Call for Papers ITEE�2003
General Information:
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Acquisition, storage and processing of environmental information are becoming vital to
preserving the quality of human life. Potentially dangerous changes are happening in
the atmosphere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous materials are used,
or have been discarded without adequate environmental protections. Terrorist attacks
on buildings, water supplies and agricultural production and processing facilities,
including the introduction of new, more virulent forms of animal diseases like
anthrax, or spreading contamination in the form of nuclear waste could constitute
potentially the most damaging environmental threat of our times.
In recent decades public interest in environmental problems has increased enormously,
and research into these subjects has been intensifying. At the same time developments
in computer and network techniques have led to the creation of sophisticated
information systems with increased storage and transmission capacities. Such data can
often be accessed by the public using the internet; and the public has become a very
concerned participant in discussions about the environment.
In recent years, information technology has become significant to all scientific
groups and fields involved in environment engineering. Knowledge based systems which
enable the study of environmental changes have been developed, are being extended to
manage those environments. New paradigms for designing objects to enable easy
disassembly and recovery of components contribute to reuse. Developments in exploiting
alternative energy sources are reducing dependence on non-renewable resources.
Surveillance techniques enable tracking of persons likely to threaten the lives of
persons or their environment.
How can these developments be enhanced?
Further advance is going to be possible only if scientific teams have adequate
experience, methods and tools for investigation of the changes in the environment.
Success requires a high level of organization both related to technical as well as
scientific and human aspects of information handling.
The ITEE 2003 conference will provide a forum for exchanging information among
pollution engineers, knowledge engineers and scientists. Some of the objectives
include discussion of projects for long term storage of data, data update and
validation, and the consistency of data. Research topics and funding opportunities
discussed at the conference will be of interest to all researchers. Another objective
is to discuss means of assessing the potential of individual teams in implementation
and modelling of large scale systems.
Organizing Committee:
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Achim Sydow (Honorary General Chair)
Cezary Orlowski Ph.D (General Chair)
Technical University of Gdansk
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http://www.zie.pg.gda.pl/~cor
Edward Szczerbicki (Co-Chair)
University of Newcastle
Mechanical Engineering
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Administration and Finance:
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NAISO Operating Division The Netherlands
Congress Topics:
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Topics of Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE'2003)
1. Tools and measurement techniques
. Water and air pollution measuring
. Continuous monitoring of gaseous and particulate pollutants using
state-of-the-art monitoring equipment
. Monitoring of meteorological parameters, dust, wet and dry deposition
2. Formal methods and data processing techniques
. Pollution engineering and management
. Air quality management
. Environmental and water resource engineering
. Process studies
. Chemistry of air pollution
. Urban and suburban transport emissions
. Data assimilation and sensitivity analysis
. Data management
. Data access via the Internet
. Coupling of models and databases
. Updating of model calculation during run-time
. Data visualisation
. Data interchange formats and standards
. Geographic information systems
. Comparison of modelling with experiments
. Data analysis and observation
. Data processing and verification, including database management
. Data security - data mining
. Management and Distribution of Electrical Energy
. Power Distribution Systems
3. Modelling and simulation problems
. Modelling of atmospheric chemical kinetics (gas and aqueous phases)
. Chemical transformation modelling
. Aerosol modelling
. Mesoscale meteorology
. Urban scale meteorology
. Emission models
. Coupling with radioactive effects
. Numerical simulation of transport
. Numerical simulation of atmospheric chemical kinetics
. Inverse modelling
. Ground water pollution modelling
. Water pollution modelling and prediction
. Urban pollution modelling
. Models for ground water (groundwater), surface water, storm water
. Risk and environmental modelling
. Soft modelling
4. Information systems
. System management
. Agent-based systems
. Planning for environmental engineering (EE)
. Intelligent systems for environmental engineering (EE)
. Artificial intelligence and expert systems for environmental engineering (EE)
. Architectures for building the systems
. Knowledge based integration
. Distributed computing environments
. WWW-based for EE systems
. Decision support systems - distributed systems
5. Practical applications and experiences
. Practical solutions
. Systematic guide-lines
. Case studies, pilot projects and experiments
. Applications in the cities
. Application in agriculture
International Program Committee:
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Janet Aisbett
University of Newcastle, Australia
Peter G. Anderson
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Andrzej Bargiela
The Nottingham Trent University, U.K.
Carlos Borrego
University of Aveiro, Portugal
Contantine P. Yialouris
Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece
Nigel Crook
Oxford Brookes University, U. K.
Bogdan Dlugogorski
University of Newcastle, Australia
Kurt Fedra
ESS, Austria
Bogdan Gabrys
The University of Paisley, Scotland, U.K.
Raul H. Gallard
Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Greg Gibbon
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Jorge Marx Gomez
Otto-von-Guerike Universitat-Magdeburg, , Germany
Zdzislaw Gomolka
Uniwersytet Szczecinski (Szczecin University), Poland
Janusz Gorski
Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
Adam Grzech
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
A. Gunasekaran
University of Massachusetts, USA
Alain B. Haurie
Universite de Geneve Enewa, Switzerland
Isabelle Herlin
INRIA, France
Wassili Kazakos
FZI - Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
Damian Kennedy
Monash University, Australia
Gerlinde Knetsch
Federal Environmental Agency, Germany
Gerd Kock
GMD FIRST, Germany
Zdzislaw Kowalczuk
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Bernard Kubiak
University of Gdansk , Poland
David G. Malcolm
Canadian Circumpolar Institute, Canada
Eleni E. Mangina
University College Dublin, Ireland
Stefano Marsili-Libelli
University of Florence, Italy
Eduardo Massad
University of S�o Paulo, Brazil
Stanislaw Massel
Institut of Oceanology, Poland
John A. Meech
University of British Columbia, Canada
Mieczyslaw Metzger
Instytut Automatyki, Poland
Nicolas S. Moussiopoulos
Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
Jacek Namiesnik
Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
Guy M. Nicoletti
University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, USA
Maria Orlowska
The University of Queensland, Australia
Jozef M. Pacyna
Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Norway
Bernd Page
Universit�t Hamburg, Germany
Mark Plumbley
University of London 'Queen Mary', U.K.
Theodor D. Popescu
National Insitute for Research &, Romania
Claus Rautenstrauch
University of Magdeburg, Germany
Martin Schreiber
Universit�t L�neburg, Germany
Alexander Sideridis
Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece
Hartmut Streuff
BMU, Bonn, Germany
Helena Szczerbicka
Universitaet Bremen Germany
Ambalavanar (Rajah) Tharumarajah
CSIRO Manufacturing Science&Technology, Australia
Klaus Tochtermann
KNOW-Center, Graz / FAW, Ulm, Austria
Andrzej Tubielewicz
University of Gdansk, Poland
Kristina Voigt
GSF Oberschleissheim, Germany
Zoran Vukic
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Zofia Wilimowska
Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
H.-J. Zimmermann
RWTH Aachen, Germany
Uwe R. Zimmer
Australian National University, Australia
Scientific Program:
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ITEE 2003 will include invited plenary talks, contributed sessions, invited sessions,
workshops and tutorials. Updated information available on ITEE home page:
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/itee2003
Special Events:
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Confirmed Plenary Speeches:
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* Stanislaw R. Massel: �Measurments, Data Processing and Modelling in the Modern
Marine Studies�
* Jozef M. Pacyna: �THE DPSIR Framework as a Scientific Support for Policy Response
and Management Options in the Coastal Zone�
Confirmed Keynote Speech:
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* A. Sydow: �Simulation Software for Air pollution Management�
Confirmed Tutorials:
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* Peter G. Anderson: �Genetic Algorithms�
* Kurt Fedra: �Urban Environmental Management: towards the City of Tomorrow�
Confirmed Invited Sessions:
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* Isabelle Herlin (DECAIR)
* Special Session on Applications of Information Technologies in Fire Safety
Call for Invited Sessions:
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The organization of invited sessions is encouraged. Prospective organizers are
requested to send a session proposal - consisting of 4-5 invited papers - to the
general chair and respective area co-chair. Invited sessions should preferably start
with the title and the purpose of the session and a tutorial paper. The registration
fee of the session organizer will be waived, if at least 4 authors of invited papers
register to the conference.
Poster Presentations:
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Poster presentations are encouraged for people who wish to receive peer feedback, and
practical examples of applied researchare particularly welcome. Poster sessions will
allow the presentation and discussion of respective papers, which will also be
included in the conference proceedings.
Call for Workshops, Tutorials and other Contributions:
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Several workshops/tutorials are planned for ITEE 2003. Each workshop/tutorial will
focus on a particular topic, and consist of several presentations and open
discussions. The proposal for a workshop/tutorial should include the title, topics
covered, proposed speakers, targeted audiences, and estimated length (hours) of the
workshop/tutorial. The proposal should be submitted to the general chair and
respective area co-chair by September 30, 2002
Submission of Papers:
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Submission of papers can be done through our web site. If you submit a paper you will
receive a notification e-mail with your paper number. Please use this reference number
in the subject line in all correspondence and send us a draft paper by email for
review by the International Program Committee. Please do not send us any hard copies.
- Submissions have to be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript
(.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format.
- Submissions must be written in English, starting with a succinct statement of the
problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work,
as well as a list of references.
- Submissions can be draft papers or extended abstracts with a minimum of 4 pages.
Important Dates:
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Submission Deadline October 30, 2002
Notification of Acceptance December 31, 2002
Delivery of Manuscripts February 28, 2003
Early bird-registration February 28, 2003
Registration March 31, 2003
Conference June 24 - 27, 2003
Congress Organizer:
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NAISO The Netherlands (Operating Division)
P.O. Box 1091
3360 BB Sliedrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 184 496999
Fax: +31 184 421065
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Operating Division)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Planning Division)
http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/itee2003
