Final Program for ISESS 1997 Symposium
Gerald Schimak
schimak at arcs.ac.at
Sat Apr 19 12:06:00 EST 1997
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F I N A L P R O G R A M
ISESS 1997
Second International Symposium
on
Environmental Software Systems
Whistler, BC, Canada
April 28 to May 1, 1997
(For more details and registration see:
http://cfc.crle.uoguelph.ca/isess97)
(Download an MSWord Version of this announcement, LETTER
format, from: http://www.hd.shuttle.de/eii/isess97_prog.doc)
DAY 1 Monday, April 28, 1997
09.00 - 09.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
1A: OPEN Opening Session (Chairperson: Ralf Denzer)
Welcome and Introduction into ISESS 1997
Ralf Denzer, Hochschule fuer Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes,
Germany
09.30 - 10.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
2A: KEY-I Keynote Lecture I (Chairperson: Dave Swayne)
Atmospheric Environmental Information -
An Overview with Canadian Examples
Ann Mc Millan, Atmospheric Environment Service, Canada
11.00 - 12.30 Mt. Currie Room A
3A: EIS Environmental Information Systems I
(Chairperson: Carol Demas)
A Data Management Strategy for Scientific Research
Ann Roberts, Natural Environment Research Council, Great Britain
Using Active Behaviour in Environmental Monitoring Systems
Johannes Gutleber, Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf, Austria
Automation of Information Support for Environmental Management in the
Republic of Bashkortostan
Vladimir E. Gvozdev, Institute for Applied Ecology and
Natural Resources Use, Russia
11.00 - 12.30 Mt. Currie Room B
3B: MOD-I Modelling and Simulation I
(Chairperson: Bernd Page)
Distributed Individual-Based Environmental Simulation
Mark Scahill, University of Kent at Canterbury, Great Britain
Monte-Carlo Simulation of Rain Water Harvesting Systems
Vikram Vyas, Ajit Foundation, India
The Implementaion and Visualization of a Large Spatial
Individual-Based Model
Tim Hopkins, University of Kent at Canterbury, Great Britain
14.00 - 15.30 Mt. Currie Room A
4A: ECO Ecological and Agricultural Applications
(Chairperson: Vladimir Gvozdev)
Subpixel Mixture Modelling Applied for Vegetation Monitoring
Sonia Bouzidi, INRIA, France
The Wildlife Management System of Schleswig-Holstein - A GIS based
Tool to Monitor Game and Endangered Species
Peter Fischer, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany
Design and Prototype of an Information System for
Regional Ecobalances
Roman Lenz, Fachhochschule Nuertingen, Germany
14.00 - 15.30 Mt. Currie Room B
4B: DSS-I Decision Support Systems I (Chairperson: Martin Purvis)
Development of an Environmental Flows Decision Support System
William J. Young, CSIRO, Division of Water Resources, Australia
Great Lakes Toxic Chemicals Decision Support System
W. G. Booty, National Water Research Institute, Canada
Soil Prediction on a Low Budget? - Ask the Expert!
Martin Ameskamp, Universitaet Kiel, Germany
16.00 - 17.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
5A: TUT Tutorial
Base Technologies for Distributed Environmental Information Systems
Arne Koschel, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
DAY 2 Tuesday, April 29, 1997
08.30 - 09.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
6A: KEY-II Keynote Lecture II (Chairperson: Gerald Schimak)
The Development of Computer Based Watershed Management Systems
David Lam, Environment Canada
10.00 - 11.00 Mt. Currie Room A
7A: META Meta Information (Chairperson: Kenneth Mc Kay)
Data and Metadata Management in Distributed
Environmental Information Systems
Arne Koschel, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
Intelligent Guiding to User Services in Earth Observation and
Environmental Systems
Matthias Zingler, ESA ESRIN, Italy
10.00 - 11.00 Mt. Currie Room B
7B: DSS-II Decision Support Systems II
(Chairperson: Sarah Jennings)
Environmental Problems - A Transnational Solution supporting
Cooperation of all relevant Social Forces
Josef Burgard, DFKI, Germany
Integration of Nonpoint Source Pollution Model with a
Decision Support System
Luis F. Leon, University of Waterloo, Canada
15.00 - 16.00 Mt. Currie Room A
8A: GIS Geographical Information System Applications
(Chairperson: Jim A. Foster)
Machine-based Determination of Conservation in Mexico
Lorrain Giddings, Instituto de Ecologica, Mexico
An Approach to Hypermap-Based Applications
Maria Nelson, University of Waterloo, Canada
15.00 - 16.00 Mt. Currie Room B
8B: MOD-II Modelling and Simulation II
(Chairperson: Rolf Gruetzner)
Integrating Simulation Models into Environmental Information
Systems - Model Analysis
Thomas Clemen, Universitaet Kiel, Germany
Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms for Atmospheric Back-Trajectories
with Application to Long Range Transport of Air Pollution
J. D. MacNeil, University of Guelph, Canada
16.30 - 17.30 Mt. Currie Room A
9A: WWW World Wid Web Applications
(Chairperson: Jacek Gibert)
Inside an Environmental Data Archive WWW Site
Teresa Yow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Management of Distributed and Heterogeneous Resources for
Environmental Administrations
Wolf-Fritz Riekert, FAW Ulm, Germany
19.30 - Infinity Mt. Currie Ball Room: CONFERENCE DINNER
DAY 3 Wednesday, April 30, 1997
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
08.30 - 09.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
10A: KEY-III Keynote Lecture III (Chairperson: Ann Mc Millan)
Environmental Management Information Systems for Production
and Recycling
Lorenz Hilty, FAW Ulm, Germany
10.00 - 11.30 Mt. Currie Room A
11A: IEIP Industrial Environmental Information Processing
(Chairperson: Reiner Guettler)
Developing a Product Safety Database for improved Business
Process Support in Environmental and Safety Affairs
Andreas Schuh, BASF AG, Germany
Development of a Pollution Prevention Tool for Design of
Continous Chemical Processes
D. W. Pennington, Hong-Kong University of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong
Application of Fuzzy Petri Net Simulation for Integrated
Environmental Control of Production Networks
Guido Siestrup, Universitaet Bremen, Germany
10.00 - 11.30 Mt. Currie Room B
11B: MOD-III Modelling and Simulation III
(Chairperson: Robert Argent)
Large Scale Simulation/Optimization Modelling for
Water Resource Allocation in East-Central Florida
Carol Demas, University of Florida, USA
Individual-Oriented Modelling and Simulation for the
Analysis of Complex Environmental Systems
Rolf Gruetzner, Universitaet Rostock, Germany
A Guidance System for Choosing Analytical Contaminant
Transport Models
Lu-Chia Cuang, University of Houston, USA
11.45 - 13.00 Sutcliffe Room B
12A: POS Poster and Software Presentations
(Chairperson: Roman Lenz)
Land Use Decisions and Site Selection: A GIS-based Method
Simon Veitch, Natural Resource Information Centre, Australia
Air Quality Information System
Hossam Allam, CEDARE, Egypt
A Time Series Database for Environmental Data
Guy Halliburton, National Institute of Water &
Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
The World Wide Web as a Two-Way Information Service
Bruce MacDonald, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada
Simple Grid Mapping Software for Resource Management and Education
Aquiles Negrete, Instituto de Ecologica, Mexico
ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE DEMOS TO BE ANNOUNCED
Details tba
14.30 - 16.00 Mt. Currie Room A
13A: EST Environmental Software Tools
(Chairperson: Ernst-Erich Doberkat)
General Purpose Computer-Aided Engineering Tools for
Environmental Software Systems
James H. Garrett, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Environmental Software and Management Questions - Is the
Cart before the Horse
Robert M. Argent, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Australia
An Environmental Impact Assessment Model for Water Resources Screening
Halil Ari, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
14.30 - 16.00 Mt. Currie Room B
13B: OOS Object Oriented Systems (Chairperson: Ruth Swetnam)
Groundwater Modelling Using the Random Walk Method on
Top of Object-Oriented Systems
Andreas Matheja, Universitaet Hannover, Germany
Object-Oriented Specification of Models and Experiments
in Traffic Simulation
Holger Muegge, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
Applying the Object-Oriented Paradigm to Integrated Water
Resource Planning and Management
Jacek Gibert, CSIRO, Australia
16.30 - 17.30 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
14A: STS Special Topic Session (Chairperson: Colin Mayfield)
SPECIAL TOPIC: Global Change
Details tba
SPECIAL TOPIC: UNEP Perspectives
Details tba
DAY 4 Thursday, May 1, 1997
08.00 - 09.00 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
15A: KEY-IV Keynote Lecture IV (Chairperson: Don Cowan)
Neuro-Fuzzy Methods for Environmental Modelling
Martin Purvis, University of Otago, New Zealand
09.30 - 11.00 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
16A: BPI Best Papers of ISESS 1997
(Chairperson: William J. Young)
GIS-Based Risk Assessment of Water Supply Intakes in
the British Uplands
Jim A. Foster, University of Leeds, Great Britain
Re-Engineering the German Integrated System for Measuring and
Assessing Environmental Radioactivity
Ernst-Erich Doberkat, ICD, Germany
Modelling Ecological Change on Set-Aside Arable Land
Using a GIS Approach
Ruth D. Swetnam, The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Great Britain
11.00 - 12.00 Plenary, Mt. Currie Room
17A: CLOSE Closing Panel (Chairperson: David A. Swayne)
Closing Panel
David A. Swayne, University of Guelph, Canada
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