CALL FOR PAPERS ERROR 2015, E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results at eScience 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS
ERROR 2015, E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results
at eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, Thursday September 3 2015
Submissions due Fri May 15 2015
http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop

DETAILS:

Call for papers:

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

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@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