[agents] Call for Participation: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - early bird deadline 23rd September

[Matti Heikkurinen/LMU]

Call for Particicipation:
Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW)
Organised in conjunction with eScience 2016 conference
October 23 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Early bird registration deadline 23rd September 2016

   http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016


Highlights:

Keynote by Prof. Wolfram Mauser:
“Remote Sensing and Modeling – Key elements of Environmental Computing”
11 talks by environmental computing experts
Panel discussion
Co-located with IEEE eScience 2016 conference


Background:
This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and
environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in
Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups working on related – or
potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new
opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

The topics of interest include:
• Case studies in environmental computing related domains
• Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques
• Novel environmental computing applications
• Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems
• Civil protection and related engineering challenges
• Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications
• Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation
• Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration
• Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches
• Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks
• Urgent computing and probabilistic models
• Data visualisation and interactive analysis
• Uncertainty quantification and visualization


Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology
or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale
approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact.
However, there is still a need for a more generalised approach to producing
actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources. The topic
is of acute interest due to its societal challenges and state-of-the-art
technical developments, requiring generalising, productising and maturing
today’s environmental modelling solutions. Application areas include
managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision
making, and many other similar domains.


ACCEPTED PAPERS

OMUSE: Oceanographic Multipurpose Software Environment, Ben van Werkhoven,
Inti Pelupessy, Arjen van Elteren, Jan Viebahn, Adam Candy, Simon Portegies
Zwart and Henk Dijkstra
The Climate Change for Flood and Debris Mitigation after Typhoon Morakot
2009 in Taiwan, Harold Yih-Chi Tan
Environmental computing – applications, tools and data solutions, Matti
Heikkurinen and Dieter Kranzlmüller
Performance Evaluation of Environmental applications using Telemac on
Virtual Platforms, Minh Chung, Thin Nguyen, Y Nguyen, Thong Nguyen and Nam
Thoai
Automatic Fire Perimeter Determination using MODIS Hotspots Information,
Nicolas Chiaraviglio, Tomàs Artés, Roberto Bocca, Jorge López, A. Gentile,
Jesus San Miguel Ayanz, Ana Cortés and Tomàs Margalef
The eWaterCycle Project, Niels Drost, Marc Bierkens, Nick van de Giesen,
Rolf Hut, Maarten van Meersbergen and Edwin Sutanudjaja
Utilising Amazon Web Services to provide an on demand urgent computing
facility for climateprediction.net, Peter Uhe, Friederike E.L. Otto, Md
Mamunur Rashid and David C. H. Wallom.
The IQmulus high volume fusion and analysis platform for Geospatial Point
Clouds, featuring a marine bathymetry use case, Quillon Harpham
Automating Environmental Computing Applications with Scientific Workflows,
Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, Ewa Deelman, Rosa Filgueira, Karan Vahi, Mats
Rynge, Rajiv Mayani and Benjamin Mayer
A columnar architecture for modern risk management systems, Romulo
Goncalves, Sisi Zlatanova, Kostis Kyzirakos, Pirouz Nourian, Foteini
Alvanaki and Willem Van hage
Manufacturing of Weather Forecasting Simulations on High Performance
Infrastructures, Viera Šipková, Ladislav Hluchý, Miroslav Dobrucký, Juraj
Bratok, Binh Minh Nguyen and Giang Nguyen


IMPORTANT DATES

Early bird registration: September 23
Conference:  October 23 – 27, 2016 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)


ORGANISATION AND CONTACT

Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany
Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich
Anton Frank, LRZ Munich
http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016 - info at envcomp.eu


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Matti Heikkurinen - LMU
heikku at nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31