Workshop on: Research Opportunities in Cyberengineering/Cyberinfrastructure. To be held April 22-23, 2004 at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

美国国家科学基金会工程局已经建立了一个强有力的研究重点，以研究该基金会可能在网络基础设施方面的未来投资。在工程局内部，网络基础设施工作组已经完成了对研究和教育奖励的组合评估，目前正在安排一系列研讨会，探讨支持国家网络基础设施发展的机会，以及利用这些投资和与学术界、政府和工业界合作的机会。2003年6月5日至6日和2004年1月13日至14日在阿灵顿国家科学基金会组织和举行的前两次研讨会非常广泛，即横向地考察了网络基础设施倡议，以确定在网络基础设施发展过程中需要解决的关键问题。第三次研讨会准备遵循早期研讨会产生的一些线索，并通过确定网络工程/网络基础设施研究中的关键挑战，专注于制定允许和吸引整个工程界参与的战略的需要。为了促进第三次研讨会的组织，NSF邀请了7位工程界人士加入组委会OC。这些areDr。马苏德·阿明，明尼苏达大学双城分校（ECS代表）雪莉·戴克，华盛顿大学（CMS代表）吉姆罗林斯，威斯康星大学（CTS代表）博士。林明，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（DMII代表）博士。Ulrich Neumann，南加州大学（EEC代表）博士。Michael Piasecki，德雷塞尔大学（BES代表和提案负责人）博士Bill Spencer, u of Illinois, Urbana Champaign （CMS代表）可交付成果每个研讨会分组将被要求总结各自任务的发现。这些发现，连同个人观点，ppv和选定的演讲者提交的3页研究思路，将由OC汇编成最终的研讨会报告，并提交给NSF。更具体地说，可交付成果将包括：作为英语社区参考材料的研讨会报告；为发布在网站上编写的材料；为开展司级研讨会提供的一套建议；用于打印会议记录的可照相副本。为此，OC将建立一个NSF工程网络基础设施研讨会III网站（将托管在Piasecki博士计算机实验室的一台服务器上），该网站将公布研讨会，研讨会时间表和议程的相关信息，包括参与者名单，并提供酒店信息，旅行信息，以及前往德雷克塞尔大学校园的方向，特别是会议地点。除了发布最终研讨会报告的网站外，它还将用于发布每个与会者的演讲、立场声明或个人观点（ppv），这些内容应在研讨会开始前提交。更广泛的影响本次研讨会的更广泛的影响在于其范围，即试图确定网络工程和网络基础设施发展方面的研究机会。认识到进行网络工程/网络基础设施研究的机会与在工程界获得广泛接受的必要性密切相关，即这些社区愿意接受对所有人开放的概念，而不仅仅局限于少数对利用涉及计算机科学和工程的跨学科思想有高度发展兴趣的领域专家。本次研讨会的重点还在于识别出社区中许多人无需成为网络基础设施专家（即必须跨入计算机科学领域）就可以收获的成果。研究思路和发展驱动因素的展示应该提供一个很好的概述，哪些是交叉网络基础设施的关键领域，对工程社区很重要，以及该计划的范围是什么。这必须被理解为诱使社区进一步教育自己并尝试接受这些新概念的前兆。

The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation has established a strong focus forstudy concerning future investments in Cyberinfrastructure that may be made by the Foundation. Inside ofthe Engineering Directorate, the Cyberinfrastructure Working Group has completed a portfolio assessmentof research and education awards, and is now arranging for a series of workshops that explore theopportunities for supporting the development of a national Cyberinfrastructure, and for leveraging theseinvestments and partnering with the academic, government and industry sectors. While the first twoworkshops organized and held at the NSF in Arlington in June 5-6, 2003 and January 13-14, 2004 took avery broad, i.e. horizontal, look at the Cyberinfrastructure initiative to scope out the critical issues thatneed to be addressed during the development of Cyberinfrastructure, this third workshop is poised tofollow some of the leads generated by the earlier workshops and to concentrate on the need to develop astrategy that permits and entices the involvement of the entire engineering community, by identifying keychallenges in cyberengineering/cyberinfrastructre research.In order to facilitate the organization of the 3 rd Workshop, NSF has invited 7 individuals from theengineering community to serve on the organizing committee, OC. These areDr. Massoud Amin, U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities (ECS rep.)Dr. Shirley Dyke, Washington University (CMS rep.)Dr. Jim Rawlings, University of Wisconsin (CTS rep.)Dr. Ming Lin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (DMII rep.)Dr. Ulrich Neumann, University of Southern California (EEC rep.)Dr. Michael Piasecki, Drexel University (BES rep. & proposal lead)Dr. Bill Spencer, U. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (CMS rep.)DeliverablesEach of the workshop breakout groups will be asked to summarize the findings of their respective task.These findings, together with the Personal Points of Views, PPVs, and the 3 page research ideasubmissions of the selected presenters will be compiled into a final workshop report by the OC that will besubmitted to NSF. More specifically the deliverables will contain:Report of the Workshop as a reference material for the ENG communityDevelopment of material for posting on the websiteA set of recommendations for developing Divisional level workshops sessionsA camera ready copy for the printing of the proceedings.To this end, the OC will establish a NSF Engineering Cyberinfrastructure Workshop III website (to behosted on one of the servers in Dr. Piasecki's computer lab) that will announce the workshop, postrelevant information concerning the workshop schedule and agenda including the participant list, andprovide information for hotels, travel, and directions to the Drexel campus in general and the meetingvenues in particular. In addition to the site hosting the final workshop report, it will also be used to post thepresentations as well as position statements or personal point of views (PPVs) from each attendee thatshould be submitted prior to the start of the workshop.Broader ImpactThe broader impact of this workshop lies in its scope, i.e. the attempt to identify research opportunities incyberengineering and cyberinfrastructure development. Recognition of the opportunity to conductcyberengineering/cyberinfrastructure research is very much linked to the necessity to achieve a broadacceptance in the engineering communities, i.e. the willingness of these communities to embrace aconcept that is open to all and not restricted to a few domain experts that have a high developed interestin making use of cross-disciplinary ideas involving computer science and engineering. This workshop isalso focused on identifying idlow hanging fruitsly that can be harvested by many in the community withouthaving to become cyberinfrastructure experts, i.e. having to crosswalk into the computer science domain.The presentation of research ideas and development drivers should provide a good overview what are thekey areas of cross-cutting cyberinfrastructure that is important to the engineering communities, and whatthe scope of the initiative is. This must be understood as a precursor to entice the community to furthereducate itself and attempt to embrace these new concepts.