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Institute for Software Integrated Systems
Vanderbilt University

The Cyber-Physical Systems Virtual Organization
Publicity, Knowledge Sharing, Collaboration, & Community Networking Services for CPS Researchers and Practitioners
NSF Reverse Site Visit Nov 27th, 2012

Outline
•  •  •  •  Mission Statement The VO Community Portal VO Groups User-Oriented Services

Objectives
•  Community Building
–  promoting collaboration and close interaction between academia, industry & government –  facilitating interactions across technical disciplines & across applications areas –  cross-fertilization of research in CPS core sciences and applied research in domain- and mission-oriented problems in a multiagency setting

•  Collaboration Support via the website
–  collaboration and professional networking

–  information flow and awareness of CPS activities

–  knowledge repository to facilitate the open exchange of challenge problems, research results, tools, and educational materials
* Supporting CPS/NITRD community activities

Outline
•  •  •  •  Mission Statement The VO Community Portal VO Groups User-Oriented Services

The VO Community Portal

• Community Calendar • Community Announcements • Shared File Repository • Taxonomic Search • Special Interest Groups

Browse The Community Calendar

Community Announcement Forums

Vocabularies/Taxonomies Enable Search

Repository Growth Trends

General Growth Curves

* 2,047 Users on Nov-26

The VO - Building a Collaboration Framework
Differen'ators
 

The CPS-VO Portal is not just a “web site”

−  Community-oriented framework −  Rich set of services −  Meta-Data −  Taxonomic Search Engine −  Cohesive collection of loosely coupled web-sites (a.k.a.

Groups)

Outline
•  •  •  •  Mission Statement The VO Community Portal VO Groups User-Oriented Services

Common Types of Groups

Example Event Planning

A Permanent Conference Web Presence HCSS Proceedings

Example SIG

Example Research Project
Science of Integration
•  Research Findings •  Meeting Coordination •  Automotive Experimental Platform (AEP) •  Publishing Models

Example Tech Transition

Groups are Taking Off

VO ‘Group’ Services
•  Branding with Configurable Dashboard •  Configurable Security Policy •  Discussion Forums •  Wiki •  Email Announcements •  A Virtual Filesystem •  Revision Control
(incl. diff-s)

•  Domain-Specific Search Engine
•  Calendar Mgmt
(incl. Desktop Sharing Meetings)

•  Content Subscriptions/Notifications Service •  …

Configurable Dashboards
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Access Control Policies

Discussion Forums

Group Wikis
•  To create a link to another wiki page, simply use the MediaWiki syntax, which looks like [[Title]] or [[Title|Text to render]] •  If the target page does not yet exist, the user will be allowed to create it, after clicking on the link.

Document Repositories SoS Services: Files

Revision Control

Domain-Specific Search Engines SoS Services: Search

Free, Online Meetings

Invite Others to Meetings

Quickly Define Customized Forms Conference Registration

Group Activity Streams

Popular Content

Outline
•  •  •  •  Mission Statement The VO Community Portal VO Groups User-Oriented Services

My Account
My Dashboard Other User’s Dashboard

User Meta-Data & Search

Activity Stream for All My Groups

Maintain a Professional Network

Contacts Activity Streams

Bookmark Favorite Links

Navigation History

Chat

Chats History

Questions / Discussion ?