Transcript nwb-presentation_(NetSci-2006)

Network Workbench
Katy Börner
Bruce Herr
Information Visualization Lab and
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science
Center
SLIS, Indiana University, IUB
Talk at NetSci 2006
Network Workbench
NWB is a cyberinfrastructure for network
scientists that promotes, tracks, enables,
and teaches about network science.
Network Workbench
Vital Information:
• Funded by a 3-year $1.1 million NSF grant
• Established to create a cyberinfrastructure for
network scientists
• PIs are Katy Börner, Albert-László Barabási,
Santiago Schnell, Alessandro Vespignani,
Stanley Wasserman, and Eric Wernert
• Targeting network science researchers,
practitioners, and students
Supported in part by the NSF IIS-0513650 award.
Network Workbench
Software Team:
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Team Lead: Weixia (Bonnie) Huang
Developer: Ben Markines
Developer: Bruce Herr
Algorithm Developer: Santo Fortunato
Algorithm Developer: Cesar Hidalgo
Network Workbench
Parts of the Network Workbench cyberinfrastructure
Data
• Access to diverse datasets
Software
• NWB Research Tool – A flexible large-scale analysis,
modeling, and visualization toolkit
• SciMaps – Knowledge domain visualizations
• Bioinformatics education & research portal
Resources
• Learning environment for new and future network science
students
Papers
• Index of current papers in network science
More to come…
Network Workbench
NWB Research Tool:
• Built with the CIShell – a Plug-in based
Software Framework
• Eclipse RCP-based framework
• An empty shell for integration of diverse
plug-ins
• NWB core will be tested for biomedical,
scientometrics, and physics research
• Will be runnable over the web, on the desktop,
and on the desktop with a back-end server
CIShell Architecture
Network Workbench
Demo NWB Research Tool
Network Workbench
Summer Improvements and Future:
• Move plugin architecture to OSGi-based service architecture.
• OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative) is an industry standard
for 7 years now with an active standards board.
• Alliance members include IBM (Eclipse), Sun, Intel,
Oracle, Motorola, NEC and many others.
• An algorithm/plug-in will then be a service that can be used
in any OSGi-framework based system.
• Connecting running frameworks over RPC/RMI will be greatly
simplified, enabling peer-to-peer sharing of data, algorithms,
and computing power.
• CIShell could become a standard for creating OSGi Services for
algorithms and will provide a reference GUI that uses the
underlying services.
Network Workbench
Check these sites out:
• Network Workbench Portal: http://nwb.slis.indiana.edu
• SciMaps.org: http://www.SciMaps.org
• InfoVis Cyberinfrastructure: http://iv.slis.indiana.edu
• CIShell Framework: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cishell