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Future development environments for computational scientists

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Computational Scientists are both creators and end-users of scientific models. Different aspects to their work target different audiences and generally require different development approaches. The research of computational scientists typically involves the development of new computational models and methods often exposed as services. Complex multi-component models, usually bringing together previously developed and new services into a larger dynamical model, are now frequently developed. The communication of scientific models and their predictions is now a major area of science, with policy makers increasingly turning to scientists for predictions of complex dynamical systems. Scientific model development is also often done collaboratively, with different scientific teams working on components of the larger model, becoming analogous to professional software development. It is therefore not surprising that the majority of scientists consider developing scientific software as important for their own research. Despite the need for software to help conduct and communicate scientific research, computational scientists are generally "end-user programmers" with entirely different goals to Software Engineers when creating and composing software. Here we report outcomes of an experimental collaboration between Software Engineers and Computational Scientists to create a new development environment to encompass diverse end user groups.
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    AVI '10: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
    May 2010
    427 pages
    ISBN:9781450300766
    DOI:10.1145/1842993
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    • Giuseppe Santucci
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