Posted by s.hettrick on 14 May 2014 - 1:10pm

The workshop will be held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2014, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New Orleans.

For more information, visit the workshop website.

Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels and it is critical to address challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software as well as education around software practices. These challenges can be technological, policy based, organisational, and educational, and are of interest to developers (the software community), users (science disciplines), and researchers studying the conduct of science (science of team science, science of organisations, science of science and innovation policy, and social science communities).

The WSSSPE1 workshop engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best practices in areas of interest for sustainable scientific software. At WSSSPE2, we invite the community to propose and discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software development and usage in science and engineering. The workshop will include multiple mechanisms for participation, encourage team building around solutions, and identify risky solutions with potentially transformative outcomes. Participation by early career students and postdoctoral researchers is strongly encouraged.

We invite short (four-page) papers that will lead to improvements for sustainable software science. These papers could be a
call to action, or could provide position or experience reports on sustainable software activities. The papers will be used by the
organising committee to design sessions that will be highly interactive and targeted towards facilitating action. Submitted papers
should be archived by a third-party service that provides DOIs. We encourage submitters to license their papers under a Creative Commons license that encourages sharing and re-mixing, as we will combine ideas (with attribution) into the outcomes of the workshop.

The organisers will invite one or more submitters of provocative papers to start the workshop by presenting highlights of their papers
in a keynote presentation to initiate active discussion that will continue throughout the day.

Deadlines and important dates

14 July 2014: paper submission deadline
1 September 2014: author notification
15 September 2014: funding request submission deadline
22 September 2014: funding decision notification
16 November 2014: WSSSPE2 Workshop

Submissions

Submissions of up to four pages should be formatted to be easily readable and submitted to an open-access repository that provides
unique identifiers (e.g., DOIs) that can be cited, for example http://arXiv.org or http://figshare.com.

Once you have received an identifier for your self-published paper from a repository, submit it to WSSSPE2 by creating a new submission at Easy Chair, and entering:

• author information for all authors
• title
• abstract (with the identifier as the first line of the abstract, for example, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.791606 or http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7414 or alternative)
• at least three keywords
• tick the abstract only box

Do not submit the paper itself through EasyChair. The identifier in the abstract that points to the paper is sufficient.

More information

For more information, visit the workshop website.