DIGISCOPE 2010 Acronyme du projet - Institut Farman - ENS Cachan

APPEL A PROJETS EQUIPEX /
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
2010
DIGISCOPE
SCIENTIFIC SUBMISSION FORM B
visualization and computer-supported cooperative work; CEA-LIST and LIMSI in virtual
reality and immersive environments; MAS and EM2C at Ecole Centrale Paris and CMLA and
LMT at ENS Cachan in modeling and simulation; CEA and LATMOS (OVSQ-UVSQ) in
simulations of scientific phenomena. The partners also bring expertise in networking and
security (LTCI) and in the use of new technologies for information and communication by
actors from different communities and cultures (UVSQ REEDS).
By creating a series of platforms over a period of three years, the partners will be able to take
advantage of their expertise and complementarity to combine well-known solutions and
innovative ideas. In particular, by using the platforms for their own needs and making them
available to external users early on, they will be able to learn from their own experience as
well as users’ feedback.
This project is timely: while research on virtual reality and immersive environments has
traditionally benefited from public funding, in recent years government funding has ramped
up significantly to also support research in data visualization and visual analytics. For
example, in the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of
Homeland Security have created the National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) and are
funding the FODAVA 9 program (Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics). FODAVA is led by
Georgia Tech and has eight partner universities including Stanford University, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Cornell University. In the UK, the Visual Analytics
Consortium (UKVAC) is a similar initiative, gathering five universities. While the European
Union has not issued specific calls in that area yet, it is funding the coordinated action
VisMaster 10 whose goal is to define a roadmap for visual analytics research and set the stage
for follow-up actions.
Research in interactive visualization for modeling and simulation is also very active. It has
become a regular topic at simulation conferences, e.g. Coupled Problems 11 . It is a research
topic at institutions such as Oakridge National Research Labs (ONRL 12 ) with the 20-year old
VizLab or at NASA with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory visualization facilities 13 . Yet the
combination of interaction and collaboration with simulation and modeling is still fairly new.
While the Collaborative Visualization Environment 14 at Georgia Tech’s Aerospace System
Design Laboratory is an exception, there is a growing need to provide not only better
visualization tools, but also better tools to interact with and collaborate about simulation
results.
Scientific objectives
The scientific program of DIGISCOPE is organized in six main themes. The first two focus on
the enabling technologies that will make DIGISCOPE a unique instrument:
• Research in interaction, visualization and collaboration;
• Research in interactive and collaborative modeling and simulation of large and
complex phenomena and systems.
The other four will demonstrate the value of the equipment in a variety of application areas:
• Scientific discovery;
9 http://nvac.pnl.gov/nsf.stm
10 http://www.vismaster.eu
11 http://congress.cimne.com/coupled2011/frontal/default.asp
12 http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v30n3-4/scien.htm
13 http://sc.jpl.nasa.gov/visualization.html
14 http://www.asdl.gatech.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=131
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