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WhatWeAreHopingToAccomplishOverviewOur community is using competing, overly coarse, and sometimes ill-defined terminologies to describe our in situ processing techniques for visualization and analysis. At the recent ISAV workshop at SC15, Hank Childs described several in situ configurations and asked the audience to raise their hands if they felt a configuration was "loosely-coupled" or "tightly-coupled". Hands went up for both sides for most of the configurations. This anecdote underscores how our lacking terminology makes it more difficult to speak with each other about our research ideas. Worse, our lacking terminology makes it more difficult to talk with our stakeholders. The goal of this project to establish terminology to discuss in situ that we can use (consistently) with fellow researchers and with stakeholders. We hope to produce a report, which we will self-publish in arXiv. We also hope to publish the report at a peer-reviewed venue. The current plan is to submit a short paper with the proposed namings to EGPGV, due February 19th. This project will only be successful if a significant portion of the community comes together in support. This support means participating in the effort (lending both your name and your thoughts), and it also means endeavoring to use the terminology going forward. Below are the names of people who have agreed to participate so far. Further, we welcome all participants who are interested in in situ terminology; please email Hank Childs (hank@uoregon.edu) if you want to participate. (This list will be updated as more people join on.) Note: five-to-six of the participants in this project are preparing a EuroVis State-of-the-Art report on in situ processing. This STAR Report is likely to incorporate our terminology (citing our arXiv paper), and may also leverage some of the categorizations this group comes up with describe the in situ space. Participants
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