited to<br>
present a vision of some aspect of the future of open-use research software, and a plan of activities to gather and<br>
organize the resources needed to get there.<br>
Example idea paper topics:<br>
• Adaptation of industrial software engineering principles into the research software community with a plan to<br>
fund the work<br>
• Funding and scaling software carpentry style training in advanced topics<br>
• Infrastructure and funding for community maintenance of open use research software<br>
• Scaling the SSI beyond the UK<br>
• Specific proposals of how to bridging/network the various research software engineering communities in scalable<br>
manner without destroying independence and unique foci of each community<br>
• Position papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in<br>
a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing<br>
what we can do to improve sustainable scientific software in the short term, starting with where we are today.<br>
• Experience papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed<br>
in a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing<br>
current practices and experiences and how they have been used to improve the quality of today’s research software<br>
and/or the experiences of its developers.<br>
• Presentation of previously published work: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in<br>
a 15 to 20 minute talk, describing a previous published work by the authors and its relevance to Track 2: Practices &<br>
experiences in sustainable scientific software on the topic of improving the quality of today’s research software and<br>
the experiences of its developers by sharing practices and experiences.<br>
• Demos: a short paper, up to 2 pages plus 2 pages of screenshots, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 10 to<br>
15 minute demonstration, showing a tool or process relevant to Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable<br>
scientific software, that improves the quality of today’s research software and/or the experiences of its developers.<br>
Demo submissions may be based on previously published work.<br>
<br>
Submission process:<br>
All submissions should be created in PDF format. They should begin with a title, author names and affiliations, a short<br>
abstract, then the body of the submission. The title should begin with “Lightning talk:” or “Position paper:” or<br>
“Experience paper:” or “Idea paper:” or “Previously published:” or “Demo:”. Submissions should also include a statement<br>
of their license, preferably CC BY 4.0. Submissions should be made via <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe4.WSSSPE4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe4.<br>
WSSSPE4</a> accepted submissions (except presentations of previously published work) will be published by WSSSPE as a<br>
special collection in <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ceur-ws.org/</a>. Authors retain copyright to their work and are free to self-publish their submissions<br>
or accepted papers elsewhere in addition.<br>
<br>
<br>
Preliminary Agenda:<br>
<br>
<span><span>Sept 12</span></span> pm – Joint session of both tracks<br>
<br>
Introduction<br>
Keynote<br>
Lightning talks<br>
Updates on actions and activities from WSSSPE3 working groups<br>
Discussion and planning for the remainder of WSSSPE4<br>
<br>
Sept 13 (all day) and 14 (until <span><span>3 pm</span></span>) – Parallel tracks<br>
<br>
Track 1: This will be a set of working sessions with a facilitated discussion, breakout sessions, report backs, and active<br>
writing towards the track goal of defining a vision of the future of open-use research software, and a plan of activities that<br>
are needed to get there.<br>
Track 2: presentations of position papers, experience papers, previously published works, and demos; and breakout<br>
sessions or unconference sessions.<br>
<br>
<span><span>Sept 14</span></span> (<span><span>1:30 pm – 5 pm</span></span>) – Joint session of both tracks<br>
<br>
Panel on best practices<br>
Summary and discussion of each tracks’ progress<br>
Planning for future events<br>
<br>
Organizing Committee:<br>
• Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>
• Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA<br>
• Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<br>
• Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK<br>
• Michael R. Crusoe, Common Workflow Language project<br>
• Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA<br>
• Robert Haines, University of Manchester, UK<br>
• Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA<br>
• Lorraine J. Hwang, University of California, Davis, USA<br>
• Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>
• Kyle E. Niemeyer, Oregon State University, USA<br>
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA<br>
• Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK<br>
<br>
Program Committee:<br>
• (in progress, see web site for additions)<br>
• David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia<br>
• Lorena A. Barba, George Washington University, USA<br>
• Ross Bartlett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA<br>
• Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, Canada<br>
• David Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA<br>
• Stefanie Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany<br>
• Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain<br>
• Ishwar Chandramouli, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA<br>
• Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK<br>
• Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK<br>
• Karen Cranston, Duke University, USA<br>
• Ewa Deelman, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA<br>
• Dave De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK<br>
• Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK<br>
• Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland<br>
• Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br>
• Nadia Eghbal, Independent Researcher (via Ford Foundation), USA<br>
• Martin Fenner, DataCite, Germany<br>
• David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK<br>
• Mike Glass, Sandia National Laboratories, USA<br>
• Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK<br>
• Joshua Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA<br>
• Michael K Griffiths, University of Sheffield, UK<br>
• James Hetherington, University College London, UK<br>
• Fred J. Hickernell, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA<br>
• Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK<br>
• Matthew B. Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, USA<br>
• Nick Jones, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ<br>
• Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking, KISTI (Korea Institute<br>
of Science and Technology Information), Korea<br>
• Sedef Akinli Kocak, Ryerson University, Canada<br>
• James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China<br>
• Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA<br>
• Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA<br>
• Ketan Maheshwari, University of Pittsburgh, USA<br>
• Steven Manos, University of Melbourne, Australia<br>
• Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA<br>
• Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Mozilla Science Lab, USA<br>
• Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA<br>
• Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA<br>
• Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA<br>
• Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK<br>
• Christopher R. Myers, Cornell University, USA<br>
• Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA<br>
• Cameron Neylon, Curtin University, Australia<br>
• Aleksandra Pawlik, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ<br>
• Fernando Perez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California, Berkeley, USA<br>
• Marian Petre, The Open University, UK<br>
• Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA<br>
• Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA<br>
• Karthik Ram, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br>
• Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany<br>
• Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich, Switzerland<br>
• Arfon Smith, GitHub Inc, USA<br>
• Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA<br>
• Edgar Spalding, University of Wisconsin, USA<br>
• Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia<br>
• Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>
• Matthew Turk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA<br>
• Ewout van den Berg, IBM Watson, USA<br>
• Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA<br>
• James Willenbring, Sandia National Laboratories, USA<br>
• Scott Wilson, Cetis LLP, UK<br>
• Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA</div>
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