• Andy Turner's MoSeS Page

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  • Introduction

    • Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science (MoSeS) is a Node of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) funded by the ESRC (RES-149-25-0034)
    • MoSeS Home Page @ NCeSS, University of Manchester
    • NCeSS wiki: MoSeS Node Home Page
    • This page is for organising information about MoSeS under my control. This has been useful in addition to NCeSS Web Pages and Wiki for speed and flexibility of information organisation. This facilitates collaboration which is a goal of e-Social Science.

  • People

    The following people work directly on MoSeS:

    • Mark Birkin - Principal Investigator
    • Haibo Chen - Co Investigator (expert advisor on transport applications)
    • Martin Clarke - Co Investigator (expert advisor on business applications)
    • Justin Keen - Co Investigator (expert advisor on health applications)
    • Jie Xu - Co Investigator (expert advisor on Grid Computing)
    • Phil Rees - Co Investigator (expert advisor on population modelling)
    • John Hodrien - Research Officer
    • Paul Townend - Research Officer
    • Andy Turner - Research Officer
    • Belinda Wu - Research Officer

    In the main it is Andy, Belinda, Mark and Paul that are doing the work.

    The following are NCeSS MoSeS Node adoptees:

    • Edmund Chattoe
    • Chris Skinner

  • Software

    MoSeS software is being released via the following:

    • Andy Turner's MoSeS Software Page
    • NCeSS Intranet MoSeS Source

  • Data Sources and Data Providers

    • Manchester Information & Associated Services
    • CasWeb web interface to census aggregate outputs and digital boundary data
    • ONS Commissioned Census 2001 Output
      • ONS Commissioned Tables Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
    • UK Data Archive
    • The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
    • The British Household Panel Survey
    • Samples of Anonymised Records
    • All Fields Postcode Directory
    • Neighbourhood Statistics

  • Collaboration

    MoSeS is to set up many collaborations:

    • Preserve (provenance)
      • Simon Miles and Paul Groth
      • Useful discussions with Andy and Paul at AHM 2005: Innovating through e-Science regarding a shared interest in the question of data provenance. A synopsis of the discussion is available here.
    • BHPS and Census Data Assimilation
      • Pascal Ekin and Keith Cole
      • Pascal met with Andy, Mark and Paul to find out more about how Census data is used in MoSeS and our plans for Grid Enabling MoSeS. Pascal and Keith are working on The GEMS project (Grid Enabling Census Data) which has just begun with the task of developing use cases.
      • In MoSeS we plan to re-work our data processing by accessing the Census Area Statisitcs data via OGSA-DAI and NGS rather than via CasWeb and MIMAS.
      • MoSeS might benefit with regard Pascal's work on Grid Enabling BHPS data.
      • Pascal has exposed the database via OGSA-DAI this is running on a test machine and is to be migrated to NGS. We are ready now to build up the MoSeS end to stream data.
    • NCRM Connected Lives
      • Andy, Justin and Mark met with others from the NCRM Connected Lives Project. More...
    • CeLSIUS Longitudinal Census Data Assimilation
      • CeLSIUS - The support team for academic users of the Office for National Statistics' Longitudinal Study
      • At UPTAP Andy met some people from CeLSIUS

    If you want to get involved in MoSeS please email: A.G.D.Turner@leeds.ac.uk

  • Events

    • Workshop on Grid Middleware and Geospatial Standards for Earth System Science Data, NeSC 2005-09-06 to 2005-09-07.
    • GIS and Grid Agenda Setting Workshop, Leeds 2005-09-13.
    • Fourth All Hands Meeting, University of Nottingham, 2005-09-19 to 2005-09-22.
    • MoSeS Launch Event, University of Leeds, 2006-02-16.

  • References/Links

    • Centre for Longitudinal Studies ESRC Resource Centre
    • UK Data Archive
    • Hydra
    • EOGEO
    • Quadstone Paramics is a suite of microscopic traffic simulation tools
    • Dynamic Route Assignment Combining User Learning and microsimulAtion
    • Saturn Documents
    • AIMSUN
    • International Society of Artificial Life

  • Miscellaneous

    • University of Leeds MoSeS Job Advertisement
    • Various groups and individuals that may be useful to tap for advice:
      • Mike Savage
      • Tony Warnes
      • Roger Burrows
      • Itzhak Benenson
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