Dear IEMSS members,

It was great to see most of you once again in Ottawa. Sorry some of you did not make it. We are now looking forward to our next conference in Leipzig, July 2--7, 2012.

There are several things in order.

1. You will need to update your status with the society. To do that you need to go to the society web site athttp://www.iemss.org/society/ and login with your username and password. Most likely you will be told that your membership has expired. Click the "renew" button.

If you were at the IEMSS'10 conference choose the "free iEMSs 2010 membership" button.

If you did not make it to the conference, you will need to renew your membership going directly to:http://www.iemss.org/society/index.php?option=com_acctexp&task=subscribe

2. Like after Barcelona we are collecting your reflections and opinions about our latest conference in Ottawa. Since the blog on our iemss web site does not seem to perform securely, we are using the "posterous" functionality to collect your opinions.
Please go to http://iemss.posterous.com/
to share your impressions about the conference. You can also do it by simply sending an e-mail to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Looking forward to hear what you liked at the conference and what could be made better.

If you have any suggestions about the Web Conference Management Tool (WCMT) that we use, please go directly to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wcmt/
and then go to Support -> Tracker and choose Bugs or Feature Requests.

All this should very helpful for planning and running our next conference in Leipzig.

3. There is a couple of new IEMSS threads announced:
- COMPLEXITY AND FEEDBACKS IN SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
- ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONCEPT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT.

If you would like to suggest any other threads to keep in touch with your colleagues in between the conferences, please send an e-mail to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

4. There are several position papers and Thematic Issues of EMS in the planning as a result of the Ottawa meeting. Please watch our web site for more news and see if you wish to contribute.

5. IEMSS students are starting a student network. If you are a student please get in touch with Francesco < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > or Anna < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >.

6. Documents from the Ottawa meeting (BGM minutes, student network ideas, etc.) are now available for the Society members. Login and go to Documents. We do have a full Board at the moment: all the Board members who happened to be absent in Ottawa have updated their status with the society and are eager to serve for the next term.

Best wishes and, as always, please let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions for the Society.

Alexey

The call for contributions to the upcoming 18th IFAC World Congress that will be held from August 28 to September 2, 2011, in Milano (Italy) are now open.

Authors are invited to submit individual contributions for regular papers, survey papers, industrial papers to our Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems area.

As you know, this event represents the forum of excellence for the exploration of the frontiers in control science and technology, attended by a worldwide audience of scientists and engineers from academia and industry. It offers the most up-to-date and complete view of control techniques, with the widest coverage of application fields.

Important dates are: Submission site opening: June 1, 2010; Submission site closing: September 30, 2010; Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2011; Final paper submission: March 31, 2011.

Further information at http://www.ifac2011.org/

Dear colleagues,

We would like to share very good news with you: the impact factor of the EMS journal has again increased during the last year. Thus, in 2009 the journal's IF is 3.085.

We hope to receive even more interesting and novel submissions from you!

Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment
4th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR'10)
Alcala de Henares, October 20-October 22, 2010
http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/
http://www.athanasiadis.info/mtsr10/


AIM & TOPICS

The aim of the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture, Food & Environment
of MTSRí10 is to bring together researchers and practitioners that are working on
agricultural and food & environment knowledge production, organization, and exchange
from a Semantic Web perspective.

It aims to serve as a discussion forum where interested experts will present
the results of their work, and establish liaisons with other groups that are
working on related subjects. In addition, it aims to outline the rich potential
of these subjects as an application field for advanced metadata- and semantic-driven
systems and services.

Topics include but are not limited to contributions dealing with the following issues
in the context of agriculture, food & environment:
* Information standards and specifications
* Metadata schemas and application profiles
* Multilingual vocabularies, taxonomies, glossaries and thesauri
* Metadata generation, harvesting, and exchange
* Knowledge acquisition, elicitation and extraction
* Infrastructures, systems and services for knowledge organisation
* Knowledge repositories and archives
* Ontology approaches, models, theories, and languages
* Ontology development, integration, lifecycle, and evaluation
* Management of large ontology-driven knowledge bases

IMPORTANT DATES

1 July 2010: Paper submission (EXTENDED)
15 July 2010: Acceptance notification
30 July 2010: Camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers
20-22 October 2010: MTSR'10 in in Alcala de Henares, Spain

SUBMISSIONS

Interested authors can submit either full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages)
about complete or ongoing research. Papers should be original and not previously submitted
to other venues. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Book style:
http://www.springer.com/authors/book+authors?SGWID=0-154102-12-417900-0

Please indicate in the abstract or title of the submission that it is intended for
the Special Track on Metadata and Semantics for Agriculture,Food & Environment.

Submission is available through the EasyChair submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=mtsr2010

If you haven't an EasyChair account yet, you'll be asked to create it before you can access the MTSR'10 page. 

PUBLICATION

Springer will publish MTSR'10 accepted papers in the form a book in the CCIS Series.
In addition, best papers will be selected for publishing revised versions in the form of
a Special Issue at an International Journal.

The proceedings of the previous Special Session on Agricultural Metadata & Semantics for
Agriculture, Food & Environment at MTSR'09 have been published in Vol.46 of the CCIS Series
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/l14141/?p=363466d59cde4af4b4d024c2a9e0730fπ=0).

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS

* Nikos Manouselis, Greek Research & Technology Network (Greece)
* Ioannis Athanasiadis, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Switzerland)
* Johannes Keizer, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Italy)



ABOUT MTSRí10

The  4th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'10)
will be hosted by the University of Alcal·, Spain from 20th to 22th of October, 2010.
The beautiful and historical city of Alcala is a UNESCO's World Heritage Site
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcal%C3%A1_de_Henares), very close to Madrid.

MTSR'10 targets researchers and practitioners from the fields of metadata and semantics
research as, well as applications of the Semantic Web and related technologies.

See http://www.ieru.org/org/mtsr2010/ for more details on travelling and accomodation.