SE-CSE 2008: the first international workshop on software engineering for computational science and engineering

Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E) software supports a wide variety of domains including nuclear physics, crash simulation, satellite data processing, fluid dynamics, climate modeling, bioinformatics, and financial modeling. The recent increase in the importance of this type of software motivates the need to better understand how it is developed. This movement creates an opportunity for the software engineering community to apply our techniques and knowledge to a new and important application domain. Furthermore, the design, implementation, and maintenance used in CS&E software systems can be significantly different from that used in systems more typically studied by the software engineering community. This workshop brings together researchers from the software engineering community with researchers and practitioners from the CS&E community. The workshop allows participants to share perspectives and present findings from research and practice that are relevant to the CS&E application development. A significant portion of the workshop is devoted to discussion of the position papers with the goal of generating a research agenda to improve tools, techniques, and experimental methods for CS&E software engineering in the future.