NSF Programs and Possibilities

Research Linkages EU-US23 September 2004

Sylvia Spengler US National Science Foundation

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The Collaboration Challenge

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Collaboration Benefits ( Venice, October 2001)

– Large-scale, global research challenges can be addressed

– Exchange/gain expertise and knowledge

– New perspectives on the research phenomenon

– Economies of scope and scale

– Sustainability of research efforts

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Persistent Issues

• Intellectual Property Rights

• Timing of collaborations

• Timing of actual award

• Oversight and management from the funding perspective

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“Distance matters”

• Difficult to establish mutual regard and common ground, increased misunderstanding (Cramton, 2001)

• Delays in project schedule (Herbsleb et al.,

2000) and poor monitoring of progress (Weisband 2001)

• Information and awareness distributed unevenly (Olson et al, 2001)

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Potential Collaboration

• A lot of models, many creative approaches• Many emerging areas of collaboration

– Digital Government– Cyberinfrastructure– Cybertrust– Critical Infrastructure Protection, Embedded Systems– Digital Society– E-health– EcoInformatics/Environmental Research

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Examples of Collaboration

US grantees & EC Contractors• Grantee workshops and conferences for agenda

setting and future collaborations– E-business, e-work (2001, 2002 in Europe)– Open Source Software (2002 in US & Europe)– Critical Infrastructure Protection (1998, 2000, 2002 in

Europe and US)– Embedded Systems (2001, 2002, 2003)

• Joint programs– Multi-lingual information access and management

(1999)• NSF supplements to grants

– For US researchers to work jointly with IST projects– For researchers to hold joint workshops

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Mechanisms of Collaboration

• Supplements to US awards and modifications in scope of work in EC projects; the example of ITR at NSF.

• Workshop grants • Planning grants

• A Model Joint Partnership Agreement

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NSF/ITR and FP6/IST Research Topics

6 Linked Research Themes

– Critical Infrastructure protection– Secure, networked, embedded systems– E-business– E-government– Crisis management– E-health

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PROJECTS

Prop# PI Last PI First Title EC Projects

0443934 Cruz Maria

ITR: Collaborative Research: Context-Aware Computing with Applications to Public Health Management ARTEMIS

0448495 Dawes Sharon

ITR: Modeling the Social and Technical Processes of Interorganizational Information Integration

IntelCities & COSPA

0443800 Hersh William REnhancing Access to Multi-Modal Information in Biomedicine

Semantic Mining

0443959 Hovy Eduard

ITR: Information Discovery in Digital Government: Self-extending Topic Maps and Ontologies (GrowOnto) QUALEG

0443881 Iftode LiviuITR/SI: Cooperative Computing for Distributed Embedded Systems HiPEAC

0443963 Kim Kane

ITR: TADE - Timeliness-Assured Design Environment for Distributed Object-Based Embedded Computing DECOS

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PROJECTS (2)

0443894 Martonosi Margaret

ITR: Designing "Real-Power" Systems: Static and Dynamic Techniques for Managing Power/Performance Tradeoffs HiPEAC

0443848 Murray Richard M

Packet-Based Control Theory for Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems RUNES

0443927 Sastry S. ShankarITR: Foundations of Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems

ARTIST2 & DECOS

0443765 Singh MunindarITR: Computational Principles of Trust

TrustCoM & ARTEMIS

0443725 Taylor Richard

ITR: An Integrated Social and Technical Approach to the Development of Distributed, Inter-organizational Applications PRIME

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Representative Projects

• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/index.jsp)

• Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge

(http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/)• UVM Ecoinformatics Collaboratory (http://

ecoinformatics.uvm.edu/)

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Other projects

• GEON(http://www.geongrid.org/) Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences

• LEAD (http://lead.ou.edu/) Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery

• DGO (http://digitalgovernment.org/) Digital Government Research Program)

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A Model Agreement

• EU-USA, Agreement for Scientific and Technical Collaboration between the European Community and the United States of America, December 1997

• An Implementing Arrangement for Cooperative Activity in the Area of Environmental Research, 2001

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Elements of the Model

• Scope• Duration• Management of the Partnership (overall and

scientific• Information Management (publications, website)• Confidentiality• Intellectual Property• Handling and Use of Data• Dispute Resolution

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Other Ideas?

• Many programs in CISE at NSF are interested.

• Suggestions are welcome:sspengle@nsf.gov vgregg@nsf.gohgill@nsf.govsiacono@nsf.gov