Papers

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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

   Presentation

  
  
• Disciplinary Differences in e-Research: An Information Perspective (link to biography and session outline)
  

  Christine Borgman
  University of California, USA

   Presentation

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

   Presentation       Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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. Wilkin
  Treenomix Group, Michael Smith Labs, The University of British Columbia, Canada

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• The World Wide Web of Science: Reconfiguring Access to Information
  

  R. Schroeder, A. Caldas, G. Mesch, W. Dutton
  Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University

   Presentation        Full Paper

Keynote 2

• Long-Distance Collaborations in Science: Challenges and Opportunities (link to biography and session outline)
  

  Gary Olson
  University of Michigan, USA

   Presentation

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• Facilitating the Comparison of Social Simulations using e-Science
  

  B. Edmonds
  Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• Implementation of e-Science tools for complex analysis of human-environmental interaction
  

  S. Lyon, P. Sillitoe, R. Wilson
  Department of Anthropology, University of Durham

   Presentation        Full Paper

Paper session 2c: Social Shaping of e-Research

• Material culture and the shaping of e-science
  

  C. Hine
  Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

   Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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 Australia

  Y. 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

   Full Paper

Panel session 1: Security, confidentiality and ethics in e-Research (link to biographies and session outline)

• Mark Elliott
  National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester

   Presentation

• Simon Musgrave
  Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex

   Presentation

• Richard Sinnott
  National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh

   Presentation

• Marina Jirotka
  Centre for Requirements & Foundations, Oxford University Computing Laboratory

Panel session 2: Metadata standards and implementation (link to biographies and session outline)

• Titto Assini
  National Centre for e-Social Science, U.K. Data Archive, University of Essex

   Presentation

• Ekkard Mochman
  Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung (GESIS-ZA), Cologne, Germany

   Presentation

• T. John Kim
  University of Illinois, USA

   Presentation

Friday 24 June

Keynote 3

• e-Research, e-Infrastructure and Social Science (link to biography and session outline)
  

  Tony Hey
  EPSRC and University of Southampton

   Presentation

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• A Middleware Registry for the Discovery of Collections and Services
  

  A. Apps
  MIMAS, The University of Manchester

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Full Paper

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

   Presentation

  
  
• Recording and Understanding Mobile People and Mobile Technology
  

  P. Tennent, M. Chalmers
  Computing Science, University of Glasgow

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• Confidential data Access via the Grid: An Outline of the issues and possible solutions
  

  M. Elliot, K. Purdam, D. Smith
  CCSR, University of Manchester

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

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

   Presentation

  
  
• Networking Social Science resources: SozioNet
  

  N. Schumann, W. Meier, R. Schmiede
  Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Sociology, Germany

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• 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

   Presentation        Full Paper

  
  
• U.S. e-Science Investments in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  

  L. Burton, J. Lane
  National Science Foundation, USA

   Presentation        Full Paper

Panel session 3: International Collaboration in e-Social Science (link to biographies and session outline)

• Tom Rodden
  Economic and Social Research Council

   Presentation

• Wanda Ward
  National Science Foundation, USA

   Presentation

• Rob Ackland
  The Australian National University, Australia

   Presentation

• Nosh Contractor
  National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, USA

   Presentation

• Nikos Kastrinos
  Directorate General Research Directorate for Social Sciences, European Union Commission

   Presentation

Closing Remarks

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