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<div class="">(Of particular relevance to the RSE community, note the call for RSE group and community posters)</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">9th International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences, WSSSPE 2018 (6.1) </b></div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Date: October 29, 2018</b></div>
<div class=""><b class="">(1-day workshop during IEEE eScience 2018 conference)</b></div>
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<div class="">Location: Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam City Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands</div>
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<div class="">Workshop website: <a href="http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe6-1/" class="">http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe6-1/</a> </div>
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<div class="">Introduction:</div>
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<div class="">Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of research software at all levels. It is critical to address many new challenges related to the development, deployment, maintenance, and sustainability of open-use
research software: the software upon which specific research results rely. Open-use software means that the software is widely accessible (whether open source, shareware, or commercial). Research software means that the choice of software is essential to
specific research results; using different software could produce different results.</div>
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<div class="">In addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a new set of software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills, and in particular,
a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic environments who are an integral and embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides a forum for discussion of these challenges, including both positions and experiences, and a
forum for the community to assemble and act.</div>
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<div class="">WSSSPE is an international community-driven organization that promotes sustainable research software by addressing challenges related to the full lifecycle of research software through shared learning and community action. WSSSPE6.1 is the ninth
workshop convened since 2013 in an international series that provides opportunities for the community to come together to share and advance practices.</div>
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<div class="">WSSSPE 2018 aims to facilitate the creation of a strong community focussed on sustainable research software, by sharing and building best practice both locally and internationally. The workshop will discuss topics relevant to building a sustainable
future for open-use research software and the activities that are needed to get there. This includes discussion of practices and experiences in sustainable scientific software, with the goal of improving the quality of today’s research software and the experiences
of its developers by sharing practices and experiences. </div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest:</div>
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<div class="">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</div>
<div class="">--Software engineering of/for scientific software </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Best practices for engineering sustainable software, such as design, development, and testing issues</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Engineering design for sustainable software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Adaptation of mainstream software-engineering practices for scientific software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Software tools that aid sustainability</div>
<div class="">--Software publishing</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Journals and alternative venues for publishing scientific software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Review processes for published scientific software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Software discoverability/reuse</div>
<div class="">--Software reproducibility</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Requirements for reproducibility in conferences and journals</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Best practices for reproducibility in scientific software</div>
<div class="">--Community, community building and collaborations</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Academia/industry interaction and collaborations</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Case studies of building regional WSSSPE communities, a.k.a. Research Software Engineers (RSE) Associations </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Metrics for the success of scientific software</div>
<div class="">--Professionalism</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Career paths</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Research Software Engineering as a career brand</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Initiatives for professionalization of Research Software Engineering</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better scientific software</div>
<div class="">--Training</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Training for developing scientific software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Curriculum for software sustainability</div>
<div class="">--Credit</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for software</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Future credit and citation ecosystems</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Software contributions as a part of tenure review</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software</div>
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<div class="">Important Dates:</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Submission of papers/posters: <b class="">July 11, 2018</b></div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Decisions announced (sending notification emails): August 18, 2018</div>
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<div class="">Submission types and formats:</div>
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<div class="">Lightning talks, short/position/idea papers: up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be presented in a 5 to 7 minute talk. </div>
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<div class="">Full paper: a long paper, up to 10 pages, that can be presented in a 20-minute talk.</div>
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<div class="">Posters (will NOT be published in the proceedings): Posters can be up to A0 in size and will be displayed as part of the RSE networking session. Posters may be submitted covering any of the above topic areas. We especially welcome Research Software
Engineering (RSE) group and community posters describing the structure/focus of an institutional RSE group or team, or a local or national RSE community. *Please note that posters will not be published in the proceedings.* The posters are intended to stimulate
discussion, support the development of new collaborations and help to provide opportunities for attendees to find out more about the different work that is going on within the WSSSPE community. RSE group and community posters provide an opportunity to showcase
the wide-ranging profiles and structures of RSE groups setup at many institutions and to help develop awareness of and links between these groups. A 1-paragraph abstract should be submitted describing the proposed poster content and its relevance to the WSSSPE
community. Posters will be displayed as part of the RSE networking session. Poster presenters will get a 1-minute lightning talk slot to present their poster at the start of the poster session.</div>
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<div class="">We also welcome “experience” papers in both short and full paper formats. Both types of talks may be based on novel or previously-published work. We also welcome position papers on what we can do to improve the state of sustainable scientific
software, or discuss experiences in sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing current practices and experiences and how they have been used to improve the quality of today’s research software and/or the experiences of its developers. </div>
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<div class="">Submission process:</div>
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<div class="">Authors are invited to submit their papers using the IEEE 8.5 × 11 manuscript guidelines: double-column text using single-spaced 10 point font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages. Templates are available from:</div>
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<div class="">RSE community posters should be up to A0 in size. </div>
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<div class="">Submissions should be made via <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe201861" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe201861</a></div>
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<div class="">The proceedings of WSSSPE6.1 will be included in the eScience 2018 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, and will be made available online through the IEEExplore Digital Library. </div>
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<div class="">Authors are requested to publish a pre-print of their work to an open repository such as arXiv, figshare or zenodo, and to inform the workshop of the URL of this pre-print. We will link from the conference website to the preprint files.</div>
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<div class="">For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must hold a registration for the workshop, and must present the paper in person. WSSSPE and IEEE reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference,
including IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, if the paper is not presented by the author at the conference.</div>
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<div class="">Organization Committee:</div>
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<div class="">Vahid Garousi (chair of organization committee), Wageningen University, Netherlands</div>
<div class="">Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK</div>
<div class="">Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</div>
<div class="">Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA</div>
<div class="">Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London, UK</div>
<div class="">Michelle Barker, National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR), Australia</div>
<div class="">Niels Drost, Netherlands eScience Center, Netherlands</div>
<div class="">Robert Haines, University of Manchester, UK</div>
<div class="">Shoaib Ahmed Sufi, University of Manchester, UK</div>
<div class="">Stephan Druskat, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany</div>
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