1. Open Science Approaches to Modelling & Simulation
Simon J.E. Taylor, Adedeji Fabiyi, Anastasia Anagnostou
(Brunel University London, UK) Roberto Barbera, Mario Torrisi and Rita Ricceri
(University of Catania, Italy)
Bruce Becker
(CSIR, South Africa)
This work has been partial supported by H2020 GA:

2. E.g. Modelling and Simulation - Research Outputs
Model/simulation in some language/package
Input Data (and model data)
Results (and experiment parameters)
Scientific paper (journal paper/conference paper)
Acknowledgement to funder…
Typically only the scientific paper is “open”
Via self-archiving under a Green Open Access agreement such as a University research archive (e.g. Brunel’s BURA -bura.brunel.ac.uk) after some embargo period,
Via Gold Open Access through a publisher’s website (an associated publishing charge (APC) is usually incurred)
Major exceptions are high quality open access conferences (e.g. Winter Simulation Conference archive ( RARE!

3. Uniqueness
Importantly, a published article typically has a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that is assigned by a publisher via agencies such as CrossRef or DataCite.
A DOI is a persistent digital identifier of an object that can have associated metadata such as a URL linked to the physical location of the object (i.e. the DOI does not change but the associated metadata can).
The unique DOI makes the object (in this case the published paper) both discoverable (searchable), accessible and specifically citable.
The researcher can also have a unique ID (e.g. ORCiD) for similar reasons above
…and many research councils, governments and journals require that you have an ORCiD ID

4. Case study To show how ICT can be used to support Open Science
A group of researchers have developed an agent-based simulation of an infection network in REPAST SIMPHONY
They publish an article paper with the results of their work
They would like to have all the software and results of their work available so that other scientists can verify their results and then build on them
Case study is simulation but this could be potentially any algorithm, software, etc.

5. Taylor, S.J.E. et al. “Demonstrating Open Science for Modeling & Simulation Research” DS-RT 2016 to appear.
Concept Paper

6. So… How do you get scientists to easily (openly) access
Simulations
Models
Data
Computing resources
Store the simulation software, model, data (results) in an Open Access Document Repository assign DOIs
DOI Packages
Access the software via a Science Gateway
“Access” the scientists via ORCiD

7. Links and references to everything….
Me (ORCID)
“Package” (DOI link)
Software (DOI link)
Data (DOI link)
Science Gateway (web link)

8. Submit your documents to a OADR

9. DOI Collection

10. DOI Collection Contents

11. So… How do you get scientists to easily (openly) access
Simulations
Models
Data
Computing resources
Store the simulation software, model, data (results) in an Open Access Document Repository assign DOIs
DOI Packages
Access the software via a Science Gateway

12. Catania Science Gateway Framework Architecture (www
Catania Science Gateway Framework Architecture (
App 1
Grid
App 2
VO a
Africa Grid SG
App 2 …
VO b …
App i
App k
Grid & Cloud Engine
App j
HPC
App k
App x
Cloud …
Tenant a
App x
Tenant b …
App n

25. Finally - Make it all searchable

26. Metrics for the Scientist
Scientiometrics
Bibliometrics to analyse scientific publications
Impact factor, h-index, etc.
Altmetrics
Non-traditional metrics (originally proposed in 2010 and still growing)

27. Altmetrics

28. Impact story – the rise of altmetrics

29. Summary
Open science involves open access to many artefacts produced in research
DOI package of data, results, software, etc.
Open access publishing
DOIs and Open Access Data Repositories are a great foundation for sharing
Sci-GaIA can help set these up – link to altmetrics automatically
Science Gateways can ease access to software by non-experts
Sci-GaIA can help set these up
ORCID provides a unique ID for a researchers
Works can be linked to you
Any questions?