Position Papers for WSRCC-1 in Orlando

[Steve Easterbrook]

Folks,

We've had ten position papers submitted to WSRCC-1. I've posted them
all here:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/wsrcc/Papers.html
Please feel free to start discussion about any of these papers here!

Also, we now have a keynote speaker to kick off the workshop: Michael
Tobis, talking about "The Cybernetics of Climate".
(Something similar to this talk:
http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2009/06/talk-by-me-cybernetics-of-climate-july.html)

Steve

[Steffen Zschaler]

Hi Steve,

Just had a look at the papers: A very nice set indeed, with ideas and projects in a number of different areas:

• Using Software Engineering to build more energy-efficient software systems and infrastructure
• Briscoe et al. on Community clouds
• de Roo et al. on Optimising software system energy consumption
• Taina et al. on Green metrics
  
• Using computing or ideas from SE for decision support on 'real-world problems'
  
• Hawker on Modelling intermodal freight transport
• Parnin et al. on Refactoring infrastructure (one of the most surprising ideas to me)
• Vallejos et al on People-centric sensing
• Using SE to improve climate-change research
• Woolard et al. on Enabling access to climate data
• van Wyk et al. on Language concepts for developing climate-research software
  
• Using computing education to improve awareness
• Jamba on Education with a cause

and, finally, a nice overview of interesting challenges by Liu et al.

Very nice set indeed. I strongly recommend the quick read to everybody on the list!

I wish you a good workshop in Orlando,

Steffen

-- 
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Senior Research Associate

Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom

Email szsc...@acm.org
Phone +44 (01524) 510354
WWW   http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/

Join us at the 1st Workshop on Software Research and 
Climate Change
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/wsrcc/

Consider submitting to the 15th International Conference 
on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010)
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ICECCS2010/
Deadline: October 23, 2009 (abstracts)

-- 
Dr. rer. nat. Steffen Zschaler
Senior Research Associate

Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom

Email szsc...@acm.org
Phone +44 (01524) 510354
WWW   http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/

Join us at the 1st Workshop on Software Research and 
Climate Change
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/wsrcc/

Consider submitting to the 15th International Conference 
on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010)
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ICECCS2010/
Deadline: October 23, 2009 (abstracts)