Talk:Papyrus IC/Research Academia/2017Plan

Organizational goals

• Goal: Form a leadership group for the Papyrus IC Research/Academia
  • Jordi C.
  • Federico C.
  • Dimitris K., Richard P.
  • Tanja M.
  • Grischa L.
  • Antonio G. D.
  • Others - TBD - people from research institutes/centers
• Goal: Increase industry participation in/to Research/Academia activities
• Goal: Development of the overall Research/Academia community

Training and education goals

• Goal: Establish Papyrus as the leading platform for teaching in MBE
  • Success factors
    • Number of contributions to wiki
    • Number of courses taught with Papyrus
• Goal: Support the creation of at least 2 complete teaching material packages using Papyrus
  • Examples
    • Support the creation of a complete education package for UML course
    • Support the creation of a complete education package for UML-RT course
    • Support the creation of a complete education package for basic SysML course
  • Success factor: Creation of two course packages
• Goal: Distribution of Rovers and Rover contest for education
  • Plan
    • Develop Rover Application Form
    • Get the form approved by Steering Committee
    • Publicize and communicate the process for applying for Papyrus IC rovers
    • Determine if we want to create a contest for courses using with the rovers
      • If yes, than we also need to create the contest (define the context, rules, criteria, and prize)
    • Select professors/instructors to who rovers will be allocated
  • Success factor: Budget exhausted before the beginning of the fall semester
  • Budget: $3,000 USD
• Goal: Determine whether the IC will organize/support a Rover term project for education in the Fall 2017 (?)
  • Person responsible: TBD
  • Plan
    • Should it be a contest? Perhaps it should be optional
    • We first need to organize it
      • Need to define the Way-of-Working (WoW) together with the Papyrus IC members and professors/instructors involved
      • Need to contact a group of potential professors/instructors
    • Project term definition and management
      • Take into account that each course will have different priorities
      • Define the requirements that the Papyrus IC would be proposing and managing
      • Having a representative of end-users
      • Put in place "Forum" for students to interact with the End-User (Papyrus IC members responsible for the requirements) and among themselves
  • Success factors
    • Number of courses using a rover project
  • Required budget
    • Provide budget for rovers for the courses

Research goals

• Goal: Establish Papyrus as a leading platform for research in MBE
  • Plan
    • Reduce the barrier to entry for researchers to use Papyrus as a research platform
      • Look into which is the best medium for communication with users: Eclipse Forums, Stackoverflow, other?
      • Better support postings on Forum?
      • Should we define specific Papyrus packages for Research?
        • Including toolsmith capabilities and support for customization and DSL
      • Tutorials for research purposes (as oppose to tutorials for teaching)?
    • Create a Google group for research discussions
    • Establish dialog with researchers to better understand the needs regarding research platform
    • Increase visibility of the research projects and publications
    • Facilitate the creation of new Papyrus IC research projects
    • Support the creation of collaborative research projects
      • Including supporting financing and application submission
      • Schedule meeting with EU Commission representatives in Brussels to promote the PIC
    • Increase dissemination
    • Establish a presence in a major conference (e.g. MODELS) and increase presence in other events.
  • Success factors
    • Number of papers that use Papyrus
    • Attendance in conference activities
    • How many projects use Papyrus as base technology
• Goal: Identify Papyrus IC research priorities
  • Person responsible: Ernesto Posse, Juergen Dingel
  • Plan
    • Form committee for the selection of research priorities
    • Industrial members to review the list of proposals and select the ones to elaborate
    • Determine the number of priorities to support for next year
      • We need to make sure that we can properly support the number of selected priorities from a commitment perspective
    • Select the priorities
      • Examples of potential priorities. See list of proposed priorities on wiki
    • Communicate the priorities to both Papyrus IC members and the broader MBE community
    • Establish concrete research projects based on these priorities -- see next Goal
  • Success Factors
    • Publication of research priorities by end of February 2017
• Goal: Establish concrete collaborative research projects between Papyrus IC members
  • Plan
    • Papyrus IC to take decision on 2017 research priorities -- Still needs to be done, see previous Goal
    • Identify different ways of establishing research projects/colllaborations
      • Need to be creative in establishing key research projects
      • Industrial support of PhD/PostDoc researchers
    • Look for and select research funding programs
    • Work with researchers who have proposed these priorities to identify project collaborators (research team)
    • Identify industrial partners for the project
    • Identify potential funding sources
    • Collaborate on the project proposal
  • Success factors
    • Apply to at least 1 EU research project from Papyrus IC - See next goal.
    • Number of applications at national or international level: ??
    • Number of successful applications at national or international level: ??
• Goal: Apply to 1 EU research project from Papyrus IC
  • Plan
    • Identify appropriate calls for the next 12 months
    • Identify potential sources of funding
      • Also, look at NA funding
    • Define project topics based on research priorities
      • For each topic
        • Define the leadership
        • Define project draft
  • Success factor
    • Completed application by end od the year
• Goal: Distribution of Rovers for Papyrus based research
  • Plan
    • Develop Rover Application Form
    • Get the form approved by Steering Committee
    • Publicize and communicate the process for applying for Papyrus IC rovers
  • Success factor: Budget exhausted by the end of the year
  • Budget: $2,000 USD

Other potential goals

• • Goal: Organize student internships/summer visits to industrial partners
• Goal: Organize Papyrus hackatons