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Workshop on Requirements for e-Science Collaboration
ACM GROUP 2003
International Conference on Supporting Group Work
November 9-12, 2003
Sanibel Island, FL USA
http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group03/
e-Science promises to radically transform the ways in which science is
achieved, both through the capacity to provide greater and immediate
communication between scientists whilst sharing information, and through
the ultimate impact on society. The vision prevails that e-Science
applications will be supported through a Grid infrastructure that
enables high speed and distributed large-scale computations.
It is well recognised in both CSCW and recent social studies of
technology that the successful development and deployment of new
collaborative technologies is highly unpredictable. This one-day
workshop aims to identify the socio-technical conditions that are most
conducive to the successful development and implementation of eScience.
The complex nature of these developments in eScience raise serious
questions to be addressed.
* What demands does this new domain place on requirements for collaboration?
* What are the consequences for the ways in which scientific work is
currently produced?
* What ethical and legal issues need to be considered?
* How should scientific settings be investigated and requirements
derived for new e-Science technologies?
* 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?
* How can requirements process balance the needs of stakeholders in
large collaborative and interdisciplinary projects?
* What resources are available in requirements capture and analysis for
eScience?
Attendees both from industry and academia will be encouraged to attend,
particularly those who have some experience of e-Science
applications/settings or related areas. We intend to limit the number of
participants to 15 in order to provide maximum opportunity for discussion.
Attendance will be limited to authors of accepted position papers.
Full details of position paper submission - format, deadlines and
procedures may be found at:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group03/escienceworkshop.html
Organisers: Marina Jirotka (Computing Labs, Oxford University), Rob
Procter and James Soutter (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
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