[seek] FW: Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining, Integration & Visualization

[Kennedy, Jessie]

Hi Folks

Some of this upcoming meeting could be relevant to SEEK interests and I
believe there may be funding if you are a speaker - would be good to
have an ecoinformatics representation at the meeting.... 

Let me know if you are interested in speaking on any of the topics at
the meeting - sorry for the short notices but it's just come up.

Jessie

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Subject: Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining, Integration &
Visualization

The Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining, Integration &
Visualization
 				(SDMIV2)

 		e-Science Institute, University of Edinburgh
 			  14-15 December 2005

This workshop is a follow-up to the first SDMIV workshop, held at NeSC 
in October 2002: see 
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=114
for more details of that. That workshop brought together researchers
from a
wide range of disciplines and identified common problems affecting many
areas of research.

Many sciences are experiencing an exponential expansion in the volume 
of available data, and are looking to data mining and visualization as 
providing ways to start extracting scientific knowledge from these 
data. Many data mining and visualization tools are available, but 
these are not always well matched to the requirements of science or 
the scalability challenges that the new data volumes present. Most 
researchers want to explore distributed data sources, which have often 
been developed independently and without account being taken of 
interoperability requirements.

This second SDMIV workshop will review what progress has been made 
towards solving the common problems identifed during the first 
workshop three years ago. Topics to be addressed might include:

    * Interoperability of data mining and visualization tools
    * Scalability issues in data mining and visualization
    * Case studies of data mining, integration and visualization in 
e-science
    * Integration of data mining and visualization into e-science 
 workflows
    * The mining and visualization of distributed data
    * Collaborative data mining and visualization
    * Metadata issues connected with data integration

Target Audience

Researchers from the wide range of scientific disciplines facing the 
need to explore large and/or distributed datasets. Computer scientists 
researching data mining and visualization. Software engineers 
designing and building the Grid middleware which might support these 
data exploration activities.

To register for this event please complete the online form linked from 
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/642/. Those wishing to speak at this 
meeting should contact one of the organisers (see below) as soon as 
possible.

	Bob Mann (University of Edinburgh) (rgm at roe.ac.uk)
	Jessie Kennedy (Napier University) (j.kennedy at napier.ac.uk)
	Ken Brodlie (University of Leeds) (kwb at comp.leeds.ac.uk)


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