SE-ES 2014 - 2014 International Workshop on Software Engineering for e-Science

This workshop is concerned with gathering experiences about the effective development and maintenance of software for E-Science. Software development for this important type of software has not received enough attention from the traditional Software Engineering (SE) community. Similarly, the unique software development challenges faced by e-Science developers are typically not widely discussed within most non-E-Science computational science venues. This workshop is the next in a series of workshops that seeks to provide a venue for interested researchers to discuss these issues, share experiences and work towards sustainable solutions for the computational science and e-Science communities.
Despite its importance, the development of E-Science software historically has attracted little attention from the traditional SE community. Indeed, the development of E-Science software is significantly different than the development of business information systems, from which many of the SE best practices, tools and techniques have been drawn. Despite this situation, several SE practices, tools and techniques have been utilized by E-Science developers, but in isolation of an understanding of their effectiveness in a scientific environment. Therefore, in order to identify and develop appropriate methods, tools and techniques for E-Science software, members of the SE community must interact with members of the E-Science community to understand these differences and determine the most appropriate SE tools, methods and techniques. In addition, we hope to identify aspects of SE practice that are relevant for the education of future E-Science developers. These aspects will be provided as suggestions for inclusion in various types of curricula relevant to new E-Science developers.
Most conference and journal venues focus either on the SE domain or on the E-Science domain, but rarely on the intersection of the two. The goal of this workshop is to provide a venue for researchers from SE and to interact with those from E-Science to discuss issues relevant to the intersection of these two fields. By bringing these groups together, our goal is to support the building of a common research agenda to deal with the complex software development issues present in the E-Science domain, helping take forward the understanding of which SE practices can be successfully applied to lead to long-term improvements in the development of E-Science software. Furthermore, the discussion will be invaluable in identifying those aspects of SE that should be considered for e-Science education programs. For more information contact Jeffrey Carver.