S1

Data and sensor networks and environmental modelling

(Robert Argent, Gerald Schimak and Nigel Quinn)

[linked with W1]

S2

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

(Carlo Gualtieri and Dragutin T.Mihailovic)

S3

ICTs, Economic Development and the Knowledge Economy

(Les Oxley)

S4

Intelligent Environmental Decision Support Systems

(Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Joaquim Comas, Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Karina Gibert, Rick Sojda, Peter Struss, Jean Philippe Steyer and Virgínia Brilhante)

[related to W4]

S5

Monitoring strategies and spatial distribution of processes in models for natural resources management on different scales - vision and reality

(Martin Volk and Ulrike Bende-Michl)

S6

Integrated Catchment Management: How can modelling tools and techniques help?

(D. N. Lerner, C. W. Anderson, B. Harris, A. Holzkaemper, B. Surridge and V. Kumar)

[related to W6]

S7

Community modeling, data and model interoperability

(Alexey Voinov, Chris Duffy, David Arctur, Ilya Zaslavsky and Ralf Seppelt)

[linked with W7]

S8

Integrated modelling of the land system

(Rüdiger Schaldach and Jennifer Koch)

[related to W8]

S9 => CANCELLED

Integrated modelling and analysis for regional landscape planning decisions

(Brett Bryan and Neville Crossman)

[related to W8]

S10

Participatory and Conceptual Modelling – Making Models Amenable to Stakeholders’ Concerns

(Jaroslav Myšiak, Raffaele Giordani, Carlo Giupponi, Farmani Raziyeh, Nigel Quinn, Carmel A. Pollino, Anthony J. Jakeman and Piotr Magnuszewski [to be confirmed])

[linked with W10]

S11

Bridging the gaps between design and use: evaluating decision and information support tools

(Brian S. McIntosh, Carlo Giupponi, Keith Matthews and Martin van Ittersum)

[linked with W11]

S12

Routine checks of model consistency: methodology and information technologies

(Georgii A. Alexandrov)

S13

OpenMI applications and innovations

(Roger Moore and Peter Gijsbers)

[linked with W13]

S14

Environmental modeling applications towards quality of life information services

(Kostas Karatzas)

S15

Renewable resources use for energy production

(Giorgio Guariso, Riccardo Minciardi, Roberto Sacile, Michela Robba and Giulia Fiorese)

S16

Modelling and Support tools for management and treatment of the integrated wastewater system

(Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Krist V. Gernaey, Eduardo Ayesa, Joaquim Comas, Manel Poch, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Ulises Cortés, Ion Irizar, Jean Philippe Steyer, Juan M. Lema, Mark van Loodstrecht and Gürkan Sin)

[related to W6]

S17

Modelling and simulation of dangerous phenomena, and innovative techniques for hazard evaluation, mapping, mitigation

(Giulio Iovine, Michael Sheridan, Manuel Pastor and Hirdy Miyamoto)

[related to W12]

S18

Environmental Informatics: History and Current Trends

(Werner Pillmann, Bernd Page, Lorenz Hilty, Werner Geiger, Ralf Isenmann and Kristina Voigt)

S19

Interaction Design for Environmental Information Systems

(Daryl Hepting and Steven Frysinger)

S20

Data Mining as a Tool for Environmental Scientists

(Karina Gibert, Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Joaquim Comas, Ioannis Athanasiadis, Joaquín Izquierdo and Geoffrey Holmes)

[linked with W4 and related to S4]

S21

Environmental Modelling and Decision Support Systems

(Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Joaquim Comas, Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Rick Sojda, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Clàudia Turón, Karina Gibert, Ulises Cortés and Manel Poch)

[related to S4]