Programme for eScience 2017
Update from the PC Chairs
The thirteenth IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24-27 October 2017, and it is shaping up to be an exciting event. eScience researchers from a number of countries including NZ, Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, South Korea, Spain, USA and the UK will gather to discuss the novel technologies, applications and related challenges in the world of computationally intensive science.
This year we had two major goals. One was to come up with an interesting programme for you, which we believe we have achieved. The other was to focus more on computation related to the sciences or humanities, rather than computation in the abstract. This goal is supported by four initiatives: stating the goal explicitly in the criteria for paper selection, the chosen keynotes, the experience track and a hearty poster track.
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Programme
A summary of the programme is below, with details following.
| Tuesday, 24 October | Wednesday, 25 October | Thursday, 26 October | Friday, 27 October | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00am | Registration Open | Registration Open | Registration Open | Registration Open |
| 8:30am | Workshops | |||
| 9:00am | Conference Day One: Opening & Keynote 1 | Conference Day Two: Keynote 3 | Conference Day Three: Keynote 5 | |
| 10:00am | Morning Tea | Morning Tea | Morning Tea | Morning Tea |
| 10:30am | Workshops | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| 1:30pm | Workshops | Keynote 2 | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each | Paper Sessions Start: 30 mins each |
| 2:30pm | Afternoon Tea | |||
| 3:00pm | Afternoon Tea | Lightening Poster Sessions: 2 mins per poster | Afternoon Tea | Afternoon Tea |
| 3:30pm | Workshops | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each | Day Three Concludes | |
| 4:00pm | Paper Sessions start: 30 mins each | |||
| 5:00pm | Day One Concludes | Day Two Concludes | ||
| 5:30pm | Workshops Conclude | |||
| 6:00pm | Welcome Cocktail Function: at conference venue | Conference Dinner: at University of Auckland-Fale Pasifika Keynote 4 | ||
| 9:00pm | Welcome Cocktail Function concludes | Conference Dinner concludes |
Session Chairs
Here is a list of names of the conference Session Chairs
Workshops
Workshops for eScience 2017 have now been announced.
Tuesday 24 October 2017 – Workshops Day
| Start time | End time | Stream 1 | Stream 2 | Stream 3 | Stream 4 |
|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration open | |||
| 08:30 | 10:00 | Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.2) | BigDig: High Throughput Digitization for Natural History Collections | Safe Data Paradigms and Platforms: enabling collaborative analysis of sensitive data | International Workshop on Workflow Science (WoWS 2017) |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee / tea break | |||
| 10:30 | 12:30 | WSSSPE5.2 continues | BigDig continues | Safe Data Paradigms and Platforms continues | WoWS 2017 continues |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | 15:00 | WSSSPE5.2 continues | BigDig continues | Safe Data Paradigms and Platforms continues | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee / tea break | |||
| 15:30 | 17:30 | WSSSPE5.2 continues | BigDig continues | Safe Data Paradigms and Platforms continues | |
| 17:30 | 18:00 | Free time | |||
| 18:00 | 21:00 | Welcome reception | |||
| 21:00 | Finish |
Papers and authors
Papers and authors for eScience 2017 have now been announced.
Wednesday 25 October 2017 – Conference Day 1
| Start time | End time | Stream 1 Ballroom 1 | Stream 2 Ballroom 2 |
|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration open | |
| 09:00 | 09:10 | Conference opening | |
| 09:10 | 10:10 | Keynote 1 Professor Merryn Tawhai Creating a personal digital lung Chair: Dan Katz | |
| 10:10 | 10:40 | Coffee / tea break | |
| Paper Session 1A: Deep Learning: From Dentistry to Satellites Chair: James Hogan | Paper Session 1B: Parallel Computing and Information Extraction Chair: David Abramson | ||
| 10:40 | 11:10 | Towards a Fully Automated Diagnostic System for Orthodontic Treatment in Dentistry Seiya Murata, Chonho Lee, Chihiro Tanikawa, and Susumu Date | Data Provenance for Multi-Agent Models Delmar B. Davis, Jonathan Featherston, Munehiro Fukuda, and Hazeline U. Asuncion |
| 11:10 | 11:40 | An Unsupervised Deep Learning Approach for Satellite Image Analysis with Applications in Demographic Analysis Jessica Block, Mehrdad Yazdani, Mai Nguyen, Daniel Crawl, Marta Jankowska, John Graham, Tom DeFanti, and Ilkay Altintas | Accelerating Exact Protein Structure Alignment with Graphics Processors Yishui Wu, Shuang Qiu, and Qiong Luo |
| 11:40 | 12:10 | Developing a Volunteer Computing Project to Evolve Convolutional Neural Networks and Their Hyperparameters Travis Desell | Real-Time Data Analysis and Autonomous Steering of Synchrotron Light Source Experiments Tekin Bicer, Doga Gursoy, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian T. Foster, Bin Ren, Vincent De Andrede, and Francesco De Carlo |
| 12:10 | 12:40 | A Mobile Application for Plant Recognition through Deep Learning Min Gao, Yang Lin, and Richard O. Sinnott | SELFIE: Self-aware Information Extraction from Digitized Biocollections Icaro Alzuru, Andréa Matsunaga, Maurício Tsugawa, and José A.B. Fortes |
| 12:40 | 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 | 14:40 | Keynote 2 Dr James Hetherington “The Craftsperson and The Scholar”: Research Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and multi-professionalism in e-Research Chair: Nick Jones | |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Coffee / tea break | |
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Poster lightning talks | |
| Paper Session 2A: Cloud Computing Chair: Kris Bubendorfer | Paper Session 2B: Crowdsourcing Chair: Wilco Hazeleger | ||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Online Decision-Making Using Edge Resources for Content-Driven Stream Processing Eduard Renart, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Xuan Hu, Jie Gong, and Manish Parashar | Toward Using Citizen Scientists to Drive Automated Ecological Object Detection in Aerial Imagery Connor Bowley, Marshall Mattingly III, Andrew Barnas, Susan Ellis-Felege, and Travis Desell |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | dSpark: Deadline-Based Resource Allocation for Big Data Applications in Apache Spark Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Shanika Karunasekera, and Rajkumar Buyya | Towards a Hybrid Human-Computer Scientific Information Extraction Pipeline Roselyne B. Tchoua, Kyle Chard, Debra J. Audus, Logan T. Ward, Joshua Lequieu, Juan J. De Pablo, and Ian T. Foster |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Experiences with DERIVA: An Asset Management Platform for Accelerating eScience Alejandro Bugacov, Karl Czajkowski, Carl Kesselman, Anoop Kumar, Robert E. Schuler, and Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit | |
| 17:30 | Finish |
Thursday 26 October 2017 – Conference Day 2
| Start time | End time | Stream 1 Ballroom 1 | Stream 2 Ballroom 2 |
|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration open | |
| 09:00 | 10:00 | Keynote 3 Professor Marina Jirotka “I don’t think I’ve come across an unethical scientist” Chair: David Abramson | |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee / tea break | |
| Paper Session 3A: Workflow and Frameworks Chair: Gilberto Pastorello | Paper Session 3B: People, Birds, and Frogs Chair: Georgina Rae | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Provenance-Based Scientific Workflow Search Amani Abu Jabal, Elisa Bertino, and Geeth De Mel | In Pursuit of the Wisest: Building Cost-Effective Teams of Experts Yashar Najaflou and Kris Bubendorfer |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | A Mathematical Programming- and Simulation-Based Framework to Evaluate Cyberinfrastructure Design Choices – Zhengchun Liu, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Sven Leyffer, Prashant Palkar, and Ian Foster | Clustering and Visualization of Long-Duration Audio Recordings for Rapid Exploration Avian Surveys Philip Eichinski and Paul Roe |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | WorkflowHunt: Combining Keyword and Semantic Search in Scientific Workflow Repositories Juan Sebastian Beleno Diaz and Claudia Bauzer Medeiros | An Investigation into Acoustic Analysis Methods for Endangered Species Monitoring: A Case of Monitoring the Critically Endangered White-Bellied Heron in Bhutan Tshering Dema, Liang Zhang, Michael Towsey, Anthony Truskinger, Sherub Sherub, Kinley, Jinglan Zhang, Margot Brereton, and Paul Roe |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Task-Based Budget Distribution Strategies for Scientific Workflows with Coarse-Grained Billing Periods in IaaS Clouds – Muhammad Hafizhuddin Hilman, María Alejandra Rodríguez, and Rajkumar Buyya | Multi-Label Classification of Frog Species via Deep Learning Jie Xie, Rui Zeng Changliang Xu, Jinglan Zhang, and Paul Roe |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Paper Session 4A: Applications: From Humanities to Fruit Flies Chair: Ilkay Altintas | Paper Session 4B: Computing Platforms Chair: Kyle Chard | ||
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Experimental Humanities: An Adventure with Lovelace and Babbage David De Roure and Pip Willcox | SNIC Science Cloud (SSC): A National-Scale Cloud Infrastructure for Swedish Academia Salman Toor, Mathias Lindberg, Ingemar Falman, Andreas Vallin, Olof Mohill, Pontus Freyhult, Linus Nilsson, Martin Agback, Lars Viklund, Henric Zazzik, Ola Spjuth, Marco Capuccini, Joakim Möller, Donal Murtagh, and Andreas Hellander |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Mid-level Image Representation for Fruit Fly Identification (Diptera:Tephritidae) Matheus Macedo Leonardo, Sandra Avila, Roberto A. Zucchi, and Fabio A. Faria | A Platform for the Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Data about the Built Environment and Its Users Mike Simpson, Simon Woodman, Hugo Hiden, Sebastian Stein, Stephen Dowsland, Mark Turner, Vicki L. Hanson, and Paul Watson |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Ten Principles for Creating Usable Software for Science Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Daniel Gunter | A Metropolitan Area Infrastructure for Data Intensive Science David Abramson, Jake Carroll, Chao Jin, and Michael Mallon |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee / tea break | |
| Paper Session 5A: Repositories Chair: Dan Gunter | Paper Session 5B: Workflow and Workloads Chair: Ian Taylor | ||
| 15:30 | 16:00 | ScienceDB: A Public Multidisciplinary Research Data Repository for eScience Li Chengzan, Hou Yanfei, Li Jianhui, and Zhang Lili | Evaluating Distributed Execution of Workloads Matteo Turilli, Yadu Nand Babuji, Andre Merzky, Ming Tai Ha, Michael Wilde, Daniel S. Katz, and Shantenu Jha |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Improving Small File I/O Performance for Massive Digital Archives Hwajung Kim and Heonyoung Yeom | A Computational Pipeline for the IUCN Risk Assessment for Meso-American Reef Ecosystem Hoang Anh Nguyen, Lucie Bland, Tristan Roberts, Siddeswara Guru, Minh Dinh, and David Abramson |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Towards a Human-Machine Scientific Partnership Based on Semantically Rich Research Objects Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Raul Palma, and Andres Garcia-Silva | High-Throughput Computing on High-Performance Platforms: A Case Study Danila Oleynik, Sergey Panitkin, Matteo Turilli, Alessio Angius, Sarp Oral, Kaushik De, Alexei Klimentov, Jack C. Wells, and Shantenu Jha |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Free time | |
| 18:00 | 21:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| 21:00 | Finish |
Friday 27 October 2017 – Conference Day 3
| Start time | End time | Stream 1 Ballroom 1 | Stream 2 Ballroom 2 |
|---|
| 08:00 | 09:00 | Registration open | |
| 09:00 | 10:00 | Keynote 4 Dr Allan McRae Genomic Basis of Human Disease Chair: Mik Black | |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Coffee / tea break | |
| Paper Session 6A: Processing Pipelines: From Plants to Gravitational Waves Chair: Paul Watson | Paper Session 6B: Understanding and sharing resources: data, code and documents Chair: Mohan Ramamurthy | ||
| 10:30 | 11:00 | BOSS-LDG: A Novel Computational Framework That Brings Together Blue Waters, Open Science Grid, Shifter and the LIGO Data Grid to Accelerate Gravitational Wave Discovery E.A. Huerta, Roland Haas, Edgar Fajardo, Daniel Katz, Stuart Anderson, Peter Couvares, Josh Willis, Timothy Bouvet, Jeremy Enos, William T.C. Kramer, Hon Wai Leong, and David Wheeler | TaRDIS, a Visual Analytics System for Spatial and Temporal Data in Archaeo-Related Disciplines Daniel Kaltenthaler, Johannes-Y. Lohrer, Ptolemaios D. Paxinos, Daniel Hämmerle, Henriette Obermaier, and Peer Kröger |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Adaptive Lossy Compression of Complex Environmental Indices Using Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average Models Ugur Cayoglu, Peter Braesicke, Tobias Kerzenmacher, Jörg Meyer, and Achim Streit | Iterative Design and Evaluation of Regulatory Network Visualisation at Scale Samuel Thomas Smith, James Michael Hogan, Xin-Yi Chua, Margot Brereton, Daniel Johnson, and Markus Rittenbruch |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Similarity Projection: A Geometric Measure for Comparison of Biological Sequences Lawrence Buckingham, Timothy Chappell, James M. Hogan, and Shlomo Geva | Monitoring Water Quality in the Great Lakes Leveraging Geo-Temporal Cyberinfrastructure Indira Gutierrez-Polo, Yan Zhao, Shannon Bradley, Eugene Roeder, Michelle Pitcel, Kristin TePas, Paris Collingsworth, and Luigi Marini |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Change Frequency Heatmaps for Temporal Multivariate Phenological Data Analysis Greice Cristina Mariano, Natalia Costa Soares, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato, and Ricardo Da Silva Torres | Sciunits: Reusable Research Objects Dai Hai Ton That, Gabriel Fils, Zhihao Yuan, and Tanu Malik |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Paper Session 7A: Stream Processing: From IOT to Synchrotron Chair: Susumu Date | Paper Session 7B: Infrastructure Chair: Chen Li | ||
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Energy-Efficient Dynamic Scheduling of Deadline-Constrained MapReduce Workflows Tong Shu and Chase Q. Wu | Adapting Enterprise Architecture for eScience Richard Palmer, Kheeran Dharmawardena, and Hamish Holewa |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Collaborative Reuse of Streaming Dataflows in IoT Applications Shilpa Chaturvedi, Sahil Tyagi, and Yogesh Simmhan | Dynamic Network Bandwidth Resizing for Big Data Applications Fábio Diniz Rossi, Guilherme Da Cunha Rodrigues, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Marcelo Da Silva Conterato |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Ecological Niche Modelling of Dipterocarp Trees Using Maximum Entropy Method in Central Visayas Adrian Jose Sabado, Geoffrey Solano, Riza Batista-Navarro, Roselyn Gabud, Marilou Nicolas, Vincent Hilomen | |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee / tea break | |
| 15:30 | Finish |