OCI: VOSS: Stakeholder Participation and the Emergence of Dominant Design in Large-Scale Cyber-Infrastructure (CI) Systems

网络基础设施系统是为支持学科、研究领域和子领域内部和跨领域的科学合作而建立的大型信息系统。尽管越来越多学科的科学进步依赖于网络基础设施的发展，但这些系统的设计过程并没有得到很好的理解。拟议的研究将有助于了解网络基础设施系统是如何设计和开发的，特别是它们的设计是如何从项目利益相关者之间的社会影响过程中产生的。该研究将调查不同的利益相关者在设计和开发过程中所扮演的角色，他们的利益和优先事项是如何协调一致的，以及开发工作的社会组织。在全球网络创新环境（GENI）项目（一个用于大规模网络实验的独特虚拟实验室）的设计和开发过程中，将进行一项定性研究，以检查科学家、项目经理、团队领导者、实验人员、校园首席信息官和其他利益相关者的协作和社会影响行为。该项目将描述网络基础设施系统的协作设计和开发过程，并确定可能有助于促进各利益相关方群体利益和优先事项协调一致的干预措施。通过检查评估备选设计的过程以及利益相关者参与设计决策的性质，本研究将为CI和大规模IT开发领域贡献研究和实践知识。在网络基础设施系统的社会和组织方面开展工作的机构之间将建立合作，以更有效地确定共同关注的问题。该项目将模拟和支持未来网络基础设施系统的发展，以提高我们的能力，使计算和数据支持的科学和工程能够应对重大的社会挑战，如灾害响应、能源效率和公共卫生。

Cyberinfrastructure systems are large-scale information systems that are built for the purpose of supporting scientific collaboration within and across disciplines, research fields and subfields. Although scientific advances in an increasing number of disciplines depend on the development of cyberinfrastructures, the processes by which such systems are designed are not well understood. The proposed study will contribute to an understanding of how cyberinfrastructure systems are designed and developed, and in particular, how their design emerges out of social influence processes among the project stakeholders. The study will investigate the role that different stakeholders play in the design and development process, the ways in which their interests and priorities are aligned, and the social organization of development efforts. A qualitative study will be conducted to examine the collaboration and social influence behaviors of scientists, project managers, team leaders, experimenters, and campus CIOs and other stakeholders during the design and development of multiple clusters within the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project, a unique virtual laboratory for at-scale networking experimentation. The project will describe the processes of collaborative design and development of cyberinfrastructure systems and identify interventions that might help promote the alignment of various stakeholder groups' interests and priorities.By examining the process by which alternative designs are evaluated and the nature of stakeholder participation in design decisions, this study will contribute research and practical knowledge to the area of CI and large-scale IT development. Collaborations among institutions conducting work on social and organizational aspects of cyberinfrastructure systems will be established to more efficiently define common concerns. Be contributing to a more sophisticated understanding of how cyberinfrastructure development evolves over time, this project will simulate and support the development of future cyberinfrastructure systems improving our ability to enable the computational and data-enabled science and engineering required to address significant societal challenges such as disaster response, energy efficiency, and public health.