Invitational Workshop on Distributed Information, Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering Environments

该奖项支持1998年5月15日至16日在弗吉尼亚州赫恩登举行的科学和工程环境分布式信息，计算和过程管理研讨会。研讨会的组织者是Nicholas M.麻省理工的Patrikalakis讲习班的参加者是计算机科学领域的研究人员和来自科学和工程学科的领域专家。在复杂的物理和人造系统，特别是那些表现出相互作用的动态过程和不同的空间和时间尺度的研究进展，产生了新的信息和计算环境和基础设施的要求。为了满足这些要求，讲习班的主要议题包括：数字图书馆技术在科学模拟中的应用;跨领域模拟集成的设计和实施;科学软件的元数据模型和搜索/检索机制;透明访问和共享数据的联网问题，包括自动通用数据翻译和远程软件调用;以及分布式仿真的新兴标准。讲习班的目标是促进基础技术方面的研究活动，使不同领域的科学家和研究人员能够方便地获得分布式计算、数据和各种信息资源。研讨会将产生一份咨询文件，概述开放的问题，并提出了分布式仿真，分析和信息系统的研究途径。该报告将广泛散发，并可上网查阅。沿着这些路线进行进一步的研究工作，将有助于提高大规模、跨学科的分布式科学系统的可用性、有效性和利用率，并促进研究活动。 http://deslab.mit.edu/DesignLab/dicpm/

This award supports a workshop on Distributed Information, Computation, and Process Management for Scientific and Engineering Environments, held in Herndon, VA on May 15-16, 1998. The workshop organizer is Professor Nicholas M. Patrikalakis from MIT. Workshop participants are researchers in the field of computer science and domain specialists from the sciences and engineering disciplines. Advances in the research on complex physical and man-made systems, especially those exhibiting interacting dynamic processes and disparate spatial and temporal scales, generate new requirements for information and computational environments and infrastructure. Towards the goal of satisfying these requirements, the primary topics of the workshop include the application of digital library technology for scientific simulation; the design and implementation of cross-domain simulation integration; metadata models and search/retrieval mechanisms for scientific software; networking issues for transparent access and sharing of data, including automatic generalized data translation and remote software invocation; and emerging standards for distributed simulations. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate research activities in fundamental technologies that will enable easy access to distributed computational, data and various information resources by scientists and researchers in diverse fields. The workshop will produce an advisory document outlining open problems and proposed avenues of research in distributed simulation, analysis, and information systems. The report will be widely disseminated and also available on-line. The application of further research efforts along these lines will help to increase the availability, effectiveness, and utilization of large-scale, cross-disciplinary distributed scientific systems, and facilitate research activities. http://deslab.mit.edu/DesignLab/dicpm/