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Appendix C Meetings on Data-Intensive Science
Pages 16-18

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... The subject did, however, provide a valuable "use case" for discussing issues directly linked to DoD's priority S&T investment areas, as multiple participants noted that monitoring of international smart grid initiatives may yield useful insights regarding trends and accelerators that will shape the S&T landscape in areas of interest to DoD. Discussions throughout the two days centered on issues relating to decision making from multiple stakeholder perspectives -- ranging from design optimization to operational control at various levels of the grid to individual consumer decisions enabled by "smart" meters.
From page 17...
... Participants working in small groups were asked to identify specific initiatives that might mitigate key barriers; suggestions ranged from the development of common abstractions that could be reused across domains, to the notion of a standardized Internet protocol that would facilitate identification and location of "big data" of interest to a research team. Participants also discussed challenges related to the management and exploration of "big data," e.g., the importance of common infrastructures to share the cost burden associated with "big data"; efficient processes and incentives to motivate researchers to share data; and common tools to facilitate mining and exploration of complex datasets.
From page 18...
... . Other participants noted the relevance of issues on "big data" to DoD's "Data to Decisions" investment area, since the data required to inform decisions is increasingly heterogeneous, and drawn from disparate sources that are distributed over both space and time.


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