Our SAF21 ESR Samaneh Heidari has got a paper accepted at the Social Simulation Conference 2017 (SSC). It is the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) which is the main European scientific society to promote social simulation and computational social science. The aim of this international conference is to share and foster a [...]
Like every year, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) organizes the Annual Science Conference, this year to be held in Fort Lauderdale in Florida this September. This is one of the biggest marine science events and the conference covers all types of marine related topics, from impacts of climate change on [...]
Our ESR Lia ní Aodha has got a paper accepted at the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). ESSA is the main European scientific society to promote social simulation and computation social science, and the conference will be held in Dublin this September. She will present her paper, entitled “Ontological Politics in [...]
For the third year in a row, in 2017 SAF21 is organizing a special track on modelling social science aspects of fisheries at the Social Simulation Conference (SSC). This is the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) which is the main European scientific society to promote social simulation and computational social science. [...]
Our ESR Shaheen Syed has got a paper accepted at the 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics. He will present his paper, entitled "Full-Text or Abstract? Examining Topic Coherence Scores Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation" during the conference to be held in Tokyo on 19-21 October 2017. The paper examines how different types [...]
From 6 to 16 July 2017 all 10 Early Stage Researchers (ESR) visited UiT – The Arctic University of Norway for a two-week training camp (TC). This TC is the fourth of its kind and has been devoted to several soft-skills courses. Day 1 – Grant Writing Michaela Aschan (UiT) and Petter Olsen (Nofima) gave [...]
By Shaheen Syed and Charlotte Weber, This example shows how to plot and color European seas with Python, Basemap and the ICES shape file. It serves as a basic example from which more elements such as annotations and other plotting elements can be added. It might be the case that during your research you found [...]
The SAF21 network gathered for the official midterm evaluation in Reykjavík last week. The ESRs, seniors and partner organisations were joined by Project Officer Linda Curzola and Monitor Gercende Courtois de Vicose from the EU Research Executive Agency. Project Coordinator Melania Borit delivered a detailed report on the progress of the project, after which all [...]
Today our ESR Shaheen Syed presented his paper "Bootstrapping a Semantic Lexicon on Verb Similarities" at the 8th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, held in Porto, Portugal. His paper is co-authored by Melania Borit, the SAF21 project coordinator, and Marco Spruit from Utrecht University. His research proposes a new algorithm to create [...]
The whole SAF21 network is gathered for a meeting in Utrecht today, the 26th of October 2016. The ESRs and seniors have been joined by the project’s partner organisations and external evaluators for a progress and networking meeting. The external advisory panel is making sure that the project is progressing according to plan, and consisted of [...]
