- Events:
- European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010
- eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
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- Events planning to attend/attended
- eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
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- Events on the horizon:
- International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)
- The 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2010)
- Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010)
- 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2010)
- FOSS4G 2010
- JISC Inovation Forum 2010
- GeoWeb 2010
- Second Open Source GIS UK Conference - OSGIS 2010
- Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling
- 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST 2010)
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Helping Maria (username maza) with Java
- Getting started with Netbeans to develop code
- Debugging in Netbeans
- Explanation of rendering and on screen and off screen images
- Packaging
- Refactoring
- Code formatting
- SRDS Preparation
- Reflect on acheivements, delivery to objectives and training needs...
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Code development
- Consider optimisation by passing in boolean to control when to check to ensuring there is enough memory to continue into memory handling methods
- Memory Handling
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Tidy subversion repository and release latest versions of source code
- e-Science
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- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG3600 Dissertation Support mentoring
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- GENESIS
- Memory Handling Refactor of Grids
- Grids memory handling to be changed so that:
- rather than simply holding a reference to all other Grids, each Grid holds a reference to a Grid_Environment which allows OutOfMemory Errors to be thrown out to be collected by another handler which might perform swapping operations of a different set of data...
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Emailed student project idea to Andy Evans and David Bell
- Preparation for SRDS review meeting
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Memory Handling Refactor of Grids
- Grids memory handling to be changed so that:
- rather than simply holding a reference to all other Grids, each Grid holds a reference to a Grid_Environment which allows OutOfMemory Errors to be thrown out to be collected by another handler which might perform swapping operations of a different set of data...
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
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- e-Science
- eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- Preparation for eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
- http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1078/
- 2010-05-11 to 2010-05-12, Edinburgh, UK.
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- Andy Turner's NCeSS Sakai Portal : My Workspace Worksite : Wiki : Research3 2010-05 Page
- Presentation Draft
- GENESIS Web 2.0 Agent City Simulation: Getting users and allowing them to control/guide Agents and model development
- Outline
- Introduction
- GENESIS Modelling
- Specifying Agents in GENESIS
- User control of Agents in GENESIS
- Web 2.0
- Encouraging users and moving towards open development
- Issues and Feedback
- Introduction
- Andy Turner
- SIM-UK
- GENESIS
- NeISS
- Geographic Agent Based Modelling
- Geographic
- About interaction on or near the surface of earth
- Space-time-attribute
- It is about people and their environment
- Agent Based Modelling
- Distinguishes an Environment and Agents that operate within it
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- Environment
- Provides the overall spatial and temporal extent and detail
- Has distributed attributes which are seeded and then developed as a result of agent interaction
- Agents
- Individual entities that may interact both with other agents and with the Environment
- Individual Human Agents
- Digital demographic representation of a person
- Universal characteristics
- Date of birth
- Location
- Memory
- Current activity
- Scheduled activites
- Default behaviours
- Example additional characteristic
- Residential locations
- Preferences
- ...
- GENESIS modelling
- 2 Models
- Demographic/Migration model
- Daily time step
- Birth
- Death
- Migration type person movements
- Traffic/Transportation model
- Second time step
- Initial focus on travel to work
- Incorporate travel to school...
- Incorporate travel to do other things...
- Major issues
- Constraining movement
- Data handling
- Large amounts of data generated and used in the models
- Need for bespoke swapping of data between persistent memory and faster access memory for computation?
- Vector
- Raster
- Agent
- Specifying Agents in GENESIS
- Crux: Basic idea
- To get a model running based on available data as an initial estimate of people movements
- Allow users to specify their own movements in the models and modify and detail the movements in the simulation to reflect what people say they do/did
- Initial seeding the Traffic/Transport model
- 2001 UK Census data for commuting
- PLASC
- Other survey data and transportation models that suggest levels of movement
- User control of Agents in GENESIS
- Issues and concerns
- What interface?
- Security and trust
- How to plug in?
- This is what I want the feedback to focus on...
- Web 2.0
- Encouraging users and moving towards open development
- What to give the users back?
- Why should users want the application?
- Sustainable development
- Moving towards open development
- Need for quality and agile/responsive development
- Issues and Feedback
- Where to start with the Web 2.0 work?
- Develop and release an Open Social Application?
- Any questions/comments?
- GENESIS
- e-Science
- Preparation for eSI Workshop: The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications
- GENESIS
- Refactoring Memory Handling
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Computer Purchasing Meeting
- Jason Lander, Nick Malleson, Mark Birkin, Andy Turner
- ...
- GENESIS
- Refactoring Memory Handling
- Teaching
- GEOG2300/GEOG3600 Final group meeting of the academic year
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Refactoring Memory Handling
- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Prepared and delivered 20 minute presentation to CSAP
- A short presentation on research collaboration
- Outline
- Introduction
- Research interests
- Research methodology
- Teaching/mentoring
- Funded research
- Other on-going research collaborations
- Call for collaboration
- Introduction
- Aims of this presentation and this presentation material
- To encourage research collaboration
- To communicate, inform and entertain
- Help me prepare for my upcoming Staff Review and Development Scheme (SRDS) review meetings
- Who am I?
- I Am a strange loop
- A research scientist
- Specialising in computational geography
- Conducting research following an open and collaborative approach
- You can find out more about the research I am doing
- On my School of Geography Web Pages
- http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner
- I write a blog about my work activity that I update as I do things
- General section headings
- Browsing
- eResearch
- For projects and collaborative research
- Teaching
- Miscellaneous
- It is not user interactive
- Others cannot comment on it/contribute to it directly
- Easy to manage
- Misses out on Web 2.0 benefits
- It is useful
- I aim to make it more useful
- I aim to distill more from it to enhance my web pages
- It is an increasingly interesting record
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- By sending me a message
- Research interests
- I have to limit this to things I am currently doing
- I can be interested in researching most things!
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- Computational Geography
- The application of the computational science paradigm to problems in geography
- Focus on the development and application of methods and open source implementation
- Geographically weighted statistics
- Raster and vector spatial data handling
- Pattern recognition
- Application of digital neural networks
- Modelling
- Everything
- Focus on the development and application of a digital social simulation model of the world
- Representing every individual person
- Computaional challenges
- Uncertainty
- Road safety
- Analysis of road accident incidence
- Geomorphometrics
- Generalising and analysing the shape and dynamics of geographical measurements
- Given measures of a surface geometry
- Where are the places of interest?
- What are the features?
- Given contextual information
- e.g. This is a formerly glaciated area of land and is now near a coast
- e.g. This is a town
- What features are likely to be present?
- Organisation and data management
- Curation
- Preservation
- Managing research and research information
- Strategies to cope with communication
- Virtual research environments
- Research methodology
- The study of research methods
- An open and collaborative approach is not the only approach to research
- With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web it has become far easier to do this
- It contrasts with research undertaken in secret
- My open approach attempts to outline what I am planning to do before I do it and as I do it
- Announcing what I intend to do before I do it means that
- The intent can be compared with what took place
- Others can find out I am working which is a first step to collaboration
- I look for others working on a similar things
- Try to communicate and liaise and consider how to collaborate
- Others work can provide
- The opportunity to learn hard things the easy way
- e.g. Reasoning on why an algorithm works or fails and conditions and limits of application
- Something useful that saves a job
- Re-inventing the wheel can be good
- We do a lot of it around here!
- There are always better wheels that can be made!
- Learning by doing is good exercise
- Lessons learned this way and tools developed can be more easily re-applied in other relevant contexts
- Practice at doing helps especially when it seems there is no other way, but to develop a solution on your own
- Going it alone does not scale
- Some collaboration is needed as we address the unknown big questions that drive science
- Who are we?
- What are all these things around us?
- How did we get here?
- What were things like before?
- What will things be like in the future?
- Attempting to focus on impactful research
- Impact seems especially important for funding
- I want to make a contribution to the greater good of future society
- It is difficult to measure impact!
- Reading and reviewing is as important as writing
- A balance in this is key like a balnce between teaching and research
- These things feed each other
- I log my attendance at events
- On my blog
- By suggesting/submitting items to the editor of the School of Geography Newsletter
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- Using Identi.ca and Twitter microblogging services
- I also use the http://identi.ca/ and http://twitter.com/ microblogging services to check for details and occasionally comment interactively about events
- There has been significant use of such microblogging services at events I have attended in the last year or so
- I think this trend will continue as it helps participants to get involved and organise events interactively
- Reading and making comments with this medium helps to develop a collective consciousness
- It helps ask/answer questions
- It helps filter expert opinion
- Teaching/Mentoring/Helping
- First year tutoring
- I performed the role for the first time in the first semester of this academic year 2009/2010
- It was enlightening and a better experience than I expected
- I was blessed with good and academically astute students that made friends and worked well
- I think about them from time to time and wonder if I will work with them again...
- I look forward to doing this again
- Undergraduate dissertation mentoring
- I am performing this role for the first time and started in summer 2010)
- Again I am being enlightened
- 4 applied topics focussing on the UK
- Distribution of retailing
- Distribution of schools
- Houseprice fluctuations
- Management of immigration
- Masters dissertation mentoring (unofficial)
- Traffic and transportation planning in Lagos, Nigeria
- Olugboyega Onimole (Gboyega)
- Road accidents and road safety in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Applying geomorphometrics to assess plant habitat connectivity
- Alice Milner
- Mediterranean case study with a focus on two field sites in Greece
- I wonder about giving lectures and developing course components based on the topics of my research interest
- GEOG5060 Geomorphometrics
- Perhaps too long since I was involved in this...
- Main funded research
- GENESIS
- http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/projects/GENESIS/
- Collaboration with University College London
- 80% of my research time
- The development of two social simulation models of people movements
- Daily time step
- "Demographic Model"
- Birth, Death, Migration
- Currently working on the migration model
- Next step is to generate some results for Leeds and consider comparison with annual time step models developed by others
- Second time step
- "Traffic Model"
- Initial focus on commuting from work to home and back
- Currently working on scaling up to city size
- Next step is to incorporate journeys to schools
- Developing a generic Social Simulation Application Programming Interface (API)
- Focus on application to contemporary UK
- NeISS
- Ordnance Survey Building geometry work
- Other on-going research collaborations
- SIM-UK
- Unofficially I am working on a biography of Stan Openshaw
- I have Stan's permission, but have really only just started
- Call for collaboration
- The key to progress is collaboration
- We are not short of topics to study in geography!
- If you want to collaborate on any project I am working with, please contact me
- Update your web pages so they link to details about what you are doing
- Thanks and Acknowledgements
- The university of Leeds
- Centre for Computational Geography
- School of Mathematics
- School of Geography
- School of Computing
- The eResearch community
- Other organisations that have provided funding and services to resource my research
- JISC
- ESRC
- Ordnance Survey
- EC
- The open source community that helps to provide the software and data that fuels my research
- Government and digital curators that collect and make other data available for research
- Delivery
- I presented to:
- Chris Thompson
- Paul Norman
- John Stillwell
- Andy Evans
- Adam Dennett
- Holly Schulman
- I think I managed to get across my opinion that more practice of open collaborative ways of working would be good.
- I was pleased with the open consideration and interaction
- There was a lot of interesting discussion
- None of it was captured digitally at the time though...
- A key concern raised was that developing web pages and collaborating takes a lot of time
- It was argued that
- Time would be better spent writing "considered" peer reviewed journal articles
- In a way I was challenging the notion that these are still the best way to communicate in an impactful way
- Teaching
- GEOG2300/GEOG3600 Meeting with Paul Waley to go through marking of dissertation research proposal documents
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