Collaborative Research: CCRI: Planning-C: A Community for Configurability Open Research and Development (ACCORD)

今天的大多数软件都是可配置的，这意味着它可以针对不同的用户目的进行定制。虽然可配置性使软件变得灵活，但它会对软件的可靠性、正确性、可用性、性能和跨开发阶段的安全性产生影响。因此，大量的研究人员正在研究如何在计算机科学的多个分支学科中探索、取样、预测和推理可配置系统。该合作规划提案汇集了爱荷华州立大学和中佛罗里达大学的研究人员，为集体研究合作奠定基础，即可配置性开放研究与开发社区（ACCORD），这将有助于集中研究可配置性，并创建共享的方法、工具和解决方案。该提案包括调查研究界的活动，在不同的子学科之间建立意识，并通过研讨会和外展的互动记录共同的目标和需求。此外，活动将开发一个公共框架、工具集和词汇表，包括体现ACCORD性质的范例工件。最终的ACCORD基础设施将提供跨不同社区工作的软件工具、模型和解决方案，以及仅通过搜索文献无法获得的教程和元数据信息。针对不同类型的可配置系统的基准测试将突出功能、安全性和性能方面的挑战。关于可配置性的概念和初步的ACCORD工件将在课堂上使用。研究生和本科生都将参与设计和工件的原型设计，并将帮助建立可配置性现有研究的调查。将为不同的分支学科举办研讨会。来自爱荷华州立大学一年级荣誉本科课程和中佛罗里达大学K-12夏令营连接的学生将参与与该项目相关的活动。该计划将包括与非cise学科的联系，例如生物信息学社区的研究人员，他们可以从ACCORD的最终发展中受益。该项目的网站可在https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/mcohen/accord上找到。它将在本赠款有效期内保留。所有重要的工件都将使用永久的数字对象标识符（DOI）进行归档。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Most software today is configurable, meaning it can be customized for different user purposes. While configurability makes software flexible, it can have an impact on software reliability, correctness, usability, performance, and security across all stages of development. Hence, a large community of researchers are studying ways to explore, sample, predict and reason about configurable systems in multiple sub-disciplines of computer science. This collaborative planning proposal brings together researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Central Florida to lay the groundwork for a collective research collaborative, A Community for Configurability Open Research and Development (ACCORD), that will help to centralize research on configurability and to create shared approaches, tools and solutions.The proposal includes activities to survey the research community, create awareness across different sub-disciplines, and document common goals and needs via interaction through workshops and outreach. In addition, activities will develop a common framework, set of tools, and vocabulary, including exemplar artifacts that embody the nature of ACCORD. The final ACCORD infrastructure will provide software tools, models, and solutions that work across different communities, along with tutorials and meta-data information that is not obtainable by only searching the literature. Benchmarks for different types of configurable systems will highlight functional, security and performance challenges.Concepts on configurability and preliminary ACCORD artifacts will be used in the classroom. Both graduate and undergraduate students will be involved in the prototyping of designs and artifacts and will help to build a survey of existing research in configurability. Workshops will be held for different sub-disciplines. Students from the Iowa State first-year honors undergraduate program and the University of Central Florida K-12 Camp Connect will be involved in activities related to this project. The planning will include outreach to non-CISE disciplines, e.g. researchers in the Bioinformatics community, who can benefit from the eventual development of ACCORD.The project website can be found at: https://faculty.sites.iastate.edu/mcohen/accord. It will be retained past the lifetime of this grant. All significant artifacts will be archived with a permanent digital object identifier (DOI).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.