[hpc-announce] CFP: ERROR 2015, First Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results

[Ketan Maheshwari]

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Call for papers:

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1st Workshop on

E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR)

in conjunction with

eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, 3 September 2015

http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop

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Researchers invest a significant amount of time and efforts in their
research.
Similarly, funders significantly invest to cover the costs of research. New
techniques and technologies influence approaches, methods, and scale in a
rapidly changing e-science landscape. Researchers must deal with novelty in
multiple dimensions, some of which are beyond their control.  Consequently,
it
is likely that some of the obtained results will not be useful : they are
negative (deviating from initial hypothesis), abnormal (anomalous to results
from similar studies), or otherwise unexpected.

Under normal circumstances, such negative results and why they were obtained
are seldom discussed, analyzed and published. Useful lessons are thus lost
to
the community. Yet ignoring such results and the process by which they were
obtained poses a risk of repetition. The fact that other researchers likely
face the same situations and the same pitfalls further increases the cost of
research, a cost that would have been avoided if the negative results were
brought forward and discussed in-depth within and across communities.


Following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop:

- Unforeseen technology/problem/technique misfits

- Institutional policies (on rejected research)

- Failures and obstacles faced during a successful research work

- Controversial results because of undiscovered technological/technical
glitch

- Unconventional results which contradict theoretical expectations

- Discovery of better approaches after significant efforts spent on research

- Inadequate or misconfigured infrastructure

- Abnormal and anomalous results

- Ongoing research with setbacks and lessons learned

- A hypothesis with one or more limiting assumptions

- Discovery of unexpected behavior in hardware, networks or platforms

- Data size that is too big or too small for the applied technique

- Implementation of simulation tools based on incorrect physical
observations

- Defect in software design, architecture and/or user interface

- Software and platform incompatibilities

- Zero defect software policy and its implications


Keynote Speaker
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Ioan Raicu, IIT, Chicago


Journal Publication Opportunity
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Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended
version
to a special issue of *"Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
Experience*
*(CCPE)"* journal. Papers will be selected based on scientific rigor,
originality,
significance and presentation. All extended versions will undergo reviews
and
must represent original unpublished research work.


General Chair and Contact
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Ketan Maheshwari, Argonne National Laboratory,
ketan at anl.gov

Steering Committee
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Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam

Justin M. Wozniak, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Douglas Thain, Notre Dame University


Paper Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 8-page manuscripts describing
original and unpublished work surrounding the aforementioned topics. The
format
of the paper should be of double column text using single spaced 10 point
size
on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines.
Templates
are available from
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html
.
Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a postscript printer to
the
easychair conference system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=error2015. The proceedings will be
published through the IEEE Digital Library.


Important dates
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Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2015 (Fri)

Paper acceptance notification: 10 June 2015

Camera ready version: 21 June 2015

Workshop day: 3 September 2015

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Ketan
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan
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