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Record W1969455928 · doi:10.5339/qfarf.2013.ictp-051

A services-oriented infrastructure for e-science

2013· article· en· W1969455928 on OpenAlex
Syed Sibte Raza Abidi

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueQatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2013 Issue 1 · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicEnvironmental Monitoring and Data Management
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceWorkflowe-ScienceData managementData scienceInteroperabilityData visualizationOperationalizationCyberinfrastructureVisualizationWorld Wide WebKnowledge managementGridDatabase

Abstract

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The study of complex multi-faceted scientific questions demand innovative computing solutions—solutions that transcend beyond the management of big data to dedicated semantics-enabled, services-driven infrastructures that can effectively aggregate, filter, process, analyze, visualize and share the cumulative scientific efforts and insights of the research community. From a technical standpoint, E-Science purports technology-enabled collaborative research platforms to (i) collect, store and share multi-modal data collected from different geographic sites, (ii) perform complex simulations and experiments using sophisticated simulation models; (iii) design complex experiments by integrating data and models and executing them as per the experiment workflow; (iv) visualize high-dimensional simulation results; and (v) aggregate and share the scientific results (Fig 1). Taking a knowledge management approach, we have developed an innovative E-Science platform— termed Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management (POKM)—that is built using innovative web-enabled services, services-oriented architecture, semantic web, workflow management and data visualization technologies. POKM offers a suite of E-Science services that allow oceanographic researchers to (a) handle large volumes of ocean and marine life data; (b) access, share, integrate and operationalize the data and simulation models; (c) visualization of data and simulation results; (d) multi-site collaborations in joint scientific research experiments; and (e) form a broad, virtual community of national and international researchers, marine resource managers, policy makers and climate change specialists. (Fig 2) The functional objective of our E-Science infrastructure is to establish an online scientific experimentation platform that supports an assortment of data/knowledge access and processing tools to allow a group of scientists to collaborate and conduct complex experiments by sharing data, models, knowledge, computing resources and expertise. Our E-Science approach is to complement data-driven approaches with domain-specific knowledge-centric models in order to establish causal, associative and taxonomic relations between (a) raw data and modeled observations; (b) observations and their causes; and (c) causes and theoretical models. This is achieved by taking a unique knowledge management approach, whereby we have exploited semantic web technologies to semantically describe the data, scientific models, knowledge artifacts and web services. The use of semantic web technologies provides a mechanism for the selection and integration of problem-specific data from large repositories. To define the functional aspects of the e-science services we have developed a services ontology that provides a semantic description of knowledge-centric e-science services. POKM is modeled along a services-oriented architecture that exposes a range of task-specific web services accessible through a web portal. The POKM architecture features five layers—Presentation Layer, Collaboration Layer, Service Composition Layer, Service Layer and Ontology Layer (Fig 3). POKM is applied to the domain of oceanography to understand our changing eco-system and its impact on marine life. POKM helps researchers investigate (a) changes in marine animal movement on time scales of days to decades; (b) coastal flooding due to changes in certain ocean parameters; (c) density of fish colonies and stocks; and (d) time-varying physical characteristics of the oceans (Fig 4 & 5). In this paper, we present the technical architecture and functional description of POKM, highlighting the various technical innovations and their applications to E-Science.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.412
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.284 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it