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.

XXXII IDRA Conference

14-17 September, 2010, Palermo, Italy

http://www.idra2010.it/?q=en/node/28

1st Call for Papers

Scope

Provide a comprehensiveoverview and a discussion platform for recent advances and trends currentlyunder development in this cross-cutting field.

Call for papers

Papers dealing with development and concepts ofgeneric and pervasive frameworks, techniques and issues including systemidentification theory and practice, model conception, model integration, modeland/or software evaluation, sensitivity and uncertainty assessment, visualization,scale and regionalization issues are welcome.

Suitable topics for presentations will include:

• key criteria in selecting methods of uncertainty assessment for different model structures and modelling problems;
• practical strategies for uncertainty analysis given environmental models with very large parameter sets, including spatial dimensions or high computing loads;
• development of new methods for explicitly conveying uncertainties in environmental modelling including the use of Bayesian probability theory and new hybrid approaches;
• quantifying environmental model responses to uncertainties in parameter values and input data;
• space-time scale effects on uncertainty assessment of integrated environmental models.
• Model and parameter identification and propagation of uncertainty through modelling

Well documented case studies and applications are also welcome.

Important deadlines

Full paper submissions: February 28th, 2010.

Dear Colleague,
this is an announcement of the 23rd international conference "Environmental Informatics" taking place
from the 09th till 11th September 2009 in Berlin.

The EnviroInfo 2009 conference is a meeting place for experts and practitioners on leading ICT technologies to make the world a better place for living. It aims to report about state-of-the-art applications of ICT as well as newest developing trends in the field of environmental informatics. It will cover cross-cutting topics like applications of geographical information systems, environmental modelling and simulation, risk management, material and energy flow management, climate change, tools and database applications and other aspects with regard to the main topic ICT and the environment. The EnviroInfo 2009 conference will have a special focus on the topic “ICT for industrial environmental protection” and thus will reflect on practical problems and the need for an adequate IT-assistance for this application field. A dedicated emphasis is also laid on the requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises and their need for a proper and easy to use IT-assistance.
We will have more than 130 presentations from about 25 countries worldwide.
You find the preliminary programme at http://www.enviroinfo2009.org/programme .
Keynotes and an interesting evening programme in Berlin will complete the confernce schedule.
Note that the early bird deadline with reduced conference fee will be closed at 31st July.

Best Regards
Volker Wohlgemuth
Conference Chair of the EnviroInfo2009 Conference
www.enviroinfo2009.org

The workshop is organised in a consorted effort of individuals and organisations, including German Jordanian University (GJU), Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (HTW), the Jordanian Ministry of ICT and the Jordanian Ministry of Environment.

We attach the Call for Papers. If you are interested to present a paper, please do note the deadline of September 1 for an Extended Abstract (1.5 to 2 pages).

Please feel free to redistribute this email.

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Conference Co-Chair