CfP: Workshop R2OSE 2010
Today I received the invitation to join the PC of the “Research 2.0 and Software Engineering (R20SE)” workshop, organized by Jean-Marie Favre and his colleagues Dragan Gasevic and Pieter van Gorp. They describe Research 2.0 as:
Research 2.0 (aka e-Science or e-Research) refers to new approaches, techniques and tools to support collaborative research efforts taking profit of new Information Technologies. From an historical point of view, Research 2.0 (R2.o) can be considered as an evolution of Small Research (aka Research 1.0) and then Big Research (aka Research 1.5). In terms of goals, Research 2.0 lies however between Small and Big Research: through unprecedented means of connectivity, computing power, storage space, and tool versatility/flexibility, R2.o adds scalability to Small Research but also agility to Big Research. Simply put, R2.o allows emerging and agile groups of researchers to communicate, collaborate, share scientific information and scientific tools in new modes. This impacts not only the way research is done, but also on how research is perceived and managed.
In practice, Research 2.o corresponds to the progressive emergence of new scientific repositories, new scientific networks, new research products (including new form of “publications”), new research processes, etc. It is likely that this will lead in the future to new evaluation schemes and new research policies. Though Research 2.0 should be considered as a medium to long term vision in an historical perspective, short term vision are also of interest. In fact current practices already exibit some R2.o flavors. For instance Web 2.o technologies such as blogs, wikis, social networks and twitter already have an impact on collaborative research. We can only expect this impact to grow in the future. Interestingly, in the last couple of years, Research 2.0 has received much more attention in disciplines such as Physics, Biology, Mathematics or Social Sciences than in Computer Science. Building on the great success of the IBM CASCON workshop on Research 2.0 and Software Engineering 2.0 (SER2009), this workshop aims to further explore how Research 2.0 could benefit the Software Engineering (SE) community and vice versa.
The topics of the workshop include:
- Integrated Research Environment (IRE) and personal research portfolio,
- Collaborative and distributed repositories of software artifacts or information about research eco-systems.
- Techniques and tools for on-line demonstration, collaborative experimentation, collection and archiving of research information, etc.
- Interoperability and standardization of research repositories, tools, platforms, and standards for research collaborations
- Mining research repositories, analysis of software engineering communities and their history
- Ontologies and classifications of software engineering fields and their evolution
- Usage/development of Web 2.0 tools for the software engineering research community
- Concepts and techniques that goes beyond the notion of Software Engineering “publications”
- Analysis of R2.0 success stories or failures (in SE but also in other fields) including lessoned learned and recommendation.
- Social, political, economical and ethical analysis of past and/or current research practices and recommendations for the future
Furthermore contributions that are not directly connected to the domain of software engineering are also welcome. You can submit your contribution until April, 20 2010 at the workshop site.
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