Research

From Minas

Overview

Computer Science Subproject (CS)

Title: Believing and Accepting Cyber-Results

Goal: To gain users’ confidence in workflow execution results by enhancing results with provenance information, trust recommendations, and levels of uncertainty.

Geoscience Subproject (GS)

Title: Integrated Analysis for Development of 3-D Models of Earth Structure

Goal: To advance the understanding of the Earth by studying and developing techniques and approaches for integrating data with varying accuracy and sensitivity.

Environmental Science Subproject (ES)

Title: Advancing the Utility of Cyberinfrastructure in Environmental Science

Goal: To address the challenge of optimizing data streams and sensor arrays in ecological and environmental networks through case studies targeting improved characterization of environmental phenomena and processes.

Synergy

The combination of CI and human resources, i.e., scientists, educators, and students, underpins the collaborative and synergistically beneficial environment that has been established in Cyber-ShARE. CI and its mobilizing effect on sharing knowledge, methods, techniques, and approaches is central to Cyber-ShARE’s mission of creating a cooperative environment for interdisciplinary research. Table 1 summarizes the benefits gained from the subprojects and center. A common thread through the subprojects is the use of provenance for encoding trust and uncertainty. The subprojects provide an environment for validating and verifying new tools and technologies that will ultimately be disseminated within and outside of UTEP through existing and new CI.

Table 1: Summary of subprojects’ support from and contributions to Cyber-ShARE.

AREAS AND CAPABILITIES	SUPPORT FROM THE CENTER	CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CENTER
Education effort: secondary education and technology, CS, math, GS, ES	Synergy from cross-disciplinary experts working on educational components to train the next-generation scientist.	CI –based science and technology lessons for K-12; CI-based curriculum for UG and G programs; outreach hands-on modules that use CI to engage students in problem solving
Subproject 1 (CS): software engineering, provenance, trust, uncertainty	Synergy of knowledge captured from math, GS, and ES that can be used as a testbed for tools.	Scientist-centered tools to support trust and uncertainty management for workflow executions;
Subproject 2 (GS): seismology; optimization, trust, uncertainty	Development of software services; knowledge captured in ontologies; use and support of CI tools; coordination to create and archive the time series data and geospatial networks	Improved understanding of Earth; knowledge about: integrating data with varying accuracy and sensitivity; collecting and analyzing large data sets; developing trust and uncertainty models.
Subproject 3 (ES): sensor networks; environmental change, trust, uncertainty	Development of software services for uncertainty modeling; know-ledge captured in ontologies; coordination to create and archive the time series data and geospatial networks	Improved understanding of environmental change; techniques for gathering and analyzing change data; methods for uncertainty modeling; knowledge related to multi-parameter data querying, trust, and uncertainty.