CICI: UCSS: ACSP4HR: Assuring Cyber Security and Privacy for Human Resilience Research: Requirements, Framework, Architecture, Mechanisms and Prototype

公民生活在一个充满逆境的世界，从童年创伤到家庭暴力、战争、洪水、飓风、野火、恐怖袭击、急性身体伤害、机动车事故和流行病。这些逆境影响着许多人的生活;例如，仅在过去十年中，前所未有的洪水、灾难性飓风和毁灭性野火就摧毁了数千所房屋、重要基础设施和社区。由于在这些事件中经历的创伤以及广泛的恢复压力，公民往往难以科普这些逆境。人类复原力研究社区进行科学研究，以（i）了解公民如何遭受这些逆境，（ii）寻求有效的解决方案，帮助公民从这些逆境造成的压力和创伤中恢复或反弹。人类复原力研究的重要性怎么强调都不过分，因为受影响的公民人数众多。尽管有着明显的重要性，但人类韧性研究的科学发现过程受到缺乏网络基础设施支持的阻碍，这些网络基础设施支持安全，隐私保护和符合政策的数据共享，这将促进合作研究。这就需要解决现代化和加速人类复原力研究的科学发现过程的解决方案。该项目通过解决一系列技术挑战，调查现代化和加速人类复原力研究的科学发现过程的合格技术解决方案，包括：（i）指定合格网络基础设施的要求;（ii）定义解决方案框架，以充分满足这些要求;（iii）确定解决方案框架。（iii）设计一个全面的系统架构，以落实该架构;（iv）研究新的机制和支援技术;以及（v）发展一个原型系统，并展示其效用。该项目通过鼓励在其独特的科学工作流程中采用安全和隐私，并通过开创一个涵盖整个人类复原力研究数据的整体安全网络基础设施环境，加强了人类复原力研究界的科学合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

Citizens live in a world of prevalent adversities, ranging from childhood trauma, to domestic violence, war, flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, terrorist attacks, acute physical injuries, motor vehicle accidents, and pandemics. These adversities affect many lives; for example, during the past decade alone, unprecedented flooding, catastrophic hurricanes, and devastating wildfires destroyed thousands of homes, vital infrastructure, and communities. Citizens often struggle to cope with these adversities due to the trauma experienced during these events as well as the extensive recovery stress. The Human Resilience research community conducts scientific studies to (i) understand how citizens suffer from these adversities and (ii) seek effective solutions to help citizens recover or bounce back from the stress and trauma caused by these adversities. The importance of Human Resilience research can hardly be overstated because of the large population of citizens affected. Despite this clear importance, the scientific discovery process of Human Resilience research is hindered by the lack of cyberinfrastructure support for secure, privacy-preserving, and policy-complying data sharing that would foster collaborative research. This calls for solutions to modernizing and accelerating the scientific discovery process of Human Resilience research.This project investigates a competent technical solution to modernizing and accelerating the scientific discovery process of Human Resilience research, by tackling a range of technical challenges including: (i) specifying the requirements of a competent cyberinfrastructure; (ii) defining a solution framework to adequately address these requirements; (iii) designing a comprehensive system architecture to fulfill the framework; (iv) investigating novel mechanisms and supporting techniques; and (v) developing a prototype system and demonstrating its usefulness. The project bolsters the scientific collaboration in the Human Resilience research community by encouraging the adoption of security and privacy into its unique scientific workflows and by pioneering a holistic security cyberinfrastructure environment spanning the entire Human Resilience research data-sharing ecosystem.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.