Andy Turner's Blog 2008-12 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Blog
Events
- Those I am planning to attend/attended:
- Other relevant events:
2009-01-05
2008-12-12
- Browsing
  - Grant Funding Call 12/08: JISC Information Environment and e-Research
- Miscellanea
  - Registered on Nabble2 and joined the nbusers@netbeans.org email list
    - I've been on this before, a long time ago and remember it as a high volume list...
- e-Science
  - EUAsiaGrid
    - Struggling to get NetBeans to pass arguments into programs to debug
      - Problem solved, but there is no need for this... It seems better to load a file for configuration...
2008-12-11
- Miscellanea
  - SRDS Meeting
    - Phd
      - Need to start Literature Review
      - Need to declare some Aims & Objectives
      - Need documentation on Supervision Meetings
    - Project Work
      - Need better documentation/publication
      - I am doing well at developing the code and database, networking and managing
        
        It was great to get this compliment!
      - Need to plan GENESIS work
        
        Synthetic Modelling
        
        Models seeded with real world data
        
        Consolidation of MoSeS amd e-Social Science work
    - Mentoring
      - I have received informal mentoring from Gordon Mitchell, Steve Carver and David Sibley.
      - I provide informal mentoring/help to several other researcher.
    - Research Proposals/Opportunities
      - Grant Funding Call 12/08: JISC Information Environment and e-Research
      - Digital Economy has passed us by?
      - Gobe Hobona ESRC-German collaboration fund
        
        EUROSTAT
        
        Lutum Tappert
        
        CACI Experian equivallent in Germany
      - Follow on Fund/ESRC EKT
        
        We will go for this in the second or third call in 2009
        
        Mark to lead this...
      - Ordnance Survey
        
        Possibility of 5k for some work on Roof Classification using Geomorphometrics and Neural Networks
        
        I need to get back to Isabel about this...
    - OGC and SDO involvement
      - It would be good if Mark were to accompany me to an OGC meeting to learn what it was all about...
- e-Science
  - EUAsiaGrid
    - Refactoring to try to workaround OutOfMemoryError, to improve logging and to pass in a parameter file.
    - Emailed MPJ Express User list to raise awareness of this work.
2008-12-10
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - MoSeS, GENESIS, PhD
    - ...
    - Andrew Crookes pointed me to Fabrice Marchal and Wisinee Wisetjindawat publications from an S4 event about travel to work and time planning following a brief chat on 2008-12-05 :-)
      - http://s4.csregistry.org/tiki-index.php?page=abs2Slides
      - He mentioned that there was other work on travel to work presented at the event...
2008-12-09
- Browsing
- e-Science
  - MoSeS
    - Still no reply to my memory woes forum post :-( http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=53775
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Visualisation
2008-12-08
- Browsing
  - http://commons.apache.org/cli/
  - http://www.jediproject.net/
  - Martin Richards
    - http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/staff/profile.php?tag=Richards
    - Archaeogenetics
- e-Science
  - NeSS
    - Meeting with Junaid:
      - Junaid to find out more about the SARoNGS work:
        
        http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/einfrastructure/sarongs.aspx
      - Junaid mainly working on Work Package 3.1.
      - Need to get GLS systems working for Work Package 4.1.
      - Opportunity to get involved in project: Evaluating the (online) identity theft patterns among a large UK retailer and developing a framework for theft protection:
        
        We discussed some of the security mechanisms of credit card transactions and considered how this might overlap with the NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project work Junaid is doing.
  - MoSeS, GENESIS, PhD
    - Meeting with Mark
      - MoSeS final report
        
        Prepare results of population initialisation for local authority districts to be deposited with the UKDA.
        
        Prepare lists of all publications and workshops attended.
      - What have I done and what am I going to do on GENESIS?
        
        Generative Demographic Modelling Progress
        
        I showed Mark the visual outputs from the modelling work I have done...
        
        We discussed how people agents can be visualised moving about and how to progress this work:
        
        Continue developing abstract/theoretical models:
        
        Run some large simulations (larger world and number of commuters).
        
        Model network evolution and constrain travel.
        
        Start seeding simulations with real data
        
        Use travel to work statistics for Leeds
2008-12-05
- e-Science
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Generative Demographic Modelling Progress
      - Meeting with Richard Milton and Andy Hudson-Smith in London
        
        Richard showed me how to do double buffering of images and educated me on some security issues related to how applets work :-)
        
        Example Applet Web Page Visualising Movement/Commuting
  - EUAsiaGrid, MoSeS
    - Meeting in London
      - Andy Turner's : NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : EUAsiaGrid Meeting 2008-12-05 Page
2008-12-04
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
  - PC Crash nightmare!
- e-Science
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Generative Demographic Modelling... coding...
    - Generative Demographic Modelling Progress Report
      - First attempts at visualising commuting.
      - Source code is available via the following URL:
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/src/andyt/java/projects/GENESIS/
      - The images show 2 days of movement. Everyone starts work at the same time and on the first day everyone is late. On the second day, everyone arrives simultaneously. There are 3 different sets of outputs. The first is for a smallish world where the workplaces are centralised. The other two are for slightly bigger worlds. Because the second visualisation is a bit cluttered, the last one is very similar, but the movements are scaled depending on how many are in them. The map outputs are available via the following URLs:
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/small_2day_commuting.zip
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/small_2day_commuting/
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/large_2day_commuting.zip
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/large_2day_commuting/
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/scaled_large_2day_commuting.zip
        
        http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/workspace/DemographicSimulation/Results/0.2/maps/scaled_large_2day_commuting/
  - NeSS
    - Latest Draft GLS Specification
      - http://portal.opengeospatial.org/twiki/bin/viewfile/GLS1x0swg/GLS1x0Standard?rev=1;filename=GLS_20081203.zip
2008-12-03
- Miscellanea
  - MASS Meeting
    - Nick, Alsion, Andy and me
    - I showed my first attempt at visualising agent flows and demographics in a dynamic simulation
      - Introducing some of the generative social simulation work I've been doing over the last few weeks.
      - Aim is to work in small steps in GENESIS focussing on visual outputs.
      - The model is currently based on synthetic data and is being built incrementally.
      - I think I now have the skeleton of a geographical agent based model.
      - All the code and outputs are online...
      - I hoped to get some feedback:
        
        Nick suggested I think about road networks no and looked into the repast Jung network :-)
        
        http://jung.sourceforge.net/
      - Asked if anyone had a java code snippet to create animations from a set of images:
        
        Andy said he may know of something...
  - Seminar: Ordnance Survey and the Semantic Web
    - Glen Hart
    - RDF
      - Freebase
        
        http://www.freebase.com/
      - TWINE
        
        http://www.twine.com/
      - DBPedia
        
        http://dbpedia.org/About
    - OWL
      - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
      - Mainly not used for things on the web!
    - How to trust?
      - Reciprocated links
      - Inferred links are less reliable...
      - Scale
      - Versions
      - Voting
    - How to index?
    - Rabbit
      - Basis for a W3C Standard OWL Controlled Natural Language (CNL)
      - http://code.google.com/p/owl1-1/wiki/OwlCnl
    - ROO
      - Based on Prot�g�
        
        http://protege.stanford.edu/
    - Geonames
      - http://www.geonames.org/
    - OS Administrative Gazetteer is linked open data
      - http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/v1/AdministrativeGeography.htm
    - Mereology
      - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereology
    - Misc Browsing
      - http://www.gazetteer.co.uk/
- e-Science
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Generative Demographic Modelling... coding...
2008-12-02
- e-Science
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Generative Demographic Modelling... coding...
2008-12-01
- Browsing
  - http://www.essa.eu.org/simulation-wiki/SIGWorkshopOnProblemsInSocialSimulation
- e-Science
  - GENESIS, PhD
    - Generative Demographic Modelling... coding...
    - http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/genesisblog/
2008-11-29