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NOBUGS '97 workshop
- Subject: NOBUGS '97 workshop
- From: mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:26:04 -0500
NOBUGS 1997 December 10-12, 1997 Argonne National Lab Call for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations The Advanced Photon Source and the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source will host the second international NOBUGS (New Opportunities for Better User Group Software) workshop at Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago, IL, USA. We invite you to submit papers on software, techniques, and standards for use at synchrotron-radiation and neutron-scattering facilities. Specific topics of interest include the following: Software for instrument control and data acquisition Scientific data-analysis and visualization software Emerging standards and applications of scientific data formats Data-storage, compression, and retrieval techniques Future directions in software development, algorithms, standardization, and sharing. As this is to be a workshop, demonstrations are particularly desirable. Background ---------- NOBUGS originated as a workshop sponsored jointly by ESRF and ILL to [paraphrasing...] review existing software tools for data acquisition and analysis, and to encourage convergence and sharing as ways of minimizing development effort while improving the quality and uniformity of user interfaces. For more detailed background information, see the following URL's http://www.esrf.fr/computing/nobugs/nobugs_top.html (ESRF/ILL) http://www.dl.ac.uk/SRS/FCIS/nobugs.html (Daresbury) Agenda ------ A tentative (straw-person) agenda follows. The final agenda will be determined from the abstracts submitted, and will be published on the Web before the workshop. Day 1: The state of the field ----- Morning plenary session: Facility reports We intend this session to focus on the big ideas that distinguish various development efforts, and suggest that speakers save the details for poster/demonstration sessions. Also, we request that speakers in this session look over each other's abstracts (on the Web) before the workshop, so that useful comparisons can be made. Afternoon plenary session: Talks describing (and demonstrating, if possible) the novel features of existing, proven software. Poster/demonstration session. Possible evening session of vendor presentations, informal demonstrations, and tutorials. Day 2: Technical details ----- Half-hour talks (20-minute presentation; 10-minute discussion) on subjects small enough to permit in-depth treatment. Talks should describe existing software or systems under active development, but not systems merely in the planning stages. Morning parallel sessions: Control & data acquisition (SR & Neutron) Analysis and standards (SR & Neutron) Afternoon parallel sessions: SR applications Neutron applications Poster/demonstration session. Workshop banquet. Day 3: The future ----- Half-hour talks on unproven systems under active development, ideas for new developments, new directions, etc. We hope to attract a few talks on genuinely hare-brained ideas with credible potential to influence future developments. We intend to set aside time for discussion, and we may schedule several parallel sessions simply to get small enough audiences that discussion will be practical. Active working groups may program private sessions during this time. Information for all attendees ----------------------------- The workshop will be held on Dec. 10-12, 1997, at Argonne's conference facilities on the Advanced Photon Source site. We have reserved a block of rooms at the Argonne Guest House (see http://www.aps.anl.gov/travel/anlghhome.html), a hotel located about a block away from the auditorium. There is a Web page for this workshop at the URL "http://www.aps.anl.gov/XFD/bcda/nobugs/". If you plan to attend, please complete the registration form on the Web page. There is an email listserver for NOBUGS generally, maintained by Bill Pulford (ESRF). To subscribe, send a message to listproc@esrf.fr with the message body of the form SUBSCRIBE NOBUGS <your email address> To post a message to everyone on the mailing list, send email to nobugs@esrf.fr Information for authors ----------------------- Deadlines: Oct. 20, 1997 - Submission of abstracts to be considered for oral presentation - Requests for hardware and software support for demonstrations Nov. 10, 1997 - Submission of abstracts for poster sessions Nov. 17, 1997 - Registration for workshop Nov. 24, 1997 - Acceptance notification to authors Dec. 12, 1997 - Electronic submission of all papers/posters. Abstracts: There is a form for submitting abstracts on the workshop's Web page. Please submit via this form if you can. If the form doesn't work for you, please submit the requested information by email. Papers: The proceedings will be published on the Web, so papers should preferably be in HTML format. If this is not possible, please e-mail the paper in ASCII text format. Some general hints: A short list of key words, preferably with "meta" tags, should be included. All artwork must be cited in the text, be numbered, and have captions. Artwork should be in GIF or JPEG format. (Other Web-compatible multimedia may also acceptable.) Whenever appropriate, references to URL or FTP locations for the software and documentation should be included. Any number of non-reference URLs for directly relevant sites of interest may be included. Postscript is acceptable for the published version of poster presentations. To keep us all sane, please include the word NOBUGS in the subject section of your e-mail. Demonstrations: If you would like to do an on-line demonstration of your software, we will make our best effort to support your needs. We can provide the following hardware: Sun Workstation/Solaris 2.5 with CDE NCD X-terminal with CDE Macintosh PC/Win95 Other architectures may be supported on request. If you wish to bring a PC with your software already installed, we will have a limited number of 19" multisync monitors available. If you bring your own computer, we can provide a 10 Mbit/sec ethernet connection via 10BaseT, Thin Ethernet, or AUI port. If you need any commercial software that you will not bring with (e.g., IDL), please contact us to see if we can support your need. In order to have the best chance for us to support your on-line demo, and so that we can gauge the number of systems we need to have on hand, we are requesting preliminary notification of your hardware and software needs no later than October 13, 1997. Travel funds: We intend to provide some travel funds to invited speakers. The amounts have not yet been determined. Organization ------------ Organizing committee: Ray Osborn Tim Mooney Julie Wulf Mark Rivers John Hammonds Jon Tischler Tom Worlton Bakul Banerjee Dave Wallis Advisory Committee: This committee should be representative of the communities involved, and it should undertake to discover the best work in the field and bring it to the attention of the local organizers. The advisory committee should also advocate for the workshop, and disseminate information about it. If you know of someone who should be on this committee, please send us a message. Workshop secretary: Julie Wulf (jmwulf@aps.anl.gov) ------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to forward this announcement appropriately. Dr. Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630) 252-5417 Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Experimental Facilities Division Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Dr. Ray Osborn Tel: +1 (630) 252-9011 Materials Science Division Fax: +1 (630) 252-7777 Argonne National Laboratory E-mail: ROsborn@anl.gov
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