tools to support them and to advise on the future strategic direction of e-Social Science and e-Science.” We have always considered that main function of MoSeS within the e-Social Science programme has been as a demonstrator of the value of eResearch technologies within the context of a specific application domain. The positive feedback we have received from many disciplinary and trans-national audiences indicates that this message has been well-received. At a global scale, the number of e-Research applications to real social science problems remains alarmingly small. MoSeS has developed its own eResearch tools for data integration, mapping, computation, security and archiving. We have contributed to NCeSS efforts to develop eResearch tools, particularly in relation to mapping, data management and security, through the ESRC e-Infrastructure project, and collaborations with GEMEDA census datasets) , and SEE-GEO (a JISC-funded project for grid-enabling map data at EDINA, with whom we have an institutional collaboration agreement). We have also helped NCeSS to raise its international profile through our involvement in the EUAsiaGrid project, and have contributed to evolving international standards for handling map data through involvement with OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium). In common with the other nodes and NCeSS Hub, we have shared responsibility as members of the NCeSS Strategy Board for the ongoing and future development of Science in the UK. 9. Nominated Rapporteur Please suggest the name of one person who would be suitable to act as an independent rapporteur for your project. Please state full address and telephone number. Chris Brunsdon Professor of Geographic Information Department of Geography University of Leicester LE1 7RH cb179@leicester.ac.uk 0116 252 3854 10. Nominated User Rapporteur (Optional) Please suggest the name of one non-academic user who would be suitable to act as an independent rapporteur for your project. Please state full address and telephone number. Social enabling
High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE) 3rd International Conference on Science University of Michigan October 2007 Mark Birkin Belinda Wu Yes UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Nottingham September 2007 Andy Turner Paul Townend Yes Geocomputation Maynooth September 2007 Belinda Wu Yes RGS/IBG Royal Geographical Society, Kensington August 2007 Belinda Wu Yes Association of American Geographers San Francisco April 2007 Mark Birkin Martin Clarke Yes Supercomputing Tampa November 2006 Mark Birkin Paul Townend Yes Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Leeds September 2006 Paul Townend Yes UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Nottingham September 2006 Andy Turner Paul Townend Yes Regional Science Association British and Irish Section Jersey September 2006 Mark Birkin Yes ESRC Research Methods Festival Oxford July 2006 Mark Birkin Belinda Wu Yes 2nd International Conference on Science Manchester June 2006 Mark Birkin Andy Turner Belinda Wu Yes UK e-Science All Hands Meeting Nottingham September 2005 Mark Birkin Paul Townend Yes RGS/IBG Annual Meeting Royal Geographical Society, Kensington September 2005 Mark Birkin Yes 1st International Conference on Science Manchester June 2005 Mark Birkin Yes Ninth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban University College London June 2005 Mark Birkin Yes Social Social Social
Management (CUPUM) Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 05) Seattle, USA May 2005 Paul Townend Yes A3.2 Participation in workshops O = Organised; C = Made formal contribution Event Location Date O C Attendee Notes Small Area Estimation University of Canberra September 2008 N Y Mark Birkin National Institute for and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics EUAsiaGrid Kick-Off Meeting Academica Sinica, Taipei April 2008 N Y Mark Birkin Special Event at the International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) White Rose Grid: e-Science Challenges and Perspectives University of Leeds March 2008 N Y Paul Townend Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Barbican, London February 08 N Y Mark Birkin Martin Clarke Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World Manchester September 2008 N Y Martin Clarke Mapping Futures London October 2008 N Y Martin Clarke Organised by the Society for Location Analysis Agent-based models for the spatial and social sciences Manchester Business School June 2008 Y Y Mark Birkin Andy Turner Belinda
Wu Spatial data infrastructures: Edinburgh August 2008 N N Andy Turner Forecasting St Kath’s College, University of Oxford July 2008 Y Y Mark Birkin Martin Clarke Two sessions organised for the ESRC Research Methods Festival Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee Postdam June 2008 N N Andy Turner NCeSS Workshop on Secure Access to Confidential Data Manchester June 2008 N N Andy Turner Geospatial resources use in tertiary education - Shaping the future, Edinburgh, UK, Edinburgh May 2008 N N Andy Turner Using to Grid enable data for the Arts, Humanities and Sciences Web-based April 2008 N N Andy Turner White Rose Grid e-Science Centre Workshop: Challenges and Perspectives Leeds March 2008 N Y Andy Turner UPTAP Workshop (Understanding Population Trends and Processes) Leeds March 2008 N N Mark Birkin Andy Turner Taverna Workshop Leeds February 2008 N N Andy Turner NCeSS Showcase Manchester January 2008 N Y Mark Birkin Andy
Turner NCeSS Portal Useability Workshop Manchester November 2007 N N Andy Turner Doctoral Colloquium, International Conference on eSoc Science University of Michigan October 2007 Y Y Mark Birkin Belinda Wu Leeds City Council Chief Executive’s Leadership Forum Leeds September 07 N Y Mark Birkin NCeSS Node Jamboree and e-Infrastructure Project Away Day 2007 Oxford June 2007 N Y Mark Birkin Andy Turner Belinda Wu ESRC Visual Methods Workshop Leeds June 2007 N Y Mark Birkin NSF/ ESRC Workshop Agent Based Modelling of Complex Systems Santa Barbara March 2007 N Y Mark Birkin Andy Turner NCeSS Showcase Manchester March 2007 N Y Andy Turner UPTAP Workshop Leeds March 2007 N N Mark Birkin Andy Turner NCeSS Simulation Workshop Birmingham February 2007 N Y Mark Birkin National Institute for Environmental e-Science Grid Working Grp London January 2007 N N Andy Turner NCeSS Agenda Setting Workshop on Combining and EnhancingData Manchester January 2007 N N Andy Turner NCeSS Manchester January 2007 N N Andy Turner
workshop Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee San Diego December 2006 N N Andy Turner National Institute for Environmental e-Science Grid Working Group Nottingham November 2006 N N Andy Turner Free and Open Source Software for Geoinformatics Lausanne, Switzerland November 2006 N N Andy Turner Inaugural International Workshop on Dependability in grids Leeds October 2006 N Y Paul Townend ZUMA Simulation workshop University of Koblenz September 2006 N N Belinda Wu Portals and portlets Edinburgh July 2006 N N Andy Turner Arts and Humanities Support Centre Workshop: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) e-Science: Developing a roadmap Belfast July 2006 N N Andy Turner Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee Edinburgh June 2006 N N Andy Turner NCeSS Visualisation workshop Manchester June 2006 N N Andy Turner Expanding University of California Humanities April 2006 N Y Mark Birkin Organised by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts and Social
Research Institute Sciences Technical Advisory Committee), Global Grid Forum (GGF) Introduction to the research of the future Leeds March 2006 N Y Andy Turner White Rose Grid e-Science Centre of Excellence UPTAP Workshop Leeds March 2006 N N Mark Birkin Andy Turner NCeSS Node Jamboree Manchester March 2006 N N Mark Birkin Andy Turner Belinda Wu NCeSS Winter Training School Manchester March 2006 N N Andy Turner National Institute for Environmental e-Science Grid Working Grp Edinburgh February 2006 N N Andy Turner Workshop on Grid Middleware and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data Edinburgh September 2005 N N Andy Turner Future Cities University of Chicago September 2005 Y Y Martin Clarke With support from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Geographical Information Systems on the Grid University of Leeds September 2005 Y Y Mark Birkin Andy Turner NCeSS Workshop Frontiers in Transportation: Social and Spatial Amsterdam July 2005 N Y Mark Birkin Andy Turner World Congress on Transportation Research Society
Planners play SimCity with real towns, Vnunet, November 14th 2006. Coming soon: SimCity for real, Playfuls.com, November 2006. Link no longer available. Sims Put Real Cities to the Test, New Scientist, November 23rd 2006. Reality City, Scienceagogo, 17th November 2006. SimCity, social engineering, and 60 million “people”, International Science Grid This Week, July 2007. The Real SimCity, Geographical Magazine, August 2008. Annex 5. MoSeS Impacts and Collaborations Organisation Contact name Notes Status/ Next steps HEFCE Mark Corver (Analytical Services Group) Teleconference with senior managers, Spring 2008 Workshop timetabled November 2008 (postponed until 2009) Dr Foster Consultancy and market intelligence for health care providers David Ashby (Head of Product Development and Delivery) Meeting December 2007 Conference call March 2008 Interest in local authority demographic forecasts Dormant Leeds Education Authority Heather Eyre (Head of ICT and Information Management) Have provided pupil data (PLASC) for regeneration project (population updates) No immediate actions planned Leeds Regeneration Partnership Stephen Boyle (Chief Regeneration Officer), Maggie Gjessing Providing data for regeneration project (EASEL). Maggie has joined RSG for Rene Jordan Project ongoing until September 2010 Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust Brian Derry (Director of Informatics) Agreed data specification, January 2007. Ethical clearance obtained, May 2008 Ongoing. Possible link to Holly Shulman project
Awaiting data. Leeds City Council, Social Services John England (Deputy Director) Dennis Holmes Agreed Needs Analysis, Spring 2007 Version 1 model complete September 2008. Meet to discuss model outputs and next steps. Produce ‘Moses health’ portal. Department of Communities and Local Government Richard Goodwin, (Deputy Director) Interest following SuperComputing, November 2006. Telephone conversation. Possible joint meeting with RTPI. Interest in Moses as a ‘planning game’ for community regeneration. Not prioritised. Royal Town Planning Institute Rynd Smith (Director of Policy) Jenny Crawford (Director of Research) Interest following SuperComputing, November 2006. Telephone conversation. Produced ‘Moses Briefing Note’, January 2007. Unable to obtain feedback. Nottinghamshire County Council. Jonathan Weller (Three cities and counties Programme Officer) Meeting in Leeds, March 2008. Interest in impact of Postponed pending development of dynamic model (for Midlands Region?) Landmark Information Group Mike Williams (Managing Director) Interested in impact analysis for the new town of Cranbrook. Commuting patterns/ demand for housing. Neighbourhood profiles. Proposal in response to tender document. Suspended re ‘credit crunch’ Boots Ian Wood, Steve Bell (Site Research team) Meeting Leeds April 2008 and London, October 2008. Interest in city centre GP/ retail locations. Possible analysis of Advantage Card data. Demographic change and activity analysis. Outline proposal in circulation. Possible follow-up through RIBEN. Academetrics Housing market consultant and information provider. David Pickles (Consultant) Ongoing discussions (via Martin Clarke). Dormant. Strategic Location Peter Sleight Presentation at Probable direct
Academy (SLA) (Director) October meeting. follow-up with partner organisations (e.g. Boots) Chinese Academy for Social Sciences Li Ping (Deputy Director) Meetings in Manchester (Jan 07) and Leeds (Oct 08). Looking for input to National Collaboratory for Social Simulation. Briefing note for visit of Michael Arthur (Leeds VC) to Beijing/ Shanghai in Nov 08. Definite interest. Possible business model unclear. University of Auckland Peter Davis (Professor of Sociology, Health and Well-being) Nick Jones Manager, Centre for eResearch) Meetings June 08 (Manchester), September 08 (Melbourne). Trying to develop dynamic simulation for New Zealand health care. Ongoing exchange of research papers. Possible visit/ joint workshop Academica Sinica Ly-Yun Chang (Executive Director, Centre for Survey Research) Possible deployment of Moses Taiwan Audit of Taiwanese census data. Andy Turner visit proposed, April 2009. British Geological Survey Fiona McEvoy (Project Manager) Andrew Bloodworth (Head of Science - Minerals) Joint project regarding provision of infrastructure re demographic and social change. BGS providing data, funding, and advice. Ongoing until September 2010.