{"id":680,"date":"2015-05-01T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=680"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T16:14:21","slug":"gisruk-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2015\/05\/01\/gisruk-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"GISRUK 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 6 staff and PhD students attended the annual UK GIS conference (GISRUK) being hosted by Leeds University. With all but one presenting (though now GISRUK regular Phil James was named on three of the\u00a0six\u00a0presentations), the groups diverse and interdisciplinary range of work which related to GIS was well covered.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations must be given to Neil Harris and Craig Robson who won best paper for their paper entitled &#8220;Real time coupled network failure modelling and visualisation&#8221;. No doubt this was (at least in part anyway) down to a live demonstration by Neil during the presentation of the developed software\/framework which worked (or so it appeared to those less who hadn&#8217;t seen it before!). See below for a link to the abstract and presentation.<\/p>\n<p>It was also good to see a number of alumni who have continued to work in the field of GIS upon departing our department after three years of study.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a thanks to organizing committee for putting together a great conference and for the bursary awarded to Craig.<\/p>\n<p>The official conference proceedings can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/GIS_Research_UK_GISRUK_2015_Proceedings\/1491375\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Links to the six presentations (and abstracts) are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Real time coupled network failure modelling and visualisation&#8221;, \u00a0Neil Harris, Craig Robson, Stuart Barr and Phil James (Winning paper).\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uoweb1.ncl.ac.uk\/public\/network.html\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"Real time coupled network failure modelling and visualisation pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_45.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Assessing the need for infrastructure adaptation by simulating impacts of extreme weather events on urban transport infrastructure&#8221;, Alistair Ford, Maria Pregnolato, Katie Jenkins, Stuart Barr, and Richard Dawson.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"ACFord_GISRUK_Apr2015 pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2015\/05\/ACFord_GISRUK_Apr2015.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"Assessing the need for infrastructure adaptation by simulating impacts of extreme weather events on urban transport infrastructure pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_49.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Evolutionary Computing for Multi-Objective Spatial Optimisation&#8221;, \u00a0Daniel Caparros-Midwood, Stuart Barr and Richard Dawson.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"GISRUK_Presentation_DCM pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2015\/04\/GISRUK_Presentation_DCM.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"Evolutionary Computing for Multi-Objective Spatial Optimisation pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_75.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A geospatial relational database schema for interdependent network analysis and modelling&#8221;, David Alderson, Stuart Barr, Tomas Holderness, Craig Robson, Alistair Ford and Ruth Kennedy-Walker.\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"GISRUK2015_Presentation_Alderson pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2015\/04\/GISRUK2015_Presentation_Alderson.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"A geospatial relational database schema for interdependent network analysis and modelling  pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_25.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Football fan locality- An analysis of football fans tweet locations&#8221;, Neil Harris and Phil James.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uoweb1.ncl.ac.uk\/public\/football_tweets.html#\/\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"Football fan locality- An analysis of football fans tweet locations pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_52.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Spatially modelling dependent infrastructure networks&#8221;, Craig Robson, Stuart Barr, Phil James and Alistair Ford\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Robson_SpatiallModellingDependentInfrastructureNetworks presentation pdf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2015\/04\/Robson_SpatiallModellingDependentInfrastructureNetworks_final.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, <a title=\"Spatially modelling dependent infrastructure networks pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/leeds.gisruk.org\/abstracts\/GISRUK2015_submission_30.pdf\">abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 6 staff and PhD students attended the annual UK GIS conference (GISRUK) being hosted by Leeds University. With all but one presenting (though now GISRUK regular Phil James was named on three of the\u00a0six\u00a0presentations), the groups diverse and interdisciplinary range of work which related to GIS was well covered. Congratulations must be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2015\/05\/01\/gisruk-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GISRUK 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-news","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}