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The general objectives of the Lancaster Centre for e-Science are:
to accelerate the development of a new kind of computing and data management infrastructure for the social sciences, and to support the increasingly national and global collaborations emerging in many areas of science.
These activities will enable many researchers in management, social science and related fields to build models that acknowledge the full complexity of many social and economic phenomena. Research at the forefront of quantitative social science requires comprehensive approaches to model complex observational social and economic processes. A comprehensive model is one in which many of the interdependencies in the process are incorporated. E-Science will also lead to the creation of better evidence based substantive theory, more reliable forecasts, the determination of the most influential policy instruments and thus it will improve policy effectiveness. The computing power needed to use multiple large and complex data sets, and to use recent methodological developments in order to disentangle the multiple mechanisms at work in comprehensive models, are only just becoming available. The increase in computational power offered by e-Science promises to open the door to a new world.
New Venue: Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester. The location of the Humanities Bridgeford Street Building can be found at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/maps/ (Building 35).
We are running a free 1 day workshop on 24th July to examine the benefits of setting up a Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) or similar undertaking in high-performance computational statistics to complement the present CCPs, other scientific endeavours and wider business and industrial interests. The agenda in now available.
For more information visit the Meeting page here.
Date News Article Published: 21/07/2008.
Successful Sabre 5.0 Workshop held 17th - 19th July 2007 at Lancaster University.
A new release of Sabre statistical software was introduced during a recent workshop “An Introduction to Multivariate Multilevel GLMs using SabreR 5.0” in Lancaster. Sabre is statistical software for the analysis of multi-process random effect response data. Sabre software is capable of running on high-performance parallel computers, e.g. those on the UK National Grid Serivce, and outperforms alternative software used for similar statistical analyses; see the comparisons at http://sabre.lancs.ac.uk/comparison3.html.
The workshop demonstrated the new features of Sabre 5.0 (multilevel, multivariate generalised linear models), with over 60 worked examples/ exercises from published work.
Date News Article Published: 26 July 2007.
The Lancaster Centre for e-Management and e-Science has published a white paper that highlights the need for research into the role of web based e-Management technologies within Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Northern England. The results of a large scale survey (number of enterprises interviewed 1029), funded by the EPSRC and the Northern Leadership Academy, provide first estimates of the level of broadband penetration within enterprises of this size. Critically also, the white paper provides estimates of the demand for e-Management tools, like online whiteboards and video conferencing that Agora (http://agora.lancs.ac.uk) provides. The white paper can be viewed by clicking the following link: The Enterprise Survey White paper.
New Lancaster Centre for e-Science working paper: The Search for Innovators and Early Adopters of e-Collaborative Technologies within Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the UK. The working paper can be viewed by clicking the following link: e-collaboration tool diffusion among SMEs.
A Presentation is now available that highlights business related research outcomes from the Lancaster University Centre for e-Science. The outcomes are from an e-Management project funded by the EPSRC. This project was also supported by the Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University Infolab21 and the Northern Leadership Academy. The project's aim was to seek information on the applicability of e-Collaboration tools within enterprises in Northern England. It specifically focuses on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.
Date News Article Published: 30 April 2007.
The following short courses are now available from the centre:
Introduction to Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and to grid-enabled GWR - 20th November 2007: For the first time, this workshop offers an applied introduction to both GWR and to how it can be run over a grid system. No prior knowledge of either GWR or e-computing is assumed, though it would be helpful if delegates had at least a rudimentary understanding of linear regression and ideally, but not necessarily, some experience of using the data manipulation program R (or S).
For more information please see the flier.