第4届天文软件和网络基础设施国际会议 Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV

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This conference provides a forum for the engineering aspects of designing, building, implementing and commissioning software and cyberinfrastructure for ground-based and space observatories. The conference will discuss the directions of software for telescope and facility control systems, observation planning and execution, and data or workflow management, as well as topics related to software and systems engineering.

The observing facilities under design and construction in the era of giant telescopes demand novel solutions to address the complexity of control systems and the exponential increase in data collection, storage and access volumes. The community is also developing a large number of smaller but no less relevant projects with strong requirements for remote and/or robotic/autonomous operation.

In all cases there is a strong interest in adopting commercial off the shelf solutions for the control systems, cloud technologies for data management/analysis and web-based or mobile technology for users’ interaction. These solutions promise to address projects’ challenges with significant cost savings and allow a more efficient obsolescence management with respect to previous approaches.

This conference will offer an opportunity to compare the approaches adopted, exchange experiences, identify the most promising technologies, and develop opportunities for collaboration.

Software and Cyberinfrastructure in Astronomy complements many of the other conferences in the program, focusing on the realization through software engineering of the innovative ideas discussed there. The conference on Observatory Operations is an excellent example of the development of high level requirements for observing and support models, calibration, data reduction, archiving and data quality control. These needs are translated by software engineering into specific design and implementation requirements and then implemented via both existing and emergent software techniques.

New projects now have the opportunity to benefit from the lessons learned from the major projects of the past decade. This conference especially encourages contributions of lessons learned and new developments in the areas of effective maintenance, obsolescence management, and the convergence of ground- and space-based technologies.

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We anticipate organising the following sessions for which we invite the submission of contributions:

Project Overviews and Progress Reports
Session focus:
Current project reports
New, planned and proposed projects
Lessons learned/Success and failure analysis
Sample topics:
Case studies, costs and efforts estimation
Upgrades and migration strategies
Obsolescence management
Project Management
Session focus:
Management of astronomical software projects
Sample topics:
Requirements collection, management experiences and strategies
Risks analysis and mitigation approaches
Challenges of multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural, geographically distributed software development teams
Software Engineering, Design and Implementation
Session focus:
Emerging and enabling technologies
Innovative software architectures, designs and industrial trends
Sample topics:
Software development processes, best practices and lessons learned
System integration, testing and verification
Configuration management and quality assurance processes
Coexistence of new software development methodologies with more traditional (e.g. waterfall) approaches, earned value management, and so on
Challenges of development in an environment which encompasses academia, state of the art development, and the need for industrial-scale products
Cyberinfrastructure, High-Performance and Parallel Computing, Big Data
Session focus:
Evolution of cyberinfrastructure
National and international infrastructures
Social media and astronomy
Cyber security
Sample topics:
Facility infrastructure (power, network, virtualization)
Software infrastructure techniques, deployment and operation tools (such as Jenkins, docker or others).
Applications and lessons learned in high performance computing
Data products archiving and curation
Mobile apps and cloud computing
Web services and autonomous software agents
Innovative network and computer architectures
Observatory, Telescope and Instrumentation Control
Session focus:
Control systems in the era of giant observation facilities
Autonomous and remote operations/Automated observing
Sample topics:
New approaches to control system design
Case studies of autonomous and unattended systems
Innovative real-time software and hardware for control and data acquisition
Highly distributed and high latency control and data acquisition
Architectures for high rate, high volume data flow
Architectures based on the adoption of industrial off-the-shelf components
Design and implementation of systems for performance monitoring
End-to-end hardware simulation, testing without the final hardware