The provisional conference programme is posted below. Please note this programme is subject to change.
| Monday 10 September |
| Session | Session | ID | Presentation / Exhibit | Presenter(s) | iCal |
| 17:00 - 20:00 |
Workshop Session 1
|
| 17:00 - 20:00 |
Workshop 1: OMII-UK
Chair: June Finch
Venue: Conference Room 1
 |
Overview of Workshop | June Finch | |
| [841] | Portalization Process for the Access Grid [PPT] | Andrew Rowley | |
| [857] | Workflows Hosted In Portals [PPT] | Kurt Mueller | |
| [885] | From Open Source to long-term sustainability: Review of Business Models and Case studies [PPT] | Victor Chang | |
| What can OMII-UK do for you as an individual [PPT] | Neil Chue Hong | |
| OMII-UK Open Forum | Neil Chue Hong | |
| My experiment with mining biomedical literature
using the AIDA toolbox and Taverna [PPT] | Marco Roos | |
| Survey of participants | June Finch | |
| Summary of Workshop | June Finch | |
| 17:00 - 20:00 |
Workshop 2: Building Usable Systems for the Global Environment
Chair: Nicholas Walton
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
Welcome, and workshop goals [PDF] | Nicholas Walton | |
| [831] | Usable grid infrastructures: practical experiences from the eMinerals project [PDF] | Martin Dove | |
| [863] | 'SED Service': Science Application Based on Virtual Observatory Technology [PDF] | Paresh Prema | |
| CancerGrid | Peter MacCallum | |
| Developing Usable Systems for Healthcare Research [PDF] | Sharon Lloyd | |
| OMII-UK: from Software to Sustainable Systems [PDF] [PPT] | Neil Chue Hong | |
| The GridPP Perspective | Roger Jones | |
| Building usable and global Virtual Observatories for Astronomy [PDF] | Nicholas Walton | |
| Discussion and Summary | | |
| 17:00 - 20:00 |
Workshop 3: Visualisation
tools
Chair: David Duke and Ian Grimstead
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
Integrative Biology: Heart Modelling | Lakshmi Sastry (RAL) | |
| Grid-enabled Steering: Are we there yet? [PDF] | Helen Wright (Hull) | |
| Break | | |
| Remote Visualization [PDF] | Martin Turner (Manchester) | |
| e-Science Support for Visualization: Automation via Ontologies [PDF] | Ian Grimstead (Cardiff) | |
| Foundations for Polytypic Visualization | Rita Borgo (Leeds) | |
| Reconfigurable Technologies [PDF] | David Duce (Oxford-Brookes) | |
| Discussion | | |
| 17:00 - 20:00 |
Workshop 4: Issues in Ontology Development and Use
Chair: Rob Procter
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
Welcome and Workshop Overview [PPT] | Alan Rector | |
| [826] | Ontology Building as Practical Work: Lessons from CSCW | Dave Randall | |
| [849] | Lessons in building OWL Ontology driven applications: OCHWIZ – an Occupational Health Application [PPT] | Jay Kola | |
| [873] | A Socio-technical Perspective on Ontology Development in HealthGrids | Jenny Ure | |
| [854] | Collaboration in the Value Grid for Semantic Technologies | Alistair Miles | |
| Ontology Acquisition Process: A Framework for Experimenting with different NLP Techniques [PPT] | R Gacitua, P Sawyer, S Piao and P Rayson | |
| [838] | Managing the transition from OBO to OWL: The COBrA-CT Bio-Ontology Tools [PDF] | Stuart Aitken | |
| Break | | |
| Discussion: Defining an Agenda for Research into Ontology Development and Use | | |
| Tuesday 11 September |
| 09:00 - 09:15 |
Welcome: Prof Ken Brodlie (Chair of the Steering Committee)
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 09:15 - 09:45 |
Keynote 1: Professor Malcolm Atkinson, UK e-Science Envoy & Director of the e-Science Institute
The Future of e-Science [PPT]
Chair: Ken Brodlie
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Keynote 2: Mr Satoshi Sekiguchi: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
A Design of the GEO Grid: Systems of Systems federating Geospatial Data and Services [PDF]
Chair: Malcolm Atkinson
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee
Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor
|
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Best Paper Awards
Chair: Jie Xu
Venue: Auditorium
|
[792] | Sharing and visualizing environmental data using Virtual Globes [PPT] [ZIP] | Jon D, Blower | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Parallel Session 1
|
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Regular Session 1.1: Interoperability
Chair: John Kewley
Venue: Auditorium
|
[824] | A JSDL Application Repository and Artefact Sharing Portal for Heterogeneous Grids and the NGS [PPT] | David Meredith | |
| [848] | Practical Grid Interoperability: GridPP and the National Grid Service [PPT] | Jens Jensen | |
| [781] | Towards Grid Interoperability [PPT] | Steve Crouch | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Regular Session 1.2: Medical Applications
Chair: Jim Austin
Venue: Conference Room 1
|
[785] | The CARMEN Neuroinformatics Server [PPT] | Paul Watson | |
| [818] | ADVISES Project: Scenario-based Requirements Analysis for e-Science Applications | Sarah Thew | |
| [880] | The Challenges of Clinical e-Science: Lessons Learned from PsyGrid [PDF] | John Ainsworth | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Regular Session 1.3: Data Management
Chair: Malcolm Atkinson
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
[839] | OGSA-DAI 3.0 - The Whats and the Whys [PDF] | Mike Jackson | |
| [842] | Transaction-Based Grid Database Replication [PDF] | Yin Chen | |
| [858] | Cross-linking and referencing data and publications in CLADDIER [PPT] | Brian Matthews | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
BoF 1: Public Understanding of e-Science
Chair: David Wallom
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Regular Session 1.4: Programming and Systems
Chair: Karim Djemame
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
[776] | Supporting High-Level Grid Parallel Programming: the Design and Implementation of Grid-GUM2 [PDF] | Abdallah D., Al Zain | |
| [798] | Grid Based Distributed Hybrid Testing [PPT] | Mobin Ojaghi | |
| [799] | PhantomOS: A Next Generation Grid Operating System | Ashiq Anjum | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 |
Lunch
Venue: Marquee
|
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Keynote 3: Professor Thomas Kirkwood: University of Newcastle, UK
The Grand Challenge of Population Ageing: e-Science to the Rescue[PDF]
Chair: Paul Watson
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Parallel Session 2
|
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Regular Session 2.1: Scientific Applications
Chair: Richard Sinnott
Venue: Auditorium
|
[806] | Retrospective checkpointing for efficient management of computational steering [PDF] | William J A Pinnington | |
| [840] | The Integrative Biology Grid – Building on e-Science Components | Lakshmi Sastry | |
| [892] | Science carried out as part of the NW-GRID project using the eMinerals infrastructure | Jamie Rintelman | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Regular Session 2.2: Visualization
Chair: Nic Holliman
Venue: Conference Room 1
|
[816] | A user interface framework for Grid-based computational steering and visualization. [PPT] | Jason Wood | |
| [825] | Driving Google Earth from Fortran [PDF] | Gen-Tao Chiang | |
| [875] | A Service Agreement Framework for Grid based Distributed Rendering [PPT] | John T OBrien | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Regular Session 2.3: Security 1
Chair: Jie Xu
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
[786] | A Policy-Based Framework for e-Health Applications [PPT] | Giovanni, Russello | |
| [788] | Practical access control using NDG security [PPT] | Phillip Kershaw | |
| [807] | Non-Intrusive, Flexible, Role-Based Authorization Extensions for WSRF::Lite [PDF] | Bruno Harbulot | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Workshop 5: VREs: Where are we now?
Chair: Marina Jirotka, Annamaria Carusi, Anne Trefethen
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
[790] | Enhancing the Value of Collaborative Research Events through Virtual Research Environments | Michael Daw | |
| [823] | The use of Virtual Research Environments and eScience to enhance use of online resources: the History of Political Discourse VRE Project | Simon Hodson | |
| Panel Discussion | | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 |
Regular Session 2.4: Data Handling and Service Deployment
Chair: Mark Hayes
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
[844] | Engineering a Replay Application Based on RDF and OWL [PPT] | Chris Greenhalgh | |
| [861] | Scalable Management of Real-time Data Streams from Mobile Sources using Utility Computing [PDF] | Jeremy Cohen | |
| [876] | Deploying visualization applications as remote services | Mark Riding | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Booth Demonstration Session
|
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Coffee
Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor
|
| 17:00 - 18:30 |
Grid Computing Now! Workshop, followed by Drinks Reception
Chair: Dave Berry
Venue: Auditorium
|
Introduction & Welcome by the chair [PPT] | Ian Osborne, Grid Computing Now! and Intellect | |
| Commercialising Grids, an academics view [PPT] | Jim Austin, Cybula Ltd. and York University | |
| Making Workflows Work [PPT] | Yike Gui, InforSense Ltd. and Imperial College London | |
| Next-generation IT infrastructure: status and opportunities [PPT] | Dave Berry, Grid Computing Now! and NeSC | |
| Discussion | | |
| Drinks reception | | |
| 18:30 - 20:30 |
Poster Session, Full Buffet Dinner & Drinks
Venue: Marquee
|
| Wednesday 12 September |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote 4: Professor Anders Ynnerman: Linkoping University, Sweden
Medical Visualization Beyond 2D Images
Chair: Ken Brodlie
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Keynote 5: Professor John Wood: Principal Designate, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
Building a UK e-Infrastructure [PPT]
Chair: Malcolm Read
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee
Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Parallel Session 3
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Regular Session 3.1: Security 2
Chair: Nik Looker
Venue: Auditorium
|
[837] | ShibGrid, a Shibboleth based access method for the National Grid Service [PPT] | David Wallom | |
| [877] | Secure Execution of Mobile Java using Static Analysis and Proof Carrying Code [PDF] | Robert Atkey | |
| [888] | The GLASS Project: Supporting Secure Shibboleth-based Single Sign-On to Campus Resources [PPT] | John Watt | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Regular Session 3.2: Social Science
Chair: Marina Jirotka
Venue: Conference Room 1
|
[845] | Eliciting Quantitative e-Social Scientists User Requirements | Florian Urmetzer | |
| [874] | Using the Grid to Support Evidence-Based Policy Assessment in Social Science [PDF] | Pete Edwards | |
| [889] | Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science: Current Progress | Paul Townend | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Regular Session 3.3: Grid Middleware
Chair: Stephen McGough
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
[865] | Improving Grid computing performance prediction using weighted templates [PPT] | Ariel, Goyeneche | |
| [871] | GROWL Scripts: Lightweight Access to Grid Resources [PPT] | John Kewley | |
| [893] | Experiences with different middleware solutions on the NW-GRID [PDF] | Jens Thomas | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
BoF 2: National Comparisons of Uptake and Sustainability of e-Science
Chair: Alex Voss
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
| 11:00 - 12:15 |
Regular Session 3.4: Workflows
Chair: Peter Dew
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
[773] | New directions in Workflow formalisms [PDF] | Frank Terpstra | |
| [789] | Workflow Enactment of Grid-Enabled Geospatial Web Services [PPT] | Gobe Hobona | |
| [862] | Enabling Quality of Service Based Workflow Management System on GRID | Li Guo | |
| 12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch
Venue: Marquee
|
| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Booth Demonstration Session
|
| 15:00 - 15:45 |
Keynote 6: Dr Timothy W. Foresman: University of Maryland, USA
Digital Earth: The New Digital Commons[PPT]
Chair: Keith Haines
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee
Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor
|
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
Workshop/BoF Session 2
|
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
BoF 3: UK National Grid Service User Forum
Chair: Andrew J Richards
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
BoF 4: Enabling effective widespread use of e-Infrastructure
Chair: Mike Mineter
Venue: Conference Room 1
|
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
Workshop 6: We have to Talk about Metadata
Chair: Neil Chue Hong
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
Overview of Workshop | | |
| [791] | A metadata infrastructure using ISO standards [PPT] | Lee Gillam | |
| [832] | Metadata management and grid computing within the eMinerals project [PDF] | Martin Dove | |
| Semantic Astronomy: sharing data on the semantic web | Norman Gray | |
| Minimal metadata for data services through DIALOGUE [PPT] | Neil Chue Hong | |
| Metadata requires for HEP [PPT] | Paul Millar | |
| Open discussion on metadata issues facing eScience developers and end-users | Jano van Hemert | |
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
Workshop 7: Text and Grid: Research Questions for the
Humanities, Sciences and Industry
Chair: Tobias Blanke and Stuart Dunn
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
[804] | Open Boek: a system for the extraction of numeric data from archeological
reports | Sander Wubben | |
| [887] | The Humanities in a Global e-Infrastructure: A Web-Services Shopping List [PPT] | Dolores Iorizzo | |
| 16:15 - 18:45 |
Workshop 8: Interoperability and adaptability of text mining tools
Chair: Bill Black
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
[820] | Using hand-crafted rules and machine learning to infer SciXML document structure | Ian Lewin | |
| [860] | Integrating General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Components in the Analysis of Scientific Text. [PDF] | Christopher J Rupp | |
| Integrating Annotation Tools into UIMA for Interoperability
| Scott Piao
| |
| 19:15 - 20:00 |
Drinks Reception
Venue: Atrium
|
| 19:45 - 23:30 |
Gala Dinner
Venue: Marquee
|
| Thursday 13 September |
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Parallel Session 4
|
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Regular Session 4.1: VREs and eResearch
Chair: Nik Looker
Venue: Auditorium
|
[800] | The British Library Research Information Centre (RIC) [PDF] | Roger S. Barga | |
| [805] | Mind The Gap: eResearch in Australia [PDF] | Gabrielle Bright | |
| [814] | Virtual Research Environments: Sakai VRE Demonstrator [PPT] | Rob Allan | |
| [866] | e-Research Infrastructure Development and Community Engagement [PPT] | Alex Voss | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Regular Session 4.2: Infrastructure
Chair: Andrew J Richards
Venue: Conference Room 1
|
[784] | Study of User Priorities for e-Infrastructure for e Research (SUPER) [PDF] | Jennifer Schopf | |
| [830] | Text Mining Services to Support E-Research [PPT] | Brian Rea | |
| [894] | The Data Acquisition, Accessibility, Annotation and e-Research Technologies (DART) Project: Supporting the complete e-Research Lifecycle [PDF] | Andrew, Treloar | |
| [895] | Grid Infrastructures for the Electronics Domain: Requirements and Early Prototypes from an EPSRC Pilot Project [PPT] | Richard Sinnott | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Regular Session 4.3: Production Grids
Chair: Tom Jackson
Venue: Conference Room 2
|
[772] | Performance Prediction for Parallel Numerical Software on the White Rose Grid [PDF] | Giuseppe, Romanazzi | |
| [795] | The National Grid Service User Accounting System [PPT] | Katie Weeks | |
| [856] | A Lightweight Campus Grid Resource Broker and Job Submission Tool [PPT] | David Wallom | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Tutorial 1: OGSA-DAI 3.0
Chair: Mike Jackson
Venue: Conference Room 3
|
| 09:00 - 10:40 |
Regular Session 4.4: SOA and Web Services
Chair: Jon Blower
Venue: Conference Room 4
|
[802] | Mediating Semantic Web Service Access using the Semantic Firewall | Mariusz Jacyno | |
| [836] | Service Oriented Architectures in the Provision of Military Capability [PDF] | Duncan J Russell | |
| [864] | Virtual Organisation design and application: A chemicals industry case study | Rob Smith | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Coffee
Venue: Marquee, Atrium and Main Corridor
|
| 11:10 - 11:55 |
Keynote 7: Dr Thomas Hartkens:Chief Technical Officer of IXICO
IXI(CO): Progressing a scientific GRID project to an end-to-end solution [PPT]
Chair: Anne Trefethen
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 11:55 - 12:30 |
Raffle & Close of Meeting [PPT]
Venue: Auditorium
|
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch and Close
Venue: Marquee
|
