SC4DEVO-4

13-15 December 2005
National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh, UK

Introduction

SC4DEVO-4 comprised two workshops: the two-day Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining, Integration and Visualization (SDMIV2), which looked at data exploration across e-Science generally, followed by the SC4DEVO-4 Astronomy Day, which focused on applications relating to the Virtual Observatory. (N.B. the original SDMIV workshop was one of the inspirations for the SC4DEVO initiative.)

Original SC4DEVO-4 websites: SDMIV2 and SC4DEVO-4 Astronomy Day

Agenda

Wednesday, December 14

09.00-09.30: Coffee
09.30-10.00: SDMIV2: Workshop Introduction (Bob Mann, Edinburgh)
Session 1: Data integration

10.00-10.30: Shuffling data: an introduction to the keywords in data integration, exchange and sharing (Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Edinburgh)
10.30-11.00: CCPN: scientific data modeling and multi-language code generation (Rasmus Fogh, Cambridge)
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.00: AstroDAS: achieving database integration through distributed annotation (Diego Prina Ricotti, Rome)
12.00-12.30: Developing a base data layer in the OGSA-DAI project (Neil Chue Hong, Edinburgh)
12.30-13.00: The Edinburgh Pathway Editor (Anatoly Sorokin, Edinburgh)

Session 2: SDMIV technologies

13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-14.30: Visualization ontologies: making pictures with meaning (David Duke, Leeds)
14.30-15.00: Towards secure mobile computation for (astronomical) data centres (James Cheney, Edinburgh)
15.00-15.30: Data mining and visualization (Jeremy Walton, NAG Ltd)
15.30-16.00: Tea
16.00-16.30: Provenance support for distributed scientific data analysis (Omer Rana, Cardiff)
16.30-17.00: Agents, consumers of service oriented architectures (Adam Barker, Edinburgh)
17.00: Close

Thursday, December 15

Session 3: Data Mining

09.00-09.30: Coffee
09.30-10.00: Tabular data analysis software for astronomy (and beyond?) (Mark Taylor, Bristol)
10.00-10.30: Mining spatio-temporal gene-expression data (Richard Baldock, MRC HGU)
10.30-11.00: DAME and BROADEN: visualization and searching distributed aero-engine data (Martyn Fletcher, York)

Session 4: Visualization

11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.00: The importance of scale in discerning patterns and meaning in geographic space (William Mackaness, Edinburgh)
12.00-12.30: Autonomous visualization (Khalid El-Arini, Carnegie Mellon)
12.30-13.00: Multivariate visualization of cardiac virtual tissue (James Handley, Leeds)
13.00-13.45: Lunch
13.45-14.15: Exploratory visualization through multiple linked views (Jonathan Roberts, Kent)
14.15-14.45: Requirements of visualization tools for scientific applications on the grid (Lakshmi Sastry, CCLRC)
14.45-15.15: Collaborative visualization (Ken Brodlie, Leeds)

Session 5: Discussion

15.15-15.45: Tea
15.45-16.30: Discussion
16.30: Close

Friday, December 15

SC4DEVO-4 Astronomy Day

Aladin: latest developments and interopability with other tools (Thomas Boch, Strasbourg)
Visualization in hyperspace: making visual inferences for multivariate data (Richard Holbrey, Leeds)
Using visualization in high volume data reduction pipelines for quality control purposes (Patricio Ortiz, Leicester)
Aus-VO: progress and goals (Andrew Hopkins, Sydney)
Interoperability in data mining and visualization (Clive Page, Leicester)
PLASTIC: Platform for Astronomy Tool Intercommunication (John Taylor, Edinburgh)