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Edoardo Pignotti
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Projects

PolicyGrid Semantic Grid Tools for Rural Policy Development and Appraisal
PolicyGrid is a UK eScience project funded as part of the Economic and Social Research Council eSocial Science initiative. It involves a collaboration between computer scientists and social scientists at the University of Aberdeen, the Macaulay Institute (Aberdeen) and elsewhere in the UK. The project aims to support policy-related research activities within social science by developing appropriate Grid middleware tools which meet the requirements of social science practitioners. The vision of the Semantic Grid is central to the PolicyGrid research agenda; the project is developing a range of services to support social scientists with mixed-method data analysis (involving both qualitative and quantitative data sources) together with the use of social simulation techniques. Issues surrounding usability of Semantic Grid tools are also a key feature of PolicyGrid, with activities encompassing workflow support and natural language presentation of metadata.

FEARLUS-G Pilot Semantic Grid Service for Environmental Modelling.
The FEARLUS-G project aims to explore the application of emerging Grid technologies within the social sciences, through deployment of an existing land-use modelling tool into the Grid context.
The project brings together experts in land-use modelling with computer scientists who have experience in Grid and World-Wide Web technologies.

Publications

Published/Accepted

Managing Information Quality in e-Science using Semantic Web Technology. (pdf)
A Preece, B Jin, E Pignotti, P Missier, S Embury & D Stead.
In Proc 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4011 (Budva, Montenegro), Springer, pages 472-486, 2006.

FEARLUS-G: A Semantic Grid Service for Land-Use Modelling (pdf) (presentation)
E. Pignotti, P. Edwards, A. Preece, N. Gotts, and G. Polhill
Proceedings of ECAI-04 Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web & the Grid, Valencia.

Semantic Support for Computational Land-Use Modelling (pdf)(presentation)
E. Pignotti, P. Edwards, A. Preece, G. Polhill and N. Gotts
Cluster Computing and Grid 2005, Cardiff, 9 - 12 May 2005.

Lessons Learnt from Deployment of a Social Simulation Tool to the Semantic Grid (pdf)(presentation)
P. Edwards, A. Preece, E. Pignotti, G. Polhill and N. Gotts
First International Conference on eSocial Science, 2005.

Providing Ontology Support for Social Simulation (pdf)(presentation)
E. Pignotti, P. Edwards, A. Preece, G. Polhill and N. Gotts
First International Conference on eSocial Science, 2005.

An ontology for experimentation with a social simulation of land use change (pdf)
J. Gary Polhill, Edoardo Pignotti, Nicholas M. Gotts, Pete Edwards, Alun Preece
Third Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA), 2005.

Context Aware Personalised Service Delivery (pdf 5 pages version)(poster)
Edoardo Pignotti, Pete Edwards, Gunnar A Grimnes
Published as Short paper, ECAI 2004, Valencia.

Personal

ECAI 2004 in Valecia (Spain)
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eScience AHM 2004 in Nottingham
Some pictures