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Sustainability (defined as 'the capacity to keep up') encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic…

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Managing and growing a successful cyberinfrastructure such as nanoHUB.org presents a variety of opportunities and challenges, particularly in regard to software. This position paper details a number of those issues and how we have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Lynn Zentner , Michael Zentner , Victoria Farnsworth , Michael McLennan , Krishna Madhavan , Gerhard Klimeck

Software citation contributes to achieving software sustainability in two ways: It provides an impact metric to incentivize stakeholders to make software sustainable. It also provides references to software used in research, which can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Stephan Druskat , Daniel S. Katz , Ilian T. Todorov

Research software is a class of software developed to support research. Today a wealth of such software is created daily in universities, government, and commercial research enterprises worldwide. The sustainability of this software faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jeffrey C. Carver , Ian A. Cosden , Chris Hill , Sandra Gesing , Daniel S. Katz

Scientific open-source software (Sci-OSS) projects are critical for advancing research, yet sustaining these projects long-term remains a major challenge. This paper explores the sustainability of Sci-OSS hosted on GitHub, focusing on two…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sharif Ahmed , Addi Malviya Thakur , Gregory R. Watson , Nasir U. Eisty

Robots are experiencing a revolution as they permeate many aspects of our daily lives, from performing house maintenance to infrastructure inspection, from efficiently warehousing goods to autonomous vehicles, and more. This technical…

With the transformative technologies and the rapidly changing global R&D landscape, the multimedia and multimodal community is now faced with many new opportunities and uncertainties. With the open source dissemination platform and…

The CSSI 2019 workshop was held on October 28-29, 2019, in Austin, Texas. The main objectives of this workshop were to (1) understand the impact of the CSSI program on the community over the last 9 years, (2) engage workshop participants in…

New facilities of the 2020s, such as the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), will be relevant through at least the 2030s. This means that their software efforts and those that are used to analyze their data need to consider…

Research software is essential to modern research, but it requires ongoing human effort to sustain: to continually adapt to changes in dependencies, to fix bugs, and to add new features. Software sustainability institutes, amongst others,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Daniel S. Katz , Jeffrey C. Carver , Neil P. Chue Hong , Sandra Gesing , Simon Hettrick , Tom Honeyman , Karthik Ram , Nicholas Weber

The Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) is an NSF Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (S2I2) funded project that leads and supports the science gateway community. Major activities for SGCI include a) sustainability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Marlon Pierce , Michael Zentner , Maytal Dahan , Sandra Gesing , Claire Stirm , Linda Bailey Hayden

The profile of research software engineering has been greatly enhanced by developments at institutions around the world to form groups and communities that can support effective, sustainable development of research software. We observe,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Jeremy Cohen , Daniel S. Katz , Michelle Barker , Robert Haines , Neil Chue Hong

Education for sustainable development has evolved to include more constructive approaches and a better understanding of what is needed to align education with the cultural, societal, and pedagogical changes required to avoid the risks posed…

In this position paper we address the Software Sustainability from the IN perspective, so that the Software Engineering (SE) community is aware of the need to contribute towards sustainable software companies, which need to adopt a holistic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Coral Calero , Félix O. García , Gabriel Alberto García-Mireles , M. Ángeles Moraga , Aurora Vizcaíno

Sustainability has evolved from an emerging concern into a fundamental responsibility in software design, development, and operation. Research increasingly explores how sustainability can be systematically integrated into existing software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Markus Funke , Patricia Lago

This technical report discusses the submission and peer-review process used by the First Workshop on on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE) and the results of that process. It is intended to record both this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Daniel S. Katz , Gabrielle Allen , Neil Chue Hong , Manish Parashar , David Proctor

Software is foundationally important to scientific and social progress, however, traditional acknowledgment of the use of others' work has not adapted in step with the rapid development and use of software in research. This report outlines…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Daina Bouquin , Ana Trisovic , Oliver Bertuch , Elena Colón-Marrero

The need for efficient and sustainable software to improve business and achieve goals cannot be over-emphasized. Sustainable digital services and product delivery cannot be achieved without embracing sustainable software design practices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Mikhail Ola Adisa , Shola Oyedeji , Jari Porras

The Better Scientific Software Fellowship (BSSwF) was launched in 2018 to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes. BSSwF's vision is to grow the…