TY - CONF T1 - FAST: Flexible Automated Syncrhonization Transfer tool T2 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Data-Intensive Distributed Computing Date Y1 - 2014 A1 - Rosa Filgueira A1 - Iraklis Klampanos A1 - Yusuke Tanimura A1 - Malcolm Atkinson. JF - Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Data-Intensive Distributed Computing Date PB - ACM CY - New York, NY, USA ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Foreword T2 - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business Y1 - 2013 A1 - Tony Hey 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 JF - THE DATA BONANZA: Improving Knowledge Discovery for Science, Engineering and Business PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ER - TY - Generic T1 - Federated Enactment of Workflow Patterns T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science Y1 - 2010 A1 - Yaikhom, Gagarine A1 - Liew, Chee A1 - Liangxiu Han A1 - van Hemert, Jano A1 - Malcolm Atkinson A1 - Krause, Amy ED - D’Ambra, Pasqua ED - Guarracino, Mario ED - Talia, Domenico AB - In this paper we address two research questions concerning workflows: 1) how do we abstract and catalogue recurring workflow patterns?; and 2) how do we facilitate optimisation of the mapping from workflow patterns to actual resources at runtime? Our aim here is to explore techniques that are applicable to large-scale workflow compositions, where the resources could change dynamically during the lifetime of an application. We achieve this by introducing a registry-based mechanism where pattern abstractions are catalogued and stored. In conjunction with an enactment engine, which communicates with this registry, concrete computational implementations and resources are assigned to these patterns, conditional to the execution parameters. Using a data mining application from the life sciences, we demonstrate this new approach. JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science PB - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg VL - 6271 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15277-1_31 N1 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15277-1_31 ER - TY - CONF T1 - Fostering e-Infrastructures: from user-designer relations to community engagement T2 - Symposium on Project Management in e-Science Y1 - 2008 A1 - Voss, A. A1 - Asgari-Targhi, M. A1 - Halfpenny, P. A1 - Procter, R. A1 - Anderson, S. A1 - Dunn, S. A1 - Fragkouli, E. A1 - Hughes, L. A1 - Atkinson, M. A1 - Fergusson, D. A1 - Mineter, M. A1 - Rodden, T. AB - In this paper we discuss how e-Science can draw on the findings, approaches and methods developed in other disciplines to foster e-Infrastructures for research. We also discuss the issue of making user involvement in IT development scale across an open ommunity of researchers and from single systems to distributed e-Infrastructures supporting collaborative research. JF - Symposium on Project Management in e-Science CY - Oxford ER - TY - CONF T1 - FireGrid: Integrated emergency response and fire safety engineering for the future built environment T2 - All Hands Meeting 2005 Y1 - 2006 A1 - D. Berry A1 - Usmani, A. A1 - Torero, J. A1 - Tate, A. A1 - McLaughlin, S. A1 - Potter, S. A1 - Trew, A. A1 - Baxter, R. A1 - Bull, M. A1 - Atkinson, M. AB - Analyses of disasters such as the Piper Alpha explosion (Sylvester-Evans and Drysdale, 1998), the World Trade Centre collapse (Torero et al, 2002, Usmani et al, 2003) and the fires at Kings Cross (Drysdale et al, 1992) and the Mont Blanc tunnel (Rapport Commun, 1999) have revealed many mistaken decisions, such as that which sent 300 fire-fighters to their deaths in the World Trade Centre. Many of these mistakes have been attributed to a lack of information about the conditions within the fire and the imminent consequences of the event. E-Science offers an opportunity to significantly improve the intervention in fire emergencies. The FireGrid Consortium is working on a mixture of research projects to make this vision a reality. This paper describes the research challenges and our plans for solving them. JF - All Hands Meeting 2005 CY - Nottingham, UK ER - TY - CONF T1 - A ``Futurist'' approach to dynamic environments T2 - Proceedings of the Workshops at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dynamic Optimization Problems Y1 - 2001 A1 - van Hemert, J. I. A1 - Van Hoyweghen, C. A1 - Lukschandl, E. A1 - Verbeeck, K. ED - J. Branke ED - Th. B{\"a}ck KW - dynamic problems AB - The optimization of dynamic environments has proved to be a difficult area for Evolutionary Algorithms. As standard haploid populations find it difficult to track a moving target, diffKerent schemes have been suggested to improve the situation. We study a novel approach by making use of a meta learner which tries to predict the next state of the environment, i.e. the next value of the goal the individuals have to achieve, by making use of the accumulated knowledge from past performance. JF - Proceedings of the Workshops at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dynamic Optimization Problems PB - Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco ER -