The US National Academy of Engineering’s 2008 report, Grand Challenges for Engineering, puts forward a provocative vision of future civilization and engineering’s role in it. Notably, the report signals a trend in engineering toward more explicit and direct engagement with enduring, complex social problems, offering intriguing opportunities for exploring the relationship between engineering and...

Even though there has been a proliferation of e-society measures in recent years, analyses of the metrics of the “information society” are still far from responsive to the needs of many stakeholders and continue to suffer from a number of serious limitations. Issues in eight critical areas are briefly presented. They include: definition of the universe to be measured; definition of the objects ...

Reproducibility of Science is considered as one of the main principles of the scientific method, and refers to the ability of an experiment to be accurately reproduced, by third person, in complex experiment every detail matters to ensure the correct reproducibility. In the context of the ICCS 2011, Elsevier organized the executable paper grand challenge a contest to improve the way scientific ...

Copyright c © 2014, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Whereas DARPA has its “grand challenges”, ours are not so grand. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/ 41215/poker-squares, http://cs.gettysburg. edu/ ̃tneller/games/pokersquares http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/ 152237/sequential-placement-optimization-games You may conside...

Research studies frequently yield conflicting results. Resolving these conflicts is a grand challenge to effective application of research results. This paper presents a new framework for encapsulating the context and findings of research studies into a dimensional knowledge base which makes it easy to identify the conflicting results, and to explore the differences in context that might explai...

Protein structure prediction has been a “grand challenge” problem in the structure biology over the last few decades. Protein quality assessment plays a very important role in protein structure prediction. In the paper, we propose a new protein quality assessment method which can predict both local and global quality of the protein 3D structural models. Our method uses both multi and single mod...

As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...

I. ABSTRACT Modern computational science is largely a model-building activity. At first sight, the models that scientists construct seem to differ radically from those used in model-based engineering. Scientists tend to build indicative ('how things are') models of the world using sets of continuous equations, while engineers tend to build optative ('how things should be') models of the world u...

The World Wide Web is rapidly emerging as an important medium for commerce as well as for the dissemination of information related to a wide range of topics (e.g., business and government). According to most predictions, the majority of human information will be available on the Web. These huge amounts of data raise a grand challenge, namely, how to turn the Web into a more useful information u...