Systems Architecture for Statistical Applications
25 January 2006 10:30 - 18:00
Registration from 10am
RSS, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX
One-day meeting organised by the RSS Statistical Computing Section and the Association of Survey Computing.
Usability is a primary concern when designing any piece of software. But there are deeper issues in the design and architecture of systems which affect their long-term usefulness. Most casual users will not notice these issues, but they affect those who use systems in more advanced ways, and they affect the long-term viability of systems.
Examples of issues include:
* Ease of maintenance and enhancement of the system
* Portability between different computing platforms
* Interoperability with other systems
* User extensibility
Recent decades have seen a number of important ideas developing in the disciplines around computer science, ranging from the Object Paradigm, through portable languages such as Java, to component designs and web services over the internet. Alongside have been proposals for design methodologies, leading to the Unified Modelling Language (UML). How have our current statistical and survey systems taken up these ideas, and how well does their architecture support various requirements for flexibility and extensibility?
Introduction and Overview
ANDREW WESTLAKE (Survey & Statistical Computing)
R: Open and Extensible Software for Statistical Data Analysis
FRIEDRICH LEISCH (TU Vienna)
Evolution or Intelligent Design? An objective view of software development
STEVE JENKINS (Snap surveys)
Model representation in WinBUGS: The virtual graph
DAVID LUNN (Imperial College London)
Battling entropy: the development of the MLwiN statisical modelling package
JON RASBASH (Bristol University)
Developing GenStat into the 21st century
ROGER PAYNE & SIMON HARDING (VSN International)
Building distributed statistical services using XML and RDF
JOSTEIN RYSSEVIK
Fees:
£27 for RSS CStats/GradStats
£30 for RSS Fellows/ASC members
£40 for non RSS Fellows/non ASC members
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Paul Gentry
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Royal Statistical Society
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