- Events:
- Second Open Source GIS UK Conference - OSGIS 2010
- 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST 2010)
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- Events planning to attend/attended
- Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling
- 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
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- Miscellanea
- CSAP Meeting
- 2011 Census Data and Dissemination
- Seminar lead by Oliver Duke-Williams
- Background
- Why census?
- 1801 first UK census, repeated every 10 years
- Organised by parish and drew together data on birth and deaths and population counts
- 1841 transition to modern census
- Forms sent to individual households
- 2011 Census
- Date - March 27th 2011
- Students generally assumed to be at place of learning
- Census forms to be sent out by post and returned by post
- Requires an address register which is being developed by ONS
- Supposed to be for sole use of the exercise of posting forms and not available for re-use
- This is a massive waste and also if it is not archived then what?
- Optional on-line completion of form
- May improve completeness, but introduce bias...
- New questions
- For people born outside UK
- Year and month of most recent entry to the UK
- (In 1971 there was a similar question, but it asked for year of first entry
- For migrants of the last 12 months
- How long do you plan to stay?
- Second residences (but not in Scotland)
- No detailed census output table plan as yet
- Default plan to repeat 2001
- Disclosure Control
- Output formats
- API data feeds
- Allows data to be drawn into social network media etc...
- RDF tripple store
- Nice map of TFL data on tube train locations :-)
- Browsing
- Putting the Frontline First: Smarter Government
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Refactor for distinct Gender typed Agent Collections
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- Miscellanea
- SRDS Fallout/Publication Plans
- Further iteration over potential titles and suggested target journals
- The first two in the following list are based on feedback from Joe Holden and were sent to Joe in an email (as Director of Research Joe is feeding back to help me and the School of Geography)
- Paper 1
- Proposed Title:
- Global and Regional Scale Social Simulation: Contemporary, Historical and Pre-historical Demography at the Resolution of Individuals and Days
- Proposed Journal
- Demography (preference of Joe due to relatively high standard Impact Factor measure for the journal)
- Paper 2
- Proposed Title:
- Developing UK Traffic Simulation Models based on Census Data
- Proposed Journal
- Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
- Alternative paper titles
- Integrated dynamic demographic modelling at large scales and with high levels of resolution
- Future work on analysing road accident data geographically
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Refactor for distinct Gender typed Agent Collections
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- e-Science
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Developer Chat
- Configuring integration
- Run metadata encoding...
- Parameterisation...
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- e-Science
- e-ISS, GENESIS
- Configuring integration
- Coding simplified input and output:
- Inputs and outputs to be age by gender: population counts; fertility and mortaility probabilities...
- Run metadata encoding...
- Parameterisation...
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- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Project meeting face-to-face
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Project meeting face-to-face
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- Miscellanea
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Preparaing for meeting tomorrow
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- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Developer Chat
- Emailed Paul and Nick about GENESIS portlet integration...
- GENESIS
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- Miscellanea
- SRDS Review Fallout
- Emailed Malcolm Atkinson...
- Emailed the following ideas for two articles to submit for publication in peer reviewed journals with ISI impact factor ratings within 3 months to Line Manager and NeISS Principal Investigator and Director of Research:
- Papers based on GENESIS/NeISS work (which is still on-going...)
- I have not approached any of the suggested authors as yet
- NeISS Web Services for GENESIS Demographic Models
- (Suggested authorship) Rob Allan, Mark Birkin, Jianhui Jin, Jason Lander, Bill Lin, Nick Malleson, Richard Sinnott, Paul Townend, Andy Turner, John Watt, Belinda Wu
- Abstract
- Article detailing NeISS web services for GENESIS demographic models.
- An output from both the NeISS and GENESIS projects.
- There are two types of GENESIS demographic models being developed by the team at the University of Leeds: those with a time step of a year (Wu, Birkin, Rees 2008); and those with a time step of a day (Turner 2010).
- These models are still under development and the development and details of the models are not provided.
- The development of the Web Services has been done with the Netbeans Integrated Development Environment by a team based at the University of Leeds.
- The deployment of the web services is first targetted to a LifeRay portal instance running on the NGS.
- The web services have also been deployed to the NCeSS Sakai portal by the team at Daresbury.
- Secure access is handled by technology developed at NeSC Glasgow.
- Acknowledgements
- Publication outlets other than school of Geography Web Pages
- UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2010
- NGS Innovation Forum 2010
- Potential Target Journals
- Philosophical Transactions A
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- Constraining GENESIS Traffic Simulation Models
- (Suggested authorship) Andy Turner
- Abstract
- Basic GENESIS traffic models that route individual people agents using Open Street Map data have been produced (Turner 2010).
- This article details work on imposing constraints on the traffic.
- Such constraints are needed to make simulation results more realistic although testing how good the simulation results are is not covered.
- Acknowledgements
- Publication outlets other than School of Geography Web Pages
- Potential Target Journals
- Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- The Open Transportation Journal
- Transportation
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- GENESIS Demographic Modelling
- (Suggested authorship) Mark Birkin, Andy Turner, Belinda Wu
- Abstract
- Demographic models deal with populations, births and deaths.
- There are two types of GENESIS demographic models being developed by the GENESIS team at the University of Leeds: those with a time step of a year (Birkin, Rees, Wu 2009); and those with a time step of a day (Turner 2010).
- The models with a step of a year have been developed since 2005 and have dealt with migration since 2006.
- The models with a step of a day have been developed since 2008 and work on incorporating migration began in 2010.
- This article is to focus on developing basic models without migration, to models that incorporate this concept.
- Migration involves populations moving spatially and for this modelling we attempt to detail the spatial locations and their changes over time with reference to places of residence.
- Acknowledgements
- Publication outlets other than School of Geography Web Pages
- Potential Target Journals
- The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
- International Journal of Population Geography
- The International Journal of Microsimulation
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- e-Science
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- Miscellanea
- e-Science
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- Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling Meeting
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- Miscellanea
- SRDS Meeting
- MASS catch up meeting
- People
- Andy Evans, Mark Birkin, Andy Turner
- Andy Turner formatted houseprice data (on house sales) from 2001 to 2010
- Source
- There are 1485871 records of sales in the formatted data
- Uncompressed the file is about 140MB in size
- George Chilton is planning to work with this as part of his undergraduate dissertation to look at ripples in the housing market with a focus on the South East of England.
- Andy Evans mentioned some publication of disease propogation using wavelet analysis that might be relevant
- Dirk Helbing
- FuturICT
- Benjamin Vis
- Teaching
- Meeting with Emmanuel Avula
- Following on from meeting on 2010-06-07
- A first look at SRTM and GSHHS data for the area of interest
- Seems that some geomorphometrics and some other derived raster data can be generated and combined to produce estimates of flood risk...
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- Good progress :-)
- e-Science
- Preparation for Future Research Directions in Agent Based Modelling Meeting (Tomorrow)
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- Miscellanea
- e-Science
- NGS Collaboration Board Meeting
- http://www.ngs.ac.uk/collaboration-board
- http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/resources/ngs/ngs-collaboration-board-meeting-2-11-june-2010
- http://www.ngs.ac.uk/collaboration-board/ngs-cb-meeting-2-2010-06-11
- http://www.ngs.ac.uk/collaboration-board/ngs-cb-meeting-1-2010-02-08
- People (20?)
- Cliff Addison
- Hugh Beedie
- Nick Brook
- Simon Cox (Chair)
- Claire Devereux
- Matthew Dovey
- Neil Geddes
- John Gordon
- Mike Griffiths
- Paul Hatton
- Nick Holliman
- Roger Powell
- Andrew Richards
- Jean Ritchie
- Gillian Sinclair
- Hugh Shanahan
- Andy Turner
- John Watt
- Martin Wynne
- Steven Young
- Rough Notes Based on Agenda
- NGS Presentations to Collaboration Board
- Current and future NGS services
- NGS Technical Roadmap
- Steven Young
- Virtual File System
- Paul Townend has used NGS SRB for MoSeS and GENESIS
- I plan to use VFS via commons-vfs-grid
- My user type profile
- This might be helpful for collaboration
- Java programmer
- Geographical (with spatially and temporally referenced data) model developer
- Experienced with geographical data analysis and integration
- Experience in using MPJ Express for parallelising Java on NGS
- I have not been using NGS resources much in the last year, but I expect to ramp up use again soon for GENESIS work
- I have been busy developing GENESIS models, now I am working on scaling up these simulation models...
- HARC
- Allows resource reservations accross a set of grid resources
- NGS Benefits Map
- EGI update
- Other Presentations
- JISC e-Infrastructure activities
- Discussion and recommendations
- Benefits of NGS Membership document
- Future NGS funding
- Cloud Computing
- There are lots of different types of cloud computing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
- Cloud Formations
- Collections of cloud resources
- Are institutions planning on having their own cloud services?
- Is HPC still hard to do "in the cloud"?
- JISC reports on cloud computing coming out in next few weeks
- AOB
- NGS Collaboration Board Introspection
- Role/Remit
- Reporting institutional benefits of NGS to JISC
- Help facilitate collaboration?
- Composition
- 1/3rd NGS Implementors
- 1/3rd NGS Users
- 1/3rd NGS Managers and other experts
- NGS Communities
- Use NGS Help Desk to get help in preparing ESFRI proposals for submission
- DONM
- 30th November (After Innovations Forum)?
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- Miscellanea
- Preparation for SRDS meeting
- e-Science
- Making latest code releases available
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- e-Science
- Formatting ISGC 2010 Submission Using Latex
- GENESIS
- Code testing and development
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- Miscellanea
- Teaching
- Chat with Emmanuel Avula (Masters in GIS student) about dissertation topics
- Emmanuel is keen to work on something Environmental, practice Java and develop GIS skills
- Topics considered
- Windfarm site selection in northern Europe
- Steve Carver is more of an expert on this..
- Flooding in Nigeria
- Much of Nigeria is in the river basin of the Niger River and much of the coastal area is the delta of that river and is generally at risk of flooding
- Disaster management is an important topic for the people that live there and for the government
- Flooding is also a risk in terms of environmental polution
- Lekan is looking at this with a focus on the oil extraction industry
- What is the state of the current GIS?
- What data exists?
- What data are available?
- We looked at SRTM data and GSHHS and Google Maps
- What can be done to enhance the system and prepare it so it can be used in the event of a major environemntal disaster
- What lessons to learn from other recent disasters like the earthquake in Haiti and tsunami in Sumatra?
- What are the flood risks?
- What data processing and analysis can be done that might be useful?
- Defining the coast
- Mapping changes to risk with respect to sea level rise
- Geomorphometrics
- Preparing and overlaying srtm, other remotely sensed data and data like OpenStreetMap to create base data which can be enhanced with other data
- Browsing
- e-Science
- Revising ISGC 2010 Submission
- GENESIS
- Code testing and development
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