Metrics2023: Metrics2023 |
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/metrics2023 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2023 |
Poster | download |
Abstract registration deadline | September 15, 2023 |
Submission deadline | October 1, 2023 |
Metrics for objectively assessing the progress and impact of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects are important for not only obtaining the required resources for the long-term sustainability of the projects and community engagement but also for identifying issues and prioritizing the areas of improvement. As projects evolve over time, the metrics for measuring their progress and impact should also evolve.
Even though each CI project is unique, there are certain elements (such as the community engagement and training) that cross-cut across a vast majority of the projects. Hence, there is a possibility of defining a set of metrics that can be relevant to a broad range of the CI projects for measuring their progress and impact.
The main goal of the Metrics 2023 conference is to bring together colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines and organizations to network, collaborate, and work towards defining a taxonomy of CI projects and the appropriate metrics for their short-term and long-term evaluation. Towards this end, abstracts for presentations, and papers for publication in the special issue of Springer Nature Computer Science journal are invited.
Metrics for evaluating the projects related to the following areas are in the scope of this conference:
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Software and data infrastructure (including infrastructure for AI, Quantum Computing, and CyberSecurity)
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Hardware infrastructure design, development and deployment (for High Performance Computing, Data-Intensive Computing, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, Data Storage and Archival, and IoT)
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Operations, and maintenance (including, processes and practices such as DevSecOps and ITIL)
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Community building and customer service
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Training, education, and outreach
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)
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Building virtual organizations
Topics of interest for papers and abstracts include, but are not limited to:
- Case-studies on measuring success of projects including lessons learnt, design of the evaluation method, data analysis
- Evolution of the metrics as the project progresses through different project years and release cycles
- Currently known best practices for tracking metrics
- Tools for tracking the product use metrics and experiences related to their adoption
- Challenges and opportunities in developing self-reporting software or data product/infrastructure
- Problems and solutions related to gathering certain types of metrics
- Benchmarking and performance evaluation techniques for hardware and software products
- Methods and experiences related to measuring accuracy, precision, explainability, and fairness of results
- Manual and automated methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative metrics
- Methods and experiences related to measuring productivity of people
- Methods for measuring the societal impact of projects
- Literature review and survey of the methods for evaluating success of projects from the areas that are in the scope of the conference
- New methods for analyzing success including the role and use of social-media
- Taxonomy of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects and associated metrics
Submission Guidelines
Guidelines for Journal Papers: The Metrics2023 proceedings will be published by Springer Nature Computer Science in a special journal issue.
We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work, that is not under review for another publication. Full papers (10 -25 pages in length including references) should be formatted as per the Springer-specified guidelines (details below) for review. Authors of selected papers will be provided 20 minutes time-slots for their presentations at the conference.
- Submission system opens: August 31, 2023
- Deadline for submission: October 1, 2023
- Deadline for notification: November 1, 2023
- Presentations of selected papers: November 11 - November 12, 2023
- Deadline for submission of the final version of the paper: November 30, 2023
- Timeline for publication: December 1, 2023
Templates and Instructions for authors for preparing the papers are available at the following link: https://www.springer.com/journal/42979/submission-guidelines
Following is the link to the submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/sncs/default2.aspx
Please select the following title of the journal special issue in the Springer submission system at the time of submitting the paper: "Metrics for Measuring Success of CyberInfrastructure Projects."
Guidelines for Short-Talks: We invite abstracts for short talks (maximum 7 minutes each). The abstracts should be prepared following the Springer guidelines, and could be 3-5 pages in length including references. While the abstracts will NOT be published in the proceedings (special issue of the journal), they will be made publicly accessible through a GitHub repository set up for the conference and linked to this website. The PDF copies of the rough draft of the slides (up to 16 slides maximum) are also required as a part of the submission. The PDFs of the abstract and the slides can be merged into a single PDF file, and can be submitted through EasyChair for peer-review by going to the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=metrics2023
- Deadline for abstract submission for short-talks: September 15, 2023
- Deadline for notification: October 1, 2023
- Submission of the final slides and abstract: November 8, 2023
- Presentations: November 11 - November 12, 2023
PLEASE NOTE: The submission system for the journal paper review is different from the submission system for the abstracts for short-talks. Please follow the links above for the different types of submissions. Additionally, the registration of abstracts for full-papers is not required. The deadline for abstracts mentioned on this CFP is related to the call for short-talks.
Committees
Program Committee
- TBD
Organizing committee
- Ritu Arora, Wayne State University
- Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A & M University
- Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri
- Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratory
- George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyala University
Publication
Metrics2023 proceedings will be published in Springer Nature Computer Science, special issue.
Venue
The conference will be held in Denver, Colorado.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ritu@wayne.edu.