Cyberenvironments and Technologies Directorate at NCSA

Cyberenvironments Resources

Over the last four years, NCSA has been developing the concept of cyberenvironments to capture the need for infrastructure that supports individual researchers in the context of end-to-end community-scale efforts to advance scientific understanding and apply new knowledge to societal concerns. The resources gather here provide a definition of the concept of cyberenvironments in scientific communities, examples of developing scientific cyberenvironments and an overview of NCSA's Cyberenvironment-related activities in the community.

Presentations

Data-Driven Geospatial Visual Analytics for Real-Time Urban Flooding Decision Support, Liu,Y.; D. Hill; A. Rodriguez; L. Marini; R. Kooper; J. Myers; X. Wu; B. S. Minsker (2009) Eos, Vol. 90, Number 52, 29 December 2009, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract IN34A-07
Beyond the Document Library: Portal-based Browsing and Exploration of Community Data Clouds, Liu, Y., K. Kotwani, A. Rodriguez, J. Futrelle, R. McGrath, J. Myers (2009). The fifth IEEE e-Science conference, Dec 9-11, 2009. Oxford, UK.
Web 2.0 Geospatial Visual Analytics for Improved Urban Flooding Situational Awareness and Assessment, Liu, Y., D. Hill, L. Marini, R. Kooper, A. Rodriguez, J. Myers (2009) ACM GIS '09 , November 4-6, 2009. Seattle, WA, USA
Semantic Management of Streaming Data, A. Rodriguez, R. McGrath, Y. Liu, J. Myers (2009) 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks at the International Semantic Web Conference, Washington, DC, October 25-29, 2009
Coupling Network Analysis using MAEviz Building Blocks - [Presentation, Poster] McLaren, T., Navarro, C., Lee, J.S., Hampton, S., Tolbert, N., Myers, J., Spencer, B.F., Elnashai, A. (2009). Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Annual Meeting, June 22-25, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii.
A New Framework for On-Demand Virtualization, Repurposing and Fusion of Heterogeneous Sensors,Liu, Y., X. Wu, D. Hill, A. Rodrigues, L. Marini, R. Kooper, J. Myers, B. Minsker (2009). Sensor Web Enablement workshop 2009, The 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems , May 18-22, 2009, Baltimore, MD
Transforming Human Interaction with Virtual Worlds. Mary Pietrowicz, Robert E. McGrath, Ben Smith, and Guy Garnett, Workshop on Computational Creativity Support at CHI 2009, April 4, Boston.
mWorlds: novel human interaction with virtual worlds, Guy Garnett, Robert E. McGrath,and Mary Pietrowicz Mardi Gras Conference 2009: Virtual Worlds: New Realms for Culture, Creativity, Commerce, Computation and Communication, February 19-21, 2009.
A Digital Synthesis Framework for Virtual Observatories - [presentation(pdf)]. J D Myers, L Marini, P Bajcsy, R Kooper, Y Liu, R McGrath, J Futrelle, T McLaren, A Collier, A Rodriguez. (2008). Presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
Dashboard Visualization for Diverse User Communities. A Collier, L Marini, B Minsker. (2008). Poster presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
Data Stream Technologies for the Semantic Web. A Rodriguez, J Myers. (2008). Poster presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
Semantic Document Library: A Virtual Research Environment for Documents, Data and Workflows Sharing. K Kotwani, Y Liu, J Myers, J Futrelle. (2008). Poster presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
Virtual Sensors in a Web 2.0 Digital Watershed. Y Liu, D J Hill, L Marini, R Kooper, A Rodriguez, J D Myers. (2008). Poster presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
MAEviz: Seismic Risk Assessment Environment - bridging the gap between research and practice. C Navarro, J S Lee, N Tolbert, s hampton, T McLaren, J Myers. (2008). Poster presented at AGU 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2008.
Web2.0-based Semantic Data Document and Event Management Environment. Kailash Kotwani, Yong Liu, Joe Futrelle, James Myers, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Terry McLaren. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
MAEviz: Bridging the Time-from-discovery Gap between Seismic Research and Decision Making. Shawn D. Hampton, Jong Sung Lee, Nathan L. Tolbert, Terrence M. McLaren, Christopher M. Navarro, James D. Myers, B.F.Spencer, Amr S. Elnashai. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Virtual Sensors in a Web 2.0 Virtual Watershed. Yong Liu, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Alenjandro Rodriguez, David Hill, James Myers, Barbara Minsker. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Knowledge Spaces and Scientific Data. Joe Futrelle, Jeff Gaynor, Joel Plutchak, Peter Bajcsy, Jason Kastner, Kailash Kotwani, Jong Sung Lee, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Robert McGrath, Terry McLaren, Yong Liu, James Myers. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
End-to-End Cyberinfrastructure for Real-Time Environmental Decision Support. David J. Hill, Barbara Minsker, Yong Liu, James Myers. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Advanced Information Delivery System for the Abraham Lincoln Writings. Michal Ondrejcek, Rob Kooper, Peter Bajcsy. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Publishing Active Workflows to Problem-Focused Web Spaces. Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Peter Bajcsy, James Myers. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Advanced Information Systems for Archival Appraisals of Contemporary Documents. William McFadden, Kenton McHenry, Rob Kooper, Michal Ondrejcek, Alex Yahja, Peter Bajcsy. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
Digital Agriculture: Learning to Feed a Hungry World. Andrew Wadsworth, James Myers, Terry McLaren. (2008). Poster presented at the 4th IEEE International Converence on e-Science. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-12, 2008.
How to Build a Better Wikipedia: Ubiquitous Infrastructure for Deep Accountability. Robert E. McGrath. (2008). Presented at the 2008 Microsoft e-Science Workshop. Indianapolis, IN. December 7-9, 2008.
Evolution of the NCSA Knowledge Center. Andrew Wadsworth, Steve Downey, Tim L. Wentling, Luigi Marini. (2008). Presented at the E-Learn 2008 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education. Las Vegas, Nevada November 17-21, 2008.
MAEviz: An Earthquake Risk Assessment System. Terrence M. McLaren, James D. Myers, Jong Sung Lee, Nathan Tolbert, Shawn Hampton, Chris Navarro. (2008). Presentation demo at the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL Internal Conference on Advances in Geopraphic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008). Irvine, CA. November 5-7, 2008.
Near-Real-Time Precipitation Virtual Sensor Creation based on NEXRAD Level II Data. Yong Liu, David J. Hill, Alenjandro Rodriguez, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Joe Futrelle, Barbara Minisker, James Myers. (2008). Presentation demo at the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL Internal Conference on Advances in Geopraphic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008). Irvine, CA. November 5-7, 2008.
A Digital Synthesis Framework for Virtual Observatories. James Myers, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Terry McLaren, Robert McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Peter Bajcsy, Andrew Collier, Yong Liu, Shawn Hampton. (2008). Presented at Regular Session 5, UK e-Science AHM. Edinburgh, UK. Sept 8-11, 2008.
Embedding Data in Knowledge Spaces. James D. Myers, Joe Futrelle, Jeff Gaynor, Joel Plutchak, Peter Bajcsy, Jason Kastner, Kailash Kotwani, Jong Sung Lee, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Robert E. McGrath, Terry McLaren, Alejandro Rodriguez, Yong Liu(2008). Presented at Workshop 9: The Global Data Centric View, UK e-Science AHM. Edinburgh, UK. Sept 8-11, 2008.

Computing Research Repository (CoRR)

http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0744

Bridging the time-from-discovery gap between research and practical use: MAEviz risk-management model and architecture. Terry McLaren, James Myers, Chris Navarro, Jong Lee, Nathan Tolbert, B.F. Spencer, Amr Elnashai. (2008). Presented at Workshop 6: Interactive e-Science to Support Creativity and Intuition in Research, UK e-Science AHM. Edinburgh, UK. Sept 8-11, 2008.
From Large Volumes of Scanned Lincoln Papers to Virtual Observatories. Michal Odrejcek, Rob Kooper, Luigi Marini, Peter Bajcsy and James Myers. (2008). Presented at Workshop 10: e-Science in Arts and Humanities: Early Experiments and Systematic Investigations, UK e-Science AHM. Edinburgh, UK. Sept 8-11, 2008.
Supporting Exploration and Collaboration in Scientific Workflow Systems. Marini L., R. Kooper, P. Bajcsy, J. Myers. (2007). Abstract IN31C-07 presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, CA. Dec 10-14 2007.
Cyberinfrastructure and Software Middleware Efforts Applied to Ocean Observing Systems. Gomes, K. J., Arrott, M., Butler, R., Edgington, D. R., Freemon, M., Herlien, R., Howe, B., Liu, Y/, O'Reilly, T., Welch, V. (2007). Poster presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, CA. Dec 10-14 2007.
Interacting With A Near Real-Time Urban Digital Watershed Using Emerging Geospatial Web Technologies. Liu, Y., Fazio, D. J., Abdelzaher, T., Minsker, B. (2007). Poster presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, CA. Dec 10-14 2007.
Evolving the NCSA CyberCollaboratory for Distributed Environmental Observatory Networks. Myers, J.; Liu, Y.; Minsker, B.; Futrelle, J.; Downey, S.; Kim, I.; Rantanen, E. (2007). Abstract H13A-0984 presented at American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco, CA. Dec 10-14 2007.
Leveraging OGC Sensor Web Enablement and Open Source Enterprise Service Bus for Real-Time Urban Digital Watershed Data Integration and Dissemination. Liu, Y., Fazio, D. J., Abdelzaher, T., Minsker,B. (2007). Poster for Microsoft eScience 2007 Workshop. Chapel Hill, NC. October 21-23 2007.
Lowering Adoption Barriers for Scientific Workflow Systems. Abstract presented at 2007 Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI. Marini L., R. Kooper, P. Bajcsy, J. Myers. (2007). Chapel Hill, NC. October 21-23 2007,
Cyberinfrastructure Technologies To Support QA/QC and Event-Driven Analysis Of Distributed Sensing Data. Liu, Y., Minsker, B., Hill, D. (2007). Presented at International Workshop on Advances in Hydroinformatics. Niagara Falls Canada. June 4-7 2007.
Science Gateways, Cyberenvironments, and Web 2.0 BOF presentation at Teragrid '07. James Myers, Marlon Pierce.
Cyberinfrastructure 2.0: Designing CI to Support User-Generated Content. (pptx), James Myers.
Cyberinfrastructure Lessons Learned. James Myers.
Cyberenvironments Defined. James Myers.
MAEviz Cyberenvironment. Bill Spencer, Mid America Earthquake Center, UIUC.
The ECID Environmental Observatory Cyberenvironment. Barbara Minsker, UIUC.
NCSA Cyberenvironment Project Summaries. Randy Butler, NCSA.
Cyberenvironment Design Patterns as an Integration Mechanism. James Myers, NCSA.
Supporting the Cyberenvironment Lifecycle. Randy Butler, NCSA.

Selected Publications

P. Bajcsy, R. Kooper, L. Marini and J. Myers. (2009). Community-Scale Cyberinfrastructure for Exploratory Science. In: Cyberinfrastructure Technologies and Applications book. Editor: Junwei Cao, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (expected publication: 1st quarter of 2009).
James Myers. (2008) Chapter 6: A National User Facility That Fits on your Desk: The Evolution of Collaboratories at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Scientific Collaboration on the Internet. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, p 121-134.
Shaowen Wang, Anand Padmanabhan, James D. Myers, Wenwu Tang, Yong Liu. (2008). Towards Provenance-Aware Geographic Information Systems. Proceedings for ACM GIS 2008. Irvine, CA. November 5-7, 2008.
P. Bajcsy, R. Kooper, S-C. Lee. (2008). Understanding Preservation and Reconstruction Requirements for Computer Assisted Decision Processes. ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). (submitted October 2008).
L. Marini, R. Kooper, J. Myers and P. Bajcsy. (2008). Towards Digital Watersheds using Dynamic Publications. In: Cyberinfrastructure special issue of Water Management, Proceedings of ICE Journals. Editor: Charlie Jensen, Thomas Telford. UK. (submitted June 2008, revised September 2008)
P. Bajcsy.(2008). A Perspective on Cyberinfrastructure for Water Research Driven by Informatics Methodologies. In: Geography Compass. (submitted April 2008, revised June 2008)
Abhishek Singh, Barbara S. Minsker, Peter Bajcsy. (2008). Image-Based Machine Learning For Reduction Of User-Fatigue In An Interactive Model Calibration System. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. (submitted September 2008)
Robert E. McGrath and Joe Futrelle. (2008). Reasoning About Provenance with OWL and SWRL. Presented at AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium, "AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management". Stanford, CA. March 24-26, 2008.
Jim Myers and Robert E. McGrath. (2008). Chapter 11 - Cyberenvironments: Towards Truly Ubiquitous Learning. Ubiquitous Learning, Editors: Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. University of Illinois Press. Champaign-Urbana, IL. (at press).
Alan Craig, Steve Downey, Guy Garnett, Robert McGrath and James Myers. (2008). Chapter 12 – Immersive Environments for Massive Multiperson Online Learning. Ubiquitous Learning, Editors: Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. University of Illinois Press. Champaign-Urbana, IL. (at press).
Futrelle, J., Myers, J. (2007). Tracking Provenance Semantics in Heterogeneous Execution Systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1253.
Liu, Y., McGrath,R.E., Myers,J. D., Futrelle J. (2007). Towards A Rich-Context Participatory Cyberenvironment. International Workshop on Grid Computing Environments 2007. Supercomputing Conference 2007 (SC07). Reno, NV. November 11-12, 2007.
Myers, J., McGrath,R.E. 92007). Cyberenvironments: Adaptive Middleware for Scientific Cyberinfrastructure. 6th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM'07). Newport Beach, CA. November 26, 2007.
Elnashai, Amr, Hampton, Shawn, Lee, Jong Sung, McLaren, Terry, Myers, James D., Navarro, Chris, Spencer, Bill & Tolbert, Nathan. (2008). Architectural Overview of MAEviz – HAZTURK. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Volume 12, Issue S2 2008, Pages 92-99.
Elnashai, A., Hampton, S., Karaman, H., Lee, J.S., McLaren, T., Myers, J., Navarro, C., Sahin, M., Spencer, B., Tolbert, N. (2007). Overview of Applications of MAEviz-Hazturk 2007. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Volume 12, Issue S2 2008, Pages 100-108.
Liu, Y., Myers, J., Minsker, B., Futrelle ,J. (2007), Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies in a Cyberenvironment for Observatory-centric Environmental Research. OGF-19 Semantic Web 2.0 and Grid Workshop, The 19th Open Grid Forum. Chapel Hill, NC. Jan. 29, 2007.
Yolanda Gil, Ewa Deelman, Mark Ellisman, Thomas Fahringer, Geoffrey Fox, Dennis Gannon, Carole Goble, Miron Livny, Luc Moreau, James Myers. (2007). Examining the Challenges of Scientific Workflows. IEEE - Computer , vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 24-32, December, 2007. (Draft version).
Fleury, T., Basney, J., Welch, V. (2006). Single Sign-On For Java Web Start Applications Using MyProxy. ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS). November 2006.
James D. Myers, Thom H. Dunning, Cyberenvironments and Cyberinfrastructure: Powering Cyber-research in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation. Blaine, WA. July 9-14, 2006.
Joe Futrelle, James Myers, Barbara Minsker, Peter Bajcsy. (2006) Community-based Metadata Integration for Environmental Research. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Hydro-science an Engineering (ICHE). Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 10-13, 2006.
Tara D. Talbott, Karen L. Schuchardt, Eric G. Stephan, James D. Myers. (2006). Mapping Physical Formats to Logical Models to Extract Data and Metadata: The Defuddle Parsing Engine. IPAW'06 International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, vol. LNCS 4145, pp. 73-81. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany.
Joe Futrelle. (2006). Harvesting RDF Triples. IPAW'06 International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, vol. LNCS 4145, pp. 64-72. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany.
J. D. Myers , B. F. Spencer, Jr. , C. Navarro. (2006). Cyberinfrastructure in Support of Earthquake Loss Assessment: The MAEviz Cyberenvironment. Proceedings of the EERI 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8NCEE). San Francisco, CA. April 18-22, 2006.
B. F. Spencer , J. D. Myers, G. Yang, and C. Navarro. (2006). MAEviz/NEESgrid and Applications Overview. Proceedings of the EERI 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8NCEE). San Francisco, CA. April 18-22, 2006.
Alameda, J., Hampton, S., Jewett, B., Rossi, A., Wilhelmson, B. (2006). Ensemble Broker Service Oriented Architecture for LEAD. 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology. Atlanta, GA. January 28 - Feburary 2, 2006.
Karen Schuchardt, Carmen Pancerella, Larry A. Rahn, Brett Didier, Deepti Kodeboyina, David Leahy, James D. Myers, Olumwole Oluwole, William Pitz, Branko Ruscic, Jing Song, Gregor von Laszewski, Christine Yang. (2005). Portal-based Knowledge Environment for Collaborative Science. Proceedings of the GCE 2005: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals. Seattle, WA. November 18, 2005.
Myers, J.D., Allison, T.C., Bittner, S., Didier, B., Frenklach, M., Green, W.H. Jr., Ho, Y.-L., Hewson, J., Koegler, W., Lansing, C., Leahy, D., Lee, M., McCoy, R., Minkoff, M., Nijsure, S., von Laszewski, G., Montoya, D., Pancerella, C., Pinzon, R., Pitz, W., Rahn, L.A., Ruscic, B., Schuchardt, K., Stephan, E., Wagner, A., Windus, T., Yang, C. (2005). A Collaborative Informatics Infrastructure for Multi-scale Science. Cluster Computing, vol 8, p243-253, 2005.

Technical Publications

Robert E. McGrath, Jason Kastner, and Jim Myers, Experiments in Data Format Interoperation Using Defuddle. September, 2009.
Robert E. McGrath, Jason Kastner, Alejandro Rodriguez, and Jim Myers, Towards a Semantic Preservation System. June, 2009. Also available at the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3152. October 16, 2009.
James D. Myers, Joe Futrelle, Jeff Gaynor, Joel Plutchak, Peter Bajcsy, Jason Kastner, Kailash Kotwani, Jong Sung Lee, Luigi Marini, Rob Kooper, Robert E. McGrath, Terry McLaren, Alejandro Rodriguez, Yong Liu (2009). Embedding Data in Knowledge Spaces. Submitted to the Computing Research Repository (CoRR) - http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0744. Feburary 4, 2009.
Robert McGrath. (2008) Semantic Extensions to Defuddle: Inserting GRDDL into XML. An NCSA Technical Report. July 2008.
Moreau, L., Friere,J., McGrath, R. E., Myers, J., Futrelle, J., Paulson,P. (2008). The Open Provenance Model. Provenance Challenge Review. January 1 - Feburary 14, 2008.
Joe Futrelle. (2006). Actionable Resource Tags for Virtual Organizations. An NCSA Technical Report.
James Myers. (2006). The Coming Metadata Deluge, Whitepaper for the NSF-sponsored New Collaborative Relationships: The Role of Academic Libraries in the Digital Data Universe Workshop.
B. F. Spencer, Jr., Randal Butler, Kathleen Ricker, Doru Marcusiu, Thomas Finholt, Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman. (2006). Cyberenvironment Project Management: Lessons Learned. Submitted to the National Science Foundation under Grant number CMS-0117853. Sept. 5, 2006.
James Myers. (2006). Building a Scientific Data Management Infrastructure in the Age of Ubiquitous and Persistent Cyberinfrastructure. Whitepaper for the Microsoft Research Sponsored Seminar on Data Life Cycle. Mountainview, CA. July 10, 2006.
James Myers. (2006). Cyberinfrastructure-scale Workflow. Whitepaper for the NSF-sponsored Workshop on the Challenges of Scientific Workflows. Arlington, VA. May 1-2, 2006.
James Myers. (2006). What can the Semantic Grid do for Science and Engineering?. Semantic Grid: The Convergence of Technologies Workshop. Dagstuhl Schloss, Wadern, Germany. July 3-7, 2005.
James Myers, Joe Futrelle, Radha Nandkumar, Ian Foster, Gregor von Laszewski, Mike Wilde, Keith Jackson, Karlo Berket, Brett Didier, Karen Schuchardt, Tara Talbott, James Hendler, Carl Kesselman, and Ewa Deelman. (2005). Design Principles for Cyberenvironments. adaptation/excerpt of an unpublished whitepaper.