Header image Second International Workshop on  
 
Cape Town, South Africa
3 May, 2010
 
 
Key Dates

Note: New submission category: Short videos from participants unable to travel to Cape Town

  • Deadline for submitting position papers: 2 April 2010
  • Deadline for submitting short videos: 16 April 2010
  • The Workshop: May 3, 2010.
Participation

Our intent is to create a lively, interactive discussion, to foster brainstorming and community building. Registration will be open to all.

We welcome remote participation from people interested in the workshop topic, but unable to travel to Cape Town for ICSE. To enable such participation, we will make full use of twitter (#wsrcc-2) and friendfeed (wsrcc-2-may-2010), with audio teleconferencing for the final workshop plenary. We also encourage people to submit short youtube style videos in addition to position papers. We will make these available on the workshop website, and show a selection of the best videos at the afternoon workshop plenary, with remote participants connected by audio conferencing.

There will be no formal publication of proceedings. Instead, we strongly encourage participants to submit responses to the challenge statement, either as:

  • Descriptions of existing research projects relevant to the challenge statement, preferably with pointers to published papers and/or online resources (1-2 pages);
  • Position papers outlining potential research projects (1-2 pages).
  • Short "Talking heads" videos (a simple webcam should suffice)
  • Video presentations with slides/animations (no longer than 6 minutes, please!)

Be creative and forward-thinking in these proposals: think of the future, and think big!

We will post all submitted papers and videos on the workshop website, and encourage an open review process, inviting participants to revise/update/embellish their contributions in response to the reviews. We plan to write a post-workshop report, which will draw on both the submitted papers and the discussions during the workshop. This report will lay out a suggested agenda for both short-term and long-term research in response to the challenge, and act as a roadmap for subsequent workshops and funding proposals.

Inquiries and submissions should be sent to the workshop chair, Steve Easterbrook.

For discussions about this workshop and related initiatives, please visit the Google group SE-for-the-planet.

Topics

We welcome the active participation of software researchers and practitioners interested in any aspect of this challenge. The participants will themselves determine the scope and thrusts of this workshop, so this list of suggested topics is intended to act only as a starting point:

  • requirements analysis for complex global change problems;
  • integrating sustainability into software system design;
  • green IT, including power-aware computing and automated energy management;
  • developing control systems to create smart energy grids and improve energy conservation;
  • developing information systems to support urban planning, transport policies, green buildings, etc.;
  • software tools for open collaborative science, especially across scientific disciplines;
  • design patterns for successful emissions reduction strategies;
  • social networking tools to support rapid action and knowledge sharing among communities;
  • educational software for hands-on computational science;
  • knowledge management and decision support tools for designing and implementing climate change policies;
  • tools and techniques to accelerate the development and validation of earth system models by climate scientists;
  • data sharing and data management of large scientific datasets;
  • tools for creating and sharing visualizations of climate change data;