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NeSC e-Science Workshop
Requirements Capture for Collaboration in e-Science
January 14th-15th, 2004
Organisers: Marina Jirotka, Rob Procter, Frank Bisby and Matthew Dovey
Objectives
The vision of e-Science is of a radical transformation of scientific
practices brought about through the deployment of Grid technologies. In this
vision, new kinds of science and scientific communities will emerge, be
supported through a Grid infrastructure that enables high-speed and
distributed, large-scale computations, and radically new ways of sharing
large data repositories.
It is well recognised in both the computer-supported cooperative work and
technology innovation research literature, however, that the successful
development and deployment of new collaborative technologies is highly
unpredictable. The realization of the e-Science vision presents, therefore,
a major challenge to the Grid research community.
This two day workshop aims to uncover the social and technical conditions
that are most conducive to the achievement of e-Science goals. Specifically,
it will seek to define methods for e-Science applications requirements
capture that are capable of addressing socio-technical factors.
Participation
Participants from both industry and academia are welcome, particularly those
who have some experience of e-Science applications/settings or related
areas, either as scientists, designers or implementers. We intend to limit
the number of participants to 20 in order to provide maximum opportunity for
discussion.
Participation will be on the basis of position papers which will be reviewed
by the workshop programme committee.
Topics
Position papers are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:
- What demands does e-Science place on requirements capture and analysis?
- What are the consequences of e-Science for the ways in which scientific
work is currently produced?
- How does e-Science challenge current practices of data ownership,
management and sharing?
- What are the criteria for successful multi- and inter-disciplinary
scientific collaborations?
- How should scientific settings be investigated and requirements derived
for new e-Science technologies?
- How can requirements capture processes balance the needs of stakeholders
in large and inter-disciplinary projects?
- What ethical and legal issues need to be considered?
- How can technological devices be integrated and deployed in ways that best
support scientific practice?
- How should technological possibilities be balanced against the current
needs of practitioners?
- What resources are available in requirements capture and analysis for
e-Science?
Submissions
Positional papers should be limited to four sides of A4 (2.5cm margins, 12
pt Ariel or Helvetica, 6 pt gap between paragraphs), including contact
details, figures, tables and references. Submission of a position paper will
be taken to grant permission to reproduce the work in printed and electronic
form, as part of the workshop.
Accepted position papers will be published on the workshop www site.
Participants will be invited to submit full length versions of their papers.
On agreement of contributors we would seek for publication in a book or a
special issue of a journal.
Deadline for submission: December 1st 2003
Notification of Acceptance: December 22nd 2003
Draft Programme
The workshop will take place over two days and will consist of a combination
of keynote talks, participant contributions and discussion sessions. Keynote
speakers include:
The draft programme is as follows:
Day One
Key note presentation: Frank Bisby - University of Reading
Participants' presentations
Lunch
Key note presentation: Tom Rodden - University of Nottingham
Break out groups/Discussion
Day Two
Key note presentation: John McDermid - University of York
Participants' presentations
Lunch
Key note presentation: Michael Lynch - Cornell University
Break out groups/Discussion
Wrap up
Contact email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
www site and registration: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/320/
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