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Program Information
Conference Details
The conference will begin on Tuesday, May 22 at 9:00 am at the Crowne Plaza. Registration will be available beginning at 8:00 am.
The meeting room will be equipped with the following:
- overhead projector
- computer/video projection
- flip-charts
There will be a reception on Tuesday, May 22 in the evening. ISESS, the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Masaryk University and Charles University are co-sponsoring the reception. It will be held at Villa Lanna (http://www.cs.cas.cz/~fiedler80/villalanna.html). A light menu of foods will be served, and Moravian wines will be supplied. Directions to Villa Lanna will be provided. The reception will begin at 7:30.
Wednesday, May 23 will begin at 9:00 am and conclude at approximately 1:30 pm. The attendees will have the rest of the afternoon off to explore the area. There are no social activities are planned.
Thursday, May 24 will begin at 9:00 am and will conclude at approximately 5:30 pm. The conference banquet will be held that evening, beginning at 7:00 pm and is included in attendee registration. Please note that guests and students will need to purchase a ticket for the banquet.
Any payments made at the Conference site must be in Cash in Euros.
Friday, May 25 will begin at 9:00 am and the workshop will conclude at approximately 2:00 pm.
Breaks will be served every morning and with lunch and an afternoon break provided on Tuesday and Thursday.
Please consult this ISESS 2007 web site for updates regarding the program.
ISESS 2007 - Program
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
| 08:00 |
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| 08:30 |
| 09:00 |
David Swayne, Co-Chair, ISESS, University of Guelph
Opening Session Welcome Greetings
Rut Bizkova, Deputy Minister of Ministry of the Environment, Czech Republic,
Jiri Wiedermann, Director, Academy of Sciences,
Antonin Kucera, Vice Dean, Charles University Representative |
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| 09:30 |
Márta Nagy-Rothengass, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, ICT for Sustainable Growth Unit
Plenary Session: Enabling environmental knowledge and services in Europe through ICT research |
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| 10:00 |
Jiri Hrebicek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Keynote
Environmental Information Space in Europe. Theory and Practice |
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| 10:30 |
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| 11:00 |
Session Chair: Gerald Schimak
Next Generation of Environmental Information and Risk Management Systems (EIS/RMS) |
| | | 1 | Thomas Uslander
Service-oriented Architecture for Environmental Risk Management Applications |
| | | 2 | Gerald Schimak
Meta-information – A basic instrument in developing an Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management |
| | | 3 | Bastien Affeltranger
IT for risk and emergency management: Consolidating methodologies for user-centred design |
| | | 4 | Torill Hamre
Interoperable GMES services for environmental risk management in marine and coastal areas (InterRisk) |
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Session Chair: Jiri Hrebicek
ICT Tools for Ecological and Human Risk Assessment |
| | | 1 | Jiri Jarkovsky
Type Specific and Multi-Metric Model for Evaluation of Ecological State of Surface Waters: Case Study of ARROW Project of WFD EU Implementation in the Czech Republic |
| | | 2 | Jaroslav Racek
Predictive Modeling of Biological Communities in Biomonitoring Network: Case Study of ARROW Project of WFD EU Implementation in the Czech Republic |
| | | 3 | Robert Stewart
SADA: A Freeware Decision Support Tool Integrating GIS, Sample design, Spatial Modeling and Risk Assessment |
| | | 4 | Fred Dolislager
The Risk-Assessment Information System (RAIS): Insights from the Evolution of an Online Region-Specific Tool to an International Environmental Risk Assessment Center |
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| 11:30 |
| 12:00 |
| 12:30 |
| 13:00 |
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| 13:30 |
| 14:00 |
Session Chair: Gerald Schimak
Next Generation of Environmental Information and Risk Management Systems (EIS/RMS) |
| | | 1 | Clemens Dupmeier
Novel Approaches to Integrating External Systems in Environmental Information Systems, Illustrated by the Example of the Theme Park Environment |
| | | 2 | Claus Muckschel
Web based information systems in environmental research projects |
| | | 3 | Matt Williams
Supporting interoperable interpolation: the INTAMAP approach |
| | | 4 | Iosifescu Enescu
Cartographic Functionalities for Risk Management |
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Session Chair: Jiri Hrebicek
ICT Tools for Ecological and Human Risk Assessment |
| | | 1 | Arno Scharl
The Climate Change Collaboratory – A Community Portal Based on Geospatial Web Technology |
| | | 2 | Tomás Metelka
“SCIER” – Sensor & Computing Infrastructure for Environmental Risks |
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| 14:30 |
| 15:00 |
| 15:30 |
| 16:00 |
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| 16:30 |
Session Chair: Gerald Schimak
Next Generation of Environmental Information and Risk Management Systems (EIS/RMS) |
| | | 1 | Ioannis Dokas
Ontology to Support Knowledge Representation and Risk Analysis for the Development of Early Warning System in Solid Waste Management Operations |
| | | 2 | Domenico Gendarmi
Water Protection Information Management by Syntactic and Semantic Interoperability of Heterogeneous Repositories |
| | | 3 | Ulrich Bugel
Application of Semantic Services in ORCHESTRA |
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| 17:00 |
| 17:30 |
| 18:00 |
| 18:30 |
| 19:00 |
| 19:30 |
| Reception - The Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Masaryk University, Charles University, Czech Software First, Maplesoft, Znovin Winery are co-sponsoring the reception. It will be held at Villa Lanna (http://www.cs.cas.cz/~fiedler80/villalanna.html). A light menu of foods will be served, and Moravian wines will be supplied. Directions to Villa Lanna will be provided. |
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| 20:00 |
| 20:30 |
| 21:00 |
| 21:30 |
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 |
| 08:30 |
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| 09:00 |
Ralf Denzer
Keynote
Environmental Information Infrastructures in Europe – Where are we? What next? And what then? |
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| 09:30 |
| 10:00 |
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| 10:30 |
Session Chair: Gerald Schimak
Next Generation of Environmental Information and Risk Management Systems (EIS/RMS) |
| | | 1 | Denis Havlik
(Sensors Anywhere) Integrated Project |
| | | 2 | Daniel Nicklass
From Measurement Data to Environmental Information: MARQUIS – A Multimodal AiR QUality Information Service for the General Public |
| | | 3 | Gerhard Smiatek
Implementation of an operational flooding warning system for an alpine catchment with a state and event driven system |
| | | 4 | Jean Jacques Serrano
Risk Assessment for the Road Network in the French-Italian Border Region Using Web Services |
| | | 5 | Christian Alegre
WIN: a new Service Oriented Architecture for risk management |
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Session Chairs: Andrea E. Rizzoli, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Virginia Brilhante
Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Environmental Modelling |
| | | 1 | Virginia Brilhante
Rule-Based Mapping of Ontology-Annotated Data in System Dynamics Conceptual Model Structures |
| | | 2 | Julia Strauch
Use of Ontology of Models in Scientific Model Management |
| | | 3 | Judith Janssen
Use of Fuzzy Set Modeling in Assessment of River Management Measures: Dealing with Qualitative Knowledge and Uncertainties |
| | | 4 | Hongtao Li
Development and Application of a Component-based Generic Farm System Simulator Implementing a Semantically Enriched Integrated Modelling Framework |
| | | 5 | Jan Zizka
Identification of Pollution Sources by Machine-Learning Approach |
| | | 6 | Manuel Canton
Towards an Automatic Interpretation of Ocean Satellites Images by means of Artificial Intelligence Techniques |
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| 11:00 |
| 11:30 |
| 12:00 |
| 12:30 |
| 13:00 |
| 13:30 |
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| 14:00 |
| 14:30 |
| 15:00 |
| 15:30 |
| 16:00 |
| 16:30 |
Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| 09:00 |
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Session Chairs: Daniel P. Ames, Gerry Laniak
Open Source GIS and Environmental Modeling Systems |
| | | 1 | Daniel Ames
Free and Open Source GIS Applications in Environmental Modeling |
| | | 2 | Jaroslav Hofierka
Open Source Solar Radiation Tools for Environmental and Renewable Energy Applications |
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| 09:30 |
| 10:00 |
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| 10:30 |
Session Chair: Kostas D. Karatzas
Environmental Engineering Education and Presentation of Environmental Information to Non Scientists |
| | | 1 | Leo Wanner
On the Challenge of Creating and Communicating Air Quality Information: A Case Study for Environmental Engineers |
| | | 2 | Sarah Lindley
Maps as tools for moorland wildfire management – smoke and mirrors? |
| | | 3 | Matejicek Lubos
Presentation of environmental information to public with spatial information systems |
| | | 4 | Nigel Quinn
An environmental monitoring data management system for providing stakeholder assurances toward meeting contaminant mass loading policy objectives |
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Session Chairs: Daniel P. Ames, Gerry Laniak
Open Source GIS and Environmental Modeling Systems |
| | | 1 | Ari Jolma
Geoinformatica: a modeling platform built on FOSS |
| | | 2 | Helena Mitasova
Environmental Data Management, Analysis and Modeling in GRASS6 |
| | | 3 | Eric Rafn
Open Source GIS and the BASINS Watershed Modeling System |
| | | 4 | Luis Leon
WaterBase: Prototype of Open Source Toolkit for Environmental Modeling using SWAT in MapWindows |
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| 11:00 |
| 11:30 |
| 12:00 |
| 12:30 |
| 13:00 |
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| 13:30 |
| 14:00 |
Session Chair: Robert Argent
Software Tools and Component-Based Environmental Modelling |
| | | 1 | Roberto Paiano
GENSIS-D: Global Environmental Network System of Information for Sustainable Development |
| | | 2 | Robert Argent
Software Structure for Multi-Paradigm Environmental Modelling Frameworks |
| | | 3 | Wolfgang Loibl
A web-based metadata reporting tool as backbone for a spatial data warehouse |
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Session Chairs: Daniel P. Ames, Gerry Laniak
Open Source GIS and Environmental Modeling Systems |
| | | 1 | Ted Dunsford
A New, Faster, Scalable PitFill Algorithm |
| | | 2 | Peter Fischer-Stabel
The Environmental Noise Directive (2002/49/EG): User Requirements to Web Map-(WMS) and Web Feature-Services (WFS) on a Federal Level |
| | | 3 | Kurt Wolfe
Data for Environmental Modeling (D4EM): Background and Example Applications of Data Automation |
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| 14:30 |
| 15:00 |
| 15:30 |
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| 16:00 |
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Session Chairs: Daryl Hepting, Steven Frysinger
Human Factors in Enviromatics |
| | | 1 | Daryl Hepting
Information Technology in Support of Sustainable Food Choices |
| | | 2 | Daryl Hepting
Discovery of Usability Patterns in Support of Green Purchasing |
| | | 3 | Thomas Vogele
An Effort to Achieve Organizational Interoperability of Environmental Information – PortalU and the Environmental Information Infrastructure in Germany |
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| 16:30 |
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| 18:30 |
| 19:00 |
| Conference Banquet - This will be a buffet style meal, with at least one non-meat option. Place to be announced. This meal is included in your conference registration. |
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| 19:30 |
| 20:00 |
| 20:30 |
| 21:00 |
| 21:30 |
| 22:00 |
| 22:30 |
Friday, May 25, 2007 |
| 09:00 |
Jaroslav Pokorný, Charles University, Czech Republic
Keynote
Data streams: another step towards processing environmental data |
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| 09:30 |
| 10:00 |
Session Chair: David A.B. Swayne
Distributed and Parallel Environmental Modelling Paradigms |
| | | 1 | Dave Swayne
Parallel Implementations of the Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) Algorithm |
| | | 2 | Markiyan Sloboda
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to Calibrate Environmental Process Models |
| | | 3 | Jiri Komprda
The Application of a Steady and Unsteady State Environmental Distribution Models on Environmental Concentrations of PAHs Measured in Kosetice CZ-3 Station between 1996 and 2004 |
| | | 4 | Tomas Hudik
PAH Source Identification Using Various Matrix Factorization and Clustering Models |
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| 10:30 |
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| 13:00 |
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| Wrap-Up, Final Reports, Awards |
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| 14:00 |
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