NSF Workshops on Virtual Organizations (NSF-VO)

carl Kesselman南加州大学虚拟组织研讨会我们建议组织一系列关于虚拟组织的设计、建设、评估和运作的两个研讨会。这些研讨会的第一个重点是确定虚拟组织领域的交叉研究议程。第二部分将侧重于在部署的NSF网络基础设施的背景下建立和运营功能性虚拟组织的务实问题。知识价值。本次研讨会的受邀者将包括来自不同学科的领先研究人员，他们一直在研究虚拟组织和分布式协作工作的各个方面，以及代表虚拟社区当前和潜在成员的社区内的领先研究人员。这些研究人员通常没有互动论坛，这些研讨会将有助于确定关键的研究挑战、评估标准和虚拟组织的最终用户需求。这些结果将以讲习班报告的形式记录下来，并分发给美国国家科学基金会和各组成团体。此外，这些讲习班将提供一个机会，以确定在虚拟组织的重要领域进行合作和跨领域研究活动的新机会。更广泛的影响。网络基础设施办公室已将虚拟组织确定为其基础设施计划的基本要素。虽然围绕虚拟组织的一般概念已经组织了各种各样的协作，但到目前为止，还没有对基本机制、基础设施需求、操作原则或评估标准有全面的了解。拟议的讲习班将在建立这种理解方面迈出关键的第一步。因此，讲习班报告应该对讲习班所代表的学科的研究和发展议程产生重大影响。此外，我们预计，研讨会发起的合作和最终的报告都可以对塑造虚拟组织在网络基础设施中的支持方式产生重大影响，显然也会对国家规模的网络基础设施的各种用户社区的有效性产生重大影响。最后，除了妇女和代表性不足的少数民族直接参与讲习班之外，虚拟组织的一个重要成果是消除了参与的地域和组织障碍。为此目的，这些讲习班将有助于增进对虚拟组织的理解和实践，这只能有助于创造公平的竞争环境，并随后为所有公民的参与开辟新的机会

OCI 0751539Carl Kesselman U. of Southern CaliforniaVirtual Organizations WorkshopWe propose to organize a series of two workshops on the design, construction, evaluation, and operation of virtual organizations. The first of these workshops will focus on identifying a cross-cutting research agenda in the area of virtual organizations. The second will focus on the pragmatic issues of building and operating functional virtual organizations within the context of the deployed NSF Cyber infrastructure.Intellectual Merit.The invitees of this workshop will consist of leading researchers from the diverse disciplines who have been studying aspects of virtual organizations and distributed collaborative work as well as leading researchers within the communities that represent both current and potential members of virtual communities. In bringing together these researchers who typically do not have a forum for interacting, these workshops will help identify key research challenges, criteria for evaluation and end user requirements for virtual organizations. These results will be captured in the form of a workshop report and disseminated to the National Science Foundation and the various constituent communities. In addition, these workshops will provide an opportunity to identify new opportunities for collaboration and cross cutting research activities in the important area of virtual organizations.Broader Impacts.The Office of Cyber-infrastructure has identified virtual organizations as a fundamental element of its infrastructure plan. While there have been a variety of collaborations organized around general concept of virtual organizations, to date, no comprehensive understanding of fundamental mechanisms, infrastructure requirements, operational principles or evaluation criteria has emerged. The proposed workshops will take a critical first step in creating this understanding. As a result, the workshop reports should have a significant impact on the research and development agendas of the disciplines represented in the workshop. Furthermore, we anticipate that both the collaborations initiated by the workshop and the resulting report can have a significant impact on shaping the way virtual organizations are supported in Cyber-infrastructure, as well as obviously the effectiveness of the various user communities of a national scale cyber-infrastructure. Finally, in addition to the direct participation of women and under-represented minorities in the workshops, a significant result of virtual organizations is to remove geographic and organizational barriers to participation. To that that end, the contributions that these workshops will make to the advance the understanding and practice of virtual organizations can only serve to level the playing field and subsequently opening new opportunities for participation for all citizens.1