TY - BOOK T1 - The DATA Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business T2 - Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Editor: Albert Y. Zomaya) Y1 - 2013 A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Baxter, Robert M. A1 - Peter Brezany A1 - Oscar Corcho A1 - Michelle Galea A1 - Parsons, Mark A1 - Snelling, David A1 - van Hemert, Jano KW - Big Data KW - Data Intensive KW - data mining KW - Data Streaming KW - Databases KW - Dispel KW - Distributed Computing KW - Knowledge Discovery KW - Workflows AB - With the digital revolution opening up tremendous opportunities in many fields, there is a growing need for skilled professionals who can develop data-intensive systems and extract information and knowledge from them. This book frames for the first time a new systematic approach for tackling the challenges of data-intensive computing, providing decision makers and technical experts alike with practical tools for dealing with our exploding data collections. Emphasising data-intensive thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration, The DATA Bonanza: Improving Knowledge Discovery in Science, Engineering, and Business examines the essential components of knowledge discovery, surveys many of the current research efforts worldwide, and points to new areas for innovation. Complete with a wealth of examples and DISPEL-based methods demonstrating how to gain more from data in real-world systems, the book: * Outlines the concepts and rationale for implementing data-intensive computing in organisations * Covers from the ground up problem-solving strategies for data analysis in a data-rich world * Introduces techniques for data-intensive engineering using the Data-Intensive Systems Process Engineering Language DISPEL * Features in-depth case studies in customer relations, environmental hazards, seismology, and more * Showcases successful applications in areas ranging from astronomy and the humanities to transport engineering * Includes sample program snippets throughout the text as well as additional materials on a companion website The DATA Bonanza is a must-have guide for information strategists, data analysts, and engineers in business, research, and government, and for anyone wishing to be on the cutting edge of data mining, machine learning, databases, distributed systems, or large-scale computing. JF - Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Editor: Albert Y. Zomaya) PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. SN - 978-1-118-39864-7 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Data-Intensive Analysis T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Oscar Corcho A1 - van Hemert, Jano ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - data mining KW - Data-Analysis Experts KW - Data-Intensive Analysis KW - Knowledge Discovery AB - Part II: "Data-intensive Knowledge Discovery", focuses on the needs of data-analysis experts. It illustrates the problem-solving strategies appropriate for a data-rich world, without delving into the details of underlying technologies. It should engage and inform data-analysis specialists, such as statisticians, data miners, image analysts, bio-informaticians or chemo-informaticians, and generate ideas pertinent to their application areas. Chapter 5: "Data-intensive Analysis", introduces a set of common problems that data-analysis experts often encounter, by means of a set of scenarios of increasing levels of complexity. The scenarios typify knowledge discovery challenges and the presented solutions provide practical methods; a starting point for readers addressing their own data challenges. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Data-Intensive Components and Usage Patterns T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Oscar Corcho ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data Analysis KW - data mining KW - Data-Intensive Components KW - Registry KW - Workflow Libraries KW - Workflow Sharing AB - Chapter 7: "Data-intensive components and usage patterns", provides a systematic review of the components that are commonly used in knowledge discovery tasks as well as common patterns of component composition. That is, it introduces the processing elements from which knowledge discovery solutions are built and common composition patterns for delivering trustworthy information. It reflects on how these components and patterns are evolving in a data-intensive context. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - The Data-Intensive Survival Guide T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data-Analysis Experts KW - Data-Intensive Architecture KW - Data-intensive Computing KW - Data-Intensive Engineers KW - Datascopes KW - Dispel KW - Domain Experts KW - Intellectual Ramps KW - Knowledge Discovery KW - Workflows AB - Chapter 3: "The data-intensive survival guide", presents an overview of all of the elements of the proposed data-intensive strategy. Sufficient detail is presented for readers to understand the principles and practice that we recommend. It should also provide a good preparation for readers who choose to sample later chapters. It introduces three professional viewpoints: domain experts, data-analysis experts, and data-intensive engineers. Success depends on a balanced approach that develops the capacity of all three groups. A data-intensive architecture provides a flexible framework for that balanced approach. This enables the three groups to build and exploit data-intensive processes that incrementally step from data to results. A language is introduced to describe these incremental data processes from all three points of view. The chapter introduces ‘datascopes’ as the productized data-handling environments and ‘intellectual ramps’ as the ‘on ramps’ for the highways from data to knowledge. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Data-Intensive Thinking with DISPEL T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data-Intensive Machines KW - Data-Intensive Thinking, Data-intensive Computing KW - Dispel KW - Distributed Computing KW - Knowledge Discovery AB - Chapter 4: "Data-intensive thinking with DISPEL", engages the reader with technical issues and solutions, by working through a sequence of examples, building up from a sketch of a solution to a large-scale data challenge. It uses the DISPEL language extensively, introducing its concepts and constructs. It shows how DISPEL may help designers, data-analysts, and engineers develop solutions to the requirements emerging in any data-intensive application domain. The reader is taken through simple steps initially, this then builds to conceptually complex steps that are necessary to cope with the realities of real data providers, real data, real distributed systems, and long-running processes. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Definition of the DISPEL Language T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Paul Martin A1 - Yaikhom, Gagarine ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data Streaming KW - Data-intensive Computing KW - Dispel AB - Chapter 10: "Definition of the DISPEL language", describes the novel aspects of the DISPEL language: its constructs, capabilities, and anticipated programming style. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business T3 - {Parallel and Distributed Computing, series editor Albert Y. Zomaya} PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. ER - TY - CONF T1 - The demand for consistent web-based workflow editors T2 - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Y1 - 2013 A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm A1 - Klampanos, Iraklis A1 - Galea, Michelle A1 - Berthold, Michael R. A1 - Barbera, Roberto A1 - Scardaci, Diego A1 - Terstyanszky, Gabor A1 - Kiss, Tamas A1 - Kacsuk, Peter KW - web-based workflow editors KW - workflow composition KW - workflow interoperability KW - workflow languages and concepts JF - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA SN - 978-1-4503-2502-8 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2534248.2534260 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - The Digital-Data Challenge T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Parsons, Mark ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Big Data KW - Data-intensive Computing, Knowledge Discovery KW - Digital Data KW - Digital-Data Revolution AB - Part I: Strategies for success in the digital-data revolution, provides an executive summary of the whole book to convince strategists, politicians, managers, and educators that our future data-intensive society requires new thinking, new behavior, new culture, and new distribution of investment and effort. This part will introduce the major concepts so that readers are equipped to discuss and steer their organization’s response to the opportunities and obligations brought by the growing wealth of data. It will help readers understand the changing context brought about by advances in digital devices, digital communication, and ubiquitous computing. Chapter 1: The digital-data challenge, will help readers to understand the challenges ahead in making good use of the data and introduce ideas that will lead to helpful strategies. A global digital-data revolution is catalyzing change in the ways in which we live, work, relax, govern, and organize. This is a significant change in society, as important as the invention of printing or the industrial revolution, but more challenging because it is happening globally at lnternet speed. Becoming agile in adapting to this new world is essential. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - The Digital-Data Revolution T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data KW - Information KW - Knowledge KW - Knowledge Discovery KW - Social Impact of Digital Data KW - Wisdom, Data-intensive Computing AB - Chapter 2: "The digital-data revolution", reviews the relationships between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. It analyses and quantifies the changes in technology and society that are delivering the data bonanza, and then reviews the consequential changes via representative examples in biology, Earth sciences, social sciences, leisure activity, and business. It exposes quantitative details and shows the complexity and diversity of the growing wealth of data, introducing some of its potential benefits and examples of the impediments to successfully realizing those benefits. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - DISPEL Development T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Adrian Mouat A1 - Snelling, David ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Diagnostics KW - Dispel KW - IDE KW - Libraries KW - Processing Elements AB - Chapter 11: "DISPEL development", describes the tools and libraries that a DISPEL developer might expect to use. The tools include those needed during process definition, those required to organize enactment, and diagnostic aids for developers of applications and platforms. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. ER - TY - CHAP T1 - DISPEL Enactment T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Chee Sun Liew A1 - Krause, Amrey A1 - Snelling, David ED - Malcolm Atkinson ED - Rob Baxter ED - Peter Brezany ED - Oscar Corcho ED - Michelle Galea ED - Parsons, Mark ED - Snelling, David ED - van Hemert, Jano KW - Data Streaming KW - Data-Intensive Engineering KW - Dispel KW - Workflow Enactment AB - Chapter 12: "DISPEL enactment", describes the four stages of DISPEL enactment. It is targeted at the data-intensive engineers who implement enactment services. JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Inc. ER - TY - CONF T1 - A Data Driven Science Gateway for Computational Workflows T2 - UNICORE Summit 2012 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Birkenheuer, G. A1 - Blunk, D. A1 - Breuers, S. A1 - Brinkmann, A. A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Herres-Pawlis, S A1 - Kohlbacher, O. A1 - Krüger, J. A1 - Kruse, M. A1 - Müller-Pfefferkorn, R. A1 - Schäfer, P. A1 - Schuller, B. A1 - Steinke, T. A1 - Zink, A. JF - UNICORE Summit 2012 ER - TY - CONF T1 - A databank, rather than statistical, model of normal ageing brain structure to indicate pathology T2 - OHBM 2012 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dickie, David Alexander A1 - Dominic Job A1 - Rodríguez, David A1 - Shenkin, Susan A1 - Wardlaw, Joanna JF - OHBM 2012 UR - http://ww4.aievolution.com/hbm1201/index.cfm?do=abs.viewAbs&abs=5102 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Data-Intensive Architecture for Scientific Knowledge Discovery JF - Distributed and Parallel Databases Y1 - 2012 A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Chee Sun Liew A1 - Michelle Galea A1 - Paul Martin A1 - Krause, Amrey A1 - Adrian Mouat A1 - Oscar Corcho A1 - Snelling, David KW - Knowledge discovery, workflow management system AB - This paper presents a data-intensive architecture that demonstrates the ability to support applications from a wide range of application domains, and support the different types of users involved in defining, designing and executing data-intensive processing tasks. The prototype architecture is introduced, and the pivotal role of DISPEL as a canonical language is explained. The architecture promotes the exploration and exploitation of distributed and heterogeneous data and spans the complete knowledge discovery process, from data preparation, to analysis, to evaluation and reiteration. The architecture evaluation included large-scale applications from astronomy, cosmology, hydrology, functional genetics, imaging processing and seismology. VL - 30 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10619-012-7105-3 IS - 5 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Dimensioning Scientific Computing Systems to Improve Performance of Map-Reduce based Applications T2 - Procedia Computer Science, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2012 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gabriel G. Castañè A1 - Alberto Nuñez A1 - Rosa Filgueira A1 - Jesus Carretero JF - Procedia Computer Science, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2012 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Dimensioning Scientific Computing Systems to Improve Performance of Map-Reduce based Applications JF - Procedia CS Y1 - 2012 A1 - Gabriel G. Castañè A1 - Alberto Nuñez A1 - Rosa Filgueira A1 - Jesus Carretero VL - 9 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Dispel Tutorial Y1 - 2012 A1 - Paul Martin KW - Dispel AB - Dispel is a strongly-typed imperative language for generating executable workflows for data-intensive distributed applications, particularly (but not exclusively) for use in computational sciences such as bioinformatics, astronomy and seismology — it has been designed to be a portable lingua franca by which researchers can interact with complex distributed research infrastructures without detailed knowledge of the underlying computational middleware, all in order to more easily conduct experiments in data integration, simulation and data-intensive modelling. This document is a tutorial for Dispel. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Discovering the suitability of optimisation algorithms by learning from evolved instances JF - Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 2011 A1 - K. Smith-Miles A1 - {van Hemert}, J. I. KW - problem evolving VL - Online Fir UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/6x83q3201gg71554/ ER - TY - CHAP T1 - DISPEL Reference Manual T2 - Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (ADMIRE) Y1 - 2011 A1 - Paul Martin A1 - Yaikhom, Gagarine KW - DISPEL, ADMIRE AB - Reference manual for the Data Intensive Systems Process Engineering Language (DISPEL). JF - Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe (ADMIRE) UR - www.admire-project.eu ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Data-Intensive Research Workshop (15-19 March 2010) Report Y1 - 2010 A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Roure, David De A1 - van Hemert, Jano A1 - Shantenu Jha A1 - Ruth McNally A1 - Robert Mann A1 - Stratis Viglas A1 - Chris Williams KW - Data-intensive Computing KW - Data-Intensive Machines KW - Machine Learning KW - Scientific Databases AB - We met at the National e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on 15-19 March 2010 to develop our understanding of DIR. Approximately 100 participants (see Appendix A) worked together to develop their own understanding, and we are offering this report as the first step in communicating that to a wider community. We present this in turns of our developing/emerging understanding of "What is DIR?" and "Why it is important?'". We then review the status of the field, report what the workshop achieved and what remains as open questions. JF - National e-Science Centre PB - Data-Intensive Research Group, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Dynamic-CoMPI: Dynamic optimization techniques for MPI parallel applications. JF - The Journal of Supercomputing. Y1 - 2010 A1 - Rosa Filgueira A1 - Jesús Carretero A1 - David E. Singh A1 - Alejandro Calderón A1 - Alberto Nunez KW - Adaptive systems KW - Clusters architectures KW - Collective I/O KW - Compression algorithms KW - Heuristics KW - MPI library - Parallel techniques AB - This work presents an optimization of MPI communications, called Dynamic-CoMPI, which uses two techniques in order to reduce the impact of communications and non-contiguous I/O requests in parallel applications. These techniques are independent of the application and complementaries to each other. The first technique is an optimization of the Two-Phase collective I/O technique from ROMIO, called Locality aware strategy for Two-Phase I/O (LA-Two-Phase I/O). In order to increase the locality of the file accesses, LA-Two-Phase I/O employs the Linear Assignment Problem (LAP) for finding an optimal I/O data communication schedule. The main purpose of this technique is the reduction of the number of communications involved in the I/O collective operation. The second technique, called Adaptive-CoMPI, is based on run-time compression of MPI messages exchanged by applications. Both techniques can be applied on every application, because both of them are transparent for the users. Dynamic-CoMPI has been validated by using several MPI benchmarks and real HPC applications. The results show that, for many of the considered scenarios, important reductions in the execution time are achieved by reducing the size and the number of the messages. Additional benefits of our approach are the reduction of the total communication time and the network contention, thus enhancing, not only performance, but also scalability. PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Design and Optimization of Reverse-Transcription Quantitative PCR Experiments JF - Clin Chem Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tichopad, Ales A1 - Kitchen, Rob A1 - Riedmaier, Irmgard A1 - Becker, Christiane A1 - Stahlberg, Anders A1 - Kubista, Mikael AB - BACKGROUND: Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a valuable technique for accurately and reliably profiling and quantifying gene expression. Typically, samples obtained from the organism of study have to be processed via several preparative steps before qPCR. METHOD: We estimated the errors of sample withdrawal and extraction, reverse transcription (RT), and qPCR that are introduced into measurements of mRNA concentrations. We performed hierarchically arranged experiments with 3 animals, 3 samples, 3 RT reactions, and 3 qPCRs and quantified the expression of several genes in solid tissue, blood, cell culture, and single cells. RESULTS: A nested ANOVA design was used to model the experiments, and relative and absolute errors were calculated with this model for each processing level in the hierarchical design. We found that intersubject differences became easily confounded by sample heterogeneity for single cells and solid tissue. In cell cultures and blood, the noise from the RT and qPCR steps contributed substantially to the overall error because the sampling noise was less pronounced. CONCLUSIONS: We recommend the use of sample replicates preferentially to any other replicates when working with solid tissue, cell cultures, and single cells, and we recommend the use of RT replicates when working with blood. We show how an optimal sampling plan can be calculated for a limited budget. UR - http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/content/abstract/clinchem.2009.126201v1 ER - TY - CONF T1 - A Distributed Architecture for Data Mining and Integration T2 - Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC'09), in conjunction with the 18th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing Y1 - 2009 A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - van Hemert, Jano A1 - Liangxiu Han A1 - Ally Hume A1 - Chee Sun Liew AB - This paper presents the rationale for a new architecture to support a significant increase in the scale of data integration and data mining. It proposes the composition into one framework of (1) data mining and (2) data access and integration. We name the combined activity “DMI”. It supports enactment of DMI processes across heterogeneous and distributed data resources and data mining services. It posits that a useful division can be made between the facilities established to support the definition of DMI processes and the computational infrastructure provided to enact DMI processes. Communication between those two divisions is restricted to requests submitted to gateway services in a canonical DMI language. Larger-scale processes are enabled by incremental refinement of DMI-process definitions often by recomposition of lower-level definitions. Autonomous types and descriptions which will support detection of inconsistencies and semi-automatic insertion of adaptations.These architectural ideas are being evaluated in a feasibility study that involves an application scenario and representatives of the community. JF - Data-Aware Distributed Computing (DADC'09), in conjunction with the 18th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing PB - ACM ER - TY - CONF T1 - Data Locality Aware Strategy for Two-Phase Collective I/O T2 - VECPAR Y1 - 2008 A1 - Rosa Filgueira A1 - David E. Singh A1 - Juan Carlos Pichel A1 - Florin Isaila A1 - Jesús Carretero JF - VECPAR ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Computing Education, Part 1: A Special Case? JF - IEEE Distributed Systems Online Y1 - 2008 A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Hopkins, R. A1 - Romano, D. A1 - Vander Meer, E. A1 - Atkinson, M. VL - 9 UR - http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2008/06&file=o6002edu.xml&xsl=article.xsl&;jsessionid=LZ5zjySvc2xPnVv4qTYJXhlvwSnRGGj7S7WvPtrPyv23rJGQdjJr!982319602 IS - 6 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Computing Education, Part 2: International Summer Schools JF - IEEE Distributed Systems Online Y1 - 2008 A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Hopkins, R. A1 - Romano, D. A1 - Vander Meer, E. A1 - Atkinson, M. VL - 9 UR - http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2008/07&file=o7002edu.xml&xsl=article.xsl& IS - 7 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Computing Education, Part 3: The Winter School Online Experience JF - Distributed Systems Online Y1 - 2008 A1 - Low, B. A1 - Cassidy, K. A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Atkinson, M. A1 - Vander Meer, E. A1 - McGeever, M. AB - The International Summer Schools in Grid Computing (ISSGC) have provided numerous international students with the opportunity to learn grid systems, as detailed in part 2 of this series (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.20). The International Winter School on Grid Computing 2008 (IWSGC 08) followed the successful summer schools, opening up the ISSGC experience to a wider range of students because of its online format. The previous summer schools made it clear that many students found the registration and travel costs and the time requirements prohibitive. The EU FP6 ICEAGE project held the first winter school from 6 February to 12 March 2008. The winter school repurposed summer school materials and added resources such as the ICEAGE digital library and summer-school-tested t-Infrastructures such as GILDA (Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities). The winter schools shared the goals of the summer school, which emphasized disseminating grid knowledge. The students act as multipliers, spreading the skills and knowledge they acquired at the winter school to their colleagues to build strong and enthusiastic local grid communities. PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 9 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4659260 IS - 9 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Computing Education, Part 4: Training Infrastructure JF - Distributed Systems Online Y1 - 2008 A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Barbera, R. A1 - Giorgio, E. A1 - Fargetta, M. A1 - Sipos, G. A1 - Romano, D. A1 - Atkinson, M. A1 - Vander Meer, E. AB - In the first article of this series (see http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.16), we identified the need for teaching environments that provide infrastructure to support education and training in distributed computing. Training infrastructure, or t-infrastructure, is analogous to the teaching laboratory in biology and is a vital tool for educators and students. In practice, t-infrastructure includes the computing equipment, digital communications, software, data, and support staff necessary to teach a course. The International Summer Schools in Grid Computing (ISSGC) series and the first International Winter School on Grid Computing (IWSGC 08) used the Grid INFN Laboratory of Dissemination Activities (GILDA) infrastructure so students could gain hands-on experience with middleware. Here, we describe GILDA, related summer and winter school experiences, multimiddleware integration, t-infrastructure, and academic courses, concluding with an analysis and recommendations. PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 9 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4752926 IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Computing Education, Part 5: Coming to Terms with Intellectual Property Rights JF - Distributed Systems Online Y1 - 2008 A1 - Boon Low A1 - Kathryn Cassidy A1 - Fergusson, David A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Elizabeth Vander Meer A1 - Mags McGeever AB - In part 1 of this series on distributed computing education, we introduced a list of components important for teaching environments. We outlined the first three components, which included development of materials for education, education for educators and teaching infrastructures, identifying current practice, challenges, and opportunities for provision. The final component, a supportive policy framework that encourages cooperation and sharing, includes the need to manage intellectual property rights (IPR). PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 9 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4755177 IS - 12 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Data Integration in eHealth: A Domain/Disease Specific Roadmap T2 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics Y1 - 2007 A1 - Ure, J. A1 - Proctor, R. A1 - Martone, M. A1 - Porteous, D. A1 - Lloyd, S. A1 - Lawrie, S. A1 - Job, D. A1 - Baldock, R. A1 - Philp, A. A1 - Liewald, D. A1 - Rakebrand, F. A1 - Blaikie, A. A1 - McKay, C. A1 - Anderson, S. A1 - Ainsworth, J. A1 - van Hemert, J. A1 - Blanquer, I. A1 - Sinno ED - N. Jacq ED - Y. Legr{\'e} ED - H. Muller ED - I. Blanquer ED - V. Breton ED - D. Hausser ED - V. Hern{\'a}ndez ED - T. Solomonides ED - M. Hofman-Apitius KW - e-Science AB - The paper documents a series of data integration workshops held in 2006 at the UK National e-Science Centre, summarizing a range of the problem/solution scenarios in multi-site and multi-scale data integration with six HealthGrid projects using schizophrenia as a domain-specific test case. It outlines emerging strategies, recommendations and objectives for collaboration on shared ontology-building and harmonization of data for multi-site trials in this domain. JF - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics PB - IOPress VL - 126 SN - 978-1-58603-738-3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The design and implementation of Grid database services in OGSA-DAI JF - Concurrency - Practice and Experience Y1 - 2005 A1 - Antonioletti, Mario A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Baxter, Robert M. A1 - Borley, Andrew A1 - Hong, Neil P. Chue A1 - Collins, Brian A1 - Hardman, Neil A1 - Hume, Alastair C. A1 - Knox, Alan A1 - Mike Jackson A1 - Krause, Amrey A1 - Laws, Simon A1 - Magowan, James A1 - Pato VL - 17 ER - TY - CONF T1 - The Digital Curation Centre: a vision for digital curation T2 - 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technology Y1 - 2005 A1 - Rusbridge, C. A1 - P. Burnhill A1 - S. Ross A1 - P. Buneman A1 - D. Giaretta A1 - Lyon, L. A1 - Atkinson, M. AB - We describe the aims and aspirations for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), the UK response to the realisation that digital information is both essential and fragile. We recognise the equivalence of preservation as "interoperability with the future", asserting that digital curation is concerned with "communication across time". We see the DCC as having relevance for present day data curation and for continuing data access for generations to come. We describe the structure and plans of the DCC, designed to support these aspirations and based on a view of world class research being developed into curation services, all of which are underpinned by outreach to the broadest community. JF - 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technology PB - IEEE Computer Society CY - Sardinia, Italy SN - 0-7803-9228-0 ER - TY - Generic T1 - Development of a Grid Infrastructure for Functional Genomics T2 - Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid 2004) Y1 - 2004 A1 - Sinnott, R. O. A1 - Bayer, M. A1 - Houghton, D. A1 - D. Berry A1 - Ferrier, M. JF - Life Science Grid Conference (LSGrid 2004) T3 - LNCS PB - Springer Verlag CY - Kanazawa, Japan ER - TY - CONF T1 - Dynamic Routing Problems with Fruitful Regions: Models and Evolutionary Computation T2 - LNCS Y1 - 2004 A1 - van Hemert, J. I. A1 - la Poutré, J. A. ED - Xin Yao ED - Edmund Burke ED - Jose A. Lozano ED - Jim Smith ED - Juan J. Merelo-Guerv\'os ED - John A. Bullinaria ED - Jonathan Rowe ED - Peter Ti\v{n}o Ata Kab\'an ED - Hans-Paul Schwefel KW - dynamic problems KW - evolutionary computation KW - vehicle routing AB - We introduce the concept of fruitful regions in a dynamic routing context: regions that have a high potential of generating loads to be transported. The objective is to maximise the number of loads transported, while keeping to capacity and time constraints. Loads arrive while the problem is being solved, which makes it a real-time routing problem. The solver is a self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm that ensures feasible solutions at all times. We investigate under what conditions the exploration of fruitful regions improves the effectiveness of the evolutionary algorithm. JF - LNCS PB - Springer-Verlag CY - Birmingham, UK VL - 3242 SN - 3-540-23092-0 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Data Access, Integration, and Management T2 - The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (2nd edition), Y1 - 2003 A1 - Atkinson. M. A1 - Chervenak, A. L. A1 - Kunszt, P. A1 - Narang, I. A1 - Paton, N. W. A1 - Pearson, D. A1 - Shoshani, A. A1 - Watson, P. ED - Foster, I. ED - Kesselman, C JF - The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure (2nd edition), PB - Morgan Kaufmann SN - 1-55860-933-4 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Databases and the Grid: Who Challenges Whom? T2 - BNCOD Y1 - 2003 A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. JF - BNCOD ER - TY - CONF T1 - Dependable Grid Services T2 - UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003, 2-4th September, Nottingham, UK Y1 - 2003 A1 - Stuart Anderson A1 - Yin Chen A1 - Glen Dobson A1 - Stephen Hall A1 - Conrad Hughes A1 - Yong Li A1 - Sheng Qu A1 - Ed Smith A1 - Ian Sommerville A1 - Ma Tiejun ED - Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003 AB - The provision of dependable computer systems by deploying diverse, redundant components in order to mask or provide recovery from component failures has mostly been restricted to systems with very high criticality. In this paper we present an architecture and prototype implementation of an approach to providing such redundancy at low cost in service-based infrastructures. In particular we consider services that are supplied by composing a number of component services and consider how service discovery, automatic monitoring and failure detection have the potential to create composed services that are more dependable than might be possible using a straightforward approach. The work is still in its early stages and so far no evaluation of the approach has been carried out. JF - UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2003, 2-4th September, Nottingham, UK CY - Nottingham, UK ER - TY - CONF T1 - The Design and Implementation of Grid Database Services in OGSA-DAI T2 - All Hands Meeting 2003 Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ali Anjomshoaa A1 - Antonioletti, Mario A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Rob Baxter A1 - Borley, Andrew A1 - Hong, Neil P. Chue A1 - Collins, Brian A1 - Hardman, Neil A1 - George Hicken A1 - Ally Hume A1 - Knox, Alan A1 - Mike Jackson A1 - Krause, Amrey A1 - Laws, Simon A1 - Magowan, James A1 - Charaka Palansuriya A1 - Paton, Norman W. AB - This paper presents a high-level overview of the design and implementation of the core components of the OGSA-DAI project. It describes the design decisions made, the project’s interaction with the Data Access and Integration Working Group of the Global Grid Forum and provides an overview of implementation characteristics. Further details of the implementation are provided in the extensive documentation available from the project web site. JF - All Hands Meeting 2003 CY - Nottingham, UK ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The DWMM network traffic model JF - Journal of Communication Y1 - 2003 A1 - Cong Suo A1 - Liangxiu Han VL - 24 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Database indexing for large DNA and protein sequence collections JF - VLDB J. Y1 - 2002 A1 - Hunt, Ela A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Irving, Robert W. VL - 11 ER - TY - CONF T1 - A Database Index to Large Biological Sequences T2 - VLDB Y1 - 2001 A1 - Hunt, Ela A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Irving, Robert W. JF - VLDB ER - TY - JOUR T1 - De Creatieve Computer JF - AIgg Kennisgeving Y1 - 2000 A1 - van Hemert, J. I. KW - evolutionary art AB - Here we show an application that generates images resembling art as it was produced by Mondriaan, a Dutch artist, well known for his minimalistic and pure abstract pieces of art. The current version generates images using a linear chromosome and a recursive function as a decoder. PB - Artifici{\"e}le Intelligentie gebruikers groep VL - 13 N1 - invited article (in Dutch) ER - TY - CONF T1 - Defining and Handling Transient Fields in PJama T2 - DBPL Y1 - 1999 A1 - Printezis, Tony A1 - Atkinson, Malcolm P. A1 - Jordan, Mick J. JF - DBPL ER -