CALL FOR PAPERS: iEMSs 2010 Session on Intelligent and collaborative
engineering of environmental knowledge: Software platforms, agents and
semantics

Part of the biannual meeting of the International Environmental
Modelling and Software society (iEMSs) will take place in Ottawa,
Canada on July 5 - 8 2010. The theme of the conference is "Modelling
for Environment's Sake" http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010

The session is co-organized by i-SEEK Community, the
International Workshop on "Intelligent Systems for Environmental
(Knowledge) Engineering and EcoInformatics"


Session description:
Models, and to a lesser extent datasets, embody sophisticated
statements of environmental knowledge. Yet, both models and datasets
rarely encode this knowledge in forms that are self-contained enough
to be understood and used - by humans or machines - without the
modeller's mediation. Intelligent and collaborative systems that
exploit semantic technologies, agent-based computing or modern
software engineering principles can provide a remedy to the above
situation.
This session aims to bring together scientists reporting on recent
advances on the field, especially on the following topics:
• Knowledge representation and reasoning for environmental systems
• Collaborative ontology engineering of environmental knowledge
• Semantic annotation and tagging of environmental resources
• Semantic modeling of environmental and ecological processes
• Semantic technologies in environmental sensors networks
• Intelligent agent systems or service oriented systems for
environmental knowledge brokering
• Agreement technologies for agents communication and ontology
evolution in the environmental domain
• Scientific workflows with rich semantics
• Declarative modeling of environmental and ecological processes
• Environmental markup languages and standards
• Environmental ontologies (including epistemological and alignment
issues)
• Semantics for efficient environmental data management
• Intelligent environmental services, tools, and applications


Organizers:
Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial
Intelligence),
Konstantinos Kotis (University of the Aegean),
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial
Intelligence),
Ferdinando Villa (University of Vermont)

Following peer-review, accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

Important dates:
Abstracts submission deadline: November 27, 2009 (Submit at
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010, Session id S21)
Acceptance of abstracts December 31, 2009
Full paper submission for review March 19, 2010