- Events:
- GeoComputation 2009
- Those I plan to attend/attended:
- Events on the horizon:
- GIScience 2010
- JISC Inovation Forum 2010
- Workshop on Urban Dynamics URBANICS
- International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2010
- JISC Developer Days
- The 2nd International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS 2010)
- Leeds Social Sciences Institute Workshop: Disciplining the Social Sciences? Inter / disciplinarity, impact and a strategy for the future
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
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Emailed those at InFuse meeting yesterday and some others to point them to my notes for the day after a final edit.
- Edited/reviewed and returned Stan Openshaw Biographical Work by Tim Kingston to select group
- e-Science
- SIM-UK
- Jason and Jin have heard the gist of the plan
- e-ISS
- Jin has installed latest NeISSSpatialPopulationEngine on my laptop
- Next stage is to get it working with Tomcat 6.0.20 instead of Glassfish...
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Reading Stan Openshaw Biographical Work by Tim Kingston :-)
- InFuse Meeting
- People
- Notes
- Introduction
- 10 years + of CasWeb
- In the last year focus on use and implementation of open standards
- Working with ONS to help with adopting open standards
- ONS Liaison
- SDMX (XML) for data
- OGC for Services
- Round table introductions
- Justin
- Richard Wiseman
- Kenny
- Andy
- NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project
- OGC Grid Collision SEE-GEO work with OGC GeoLinking IE
- SPIN!-project
- MoSeS-GENESIS
- Helen
- 50% Teaching
- mainly uses proprietary GIS
- spatial analysis and GIS next year with John
- 50% Research
- CHCC and delivery to students
- Adam Dennett
- Paul
- Geography over time
- MSc GIS Coordinator
- Myles
- Teaching data analysis
- CHCC
- John
- Aims
- What do we want from the technology?
- List of requirements
- Themes
- Linking Data
- Data Harmonisation
- CIDER did some work on this for 1991 and 2001 census
- Data Access and Integration
- ESRC JISC ONS + Neighbourhood Statistics NESS
- Background issues
- Foreground issues
- Metadata
- Data misuse
- Data compatability
- Excerise 1: Strengths and Weaknesses of Census Applications: 2 Groups
- Group A Helen, Adam, Andy
- Helen took photos of our paper and emailed the to me :-)
- ./21/weaknesses.jpg
- ./21/strengths.jpg
- Others wondered if this was for IPR issues
- No it isn't, this is for the world ;-)
- Strengths - Likes
- Weaknesses - Dislikes
- ./21/weaknesses.jpg
- General
- CasWeb UKBorders
- Can't download a single table of all variables
- ...
- NESS
- ESDS-UKDA
- Census Portal
- Feedback
- For every Strength there is an associated Weakness
- Getting the census data as we want it
- Aggregate hypercube for tables
- Geographical maps, graphs and other exploratory data analysis visualisations might not have such major differencing type disclosure control as to numbers (count statistics) in tables.
- Disclosure control freakiness abounds!
- I think that putting the security on the data output rather than the data input is the way forward to avoiding the need for SDC
- CAIRD
- Boundaries change
- GeoConvert
- Too easy to convert badly?
- Lack of information about uncertainties
- Considered some methods that might be used in proividing a function/button which provides this...
- Role Play exercise imagining a Future Use Scenario (in 2013 of InFuse)
- Lots of good roll playing :-)
- I imagined a Post Culture (a'la Ian M. Banks) Contact imagining my friend Stan Openshaw
- Name: Stan
- Age: 66
- Address: North Atlantic regions City of Atlantis bridging the mid atlantic ridge
- Workplace: Orbital 1
- Organisation: Culture University of Earth (CUoE)
- Interests: Autmoation, GeoComputation, Explanation, Models Futurology
- How using application: In workflows in various scenarios of use, but the overall use case is for modelling reality, forecasting and planning alternative futures.
- Impressions: Good and seamless integration is ideal and the Geographical maps and exploratory visualisation come from data not subject to disclosure control. It could be better as I still am not sure about the metadata regarding the uncertainties.
- A bit more about me: I am not blind, but I can't talk, I can see and I can point. I am highly intelligent, but I can't read words. I am glad I can use the system and can drive it. Show me the map and let me annotate and navigate it...
- Further Feedback Session
- Metadata
- To help steer against data misuse
- Historical research, analysis and modelling over time
- Ian Gregory
- Humphrey Southall (GBHGIS)
- Nigel Walford
- Compare and contrast over time...
- Other data integrations
- LandMap
- Ethnicity from Names Profiler work done from UCL
- Opt into surveys
- Print tables worked for 1991 but not 2001 why?
- Eurostat diriving SDMX adoption by ONS.
- NESTAR
- NOMIS
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) semantic web description for variables
- RDF Triples for interpretation searching definition etc...
- Tim Berners Lee Ordnance Survey UK Government Data
- Security
- Single sign on WAYF
- Shibboleth
- JISC Researcher Identity
- Microblogging
- InFuse meeting http://ur1.ca/ibc9 #research3 #inf11
- InFuse meeting #in Miscellanea blog item version 1.0 http://ur1.ca/ibc9 #research3 #inf11
- Browsing and References
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Meeting with Jin and Paul
- Setting up latest version of NeISSSpatialPopulationEngine...
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Contact details export/import for Google Wave:
- Joined http://uk.wikimedia.org/ and made a donation :-)
- Donated to wikipedia
- Unifying wikimedia accounts:
- Sorting out publications
- Publication plan for the next year:
- Primarily I plan to publish via my School of Geography Web Pages and the NCeSS Sakai Portal Worksites I am a member of.
- I aim to contribute to other wiki and blog web content not least by commenting on others blog posts.
- I am considering how to link to and processing all my contributions (perhaps using MashupML) to provide a more enriched and focussed content.
- I should work on linking my School of Geography web content as a recent change to the hosting server has effectively hidden much of the content as the contents of directories are no longer readily listed.
- If HTML5 is the future, what should I do?.
- I am contractually obliged to publish a research article each year in a peer reviewed journal and aim for ones that have an impact factor vis ISI and WoK.
- Abstract submitted to ISGC 2010.
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2010.
- I also want to go to FOSS4G and/or Geocomp/GIScience.
- Publication about GENESIS work.
- Publication about NeISS work.
- Publication about SIM-UK.
- http://publications.leeds.ac.uk/
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- e-Science
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Sorting out publications record
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Project Meeting
- http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/~a.g.d.turner%40leeds.ac.uk/genesis%20meeting%202009-12-15.html
- Agenda
- Updated work package/streams
- Reports
- Work package 1. Urban models and applications
- The London data base (Duncan Smith, Richard Milton)
- The LU-transport model (Mike Batty)
- Leeds presentation on Moses and the delivery of a microsimulation 'data base' for London (Mark Birkin)
- Work package 2. ABMs and applications
- An ABM retail model (Alan Wilson)
- ABM Leeds (Andy Turner)
- Work package 3. Data and infrastructure
- Integrating maps (Richard Milton, Andy Hudson-Smith)
- Genesis Portal (Paul Townend)
- Work package 4. Visualisation
- Maptube etc (Richard Milton, Andy Hudson-Smith)
- Future work, priorities etc
- Appointments at CASA (Mike Batty)
- The NEISS Project (Mark Birkin et al.)
- The Next 2 Years: AGW
- MoSeS
- Supplied UK HSAR Outputs to Richard Milton
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Preparation for meeting tomorrow...
- Social
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Research collaboration with Olugboyega Onimole (Gboyega) MSc Student
- Trying to spark collaboration with Nancy Worth
- What happens when life does not work out as hoped or when it is reaslised that the hopes and dreams are misguided.
- There is genius with common sense...
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 One-to-One Tutee-Tutor Meetings
- e-Science
- Preparation for ISGC 2010
- Submitted ISGC Abstract 91: GENESIS Social Simulation Modelling Progress
- GENESIS[1] is a UK project funded by its Economic and Social Research Council through its National Centre for e-Social Science research node program. GENESIS aims to develop simulation models that represent individual humans and their organisations and how they change their location and influence over time. Part of this work is developing two core models that operate at two different temporal resolutions over different time scales. In time there might be linkage between these model and the hope is that they will become increasingly realistic. The simulation model development is primarily the work of the Centre for Computational Geography based at the University of Leeds. The visualisation of these models is primarily the work of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis based at the University College London. This work is to be supported by a further project called NeISS[2] funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee. This aims to develop a National e-Infrastructure to support social simulation. This will make the models and computational infrastructure available to a wider community of users.
- The two different models outlined are a model that operates over the time scale of a number of years with a daily time step, and a model that operates on the scale of a days with a second time step. These can be considered respectively as Migration and Transport focused demographic models. The Migration model will model the housing and property market and the Transport model will focus on daily activity and initially commuting, but incorporating more and more activity modelling.
- There are significant computational challenges in the simulation work. Running a model for the contemporary UK involves modelling and recording changes in the locations of virtual agent individuals representing approximately 60 million real people. A record is needed to detail the history for each individual agents state over time.
- The core models are to support lots of potential applications, but also work is to be considered linking the models in that an expensive commute to work will influence an individuals propensity to migrate or change jobs or working practice.
- The paper will detail various technical aspects of the model and consider further scaling issues. A generic data storage solution will be described. This is for storing information about any agent from the model in its own file/directory. A simple branching directory structure is used such that the location of agent files are implicit given a root directory and the unique numerical identifier of the agent/object. This allows serialised versions of any object to be looked up which is necessary if the object has been cleared from a model cache which might be done if available fast access memory is fully utilised. A similar file store is used to hold collections of agent/objects to load this en masse saving time in IO. Having a good storage solution allows more data about a model simulation/run to be stored and investigates and allows visualisation to be decoupled. Between now and the symposium it is hoped that good progress can be made and presented.
- [1] http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS
- [2] http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/e-ISS
- e-ISS
- GENESIS
- Agent ID change request
- Males to have odd numeric ID, Females to have even ones...
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- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 One-to-One Tutee-Tutor Meetings
- e-Science
- Registered for DevD8
- Set up laptop for developing with MashupML
- GENESIS
- MoSeS
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- e-Science
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
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- e-Science
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
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- e-Science
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
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- EGC Seminar: Modelling the Global Terrestrial Carbon Cycle: physiology->trees->stands->landscapes->grid-cell->globe
- Drew Purves
- There is an increasing awareness that projections of the terrestrial carbon balance under climate change need to be based on forest models that include representations of individual, interacting trees. More completely, we probably need to consider at least four intermediate scalings between physiology, and the grid-cell: physiology->tree, tree->stand, stand->landscape, landscape->grid-cell. In this talk I'll: (i) review why, in principle, the tree-stand part might matter; (ii) describe the 'PPA', a simple model for capturing tree->stand scaling; (iii) introduce a work-in-progress, simple model of the global carbon-climate feedback, and show model predictions for the annual Amazon carbon balance, with or without tree-stand scaling; and (iv) describe, and hopefully get some feedback on, some plans to introduce other levels of scaling into the same model.
- Many global models are at appoximately 2 degree resoultion
- There are sound physiological reasons for modelling forests on an individual tree or species basis on something like a 30 minute resolution
- 2 degree cell based terrestrial models deal with proportions of region with certain type of stands.
- SORTIE/TASS PPA models
- Crowns
- Potentials
- Realised
- Understorey/overstorey and Z*
- Plasticity
- H20
- Height a 20 year old tree grown in perfect growing conditions
- Matt Smith
- Tools4Science?
- Nice model development roadmap :-)
- Created a Wordle from last months Blog
- Speed Networking
- Maosheng Li
- ITS
- Cycling transport models
- Creating new generation of Saturn
- Working with David Waterly(sp?)
- I should email Maosheng and think about collaboration as our work overlaps currently...
- Mark Robinson
- We met yesterday!
- Mark might be interested to contact Karim Djemame who also had a connection with Rolls Royce
- Martin Aulbach
- Physics
- We had a good chat about quantum physics and thought about the work of David Deutch and Douglas Hofstaedter...
- Martin Clarke
- Key at the moment is Science Technology Engineering Medical (STEM) research...
- Hamish Carr
- Vern Manville
- We meet again!
- We have a common interest in (alternative) energy production.
- Deju
- Systems engineer
- Photovoltaic and thermal energy.
- Konstantinos Anastasakis (Kostas)
- ...
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- e-Science
- Preparation for AHM 2009
- Sent SoG Newsletter Item to Calum Carson
- Mark Birkin and Andy Turner attend the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting in Oxford 2009-12-07 to 2009-12-09. Details of the event programme are online and can currently be found via the following URL:
- http://www.allhands.org.uk/programme
- It is notable that in the last few years geography in a number of guises has been coming to the fore in much e-Science work and although geography is not explicitly mentioned it is implicit to a number of application focused themes, currently listed at the following URL:
- GENESIS
- Developing model for Leeds:
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- Joint CSTSD/CSAP Seminar on Agent-Based Modelling & Introducing CSTD
- People
- (10 to 15 attendees) including
- Chris Clegg
- Myles Gould
- Alison Heppenstall
- Paul Norman
- Ian Philips
- John Stillwell
- Andy Turner
- ...
- Programme:
- Noon: lunch available
- 12.15-12.25 Presentation on new Centre for Socio- Technical Systems Design (Myles Gould, Chris Clegg)
- 12.25-12.50 Presentation by Alison Heppenstall (Geography) "Modelling Individual Consumer Behaviour"
- 12.50-1.15 Presentation by Mark Robinson (LUBS) "An agent-based model of team-working in an engineering organization"
- 1.15 Questions, then round table discussion: future collaborations and opportunities
- The CSTSD has been supported with University Transformation Funding and is being led by LUBS and Engineering, with membership from Geography.
- Notes
- Organisational Psychology
- Chris Clegg
- Business organisations tend to know more about their products than how they produce/deliver them - their processes.
- Modelling Individual Consumer Behaviour
- Alison Heppenstall
- Alison developed individual level model for Leeds with hundered of thousands of people agents.
- ABM of Engineering
- Miscellaneous
- Had a good chat with Ian Philips a current MSc in GIS student :-)
- How to link crime and retail models?
- Social Networks for Knowledge Exchange
- Crowd behaviour for the Olympics
- Most pedestrian models work with individuals and less so with groups?
- The importance of transport
- Journal social psychology
- There are many!
- Interesting work on the motivations for migration
- A major one being that the wife does not like the neighbours.
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Helping prepare for the International Review which is taking place at AllHands
- Talking through the revised Population Reconstruction Use Case Diagram with Rob Procter
- I managed to explain all the ins and outs and also suggest further improvements which I think Rob took on board.
- Today is the deadline for Rob to submit slides for the review.
- I offered to join the review for the relevant bit if Rob wanted me there and could get me an invite.
- GENESIS
- OutOfMemoryError handling
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