cfp in i-seek09 special issue

Dear Friends,

 

We would like to remind you that in the context of i-SEEK’09 Workshop (organized in conjunction with CISIS’09 Conference) a related call for papers of an international journal (special issue) has been prepared (please find the call attached below or attached to this mail). Also, we would like to inform you that we are currently preparing a new call for papers for i-SEEK 2010 Workshop that will be held in Krakow, Poland (http://www.icsd.aegean..gr/kotis/i-seek10/).

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Konstantinos

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Dr. Konstantinos Kotis
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/kotis

AI-Lab ,
Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng.,
School of Sciences,
University of the Aegean

Karlovassi, Samos
83200 Greece
Tel.  +30 22730 89150
Fax. +30 22730 82009
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Call for Papers

 

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems

(IJAEIS)

 

 

Special Issue on

 

“Intelligent Systems for Engineering Environmental Knowledge and EcoInformatics”

 

 

Aims and scope

This special issue deals with Informatics in Ecology and Environmental science, integrating environmental and information sciences. EcoInformatics focus not only on the creation of tools to access and analyze natural system data but also to facilitate environmental research and management by developing ways to access and integrate databases of environmental information, and to develop new algorithms enabling different environmental datasets to be combined to test ecological hypotheses. EcoInformatics deal with the semantics of natural systems’ knowledge, and thus, related research efforts are closely associated to Knowledge Representation. Examples of key research areas of EcoInformatics are:

 

-         Technology assisted systematic collection of data

-         Easy access to relevant information (data and analysis), requiring interoperability and integration across formats (syntax) and concepts (semantics)

-         Development of conceptual and computational frameworks for advanced modelling and analysis (e.g. complex ecosystems)

-         Visualization and communication of analysis results and scenarios

 

The amount of data, the heterogeneity of data sources, the complexity and diversity of knowledge and terminology within environmental engineering are key obstacles for successful interdisciplinary studies. For example, for a typical modelling assignment a researcher needs to acquire knowledge of individual computational models, search, gather and analyze raw data, ensure their high quality, transform these data into formats compatible to the computation models that he or she is to use, and then finally perform the modelling. This process may take several days to months.

To address these problems, the specification and use of semantics are major issues.  Semantics can be understandable to both humans and machines, improving data/knowledge sharing and integration. Semantics may provide meaning to several domain concepts, describe a variety of domain/task models, and clarify the meaning and use of data and services in environmental engineering tasks. As it can be understood, ontologies is the key technology towards addressing these goals. Having solved these problems, we believe that we shall considerably advance towards the development of intelligent systems that meet environmental engineering challenges.

            Based on the above description, we seek innovative work that can demonstrate intelligent applications and technologies which exploit semantics to solve environmental engineering and ecoInformatics problems. Furthermore, we seek innovative work that can demonstrate tools/systems focusing on the efficient management and integration of environmental and ecological data, semantics and knowledge.

 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

·         Knowledge Engineering in the Environmental/Ecological domain

·         Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Environmental/Ecological Education

·         Environmental/Ecological terminology

·         Engineering environmental/ecological semantics

·         Semantics for efficient environmental/ecological data management

·         Environmental/ecological data integration using semantics

·         Environmental/ecological semantics integration

·         Engineering environmental/ecological applications using semantics

·         Semantic frameworks for environmental/ecological systems

·         Semantics-based decision support environmental/ecological systems

·         Environmental/ecological awareness content and applications with semantics support

·         Semantic technologies in environmental/ecological sensors networks

 

 

Submission Details

Submissions should include a PDF version of the manuscript and should be sent both to kotis@... and pfox@.... When preparing your manuscript, please refer to the Journal Paper Guidelines (http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp). All authors need to prepare high-quality submissions describing innovative work that addresses any of the related topics, that is not under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference.

 

Authors whose work was already accepted for presentation in the i-SEEK09 Workshop are highly encouraged to submit extended versions of their work where they shall also address the concerns of the reviewers and any other comments/suggestions made by audients during papers’ presentations in Japan. These submissions should also include an additional document that clearly state the extended material (further research conducted, new results obtained, etc) and the reviewers’/audients comments/suggestions addressed.

 

For any further inquiries please contact kotis@....

 

Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Deadline:                      30 July 2009

Notification of Conditional Acceptance:              21 Sept. 2009

Submission of Revised Manuscript Deadline:     30 Oct. 2009

 

Guest Editors

Deborah L. McGuinness (dlm@...)
Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

George A. Vouros (georgev@...)

Professor, Univ. of the Aegean, Head of AI-Lab, Greece

 

Konstantinos Kotis (kotis@...)

Univ. of the Aegean, Ai-Lab, Greece

 

Peter Fox (pfox@...)

National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA

 

 

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Dr. Konstantinos Kotis
http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/kotis

AI-Lab
Dept. of Information and Communication Systems Eng.
School of Sciences
University of the Aegean

Karlovassi, Samos
83200 Greece
Tel.  +30 22730 89150
Fax. +30 22730 82009
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P Please consider the environment before printing this email

 

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