NSF Workshops on Virtual Organizations (NSF-VO)

OCI 0751539Carl Kesselman U.虚拟组织研讨会我们建议组织一系列的两个研讨会的设计，建设，评估和虚拟组织的运作。第一个讲习班将侧重于确定虚拟组织领域的交叉研究议程。第二个研讨会将重点讨论在部署的NSF网络基础设施的背景下构建和运营功能性虚拟组织的实际问题。智力优势。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，以及代表当前和潜在成员的社区内的领先研究人员。虚拟社区。通过将这些通常没有互动论坛的研究人员聚集在一起，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要求。这些结果将以讲习班报告的形式记录下来，并分发给国家科学基金会和各组成社区。此外，这些讲习班将提供一个机会，以确定在虚拟组织这一重要领域开展合作和交叉研究活动的新机会。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一个基本要素。虽然围绕虚拟组织的一般概念开展了各种合作，但迄今为止，还没有出现对基本机制、基础设施要求、运作原则或评价标准的全面理解。拟议的讲习班将在建立这种认识方面迈出关键的第一步。因此，讲习班的报告应对讲习班所代表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由此产生的报告可以对塑造网络基础设施中支持虚拟组织的方式产生重大影响，以及明显的国家级网络基础设施的各种用户社区的有效性。最后，除了妇女和代表性不足的少数群体直接参加讲习班之外，虚拟组织的一个重要成果是消除了参加讲习班的地域和组织障碍。为此目的，这些讲习班将有助于促进对虚拟组织的理解和实践，这只会有助于创造公平的竞争环境，从而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