Metrics2023: Metrics2023
Website https://sites.google.com/view/metrics2023
Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2023
Poster download
Abstract registration deadline September 15, 2023
Submission deadline October 1, 2023
Topics: metrics software hardware training and education
Metrics for objectively assessing the progress and impact of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects are important for not only obtaining the required resources for the long-term sustainability of the projects and community engagement but also for identifying issues and prioritizing the areas of improvement. As projects evolve over time, the metrics for measuring their progress and impact should also evolve.

Even though each CI project is unique, there are certain elements (such as the community engagement and training) that cross-cut across a vast majority of the projects. Hence, there is a possibility of defining a set of metrics that can be relevant to a broad range of the CI projects for measuring their progress and impact.

The main goal of the Metrics 2023 conference is to bring together colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines and organizations to network, collaborate, and work towards defining a taxonomy of CI projects and the appropriate metrics for their short-term and long-term evaluation. Towards this end, abstracts for presentations, and papers for publication in the special issue of Springer Nature journal are invited.

Metrics for evaluating the projects related to the following areas are in the scope of this conference:

Software and data infrastructure projects including AI and Quantum Computing projects

Hardware infrastructure development, deployment, operations and maintenance projects (for High Performance Computing, Data-Intensive Computing, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, and Data Storage and Archival)

Community building and customer service projects

Training, education, and outreach projects

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) projects

Following are suggestions for some topics for abstracts and papers that are related to the aforementioned project areas:

Case-studies on measuring success of projects

Description of the projects and its goals

Description of the metrics of interest for evaluating the projects

The design of the evaluation method and analysis of the data

The evolution of the metrics as the project progresses through different project years and release cycles

Lessons learnt such as,

Are there any metrics that were thought to be useful initially but are not useful any longer?

Are there any metrics that were added in the evaluation plan later after the project started?

Currently known best practices for tracking metrics

Tools for tracking the product use metrics and experiences related to their adoption

Challenges and opportunities in developing self-reporting software or data product/infrastructure

Problems and solutions related to gathering certain types of metrics

Benchmarking and performance evaluation techniques for hardware and software products

Methods and experiences related to measuring productivity of people

Methods and experiences related to measuring accuracy, precision, explainability, and fairness of results

Manual and automated methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative metrics

Methods for measuring the societal impact of projects

Literature review and survey of the methods for evaluating success of projects from the areas that are in the scope of the conference

New methods for analyzing success including the role and use of social-media

Taxonomy of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects and associated metrics

Submission Guidelines
Guidelines for Journal Papers: The Metrics2023 proceedings will be published by Springer Nature Computer Science in a special journal issue.

We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work, that is not under review for another publication. Full papers (10 -25 pages in length including references) should be formatted as per the Springer-specified guidelines (details below) for review. Authors of selected papers will be provided 20 minutes time-slots for their presentations at the conference.

Submission system opens by August 31, 2023

Deadline for submission: October 1, 2023

Deadline for notification: November 1, 2023

Presentations of selected papers: November 11 - November 12, 2023

Deadline for submission of the final version of the paper: November 30, 2023

Timeline for publication: December 1, 2023

Link to the submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/sncs/default2.aspx

Instructions for authors for preparing the papers are available at the following link: https://www.springer.com/journal/42979/submission-guidelines



Guidelines for Abstracts for Presentations: We invite extended abstracts for short talks (maximum 7 minutes each). The abstracts should be prepared following the Springer guidelines, and could be 3-5 pages in length including references. While the abstracts will NOT be published in the proceedings, they will be made publicly accessible through a GitHub repository set up for the conference. The PDF copies of the rough draft of the slides (up to 16 slides maximum) are also required. The PDFs of the abstract and the slides can be merged into a single PDF file, and can be uploaded to Easychair for peer-review.The PDF version of the extended abstracts and slides can be submitted for review through EasyChair.

Submission deadline: September 15, 2023

Notification deadline: October 1, 2023

Submission of the final slides and abstract to the GitHub repository: November 8, 2023

Presentations of selected papers: November 11 - November 12, 2023

Committees
Program Committee
TBD
Organizing committee
Ritu Arora, Wayne State University
Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A & M University
Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri
Matthew Curry, Sandia National Laboratory
George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyala University
Publication
Metrics2023 proceedings will be published in Springer Nature Computer Science, special issue.

Venue
The conference will be held in Denver, Colorado.

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ritu@wayne.edu.