Collaborative Research: Enhancing the Reliability of Bioinformatics Software by Correlating User Feedback and Execution Data

Information

• NSF Award
• 0819987

Owner

• American University of Beirut

• Award Id

  0819987

• Award Effective Date

  6/15/2008 - 16 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  5/31/2013 - 11 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 139,236.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

Proposals 0820217/0819987<br/><br/>Enhancing the Reliability of Bioinformatics Software by Correlating User Feedback and Execution Data<br/><br/>PIs: Andy Podgurski and Wassim Masri<br/><br/>A neglected consequence of the proliferation of scientific data sets and computational services on the Internet is that the scientific community is becoming increasingly dependent on the quality of shared data sets and the reliability of the software used to analyze them. To make it easier for developers of bioinformatics software to ensure its reliability, this research seeks to develop, evaluate, and refine automated techniques to help developers discover emergent reliability problems with deployed software, understand their nature and significance, and diagnose their causes. The approach is based on eliciting structured feedback from users about the problem symptoms observed and then automatically correlating this feedback with far more detailed information about internal program dynamics and input-output mappings. Advanced data mining techniques will be employed in tandem with dynamic program dependence analysis to: pool problem reports from different users; corroborate individual reports; group failures according to their symptoms and causes; and help diagnose the causes of failures. The proposed work has the potential to significantly improve the reliability of bioinformatics applications used by thousands of scientists.

• Program Officer

  Sol J. Greenspan

• Min Amd Letter Date

  6/6/2008 - 16 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  6/6/2008 - 16 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  American University of Beirut

• City

  New York

• State

  NY

• Country

  United States

• Address

  3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

• Postal Code

  100172303

• Phone Number

  9611350000

• First Name

  Wassim

• Last Name

  Masri

• Email Address

  wm13@aub.edu.lb

• Start Date

  6/6/2008 12:00:00 AM

• Name

  Computer Science

• Code

  912

• Text

  SOFTWARE FOR REAL-WORLD SYSTMS

• Code

  7724

• Text

  SOFTWARE FOR REAL-WORLD SYSTMS

• Code

  7724

• Text

  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS

• Code

  9215

• Text

  BASIC RESEARCH & HUMAN RESORCS

• Code

  9218

• Text

  HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING & COMM