[AISWorld] Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences

[Heng Xu]

Dear Colleagues:

The U.S. National Science Foundation has just published a Program Solicitation, NSF 15-523, for RIDIR – “Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences.” The submission deadline is February 23, 2015.

Program Solicitation<http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15523/nsf15523.htm#toc>

The synopsis of the Program is quoted below. Successful applicants will produce a "finished product" – either centered around a new/improved technique with links to an existing data base(s) or a database itself in a form and with tools which make it readily useable by researchers. The database should be large and of interest to a broad intellectual range of potential users with a focus (although not necessarily an exclusive focus) on Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences. Databases need not necessarily be new and could, for example amalgamate several extant ones.

Synopsis of Program

As part of NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) seeks to develop user-friendly large-scale next-generation data resources and relevant analytic techniques to advance fundamental research in SBE areas of study. Successful proposals will, within the financial resources provided by the award, construct such databases and/or relevant analytic techniques and produce a finished product that will enable new types of data-intensive research. The databases or techniques should have significant impacts, either across multiple fields or within broad disciplinary areas, by enabling new types of data-intensive research in the SBE sciences.


The competition is being administered by four Program Directors and feel free to contact them for any question you may have.

William Badecker

Kevin Leicht

Heng Xu

John Yellen

Best Regards,

Dr. Heng Xu | Program Director | Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace & BIGDATA Program | Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences | National Science Foundation

On leave from Penn State University where she is an associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology<http://faculty.ist.psu.edu/xu/>.




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