2005 International Conference on e-Social Science
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Wednesday 22 June
- Workshop 1: Social Aspects of Scientific Collaboration,
Organisers: Prof. Diane Sonnenwald, Prof. Elizabeth Davenport - Workshop 2: From Metadata Standards to the Data GRID for Comparative Social Research,
Organiser: Dr Ekkehard Mochmann - Workshop 3: Future Cities and Regions,
Organiser: Dr Mark Birkin - Workshop 4: Portals and VREs for Social Research,
Organiser: Rob Crouchley - Workshop 5: The role of the social sciences in making e-Science usable,
Organiser: Usability Task Force - Workshop 6: Access Grid,
Organiser: Javier Gomez-Alonso
Thursday 23 June
Keynote 1
- Welcome
Peter Halfpenny
National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
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Disciplinary Differences in e-Research: An Information Perspective (link to biography and session outline)
Christine Borgman University of California, USA
Paper Session 1a: Lessons from UK e-Social Science Pilot Projects
- HYDRA: a prototype Grid-enabled spatial decision support system
M. Birkin, O. McFarland School of Geography, University of Leeds
P. Dew, J. Hodrien School of Computing, University of Leeds
- Building bridges between social science, grid, and geospatial communities: a reflection on practice
M. Craglia Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
M. Griffiths, B. Wessels, A. Costello University of Sheffield
Paper session 2a: Social Shaping of e-Research
- Towards an understanding of research ethics for computational, e-social science
R. Harris Spatial Modelling Research Group, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
- Confidentiality issues from the user perspective (SP)
S. Musgrave, D. O'Neill Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex
U. Kruschwitz Department of Computer Science, University of Essex
- Innovations in web-based public consultation (SP)
R. Ahmad, P. Danielson, E. Levy, H. Longstaff W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Z. Bornik, H. Dowlatabadi Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, The University of British Columbia, Canada
J. WilkinTreenomix Group, Michael Smith Labs, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Paper Session 1b: Lessons from UK e-Social Science Pilot Projects
- Lessons Learnt from Deployment of a Social Simulation Tool to the Semantic Grid
P. Edwards, A. Preece, E. Pignotti Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
G. Polhill, N. Gotts
The Macaulay Institute Aberdeen.
- Sharing Techniques and Experience in a Collaborative e-Social Science Pilot Project
B. Wessels Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield
M. Craglia Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
R. Smith Informatics Collaboratory of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
- Distributing Data Sessions: Supporting remote collaboration with video data
M. Fraser, G. Biegel Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
K. Best, J. Hindmarsh, C. Heath Work, Interaction and Technology Group, Department of Management, King's College London
C. Greenhalgh, S. Reeves The Mixed Reality Laboratory & The Learning Sciences Research Institute, School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham
Paper Session 2b: Social Shaping of e-Research
- Etiquettes of Data Sharing in Healthcare and Healthcare Research
M. Hartswood, K. Ho, R. Procter, R. Slack, A. Voss Social Informatics Cluster, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
R. Procter National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
- Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights in Medical Data in Collaborative Computing Environments:
M. Rahman Centre for Requirements & Foundations, Oxford University Begbroke Science Park
M. Jirotka, C. Hinds Centre for Requirements & Foundations, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
D. Vaver, T. Piper, G. D'Agostino, C. Meyer Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, St Peter's College, Oxford University
- The World Wide Web of Science: Reconfiguring Access to Information
R. Schroeder, A. Caldas, G. Mesch, W. Dutton Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University
Keynote 2
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Long-Distance Collaborations in Science: Challenges and Opportunities (link to biography and session outline)
Gary Olson University of Michigan, USA
Paper session 1c: Building on Experience
- MOSES: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science
M. Birkin, M. Clarke, P. Rees School of Geography, University of Leeds
H. Chen Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
J. Keen Nuffield Institute for Healthcare Studies, University of Leeds
J. Xu School of Computing, University of Leeds
- Facilitating the Comparison of Social Simulations using e-Science
B. Edmonds Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Implementation of e-Science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction
S. Lyon, P. Sillitoe, R. Wilson Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
Paper session 2c: Social Shaping of e-Research
- Material culture and the shaping of e-science
C. Hine Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
- Industry involvement in grid standardisation
R. Bunduchi, M. Gerst, R. Williams Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
I. Graham School of Management, University of Edinburgh
- Linking e-Science capabilities for e-Social Science communities: extending the UK-Australia INWA project to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SP)
A. Lloyd Management School, The University of Edinburgh
Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Western AustraliaY. Sun Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
K. Nan, T. Sloan, B. Yan EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
D. Qian School of Computer Science & Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
Panel session 1: Security, confidentiality and ethics in e-Research (link to biographies and session outline)
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Mark Elliott National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
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Simon Musgrave Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex
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Richard Sinnott National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh
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Marina Jirotka Centre for Requirements & Foundations, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Panel session 2: Metadata standards and implementation (link to biographies and session outline)
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Titto Assini National Centre for e-Social Science, U.K. Data Archive, University of Essex
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Ekkard Mochman Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (GESIS-ZA), Cologne, Germany
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T. John Kim University of Illinois, USA
Friday 24 June
Keynote 3
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e-Research, e-Infrastructure and Social Science (link to biography and session outline)
Tony Hey EPSRC and University of Southampton
Paper session 3a: Infrastructure and Tools for e-Social Science
- Putting Social Science Applications on the Grid
R.Crouchley, T. van Ark, J. Pritchard, Dan Grose e-Social Science Centre of Excellence and Collaboratory for Quantitative e-Social Science, University of Lancaster
J. Kewley, R. Allan e-Science Centre, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
M. Hayes, L. Morris Cambridge e-Science Centre, University of Cambridge
- A Middleware Registry for the Discovery of Collections and Services
A. Apps
MIMAS, The University of Manchester - Extending the INWA Grid (SP)
T. Sloan EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
A. Lloyd Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
The University of Edinburgh Management School
Paper session 4a: New Directions for e-Social Science
- e-Social Science Infrastructures: a social informatics perspective
P. van den Besselaar Rathenau Instituut
ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barbara Dubbeldam, Iam Hooijen The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Recording and Understanding Mobile People and Mobile Technology
P. Tennent, M. Chalmers Computing Science, University of Glasgow
- Working with text logs: some early experiences of e-SS in the field
A. Crabtree School of Computer Science & IT, University of Nottingham
M. Rouncefield Computing Department, Lancaster University
Paper session 3b: Infrastructure and Tools e-Social Science
- Grid-enabling Social Scientists: The FINGRID infrastructure
L. Gillam, K. Ahmad, G. Dear Department of Computing, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey
- Providing Ontology Support for Social Simulation
E. Pignotti, P. Edwards, A. Preece Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
G. Polhill, N. Gotts The Macaulay Institute Aberdeen
- Confidential data Access via the Grid: An Outline of the issues and possible solutions
M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith CCSR, University of Manchester
Paper session 4b: New Directions for e-Social Science
- The Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) - Progress and Plans
R. Ackland Centre for Social Research, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia
- A distributed framework for semi-automatically developing architectures of Brain and Mind
F. Gobet School of Social Sciences and Law, Brunel University
P. Lane School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire
- Textual and Quantitative Analysis: Towards a new, e-mediated Social Science
K. Ahmad, L. Gillam, D. Cheng Centre for Knowledge Management, Department of Computing, University of Surrey
Paper Session 5: National e-Social Science Programmes
- The ESRC National Centre e-Social Science
R. Procter National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester
- Networking Social Science resources: SozioNet
N. Schumann, W. Meier, R. Schmiede Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Germany
- The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences
P. Wouters Networked Research and Digital Information (Nerdi), NIWI-KNAW, The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- U.S. e-Science Investments in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
L. Burton, J. Lane National Science Foundation, USA
Panel session 3: International Collaboration in e-Social Science (link to biographies and session outline)
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Tom Rodden Economic and Social Research Council
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Wanda Ward National Science Foundation, USA
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Rob Ackland The Australian National University, Australia
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Nosh Contractor National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, USA
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Nikos Kastrinos Directorate General Research Directorate for Social Sciences, European Union Commission
