SC4DEVO-2

Introduction

Original SC4DEVO-2 websites: e-Science and data mining and SC4DEVO-2 Astronomy Day

Agenda

• Tuesday, November 30
• Session 1: Introduction and Context
• 09.00-09.30: Coffee
• 09.30-09.35: Welcome to NeSC
• 09.35-10.00: e-Science and Data Mining: Workshop Introduction (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
• 10.00-10.30: Review of Questionnaires: e-Science Needs and e-Science Provision (Amos Storkey, Edinburgh)
• Session 2: Application Drivers
• 10.30-11.00: Coffee
• 11.00-11.30: GridMiner: A Framework for Knowledge Discovery on the Grid - Scientific Drivers and Contributions (Peter Brezany, Vienna)
• 11.30-12.00: Gridding the Sky (Andy Connolly, Pittsburgh)
• 12.00-12.30: Conventional and myGrid approaches to data mining in bioinformatics (Peter Li, Newcastle)
• Session 3: Scalability Issues
• 12.30-13.15: Lunch
• 13.15-14.15: Efficient statistical learning from "Big Science" data: invited review (Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon)
• 14.15-14.45: Scalability, from a database systems perspective (Dave Abel, CSIRO)
• Session 4: Web and Grid Service Implementations
• 14.45-15.30: Tea
• 15.30-16.00: GridMiner: Design and Underlying Grid Technologies (Ivan Janciak, Vienna)
• 16.00-16.30: Constructing Data Mining Applications based on Web Services Composition (Ali Shaikh Ali and Omer Rana, Cardiff)
• 16.30-17.00: INWA: using OGSA-DAI between the UK, Australia and China (Terry Sloan, Edinburgh)
• 17.00: Close
• Wednesday, December 1
• Session 5: Mining Distributed Data Sources
• 09.00-09.30: Pattern Matching against Distributed Datasets with DAME (Andy Pasley, York)
• 09.30-10.00: Distributed data mining in Discovery Net (Mustafa Ghanem, Imperial College)
• 10.00-10.30: GEDDM: commercial data mining using distributed resources (Mark Prentice, Belfast)
• Session 6: Text Mining
• 10.30-11.00: Coffee
• 11.00-11.15: The UK National Centre for Text Mining (John Keane, UMIST)
• 11.15-11.40: Statistical Parsing for Text Mining from Scientific Articles (Ted Briscoe, Cambridge)
• 11.40-12.05: From BioNER to AstroNER: Porting Named Entity Recognition to a new domain (Claire Grover, Edinburgh)
• 12.05-12.30: Text Mining and e-Science: A Marriage Made in Heaven? (Moustafa Ghanem, Imperial College)
• Session 7: Break-out Discussions
• 12.30-12.45: Plans for break-out sessions (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
• 12.45-13.30: Lunch
• 13.30-15.00: Break-out discussion in groups
• 15.00-15.30: Tea
• 15.30-15.45: Break-out Report 1: Distributed data and data integration (John Taylor, Edinburgh)
• 15.45-16.00: Break-out Report 2: Interoperating (Martin Hill, Edinburgh)
• 16.00-16.15: Workshop wrap-up (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
• 16.15: Close
• Thursday, December 2
• Session 8: SC4DEVO-2 Astronomy Day
• 09.00-09.30: Coffee
• 09.30-10.15: Exploring tabular datasets (Clive Page, Leicester)
• 10.15-11.00: Playing in high dimensions (Bob Nichol, Portsmouth)
• 11.00-11.30: Coffee
• 11.30-12.15: Rule-based anomaly pattern detection for detecting disease outbreaks (Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon)
• 12.15-13.00: Web and Grid Services from Pitt/CMU (Andy Connolly, Pittsburgh)
• 13.00-13.45: Lunch
• 13.45-14.30: EdSkyQuery-G overview (Brian Hills, Edinburgh)
• 14.30-15.15: Recent developments: IVOA standards and NVO services (Tamas Budavari, Johns Hopkins)
• 15.15-15.45: Tea
• 15.45-16.30: Searching for white dwarfs using web services and .Net (Savas Parastatidis, Newcastle)
• 16.30-17.15: Brief comments on BinX and VX (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
• 17.15: Close