CISE Next Generation Program: Workshop on Active Services held at The Grid Forum and Northwestern University in October 21-22, 1999

EIA-9988423康斯坦丁·D.Polychronopoulos伊利诺伊大学CIE下一代软件：主动服务研讨会基于互联网的应用程序的急剧增加和网络技术的激增正在改变计算机科学和工程以及计算科学和商业应用领域的大部分领域。我们强烈认为，这提供了一个探索新的、面向互联网的软件技术的绝佳机会，这些技术将为从高性能计算到商业多媒体和最终用户社区的一系列群体打开新的研究和应用机会。为此，我们建议由NSF赞助的主动服务研讨会与1999年在西北大学举行的网格论坛研讨会一起举办。我们所说的主动服务是指一种新的软件范例，它将支持智能软件代理的操作环境、网络支持、控制和通信协议、开发和应用环境，我们称之为软件侦察员。童子军可以用于各种新的科学应用，智能网络和系统软件，以及最终用户应用。我们希望NSF赞助拟议的研讨会，这将促进30-35名相关领域最活跃和最有成就的研究人员的参与。工作坊将向整个社区开放。然而，我们主要依靠相关领域最活跃的研究人员的参与和贡献，因此，这将是一个基于邀请的研讨会。我们已经联系了几位已同意参加讨论并作简短发言的拟议与会者。

EIA-9988423Constantine D. PolychronopoulosUniversity of IllinoisCISE Next Generation Software: Workshop on Active ServicesThe dramatic increase of internet-based applications and the proliferation of networking technologies has been transforming most areas of computer science and engineering as well as computational science and commercial application areas. We feel strongly that this provides an outstanding opportunity to explore new, internet-oriented software technologies that will open new research and application opportunities for a range of constituencies, from the high-performance computing to the commercial multimedia and end-user communities.To this end, we propose the organization of an NSF-sponsored workshop on Active Services in conjunction with the 1999 Grids Forum Workshop to be held at Northwestern University. By "Active Services" we mean a new software paradigm which will support the operating environment, network support, control and communication protocols, development and application environments for intelligent software agents which we refer to as software scouts. Scouts could be used for a variety of new scientific applications, intelligent network and systems software, and end-user applications.We would like to request NSF sponsorship of the proposed workshop which will facilitate the participation of 30-35 of the most active and accomplished researchers in related areas. The workshop will be open to the entire community. However, we rely primarily on the participation and contribution of the most active researchers in relevant fields and as such it will be an invitation-based workshop. We have already contacted several of the proposed participants who have already agreed to participate in the discussions and also contribute short presentations.