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The results of this COST Action will be disseminated to the following target audiences:

• Participants in the COST Action.
• Researchers in related fields of computer science.
• Software developers within the area of large-scale distributed systems.
• Computing researchers and practitioners more generally.
• The general public with an interest in technology.

For participants in the Action, the following dissemination methods will be used.

• An internal, protected website with description of completed, current and future activities. This includes working documents, publications, reports from workshops and information about grant applications involving members of the Action
• An internet-based communication network for interaction between participants, with special focus on the needs of PhD students and early-career researchers.
• Short-Term Scientific Missions by PhD students and early-career researchers within the Action.
• Two training schools for PhD students and early-career researchers.
• An annual workshop which serves as a meeting for all Action participants and as a peer-reviewed symposium.
• Publications in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings as a result of the scientific projects and annual workshops of the Action.
• Annual reports by the Working Groups and by the Management Committee.
• A final report that describes the outcomes and successes of the Action.

For researchers in related fields of computer science, the following dissemination methods will be used.

• Publication of state-of-the-art reports, annual reports, case study reports, workshop proceedings, software documentation, and the final report.
• A public website with general information about the Action as well as a repository of publications by the Action.
• The annual workshops, and the two training schools, organised by the Action.
• Contributions to other national and international conferences and symposia in the form of tutorials and satellite events.
• Articles in peer-reviewed scientific and technical journals and conferences.

For software developers within the area of large-scale distributed systems, the following dissemination methods will be used.

• Invitation to participate in trials of novel programming languages, tools and methodologies developed by the Action.
• Release of open-source software tools for system analysis, based on the research carried out by the Action.
• Encouraging PhD students within the Action to apply for internships with companies who may benefit from software produced by the Action.
• A public website with general information about the Action as well as a repository of publications by the Action.

For computing researchers and practitioners in general, the following dissemination methods will be used.

• Posting of general information on the public website.
• Less technical articles in general computer science publications such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum, and magazines of national computing societies.
• Articles in publications by national funding agencies.

For the general public, the following dissemination methods will be used.

• Articles in general science and technology publications.
• Participation in events aimed at public understanding of science.
• Posting of information and non-technical articles on the public website.

The dissemination methods used within the Action will be used to present the research insights obtained. Research publications are a traditional form of disseminating knowledge both within a specific research community and to a wider research setting. Apart from this form of dissemination:

• The website will have a public part that will be used to present published papers and to support stable citation and the correct attribution of work done. This public part will disseminate knowledge to the wider research community. A password-protected part of the website will allow for communication of ongoing research within the Action in the form of online discussion fora as well as draft manuscripts.
• The annual workshop will act as a forum in which members of the Action as well as other researchers can present their work.
• The short-term scientific missions by PhD students and early-career researchers will, when seen as a means of disseminating knowledge, serve to increase knowledge of work in progress.
• The final report will disseminate the results of the Action to the community as a whole.

For details, see chapter 9: “Dissemination of results”.

Simon: Please precede remarks with your name.

kohei: Just as a note, I think we can think of several ways to disseminate:

- Standard publications, for sure.

- Standard academic conference/workshop presentations

- This Action's workshop presentations

- Open source experimental programming languages and tools.

- Open source usable development environments (tool chains etc.)

I just record this here, and will think about the dissemination for this Action, after reading through other proposals.