Monday 29 Oct
08.30 – 12.30
Workshop: “eScience-FAIR Science” by PLAN-E
08.30 – 12.30
Tutorial: Contemporary Peer Code Review in Scientific Software Development
08.30 – 12.30
Workshop: Generic components of the eScience Infrastructure Ecosystem
08.30 – 12.30
Workshop: International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE 6.1, 2018)
08.30 – 12.30
Workshop: Research Objects (RO2018)
08.30 – 12.30 Tutorial:
Benchmarking Algorithm Performance for Research
13.30 – 17.30 Workshop:
“eScience-FAIR Science” by PLAN-E
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop: Handling Uncertainties in Big Data (HUBD)
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop: Platform-driven e-infrastructure innovations
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop: Generic components of the eScience Infrastructure Ecosystem
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop: International Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE 6.1, 2018)
13.30 – 17.30
Workshop: Research Objects (RO2018)
Tuesday 30 Oct
08.30 – 09.00
Welcome & Opening
Wilco Hazeleger (Netherlands eScience Center)
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote: Data Science or Data Humanities? Opportunities for Digitally Enabled Analysis of History, Culture and Society
Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
10.00 – 10.30
Digital Methods in Holocaust Studies: The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
Daan de Leeuw (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands) et al.
11.00 – 11.30
Catching Toad Calls in the Cloud: Commodity Edge Computing for Flexible Analysis of Big Sound Data
Paul Roe (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) et al.
11.30 – 12.00
Visualizing Five Decades of Environmental Acoustic Data
Anthony Truskinger (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) et al.
12.00 – 12.30
FATBIRD: A Tool for Flight and Trajectories Analyses of Birds
Daniyal Kazempour (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) et al.
16.00 – 16.30 14.30 – 15.00
Nanopublications: A Growing Resource of Provenance-Centric Scientific Linked Data
Tobias Kuhn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) et al.
14.00 – 14.30
ScienceSearch: Enabling Search through Automatic Metadata Generation
Gonzalo P. Rodrigo (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA) et al.
14.30 – 15.00
Curation of Image Data for Medical Research
Lasse Wollatz (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) et al.
15.30 – 16.00
How FAIR can you get? Image Retrieval as a Use Case to calculate FAIR Metrics
Tobias Weber (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany) et al.
16.00 – 16.30
Specimens as research objects: reconciliation across distributed repositories to enable metadata propagation
Nicky Nicolson (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Brunel University, London, United Kingdom) et al.
16.30 – 17.30
Making Open Science a reality: Rewards, Incentives & Support
Stan Gielen (NWO) and Erik Fledderus (SURF).
Wednesday 31 Oct
08.30 – 17.30
Parallel sessions
Weather & Climate Science in the Digital Era
Data Handling and Analytics for Health
Advances in eScience for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Exascale Computing for High Energy Physics
08.30 – 09.00
Poster pitches
09.00 – 09.30
Fast and Reproducible LOFAR Workflows with AGLOW
Alexandar Mechev (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands ) et al.
09.30 – 10.00
Visual Programming Languages for Programmers with Dyslexia: an Experiment
Luis Fernando González Alvarán (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
10.00 – 10.30
An Algebra for Robust Workflow Transformations
Nicholas Hazekamp (University of Notre Dame, USA) et al.
11.00 – 11.30
Orchestral: a lightweight framework for parallel simulations of cell-cell communication
Adrien Coulier (Uppsala Universitt, Sweden) et al.
11.30 – 12.00
Pilot-Streaming: A Stream Processing Framework for High-Performance Computing
Andre Luckow (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) et al.
12.00 – 12.30
Concurrent and Adaptive Extreme Scale Binding Free Energy Calculations
Jumana Dakka (Rutgers University, USA) et al.
13.30 – 14.00
Educational Outreach & Stakeholder Role Evolution in a Cyberinfrastructure Project
David Randall (University of Washington, USA) et al.
14.00 – 14.30
A Survey of Software Metric Use in Research Software Development
Nasir Eisty (University of Alabama, USA) et al.
14.30 – 15.00
Building NDStore through Hierarchical Storage Management and Microservice Processing
Kunal Lillaney (Johns Hopkins University, USA) et al.
15.30 – 16.00
Designing scientific SPARQL queries using autocompletion by snippets
Karima Rafes (BorderCloud, LRI, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France) et al.
16.00 – 16.30
Big Provenance Stream Processing for Data Intensive Computations
Isuru Suriarachchi (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) et al.
16.30 – 17.00
Skluma: An extensible metadata extraction pipeline for disorganized data
Tyler Skluzacek (University of Chicago, USA) et al.
17.00 – 19.00
Reception & Poster session
Thursday 1 Nov
08.30 – 09.30
Keynote: Real-time Analysis in Data-Intensive Astronomy
Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON, The Netherlands)
09.30 – 10.30
eScience Conference: lessons learned & future directions
11.00 – 11.30
DeepDownscale: a deep learning strategy for high-resolution weather forecast Eduardo Rodrigues (IBM, Brazil) et al.
11.30 – 12.00
A Scalable Machine Learning System for Pre-Season Agriculture Yield Forecast
Igor Oliveira (IBM, Brazil) et al.
12.00 – 12.30
Semantic Software Metadata for Workflow Exploration and Evolution
Lucas A.M.C. Carvalho (University of Campinas, Brazil) et al.
13.30 – 14.00
Coupling Exascale Multiphysics Applications: Methods and Lessons Learned
Jong Youl Choi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) et al.
14.00 – 14.30
FDQ: Advance Analytics over Real Scientific Array Datasets
Roee Ebenstein (The Ohio State University, USA) et al.
14.30 – 15.00
Boosting Atmospheric Dust Forecast with PyCOMPSs
Javier Conejero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain) et al.
15.30 – 16.00
Modelling Implicit Content Networks to Track Information Propagation across Media Sources to Analyze News Events
Anirudh Joshi (The University of Melbourne, Australia) et al.
16.00 – 16.30
Utilizing a Transparency-driven Environment toward Trusted Automatic Genre Classification: A Case Study in Journalism History
Aysenur Bilgin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands) et al.
16.30 – 17.00
Closing session and Best Poster Award
Wilco Hazeleger (Netherlands eScience Center)