[vtkusers] Extended deadline (21st Jan) for call for chapter proposals for CSE Handbook

[Jo Leng]

The *Chapter Proposal Submission Deadline* has been *extended* to the 
*28th of January 2010*.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your proposals for the 
contribution of chapters to the *“Handbook of Research on Computational 
Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice”*. The following outline 
identifies objectives for this manuscript collection, as well as 
suggestion of some possible topics on which you may wish to contribute. 
You are, however, not limited to these topics. Please feel free to 
propose any topics that you think are critical issues in the theme.

Please forward this call to colleagues and those with an interest in CSE.

*--------------- INTRODUCTION:*

CSE is an emerging, rapidly developing, and potentially very significant 
force in changing scientific practice by offering a ‘third way’ of 
carrying out research in addition to, or indeed, instead of, theory and 
experiment.

This handbook will provide a basic reference text for the fundamental 
elements making up CSE and showing their interdependence in a way that 
(a) reviews state of the art and current achievements; (b) explores 
imminent developments that will advance the state of play; and (c) 
presents these in a form accessible to as wide an audience of interested 
parties as possible.

Since this handbook is produced in a time of transition, it will invite 
key figures to evaluate the state of play in their specialist areas and 
to identify main lines of future development, attempting to survey the 
critical elements in CSE, ranging from fundamental technological 
developments, through pioneering applications of computational sciences 
to the impact on the organisational infrastructure of scientific 
research, particularly with respect to the level and integration of the 
multiple resources and competences involved in a way that alerts readers 
to the hurdles facing further development of computational science in 
their discipline, as well its advantages.

Over time the techniques used in CSE have broadened as more academic 
disciplines use computers as research tools. While social scientists are 
still not great users of academic HPC services or CSE, there is an 
adoption pathway from the natural sciences through the humanities to the 
social sciences and arts in the western world via central government’s 
funding for the development of eScience. Equally, there is an adoption 
pathway from the developed world to the developing world.

In a world of globalised Internet access amongst researchers, CSE is, 
from the beginning, a means of inter- and multi-national research 
collaboration. Equally, by its very nature, CSE involves 
interdisciplinary collaboration in order to produce meaningful results, 
often between computational specialists and different scientific 
disciplines.

*--------------- OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK: *

This handbook is timely, since the development of computing and its 
application in the sciences are undergoing paradigm shifts and CSE is 
achieving takeoff. Until the present, however, much of the discussion 
about and understanding of CSE has been confined to high performance 
computing (HPC) and its concern with disseminating the use of the latest 
developments in computer hardware; but the situation is changing and 
there is a need to familiarise a much wider audience with a much wider 
range of issues in CSE which can be done through the handbook’s twinned 
emphasis on theory and practice.

The handbook aims at a comprehensive and organised survey of the state 
of research in CSE. The chapters should be designed to report on 
advanced developments, but, as this is such a cross-disciplinary field, 
the contributors are not expected to be writing exclusively to people 
within their own specialisms, so whilst one reader can usefully consult 
the book for up-to-date work in their own specialism, it is important 
that readers outside that specialism can also access its contents as a 
means of understanding the topography of computational science and 
guiding the reader to sources of more advanced understandings. Each 
chapter should clearly focus on the research role of computational 
science, but be framed into the context of the book, which is meant to 
capture the architecture of computational science. In this way, the 
handbook will discuss the field of computational science rather than the 
research outputs of the various disciplines that currently use the 
methodology which are diffuse, reported separately, and largely not read 
by those interested in the general field.

*--------------- TARGET AUDIENCE: *

This handbook is designed to act as an information source for those 
largely unfamiliar with the nature and potential of computational 
science or those involved in the low-end who wish to up their game. It 
aims to be of use to research decision makers as well as to scientific 
researchers, making them aware of the nature and range of developments 
now under way, allowing the reader to understand long term implications 
of early technology choices that may later create problems that will be 
difficult to rectify. It will also act to familiarise those in 
computational disciplines with the ways in which their skills and 
interests interface with scientific work, enabling research beginners to 
understand what computational resources and technologies can be applied 
in their field, and how these are currently being exploited in cutting 
edge work. Equally, it alerts research scientists to the priorities and 
concerns of computational specialists. Although many key developments 
are now concentrated in the most advanced industrial economies such as 
the U.S. and Europe, the handbook will reflect the extent to which CSE 
and eScience are an increasingly globalised and globalising activity.

*--------------- RECOMMENDED TOPICS:*

Contributions are invited from experts in CSE who have specialist 
knowledge of numerical methods, high performance computing, 
visualization, developing/using domain specific applications, project 
management, policy making, security, education and the sociological 
issues to do with its adoption, organisation, collaboration, and 
cross-disciplinary nature.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

-- *Hardware trends:* trends in computer architecture, trends in chip 
architecture, chip architecture and the suitability for particular 
problem types, IO trends and the affect on the IO bottleneck, 
optimisation of architecture for particular problem types

-- *Numerical methods:* the use and development of numerical methods for 
particular applications, optimisation for interactivity (levels of 
detail), evaluation of numerically based software, porting numerical 
software

-- *Programming paradigms:* new languages, changing demands for languages

-- *Visualization:* review the state of the art of well known 
application areas, new applications to visualization, design and 
development, user assessment, collaborative environments, computational 
steering, visualization in interactive physics (simulation as a part of 
virtual reality and games)

-- *Software development tools and practices:* review of the tools 
available for parallel code development and optimisation (challenges and 
open-source options) , review of CASE tools for serial code development 
(challenges and open-source options), “best practice,” the importance of 
standards and accreditation

-- *Case studies:* state of the art applications, new applications to 
CSE, moving from serial to parallel, evaluation including comparing real 
results to computational results, computation in design, prototype 
engineering, the use of visualization, the use of collaborative working 
environments, eScience (CSE delivered through the GRID and/or Web)

-- *Organisational and sociological issues: *security (both computer 
based and socially based), multi-disciplinary and/or international 
practices in collaborative code development , multi-disciplinary and/or 
international issues in the evaluation of results and allocation of 
success to each party, exploration of the sociological factors affecting 
multi-disciplinary collaboration, technology transfer of the CSE method, 
technology transfer of computational (numerical) methods across 
disciplines that use CSE, technology transfer of visualization across 
disciplines that use CSE, opportunities for training and skill development

The book is directed at both the academic and non-academic audience 
including researchers, users, organisations, policy initiators, students 
and practitioners in the field, meaning that chapters should address 
advanced issues, but should attempt to do this in a manner accessible to 
non-specialists.

*--------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: *

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 
*January 28, 2010,* a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the 
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. The web site 
*http://www.cse-book.com/* is dedicated to the development of this 
handbook and submissions will be received through this site. Authors of 
accepted proposals will be notified by *February 7, 2010* about the 
status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are 
expected to be submitted by *August 15, 2010*. All submitted chapters 
will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also 
be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to 
contact us at editor at cse-book.com.

*--------------- PUBLISHER: *

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea 
Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly 
Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” 
“Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” 
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please 
visit http://www.igi-global.com <http://www.igi-global.com/>. This 
publication is anticipated to be released in 2010.

*--------------- IMPORTANT DATES: *

January 7, 2010: Proposal Submission Deadline

January 28, 2010: Extended Proposal Submission Deadline

February 7, 2010: Notification of Acceptance

April 30, 2010: Full Chapter Submission

July 15, 2010: Review Result Returned

August 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission

September 15, 2010: Final deadline