CyberInfrastructure Shell:A Plug-and-Play Macroscopes FrameworkChin Hua KongSr. System Architect / Project ManagerCyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center (CNS),Department of Information and Library Science (ILS),School of Computing and Informatics

kongch@indiana.edu

CIShell

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CIShell

CIShell-Powered Tools

Network Workbench Tool (NWB)The study of biomedical, social and behavioral science, physics, and other networks

Science of Science Tool (Sci2)For science policy makers and researchers to study scientometrics, impacts, and trends in funding, publications, etc.

TexTrend ToolA trend- and text-analysis tool that supports business and governmental decision making

Epidemic Tool (EpiC)Analysis, modeling, and visualization of data streams such as diffusion patterns of the H1N1 virus over geographic space

DynaNetsThe study of evolving networks by University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SISOB An Observatory for Science in Society Based in Social Models by nine consortium members

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MacroscopesDecision making in science, industry, and politics, as well as in daily life, requires that we make sense of datasets representing the structure and dynamics of complex systems

Macroscopes provide a vision of the whole, helping us synthesize the related elements and enabling us to detect patterns, trends, and outliers while granting access to myriad details

Rather than making things larger or smaller, macroscopes let us observe what is too great, slow, or complex for the human eye and mind to notice and comprehend

CIShell

• CIShell (http://cishell.org) is an open source software specification for the integration and utilization of datasets, algorithms, and tools

• It extends the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) (http://osgi.org), a standardized, modularized service platform

• CIShell provides “sockets” into which algorithms, tools, and datasets can be plugged using a wizard-driven process

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CIShell Plug-and-Play Macroscopes

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Technology• JAVA 1.6• Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) http://osgi.org• Maven – Apache build manager• Junit – Unit test framework• Jenkins – Continuous Integration Server• GitHub – CIShell core repository• SVN – CIShell powered tools’ repository• JIRA – Issue tracking system• Eclipse Juno / Kepler – Development tool

About CNS

Challenges

Reaching out for volunteer developers

Keeping up with New Technologies and Updating Third Party Libraries such as Java, Google Guava, etc.

Supporting Big Data and Continuous Data Stream

Building a strong community for algorithm sharing

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