- Events:
- AGI GeoCommunity '10
- Towards Digital Earth: Search, Discover and Share Geospatial Data Workshop at Future Internet Symposium
- Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2010)
- The ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010)
- 3rd World Congress on Social Simulation (WCSS 2010)
- FOSS4G 2010
- Events on the horizon:
- The 6th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
- International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)
- Managing and sharing social science research data, Leeds
- The 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2010)
- Synthetic data meets simulation workshop
- 2010-10-22, Manchester, UK.
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- Funding Opportunities
- Roadmap of future grant funding 2010-08 to 2011-07
- TSB Harnessing Large and Diverse Sources of Data call
- Promoting Cross-Disciplinary Research: Engineering and Physics Sciences and Economic and Social Sciences
- http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/open/cdip/Pages/default1.aspx
- The objective of this call is to fund a small number of cross-disciplinary packages consisting of research and people-based activities which will develop and strengthen the interfaces between engineering and physical sciences and economic and social sciences. We are interested in two thematic areas;
- Quantitative Aspects of Understanding Behaviours
- Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Closing date: 2010-10-12
- British Academy Joint British and Taiwanese Funding
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- Browsing
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- Miscellanea
- Considering opening up the water@leeds newsletter and having a more Web 2.0 site to enhance collaboration and research
- Chat with Li
- Friend of Chengchao Zuo and PhD student working with Joe Holden on hydrology
- Hydrologically correct DEM, filling hollows, calculation of upslope area and estimating discharge at any location under a given scenario
- I raised awareness and encouraged use and development of Grids
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- Browsing
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
- Teaching
- GEOG5600 Dissertation Marking
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- Browsing
- Preparation for review meeting 2010-10-07
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Completed the University of Leeds HPC user survey 2010 for GENESIS
- Review Meeting
- Teaching
- GEOG1300
- Emailed group meeting schedule and feedback...
- GEOG3600 Meeting with Charlie Archer
- Proposed Title: An analysis of BNP support in Leeds
- Discussion
- Need to set the study of Leeds in a UK context
- Why just focus on local election results when there has been a recent national election?
- Map where BNP candidates stood and there levels of support in Leeds
- Using cartograms and map based analysis
- What variables to map and explore with in terms of correlation with absolute and relative amounts and change in BNP support
- Affluence
- Educational Attainment
- Ethnicity
- Areas with high immigration and numbers of assylum seekers
- Resilience
- Other work
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Preparation for review meeting on 2010-09-27
- e-Science
- Registered interest in a UKDA workshop
- I am keen to learn at and contribute to this workshop.
- I am currently developing and using social simulation models and data about people movements in an ESRC funded project called GENESIS and developing an e-Infrastructure for social simulation in a JISC funded project called NeISS. I probably should outline some of the international dimensions to the demographic modelling work and the related data implications...
- http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news-events/events.aspx?id=2602
- e-ISS
- No chat today in the developer chat!
- GENESIS
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- Teaching
- GEOG5160 Marking Meeting With Linda See
- GEOG1300 Informal Tutorial Meetings
- GEOG1300 Tutor Meeting
- Tutors are to make it clear to students the difference between plagarism, collusion and group work
- This will also be covered in GEOG1300 Lectures
- It was decided that 5 essays will be set, of which the best 4 marks will be submitted
- All essays should have a critical engangement with the literature
- Whether or not to keep a distinct literature review submission?
- Some felt that since we expect all essays to contain a literature review having a distinct literature review was perhaps not good.
- We discussed whether tutors be allowed to set essay titles
- I sided with Joe Holden in arguing for this as in terms of research it makes sense
- It was decided that it was better for the course convenor to be prescriptive
- The main reasons were to do with 'fairness' for students, worries about exams and assessment and concerns over the National Student Survey
- I think inevitably students are going to find essays with the same title as they are tackling
- I think they should read such an essay and put it in a bibliography and critique it in their own essay and build on it to some extent.
- I did think about asking for advice about this, but decided it would be like opening a can of worms!
- All School Learning and Teaching Meeting
- Introduction of new Royal Literary Fund Fellow
- Livi Michael
- Livi is around to help with writing, presumably for staff as well as students... I plan to email...
- Feedback
- This is a key to so much of what we do
- In the main student feedback is based on work components rather than modules
- Seminar speaker ideas
- If anyone is visiting that might also give a seminar we are to suggest this via Sara
- Perhaps I should suggest a GENESIS or NeISS collaborator some time...
- Academic Integrity Form
- This is still needed for each peice of submitted work
- It can be found on the VLE
- Skills and expertise audit
- This is wanted for considerations in changing curriculum and delivery
- Plagarism
- Important that we try to identify this at an early stage and try to correct for it
- Myles is head of task force on this
- Most likely cause of inadvertant plagarism is if students take notes by copying text and then use notes to construct assessed work without then referencing and quoting as appropraite.
- Tutors are increasingly responsible for identifying this
- Turnitin to be used for all assessed work
- e-Science
- IEEE eScience paper accepted, but work to be done based on reviewers comments...
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- Browsing
- Teaching
- Preparation for GEOG1300 Informal Tutor Meetings
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- NeISS Face to Face Meeting
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- NeISS Face to Face Meeting
- Caught up with the chat I missed on Friday...
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Getting back to grips with coding
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Preparation for review meeting on 2010-09-27
- Teaching
- GEOG5160 Marking
- ...
- Meeting with Helen Durham (1st Marker) of MSc GIS Dissertation: Electronic Route Finder (ERF): Finding Optimal Routes in Qatar using Network Analyst and "QARS" Data set
- Student: Maryam A. Z. Hussain
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- Browsing
- http://www.allhands.org.uk/theme-list/
- http://software.ac.uk/
- http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/standards
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Face_to_Face_Meeting_Barcelona_2010
- http://2010.foss4g.org/papers/
- http://www.environment.leeds.ac.uk/internal/faculty-it-support/user-documentation/high-performance-computing/general-use-linux-service
- http://www.environment.leeds.ac.uk/internal/faculty-it-support/user-documentation/storage/purchasing-large-volume-storage/large-volume-raid-arrays
- http://www.environment.leeds.ac.uk/internal/faculty-it-support/user-documentation
- http://library.leeds.ac.uk/site/scripts/home_info.php?homepageID=170
- http://www.e-framework.org/Portals/9/docs/e-Framework%20technical%20walk-through%20v1.1.pdf
- http://www.e-framework.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1011
- http://www.vimeo.com/7591954
- http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/DE2010/
- http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002520
- http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/2010/09/07/geo-rdf-to-kml/
- http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar/telstar-quick-demonstration/
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01181.x/abstract
- http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html
- http://www.softeng.rl.ac.uk/abm_ccp/
- http://www.softeng.rl.ac.uk/abm_ccp/static/leeds-workshop/
- http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Diff
- http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss1/0811-034.alessa-print.html
- G.W. Hazeu, M.J. Metzger, C.A. Mucher, M. Perez-Soba, Ch. Renetzeder, E. Andersen, European environmental stratifications and typologies: An overview, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 February 2010, ISSN 0167-8809, DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.01.009. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T3Y-4YB84HF-1/2/c3a186628a7c50fde8a008519c2a3aa8)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XO2CCnHIzU
- http://www.beliefproject.org/
- http://www.youtube.com/user/BeliefProject
- http://opengeodata.org/
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_07_Pakistan_Floods
- http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002546
- http://dart.ncsa.uiuc.edu/avl/transims.html
- http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~william/microdata/CO%20070615/CO_software.html
- http://www.maption.net/
- http://www.ctmap.com/
- http://ctmap.com/serendipity/index.php
- Miscellanea
- Updated research interests web pages
- e-Science
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- Sent various emails to encourage collaboration at the AHM (http://www.allhands.org.uk/) next week which I will unfortuantely miss (although I might try to participate virtually to some extent)...
- e-ISS
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- Browsing
- e-Science
- OneVRE Progress Meeting
- Meeting particulars
- The meeting can be attended
- via classical Access Grid
- via Portable AG (browser) using
- via phone-in
- via Skype-in
- Agenda
- Update on OneVRE progress including quick presentation of the prototype
- Revisiting the 1st requirements & Feedback document
- Discussion on which user groups we finally want to address for testing and evaluation
- Next Steps & AOB
- Notes
- http://wiki.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/community/OneVRE
- http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/
- Going through the Agenda
- Update on OneVRE progress including quick presentation of the prototype
- There will be a presentation at the UK e-Science AHM 2010
- OneVRE will work similarly to PAG, but the data sharing tools will be much better
- Revisiting the 1st requirements & Feedback document
- I had a quick read of this as sent on 2010-07-29 by Meik...
- Discussion on which user groups we finally want to address for testing and evaluation
- Collaboration with SIMIAN project suggested
- Collaboration with GENESIS project suggested
- It might also prove useful to the project as more virtual meetings may be wanted for final year...
- Collaboration with NeISS project suggested
- Developers might use it for a regular chat session
- These are scheduled at 11am on Friday's and there is project crossover in terms of the people involved...
- Aim to reach out to Linguists and those in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences which are likely to be less familar with such collaborative working environment for final testing...
- Next Steps & AOB
- Andy Turner to suggest use of OneVRE and EVO for a future NeISS developer chat
- Andy Turner to suggest use of OneVRE and EVO for a future GENESIS meeting
- A brief user document to be prepared to encourage use of OneVRE in projects
- AHM presentation of progress and distribution/publication of OneVRE progress
- Technical issues
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- For some reason bridging was not working so well and we struggled to start the meeting and reverted to using EVO:
- I had an additional problem with PAG in that ratmedia.exe seemed to be detected as a virus by my machine and blocked from working giving me no audio
- Somehow I overloaded or for some other reason my PC crashed, but that might have been some different intermittent failure I get from time to time which suspisciously seems to coincide also with Skype use...
- we were tried and tested, but got there in the end :-)
- GENESIS
- Leeds Project Meeting
- People
- Martin, Jie, Paul, Belinda, Mark, Andy
- Documentation
- Mark produced a paper agenda and briefing document which was a fleshed out version of some version of the GENESIS workplan
- Agenda
- Progress against workplan
- Priorities
- Presentations
- Publications
- Software
- Repository?
- Meet with CASA?
- Future Plans and Opportunities
- AoB
- Notes
- Progress updates from Andy, Paul and Belinda
- Andy
- Released latest GENESIS code
- This is available via a subversion server and can also be viewed via the following URL:
- What is there is self contained (includes input data and third party libraries), but requires a little configuration to be used.
- Bill Lin is to test this for the NeISS project while he helps with Grid enablement.
- There was a fiarly major refactor in that this version implements a change to the way the data is stored in collections of agents.
- Each collection is initially typed, such that separate collections are stored for people born male and people born female.
- This has a number of computational advantages (particularly for the demographic model).
- (Recall) Andy is developing two types of model which focus on people movements, one ticks every day (demographic model), another more like every second (traffic model). I am trying to apply these models to both the UK and Taiwan. For the Taiwanese models I am collaborating with various colleagues who are testing model implements using Repast. Together we have submitted to an IEEE conference and published our work at an International conference in Taipei following a paper submission I made to ISGC 2010. Here are details of that work:
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Voss A.,
Turner A.G.D.,
You J.-Y.,
Yen E.,
Lin S.,
Lin J.-P.
(2010)
'Social Simulation: investigating population-scale phenomena from the bottom up'.
Paper presented at the International Conference on Survey Research Methodology, Center for Survey Research, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
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Voss A.,
Turner A.G.D.,
You J.-Y.,
Yen E.,
Lin S.,
Lin J.-P.
(2010)
'Scalable Social Simulation: Investigating population-scale phenomena using commodity computing.'
Paper under review for The 6th IEEE e-Science Conference (IEEE e-Science 2010), Brisbane, Australia.
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Turner A.G.D.
(2010)
'GENESIS Social Simulation Modelling Progress'.
Paper submitted for The International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC 2010) peer review, 2010-03-31. This paper has been revised based on reviewer comments for inclusion as a book chapter in "Data Driven e-Science: Use Cases and Successful Applications of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (ISGC 2010)" published by Springer.
- Preparing two further publications based on GENESIS work
- Pressurised by Joe Holden, the Director of Research in Geography to aim these at high impact factor journals, although those he wants are not open access and I prefer JASSS.
- Andy happy/keen to extend the authorship on these papers and has invited Alex Voss to contribute although I am still preparing first drafts. Some details of these papers are as follows:
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Turner A.G.D.,
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(Version 0.1 2010-08)
'Global and Regional Scale Social Simulation: Contemporary, Historical and Pre-historical Demography at the Resolution of Individuals and Days'.
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Turner A.G.D.,
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(Version 0.1 2010-08)
'Developing UK Traffic Simulation Models based on Census Data'.
- Paul
- Focus of work in the last few months
- Development and integration of increased security
- Use of SARoNGS led to bug fixes for it to work on the NGS
- Bug fixes and compatibility fixes for the portlet code
- It now works on any platform, PC, Mac, Linux, etc)
- Portlet integration in the NeISS portal
- Discussion with Jim Austin in York about using advanced Data Mining to aggregate and query data in a very fast way
- This has stalled, but Paul will chase this up
- The data mining technique explodes the data into a binary representations for all variables and is thought to be a bit like database indexing
- Working with Chinese collaborators at the National University of Defence Technology
- Hoping to work with Chinese census data.
- IEEE eScience paper submitted based on Security/SARoNGS work
- Difficulty in writing computer science papers based on this work as it is more implementation than theory focussed
- Poster and demo prepared for the upcoming AHM.
- Belinda
- Working on:
- Microsimulation Model (MSM) refinement
- Comparison and alignment of results with ONS projections
- Scenarios/Application of MSM
- Recent publication include:
- Journal and book chapters:
- Wu, B. M. and Birkin, M. H. (forthcoming) Creating agents from a microsimulated population, in Batty, Crooks and Heppenstall (eds.) Spatial Agent-based Models: Principles, Concepts and Applications, Ashgate/Springer.
- Wu, B. M., Birkin, M. H. and Rees, P. H. (2010) A dynamic microsimulation with agent elements for spatial demographic forecasting, invited paper for Journal of Social Science Computing Review special issue in 2010
- Conference paper:
- Wu, B, Birkin, M, Rees, P, Heppenstall, H, Turner, A, Clarke, M, Townend, P and Xu, J (2010) Moses: an innovative way to model heterogeneity in complex social systems, proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, vol. 3, pp.366-370, Sanya, China, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3941-6, DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICCMS.2010.447
- Target conferences:
- GISRUK (GIS Research UK) in April 2011
- 3rd International Microsimulation Association conference, June, 2011
- Progress at CASA and with other collaborators
- Mike has Tyndall model running
- Anders Johanson working on GENESIS
- Alex Singleton getting all NPD/PLASC data for London and looking to link this with Further and Higher Education data and explore this
- Is there a relationship between change of address and change of school and educational attainment?
- Going through Agenda
- Progress against workplan
- Progress is looking good :-)
- Priorities
- Presentations
- Satisfactory amount done and in the pipeline...
- Publications
- Satisfactory amount done and in the pipeline...
- Software
- Considerable budget (&GBP;18k) available for specialist software...
- Repository?
- We are all to upload publications to resources and link from wiki of the NCeSS Sakai portal...
- Meet with CASA?
- Mark to suggest a date before Christmas...
- Future Plans and Opportunities
- Waiting to hear outcome of Doctoral Training Program proposal
- Data Intensive Research with Malcolm Atkinson et al.
- Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) EPSRC proposal with colleagues at STFC etc.
- Andy remembers something about ageing and health and population and labour market migration demography - possibly focussed in Asia or on China specifically (ESRC?/EC?/BC?)...
- Geo-metadata (TSB) proposal
- Paul working with Ant Beck and collaborators at EDINA, Talis and commercial IT partners
- TSB taking on some of the role of DTI
- Belinda discussing ideas with Elaine Ho
- Marco Paganoni and FP7 e-Infrastructure call
- Mark has 2 proposals in review
- EPSRC proposal with Jim Hall
- Talisman NCRM node
- Martin suggested a third Web 2.0 in Geography event
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- AoB
- Personel Issues
- Luke Burns taking leave of study
- Alex Singleton moved from CASA to Liverpool to work with Peter Brown
- Andrew Crooks moved to George Mason University
- Other issues were discussed, but remain confidential
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- Actions
- Everyone to upload publications to GENESIS Worksite (ideally linking from appropriate wiki pages)
- Mark to suggest joint meeting with CASA sometime before Christmas
- Andy to email Paul and Alex Voss about legal issues to do with storage of Chinese census data
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- Browsing
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 Preparation
- GEOG5160 Marking
- First look at marking Maryam A. Z. Hussain MSc GIS Dissertation: Electronic Route Finder (ERF): Finding Optimal Routes in Qatar using Network Analyst and "QARS" Data set
- e-Science
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- Browsing
- Miscellanea
- Path Finder Meeting with Hugh Look about Digimap and OS data licensing
- Work with Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections
- Aims
- Try to identify changes and issues and what should be in Digimap collections licences
- Identify things made hard by current licences?
- No selection by theme so datasets have to be download tile by tile, selected and joined on the client side.
- Grade demonstrator/ShareGeo
- Limitations on number of features and tile size download are too restrictive
- I suggested Ant Beck, Anna Clough and Helen Durham as further contacts at the University of Leeds
- Follow up will be initiated by Hugh using email...
- Teaching
- GEOG5160 Feedback to Emmanuel Avula on thesis draft
- e-Science
- UKBuildingGeometry
- Preparing Final Report
- ...
- Capstick D., Heathcote G. (2006) 'Moving Towards 3D — From a National Mapping Agency Perspective'. In Innovations in 3D Geo Information Systems : Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2006, Part 7, Part 1, 491-500, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-36998-1_38. (http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/partnerships/research/publications/docs/2006/KL_finalv2_dm.pdf)
- Jaynes C., Riseman E., Hanson A. (2003) 'Recognition and reconstruction of buildings from multiple aerial images'. In Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Volume 90, Issue 1, April 2003, Pages 68-98, ISSN 1077-3142, DOI: 10.1016/S1077-3142(03)00027-4. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WCX-48GP43X-1/2/1c5e6059fcb37a9f614691210ebf8a56)
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