Metrics2023

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, community engagement and training) that cross-cut across a vast majority of the projects. Hence, it is possible to define 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 Metrics2023 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 a special issue of Springer Nature Computer Science journal are invited. 

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

• Software and data infrastructure (including infrastructure for AI, Quantum Computing, and CyberSecurity) 

• Hardware infrastructure design, development and deployment (for High Performance Computing, Data-Intensive Computing, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, Data Storage and Archival, and IoT) 

• Operations and maintenance (including, processes and practices such as, DevSecOps and ITIL)

• Community building and customer service 

• Training, education, and outreach 

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

• Building virtual organizations

Topics of interest for papers and abstracts include, but are not limited to: 

1. 1. 1. Case-studies on measuring success of projects including lessons learnt, design of the evaluation method, and data analysis

1. 1. 2. Evolution of the metrics as a project progresses through different project years and release cycles

1. 1. 3. Currently known best practices for tracking metrics

1. 1. 4. Tools for tracking the product use metrics and experiences related to their adoption

1. 1. 5. Challenges and opportunities in developing self-reporting software or data product/infrastructure

1. 1. 6. Problems and solutions related to gathering certain types of metrics

1. 1. 7. Benchmarking and performance evaluation techniques for hardware and software products

1. 1. 8. Methods and experiences related to measuring accuracy, precision, explainability, and fairness of results

1. 1. 9. Manual and automated methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative metrics

1. 1. 10. Methods and experiences related to measuring productivity of people

1. 1. 11. Methods for measuring the societal impact of projects

1. 1. 12. Literature review and survey of the methods for evaluating success of projects from the areas that are in the scope of the conference

1. 1. 13. New methods for analyzing success including the role and use of social-media

1. 1. 14. Taxonomy of CyberInfrastructure (CI) projects and associated metrics

Please review the CFP page of this website for information on submission deadlines and guidelines.

The conference agenda will include talks, panel/s, working sessions involving brainstorming in small groups, presentations from the working groups, and a closed-group report-writing session. 

For any question, please feel free to contact Ritu Arora at ritu@wayne.edu .

Let us know if you'll be attending!

The travel awards to the conference are sponsored by NSF award # 2314201.