PRAGMA 30

January 27

Disaster Management Workshop

• Opening Statements by Organizers

• Session 1: Disaster Monitoring and Management Technology and Practices, Chair: Dr. Jose Fortes
  • Experimental Big Data Platform: Developments and Applications to Environmental Monitoring Dr. Whey-Fone Tsai, NCHC, TW
  • Operational Weather Research Forecast in ASTI: Making Weather Forecast Data Accessible for Disaster Risk Reduction Mr. Jay Samuel Combinido, ASTI, PH
• Session 2: IT Support of Disaster Management, Chair: Dr. Jason Haga
  • ReliefOps.ph: A Decision Support System for the Prepositioning and Allocation of Supplies for Disaster Relief Dr. Reina Reyes, Ateneo de Manila Univ, PH
  • Disaster Mitigation in Asia Pacific: A New Collaboration Paradigm Between EGI and APAN Dr. Simon Lin / Dr. Eric Yen, ASGC, TW
  • Disaster management projects at NECTEC, Mr. Udom Lemlomphaisarl, NECTEC, TH
• Session 3: Resilient IT infrastructure, Chair: Dr. Shinji Shimojo
  • Test-bed Development for Resilient ICT Dr. Hiroshi Kumagai, NICT, JP
  • DESTCloud: Disaster Emulation and Simulation Testbed for Distributed Computing Environment Dr. Kohei Ichikawa, NAIST, JP
  • Managing Climate Extreme, Disaster Risks and Human Health in the Era of Mobile Edge Computing Dr. Ong Hong Hoe/ Mr. Luke Jing Yuan, MIMOS, MY
  • Resilient Networking Solutions for Prompt Disaster Recoveries Dr. Shigeki Yamada, NII, JP
• Session 4: Disaster Information Management and Citizen Engagement, Chair: Dr. Fang Pang Lin
  • Panel: Opportunities for Collaborative Research on Disaster Management Cyberinfrastructure
  • Ad-hoc match-making workgroups on “Collaborative Disaster Management Research Planning”
• Session 5: Interactions, Chair: Ms. Jelina Tetangco
  • Engaging Citizens in Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Using Agos-eBayanihan Platform, Dr. Reena Estuar, Ateneo de Manila Univ., PH
  • An Information Interface for Disaster Management Professionals - DADm Dr. Jason Haga, AIST, JP
  • Short presentations from participants
• Student session
  • Practicality and Feasibility of Improving Linux Container Utilization with Task Rebalancing Strategy, Pongsakorn U-chupala Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Joint APAN PRAGMA Session

• PRAGMA-ENT: Exposing SDN Concepts to Domain Scientists in the Pacific Rim, Kohei Ichikawa (NAIST, Japan), Matthew Collins (University of Florida, USA)
• Biodiversity Expedition: Virtualizing Lifemapper, Nadya Williams (UCSD, USA)
• A “Room Scheduler” for running experiments across the PRAGMA multi-cloud environment, Shava Smallen (UCSD, USA)
• Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) Overview, Phil Papadopoulos (UCSD, USA)

January 28

• Welcome Message from the Local Host, Denis Villorente, ASTI
• PRAGMA Updates, Peter Arzberger, PRAGMA Chair
• Keynote Message, Prof. Sureswaran Ramadass, Former APAN Chair
• Working Group Updates
  • Resources
  • Bioscience
  • Telescience
• Demos
  • Agent-Based Transport Simulation Model for Disaster Response Vehicles, Elvira Yaneza, Xavier University, Philippines
  • Distcloud Distributed File System for Resilient Global Services, Ikuo Nakagawa, Osaka University
  • Toward Flexible and Efficient Computing Resource Service by SDN-enhanced Job Management System Framework, Yasuhiro Watashiba, NAIST

• Joint APAN and PRAGMA Plenary

• Poster Session
  • Thermophysical Properties from Nucleation Simulations, Zamantha Nadir Z. Martin
  • Student Presentation Computational Search for Druggable Sites: Solvation and Structural Studies on 3ZR9 New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase, NDM-1, Mark Anthony P. Lim
  • In silico Characterization of the Venus Flytrap Module of Venus Kinase Receptors from Various Sources, Darwin C. Gomez
  • Molecular Dynamics Study on Engineered Industrially Important Proteins, Adam Jo Elatico
  • Updates on Studies in the Seven Lakes, Philippines, Teresita Perez
  • Operation Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) in ASTI: Making forecast data accessible for disaster risk reduction and scientific research, Jay Samuel Combinido
  • Evaluation of Multipath TCP(s) response to latency in wide-area software-defined networks, Chawanat Nakasan
  • Wireless Network Sensing and UAV Imaging as Resource Management Support for Philippine Lakes, Dominic Solpico
  • Practicality and Feasibility of Improving Linux Container Utilization with Task Rebalancing Strategy , Pongsakorn U-chupala
  • Information and Communications Technology Resources of Credit Cooperatives in a Highly Urbanized City, Lemuel Clark Velasco
  • RDA-PRAGMA Sprint - Biodiversity Model Replay, Quan Zhou
  • Data Visualization of Schistosomiasis Community Health Data Using Google Maps and Google Charts, Lemuel Clark Velasco
  • Bio-physical Monitoring of Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur using Environmental Gradients, Fish and Phytoplankton Diversity, Abundance and Distribution, Alvin Baloloy
  • Enabling Philippine Farmers to Adapt to Climate Variability Using Seasonal Climate and Weather Forecast with a Crop Simulation Model in an SMS-based Farmer Decision Support System, Rhia Trogo-Pantola
  • Variant Calling for 3024 Rice Genomes on IR64 Reference, Detras Jeffrey
  • Structural variant discovery in 3,024 rice genomes, Roven Rommel Fuentes
  • Graph-Theoretic Approach on IP Address Autoconfiguration in Manet, Shehab Ibrahim
  • Simulation of the Aerosol Feedback Effect to Metro Manila AirsheD Climate Using WRF/CHEM, Mark Daryl Ramos
  • Smart Socket, Jay Ventura
  • Website Based Flood Monitoring System with SMS Notification, Jay Ventura
  • Smart Cleaning Robot, Jay Ventura
  • Microcontroller based Dextrose Stand Assistant, Jay Ventura
  • Intelligent Watering System, Jay Ventura
  • Automated Utility Robot, Jay Ventura
  • Information Response System for City Emergency Dispatch and Information Control (CEDIC), Elvira Yaneza
• Working Groups Breakout
  • IPOP/Lake expedition updates
  • Pragma_boot for virtual clusters
  • RDA-PRAGMA sprint

January 29

• Keynote Message, Dr. Delfin Jay Sabido, Head of R&D, IBM Systems
• Demos
  • Extending PRAGMA-ENT for End Users using IPOP Overlay Networks, Kyuho Jeong (UF), Kohei Ichikawa, NAIST
  • RDA-PRAGMA Sprint - Biodiversity Model Replay, Quan (Gabriel) Zhou, Indiana University
• Student Session, Quan (Gabriel) Zhou and Pongsakorn U-chapala
• Steering Committee Meeting
• Demos
  • New discoveries in the GLEON-PRAGMA Lake Expedition: modeling advances and scaling up, Renato Figueiredo (UF), Paul Hanson (U of Wisonsin), Cayelan Carey (VTech) and Ken Subratie (UF)
  • Building a persistent PRAGMA Cloud Testbed, Shava Smallen, SDSC/UCSD
• Working Groups Breakout
  • Resources and Bioscience
    • Pragma Experimental Netowrk, Kohei Ichikawa (NAIST), Matthew Collins UF)
    • High Performance Virtual Cluster, Phil Papadopoulos (UCSD/SDSC)
  • Telescience
  • Distance Learning
• Working Group Updates
  • Resources
  • Bioscience
  • Telescience
• Wrap-up/ Closing/ Presentation of PRAGMA 31 Host (Thammasat University) Peter Arzberger, Nan Rattanatamrong