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Name of Collaboratory :
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Diesel Combustion Collaboratory (DCC)
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Logo :
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Collaboratory Status
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| Completed
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Start Date :
1997
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End Date :
2001
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Primary Collaboratory Function :
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Distributed Research Center |
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Secondary Collaboratory Functions :
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Product Development, Community Data Systems, Expert Consultation |
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Domain(s)
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Engineering, physics
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Brief Description
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The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory facilitates collaboration among participants in a distributed research project, specifically the Heavy Duty Diesel Combustion CRADA (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement). DCC provides tools and technologies that to allow researchers at different sites to:
1. Share graphical data (from experiments or models) easily, using desktop workstations or personal computers.
2. Discuss modeling strategies and quickly exchange model descriptions between groups.
3. Archive experimental data, model data, and presentation materials in a Web-accessible electronic notebook.
4. Produce a Distributed Execution Management System (DEMS) to run combustion models at widely-separated locations.
5. Build Web-based data-processing tools to allow quicker analysis of experimental data and modeling results.
6. Videoconference one-on-one collaborations and group meetings using desktop workstations and personal computers.
The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory facilitates distributed collaboration by way of archiving, sharing, discussion and information protection abilities among research partners. The project also leverages a variety of other efforts to increase the capabilities of building realistic physical models and designing powerful diagnostic experiments.
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Access to
Instruments :
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Access to
Information Resources :
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BSCW (Basic Support for Cooperative Work) Environment: shared file space, data archives, and image library
PREplot: a web-based two-dimensional plotting server
Conversion Central: Image and data file format conversion
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Access to
People as Resources :
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Dialogue between diesel combustion researchers via communications technologies, including a mailing list/discussion
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Funding Agency
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| Department of Energy (DOE) |
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Notes on Participants/Organizations:
12-18 (12 according to original DOE grant, 18 according to website)Engineering Researchers and Engine Designers
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Communications Technology
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MS NetMeeting, SunForm, SGImeeting, Lotus Sametime, Mbone |
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Technical
Capabilities :
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Management of technical resources
Access control/login facilities
Computation
Remote launch of computation, Simulation, modeling, visualization
Asynchronous object sharing
Index/metadata, General search capability, Common file space, Email/attachments
Asynchronous conversation
Web forms, Email
Synchronous object sharing
Telepointers/annotation, Share visualization, Application sharing
Synchronous conversation
Audio, Video, Instant messaging/chat
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Key Articles : |
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Finholt, T. A. (2003). Collaboratories as a new form of scientific organization Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 12(1), 5-25.
Kouzes, R. T. (2000). Electronic collaboration in environmental and physical sciences research. In S. H. Koslow & M. F. Huerta (editors). Electronic collaboration in science. (pp. 89-112). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
North Carolina Board of Science and Technology and National Research Council (1999). Collaboratories: Improving research capabilities in chemical and biomedical sciences. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Pancerella, C.M., Rahn, L.A., & Yang, C.L. (1999). The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory: Combustion researchers collaborating over the Internet. In Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing (CDROM). New York: ACM Press.
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