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Final
programme available 7th
International Conference on Ecological Informatics (ISEI7) Unravelling Complexity and
Supporting Sustainability Location: ‘t Pand Conference Building, Ghent, Belgium Time: 13-16 December,
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After
a series of successful conferences in France, Australia, Italy, Korea, United
States and Mexico, the 7th edition of the Ecological Informatics
conferences is organized in Belgium. The theme of this edition is
‘Unravelling complexity and supporting sustainability’, highlighting the two
major pillars of ecological informatics. Ecological informatics has been
contributing to the analysis of the complexity of nature and the functioning
of ecosystems both at small as large scale. Nowadays, management of databases,
data mining and visualisation, GIS and remote sensing, model development and
integration, as well decision-support systems have become crucial in the
sustainable management of ecosystems and the environment in general. Many
applications in biodiversity assessment, river management, climate studies, ... are based on the integration of insights and
instruments from ecological informatics. Both these theoretical developments
as applications in the field of ecological informatics will be presented
during this conference edition, during which also education and training in
ecological informatics is highlighted during the conference sessions as well
as several courses. These
courses are included in the registration fee, but registration is needed at
least one week on beforehand as the number of participants for each course is
limited. Course descriptions (summary, trainers and timing) are available
below.
In this context a request for cooperation in a survey related to Education
and training in ecological informatics session is raised by Paulo Salles:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/T3B5C8F |
Faculty of
Bioscience Engineering |
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The
conference is preceded by B-IWA’s European Water Directives Day on 13
December 2010, that is organized after the courses on ‘Integrated ecological modelling
for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive’ and
‘Habitat modelling and simulations in Casimir’. The
conference itself starts on 14 December 2010. From 14 till 16 December 2010,
parallel sessions are organized in five rooms. Free wifi
network is available in the whole conference building. We
are very pleased that the following keynote speakers are sharing their
visions during the conference: Prof. Friedrich Recknagel (Australia) ‘Ecological informatics: the past, present
and future’ (Tuesday 14 December 2010, 9h15-9h55) Prof. Bruce Beck (United States) ‘Models, informatics and the
growth of knowledge’ (Tuesday 14 December 2010, 16h40-17h15) Prof. Saso Dzeroski (Slovenia) ‘Knowledge discovery in environmental
data’ (Wednesday 15 December 2010, 9h15-9h55) Prof. Sven Jorgensen (Denmark) ‘The importance of the
applied ecology disciplines’ (Wednesday 15 December 2010, 16h40-17h15) Prof. Tae-Soo Chon (Korea) 'Bio-inspired computation for the
analysis, assessment and management of ecosystems and the environment’
(Thursday 16 December 2010, 9h15-9h55) Courses
overview (for details regarding timing and content, check the boxes below) Modelling
to support the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: by
Ine Pauwels, Gert Everaert, Javier Holguin and Prof. Peter Goethals (13
December – whole day) Habitat
modelling and simulations in Casimir by Dr.
Matthias Schneider (13 December – whole day) Constructed
wetland modeling by Prof. Sven Jorgensen (14 December – morning) Cellular
automata: an exquisite framework for constructing ecological models: by Drs.
Jan Baetens and Prof. Bernard De Baets (15 December – morning) Knowledge-based
modeling using fuzzy set methods by Dr. Ans Mouton, Prof. Bernard De Baets
and Prof. Peter Goethals (15 December – afternoon) Demo’s
related to DynaLearn software for education and
training in ecological informatics (www.DynaLearn.eu) by Prof. Paulo Salles and Prof. Bert Bredeweg
(16 December - morning) Special
issue(s) related to the ISEI7 conference One
or more special issues of the Elsevier journal ‘Ecological Informatics’ will
be composed based on manuscripts related to presentations during the
conference. Many people requested to postpone the deadline to submit papers.
Therefore, the deadline is set at 31 January 2011 to submit manuscripts. Details regarding the
procedure will be announced by the Editor in Chief during the conference. Social
programme On
Tuesday evening, there is a possibility to visit the ‘Christmas village’ in
the Ghent city center. Details will be announced
during the conference. |
In co-operation
with:
Belgian Committee of the
International Water Association Center for Environmental
Sanitation |
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Sessions’
overview |
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Detailed session programme |
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B-IWA’s
European Water Directives Day 16h00-16h10 EU 1: ‘Introduction of the European Water Directives
day’ P. Goethals 16h10-16h40 EU 2: ‘Setting the scene on the European water
related directives‘ D. Krol 16h40-17h00 EU 3: ‘The European water framework directive: biomonitoring methods, methods for artificial and
strongly modified water bodies and intercalibration’
W. Gabriels, G. Verhaegen & H. Maeckelberghe 17h00-17h20 EU 4: ‘Assessing risk of chemicals according to
REACH: an industrial perspective ‘ F. Verdonck & P. Van Sprang 17h20- 17h50 EU 5: ‘Practical implementation and integration of
European water directives in Flanders: overview and challenges ‘ H.
Maeckelberghe 17h50 – 18h00 EU 6: ‘General discussion and conclusions’ P.
Goethals |
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B-IWA’s and
IWA-Benelux Young Water Professionals’ Masterclass 11h30 – 12h30 MAC 1: ‘New Possibilities
in Ecological Modelling: Structural Dynamic Modelling’ Prof. Sven Jorgensen |
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B-IWA’s
Monitoring Day 14h00 -14h10 MO 1: ‘Introduction’ I. Nopens 14h10-14h30 MO 2: ‘New water monitoring
techniques: opportunities in water management and challenges for data
(quantity and quality) management and use‘ P. Goethals 14h30-14h50 MO 3: ‘Safety and Quality of
Water Resources: Vision of a Specialist Manufacturer of On-line Sensors’ E.
Coolsaet & D. Laurier 14h50 - 15h10 MO 4: ‘Impact of air flow
rate and frequency of influent data on full-scale dynamic model calibration’
I. Nopens, S. Plano, K. Cierkens, L. Benedetti, A.
van Nieuwenhuijzen & S. Weijers 15h10-15h40 Break 15h40-16h00 MO 5: ‘Telemetry techniques
to study fish migration and habitat use’ D. Buysse,
A. Mouton, M. Stevens, T. Van den Neucker, H. Verbiest & J. Coeck 16h00-16h20 MO 6: ‘Influence of alien macroinvertebrates on species assemblages and ecological
water quality assessment in Flanders (Belgium)’ P. Boets, K. Lock &
P.L.M. Goethals 16h20-16h40 MO 7: ‘Conclusions’ I. Nopens |
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Habitat
suitability modelling M. Schneider
(Germany) and A. Mouton (Belgium) 14 December
2010, Room 2 10h00-10h40 HSM 1: Session keynote ‘Development, optimisation
and application of habitat suitability models’ A. Mouton, J. Coeck, B. De Baets & P. Goethals 10h40-11h00 HSM 2: ‘Classification and regression trees for
habitat analysis of macroinvertebrate taxa in the natural wetlands of south-western Ethiopia’
S. Tiku, A. Ambelu Bayih, P. Boets, L. De Meester
& P. Goethals 11h30-11h50 HSM 3: ‘Habitat suitability modelling for mayflies (Ephemeroptera) in Flanders (Belgium)’ K.
Lock & P. Goethals 11h50-12h10 HSM 4: ‘New approach for habitat simulation of hydropeaking effects’ M. Schneider & I. Kopecki 12h10-12h30 HSM 5: ‘Comparison of data mining methods for Pike (Esox lucius L.)
habitat suitability modelling in rivers’ R. Zarkami,
I. Pauwels, G. Everaert, A. Mouton & P. Goethals |
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Data
management standards, data redistribution and data applications F. Hernandez
and K. Deneudt (Belgium) 14 December 2010, Room 2 14h00-14h40 DAT 1: Session keynote ‘Terms and concepts of
ecological data management in a marine context’ F. Hernandez 14h40-15h00 DAT 2: ‘Standards in marine
biodiversity data: benefits and applications’ S. Claus 15h00-15h20 DAT 3: ‘How the integration of
marine ecological data from different sources can create added value to data
and science’ L. Vandepitte 15h40-16h00 DAT 4: ‘Estimating missing data in
stream flow time series’ M. Arias-Hidalgo, G. Villa-Cox & A. E. Mynett 16h00-16h20 DAT 5: ‘Validating ecological
regions in European seas based on the European Ocean Biogeographic
Information System (EurOBIS)’ K. Deneudt 16h20-16h40 DAT 6: ‘When is a habitat suitability model a
reliable model? Randomization techniques in habitat suitability modelling’ B.
Merckx, M. Steyaert, A. Vanreusel,
M. Vincx & J. Vanaverbeke |
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Qualitative reasoning Prof. B. Bredeweg (The Netherlands) 14 December 2010, Room 3 10h00-10h20 QR1 : Session keynote ‘Qualitative reasoning in ecological informatics: setting the scene’ P. Salles (Brazil) 10h20-10h40 QR 2: ‘The use of the DynaLearn learning environment to construct qualitative
models of fundamental concepts in ecological sciences’ R. A. A. Noble 10h40-11h00 QR 3: ‘Hypothesis assessment with qualitative reasoning: modelling the intermittent Fontestorbes fountain’ K. Kansou & B. Bredeweg 11h30-11h50 QR 4: ‘What is needed to create a low carbon society? A qualitative reasoning approach to modeling the role of biofuels and the carbon market’ A. Souza, G.F.M. Leite & P. Salles 11h50-12h10 QR 5: ‘Integrating direct
and indirect ecological impacts of cooling water on surface waters based on
qualitative models’ P. Goethals & K. Töpke 12h10-12h30 QR 6: ‘Understanding and predicting time-lags in the response of birds to agricultural intensification using qualitative models’ F. Goulart, P. Salles & C. H. Saito 14h00-14h20 QR 7: ‘A Qualitative Model
of Diving Pressure in Coral Reefs' R. Barankin, L. Yosef,
D. Zurel, M. Leiba, H. Benayahu, D. Mioduser & R. Zuzovsky 14h20-14h40 QR 8: ‘Construction of a qualitative foodweb based dynamic habitat suitability model to describe pike populations in rivers’ S. Van Nieuland, I. Pauwels, J. Baetens, A. Mouton, B. Baets & P. Goethals 14h40-15h00 QR 9: ‘How agricultural matrix intensification may affect understory passerines that inhabit forest patches?’ F. Goulart, P. Salles & R. Bomfim Machado 15h00-15h20 QR 10: ‘Qualitative Models of Global Warming Amplifiers’ U. Milosovic & B. Bredeweg 15h40-16h00 QR 11: ‘Using qualitative
reasoning to model life cycle assessment of wind energy’ A. Souza & P.
Salles 16h00-16h20 QR 12: ‘Bird communities in the transition Amazon – Cerrado, Brazil: a qualitative model to predict the richness of trophic guilds according to the structure of vegetation’ R. de Souza Yabe, P. Salles & G.F.M. Leite 16h20-16h40 QR 13: ‘Qualitative models about metapopulation dynamics’ I. Gontijo de Sá & P. Salles |
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GIS and remote
sensing G. Foody
(Nottingham, UK) 14 December
2010, Room 4 10h00-10h40 GIS 1: Session keynote ‘GIS and remote
sensing in ecological informatics: trends and applications’ G. Foody (UK) 10h40-11h00 GIS 2: ‘Use of GIS and RS in the development of a
Policy Support System for the Oum Zessar river basin’ H. Van Delden 11h30-11h50 GIS 3: ‘Crossing utopia: estimating species
diversity by remote sensing spectral heterogeneity’ D. Rocchini,
N. Balkenhol, G.A. Carter, G.M. Foody, T.W.
Gillespie, K.S. He, S. Kark, N. Levin, K. Lucas, M.
Luoto, H. Nagendra, J. Oldeland, C. Ricotta, J. Southworth
& M. Neteler 11h50-12h10 GIS 4: ‘Remote sensing for niche-based
epidemiological modelling’ J. Peters, J. Van doninck,
E. Ducheyne, E. De Clercq,
B. De Baets & N.E.C. Verhoest 12h10-12h30 GIS 5: 'Beyond classification? Mapping floristic
patterns of ecotones in a heterogeneous landscape' H.
Feilhauer, U. Faude & S. Schmidtlein |
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Spatio-temporal computation Q. Chen (Beijing, China) 14 December
2010, Room 4 14h00-14h20 ST 1: ‘Spatio-temporal
ecological modelling’ Q. Chen, R. Han & F. Ye 14h40-15h20 ST 2: ‘Applications of spatial-temporal modelling
methods for decision-support in environmental management’ H. Van Delden 15h40-16h00 ST 3: ‘Spatial-explicit dynamic habitat modelling of
pike (Esox Lucius L.)
in rivers’ I. Pauwels, A. Mouton, J.M. Baetens, B. De Baets & P. Goethals 16h00-16h20 ST 4: ‘Study on the parameter uncertainty of a
catchment water quality model through Monte-Carlo fuzzy α-Cut approach’
Q. Chen & Y. Wu 16h20-16h40 ST 5: ‘A discrete, spatially explicit and
GIS-coupled model for epidemic spread’ J.M. Baetens & B. De Baets |
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Role of ecoinformatics in supporting trait-based approaches in
biological monitoring and environmental risk assessment Dr. K. Lock (Belgium) 14 December 2010, Room 5 14h00-14h20 T 1: ’ PCTs for Hierarchical Classification of
Diatom Images’ I. Dimitrovski, D. Kocev, S. Loskovska & S. Džeroski 14h20-14h40 T 2: ’Relating
taxonomy-based traits of macroinvertebrates and
sediment pollution by means of statistical analyses on field observations’ K.
Töpke, E. Van De Vijver, K. Lock, O. Thas, W. De Cooman, C.R. Janssen & P.
Goethals 14h40-15h00 T 3: ’Application of the
Fourth-Corner method to test biological trait-environment hypotheses’ B.
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B-IWA session
on ‘Water, energy, nutrients and ecosystems in a dynamic climate’ 15 December 2010, Room 1 14h00 -14h10 WE 1: ‘Needs for an integrated vision on Water,
energy, nutrients and ecosystems as a basis for sustainable environmental
management’ P. Goethals 14h10-14h30 WE 2: ‘COST 869: a European
research approach on tackling the N&P eutrophication
and leaching problems to waterbodies’ S. De Neve
& S. De Bolle 14h30-14h50 WE 3: ‘Optimization of
WWTPs: An integrated modeling approach’ E. Remigi, Y. Amerlinck & L.
Benedetti 14h50 - 15h10 WE 4: ‘Nutrient Recovery
Systems: enabling the recovery of phosphorus and nitrogen from waste water’
W. Moerman & C. Dewaele 15h10-15h40 Break 15h40-16h00 WE 5:
‘Manure processing to reusable water using constructed wetlands’ E. Meers,
E. Michels, D. Huits, A. Pollentier
& F.M.G. Tack 16h00-16h20 WE 6: ‘Transition from cleaning
solutions to cleantech’ C. Broux
(VITO - FCA) 16h20-16h40 WE 7: ‘General discussion and conclusions’ P.
Goethals |
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Applications
of ecological informatics in environmental impact assessment T.-S. Chon (Korea) and F. Recknagel
(Australia) 15 December 2010, Room 2 10h00-10h20 AS 1: ’ Computational bioindication of wetland habitat conditions by
assemblages of benthic diatoms and macroinvertebrates’
F. Recknagel, H. Cao & S. Wells 10h20-10h40 AS 2: ‘Aquatic macroinvertebrates
as bioindicators for the assessment of the quality
of the Guayas river basin (Ecuador)’ G. Alvarez, A. van Griensven,
M. Arias, P. Goethals & A. Mynett 10h40-11h00 AS 3: ‘Integrated and model-based ecological assessment of
the Cauca river (Colombia)’ Y. Paz Cortez, J. Holguin, A. Galvis
& P. Goethals 11h30-11h50 AS 4: ‘The devil is in the
details: overcoming the challenge of implementing consistent ecosystem
indicators for cross-scale ecosystem understanding’ J.W. Karl & D.P.C.
Peters 11h50-12h10 AS 5: ‘Prototype early warning
system for cyanobacteria blooms in warm-monomictic eutrophic lakes in
Queensland’ H. Zhang, H. Cao, F. Recknagel & J. Udy 12h10-12h30 AS 6:’Integrated urban water system modeling of the Drava
river (Varazdin, Croatia) for cost-efficient
wastewater treatment selection to meet the requirements of the European Water
Framework Directive’ J. Holguin, L. Benedetti, Y. Amerlinck, P. Goethals
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Quantifying trophic flows in ecosystems: modelling approaches and
applications F. De Laender (Belgium) and D. van
Oevelen (The Netherlands) 15 December 2010, Room 2 14h00-14h20 TM 1: Session keynote ‘Quantifying trophic flows in ecosystems: modelling approaches and
applications’ F. De Laender & D. van Oevelen 14h40-15h00 TM 2: ‘Using EcoTroph (ET) to diagnose fishing impacts in marine
ecosystems: application to the Southern Benguela’
L. Gasche, D. Gascuel, L. Shannon & Y. Shin 15h00-15h20 TM 3: ‘Ecosystem Models for
fisheries management: What is the best model for Vietnam’s fisheries management?’
P. Viet Anh, F. De Laender, P. Goethals
& C. Tien Vinh 15h40-16h00 TM 4: ‘Analysis of the role of macroinvertebrates in degradation and nutrient removal
processes in constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment’ P. Thu Pham, H.Thi Thu Huong, S. Haesaert & P. Goethals 16h00-16h20 TM 5: ‘Modelling
trophic flows in ecosystems to assess the
efficiency of Marine Protected Area (MPA): a case study on the coast of
Senegal’ M. Colléter & D. Gascuel 16h20-16h40 TM 6: ‘Dynamics of microbial interspecies
competition in nitrifying reactors’ E.I.P. Volcke, O. Sanchez, J.-P. Steyer, P. Dabert & N. Bernet |
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Education and training in ecological informatics Prof. P. Salles (Brazil), P. Correa (Brazil) and B.
Bredeweg (The Netherlands) 15 December 2010, Room 3 10h00-10h20 ET 1: Session keynote
‘Education and training in ecological informatics’ Bert Bredeweg (The
Netherlands) 10h20-10h40 ET 2: ‘Progressive knowledge
representations for learning conceptual knowledge of system behaviour’ B. Bredeweg, J. Liem,
W. Beek, P. Salles & F. Linnebank 10h40-11h00 ET 3: ‘Design decisions for virtual characters in the DynaLearn Interactive Learning Environment’ R. Bühling, M. Wißner, M. Häring, G. Mehlmann & E. André 11h30-11h50 ET 4: ‘DynaLearn
in school: introduction to qualitative reasoning modeling for secondary
school teachers’ P. Salles, I. G. Sá, Adriano
Souza, L.H. Wilhelms & P. A. Costa e Silva 11h50-12h10 ET 5: ‘Issues and opportunities for learning by conceptual modelling: a pilot case study of the new DynaLearn integrated learning environment’ R. A. A. Noble, P. Salles, D. Mioduser & R. Zuzovsky 12h10-12h30 ET 6: ‘Learning by modeling:
an attractive approach to learning environmental systems knowledge for
secondary school students’ I. G. Sá, A. Souza, L.H.
Wilhelms, P.A. Costa e Silva & P. Salles 14h00-14h20 ET 7: ‘A new curriculum for teaching conceptual systems understanding of river catchments’ A. Zitek, M. Poppe, M. Stelzhammer, A. Jung, M. Zacharias & S. Muhar 14h20-14h40 ET 8: ‘Semantic enrichment of models in DynaLearn learning environment’ E. Lozano, J. Liem , J. Gracia, A. Gómez-Pérez & B. Bredeweg 14h40-15h00 ET 9: ‘Development of ecological assessment models for the European Water Framework Directive: key issues for trainers in datadriven modeling approaches’, G. Everaert, I. Pauwels, P. Boets & P. Goethals 15h00-15h20 ET 10: ‘Habitat suitability modeling for Master of Science students: case of pike modeling in Flanders’ P. Goethals, R. Zarkami, I. Pauwels & A. Mouton 15h40-16h00 ET 11: ‘Learning by qualitative modeling: undergraduate students' conceptual understanding of ecological systems’ R. Zuzovsky, D. Mioduser, Y. Benayahu, D. Zurel, M. Leiba, R. Nachmias & Y. Ram 16h00-16h20 ET 12: ‘First evaluations of the effect of the DynaLearn software on conceptual systems understanding of river catchments’ A. Zitek, M. Poppe, M. Stelzhammer, A. Jung, B. Bredeweg & S. Muhar 16h20-16h40 ET 13: ‘A survey on
education and training in ecological informatics’ P. Salles, B. Bredeweg
& P. Luiz Pizzigatti
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Ecoinformatics to support studies on evolution and climate (change) Prof. K. De Schamphelaere (Belgium) 15 December 2010, Room 4 10h00-10h20 CL 1: ‘Does genetic adaptation to chemical pollution prepare natural populations of Daphnia for climate warming?’ K. De Schamphelaere 10h20-10h40 CL 2: ‘Individual based
model applied to macro-invertebrate communities in response to climate
change’ W.-S. Cho, T. Van Nguyen, S.-H. Park, H.-Y. Kim, T.-S. Chon &
Y.-S. Park 10h40-11h00 CL 3: ‘Application of
Self-Organizing Maps to Grass Community Patterns in Response to Temperature
Change’ Y.-S. Kwon, W.-S. Cho, H.-S. Kim, M.-H. Kim, Y.-E. Na, Y.-S. Park
& T.-S. Chon |
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Integrated
ecological modelling for decision support in water management A. van Griensven (The Netherlands), H. Duel (The Netherlands)
and P. Goethals (Belgium) 15 December 2010, Room 4 11h30-12h10 DSS 1: Session keynote ‘Integrated
environmental modelling for decision support in water management’ A. van Griensven 12h10-12h30 DSS 2: ‘WFD Explorer: information system to design effective restoration programmes in the context of WFD implementation’ E. Meijers & J. van den Roovaart 14h00-14h20 DSS 3: ‘Toolbox for assessing ecological response to changes in hydromorphology and water quality’ M. van Oorschot &
H. Duel 14h20-14h40 DSS 4: ‘Modelling diatom
species co-occurrence to assess the importance of biotic relationships,
neutral dispersion and meta-community processes in river communities’ M.
Bottin, J. Rosebery, D. Alard,
S. Lek & M. Coste 14h40-15h00 DSS 5: ‘Integrated modelling of ecological state and biodiversity in lakes
in reponse to eutrophication
and climate change’ J.H. Janse, S. Schep & W.M.
Mooij 15h00-15h20 DSS 6: ’ Performance Analysis of Machine Learning
Algorithms in Biodiversity Modeling’ F. Augusto Rodrigues, E. Silva da Cunha
Rodrigues, P. Luiz Pizzigatti
Corrêa, R. Luis de Azevedo da Rocha & A. Mauro Saraiva 15h40-16h00 DSS 7: ‘Integrating
hydrodynamic, physical-chemical and ecological models for decision support in
water management of the Cuenca river in Ecuador’ J. Holguin, A. Alvarado, I.
Nopens & P. Goethals 16h00-16h20 DSS 8: ’MDL-based Clustering
for Modeling of Species Geographic Distribution’ E. Silva da Cunha Rodrigues,
F. Augusto Rodrigues, R. Luis de Azevedo da Rocha
& P. Luiz Pizzigatti
Corrêa 16h20-16h40 DSS 9: ’Early warning system for harmful algal blooms’ H. Duel & D.
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B-IWA’s
session ‘Towards integrated assessment and assessing sustainability’ 16 December 2010, Room 1 14h00 -14h10 IA 1: ‘From biomonitoring,
to integrated ecological assessment, economic valuation of ecosystem services
towards... assessing sustainability?’ P.
Goethals 14h10-14h30 IA 2: ‘The multidisclipinary
research partnership: Biotechnology
for a sustainable economy ‘ T. Hennebel & W. Verstraete 14h30-14h50 IA 3: ‘Water Stewardship: a vision on Sustainable
Water Management in agriculture ‘ S. von Wiren-Lehr
& R. D’hondt (European Water Partnership) 14h50 - 15h10 IA 4: ‘Disentangling urban sustainability. The
Flemish City Monitor acknowledges complexity’ J. Van Assche
& T. Block 15h10-15h40 Break 15h40-16h00 IA 5: ‘Sustainable water management through water
pricing?’ D. François, A. Correljé, M. De Clercq & J. Groenewegen 16h00-16h20 IA 6: ‘Increasing the financial carrying capacity
for water management by coupling of infrastructures ‘ J.J. Bouma 16h20-16h40 IA 7: ‘General discussion and conclusions’ P.
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Ecological informatics to study the distribution, impact and
control options of invasive species S.
Worner (New Zealand), P. Boets (Belgium) and P. Goethals (Belgium) 16 December 2010, Room 2 10h00-10h40 IS 1: Session keynote ‘Need for modelling to predict
the distribution and impact of invasive species’ S. Worner 10h40-11h00 IS 2: ‘Modelling approaches to analyse and predict invasive species behaviour in aquatic ecosystems’ P. Goethals 11h30-11h50 IS 3: ‘A comparative study on the genetic diversity of an
invasive plant, Lonicera japonica in its native and introduced
ranges’ H. Jiang, E. Zimmerer & K.S. He 11h50-12h10 IS 4: ‘Predicting
presence, species richness and abundance of alien macrocrustaceans
in surface waters in Flanders (Belgium) using decision trees’ P.
Boets, K. Lock & P.L.M. Goethals 14h00-14h20 IS 5: ‘Application of Bioclimatic Models coupled
with Network Analysis for risk assessment of aquatic invasive species’ B.
Gallardo, D. Aldridge & M. Paz Errea 14h20-14h40 IS 6: ‘The ability to predict species presence is made conspicuous by the quality of absence: therein lies a dilemma’ S. Worner, T. Ikeda and G. Leday 14h40-15h00 IS 7: ’Habitat analysis of
invasive crustaceans based on datadriven approaches
applied on recently and long-term colonized habitats’ J. Holguin, P. Boets,
K. Lock & P. Goethals |
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Ecological Engineering G. Everaert & P. Goethals 16 December 2010, Room 2 15h40-16h00 EE
1: ‘Towards a sustainable management of pond diversity at the landscape level’
K. Martens et al. 16h00-16h20 EE 2: ’Development of datadriven
models to analyze relations between river bank quality and biological
communities’ G. Everaert, I. Pauwels, M. de la Haye, E. Verduin & P.
Goethals 16h20-16h40 EE 3: ‘Hybrid ecosystem simulation system for model structure
and parameter optimisation of lakes’ S. Martin & F. Recknagel |
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Posters of the poster session will be soon announced |
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Modelling to support the implementation of the European Water Framework
Directive Ine
Pauwels, Gert Everaert, Javier Holguin and Prof. Peter Goethals (Department
Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium) 13
December 2010 – whole day This course provides insights in datadriven
model development for decision support in water management, in particular in
the development of ecological assessment models for the implementation of the
European Water Framework Directive. This course consists of two parts. In the first part of the course participants will
gain insight in the use of WEKA (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis)
which is a popular machine learning software written in Java. Participants
will make use of classification and regression trees to develop simple
predictive ecological assessment models. Topics such as the importance of
data pre-processing and model optimisation will be
highlighted. Participants will simulate and evaluate the impact of several
management options on the ecological water quality and decide what the most
optimal solution for river managers is, based on the models. As several
hands-on-exercises will be provided, participants should bring their own
laptop and install WEKA from the website: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
. In the second part participants will gain insight in
the use of XLSTAT (Addinsoft, 2010), which is a
statistical analysis software implemented as a toolbox for Microsoft Excel.
Participants will make use of simple and multiple logistic regressions to
build habitat suitability models that allow predicting the presence of macroinvertebrates. Topics such as the variable selection
and discrimination capacity of the models will be highlighted. Participants
will simulate and evaluate the ecological water quality impact of different
river management options, in order to determine environmental water
requirements, considering different river conditions (hydraulic and
physical-chemical). In order to perform some practical exercises about
logistic regression, participants should bring their own laptop and install
XLSTAT from the website: http://www.xlstat.com/en/home/
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Habitat
modelling and simulations in Casimir Dr. Matthias Schneider (sje
- Schneider & Jorde Ecological Engineering
GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, http://www.sjeweb.de ) 13
December 2010 – whole day This training offers a discussion of the basis of
habitat modelling and its application using the
connections between structural, hydraulic, and biological paramters.
A focus on fish and macrozoobenthos modelling is provided, given their relevence
to the application of the CASiMiR software suite.
After the theory has been covered, an introduction to the CASiMiR
software packages is given, followed up by hands-on excercises
using real-world case study data. Following discussions cover the methods
necessary to collect the field data and other model inputs used in running
the CASiMiR software. The goal of our workshops is
to teach our participants how to successfully apply the CASiMiR
software to a variety of water resources related problems. |
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Constructed
wetland modelling Prof.
Sven Erik Jørgensen (Environmental chemistry at
Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark) 14
December 2010 – morning An overview of wetland ecology and wetland modelling will be presented, followed by a presentation
of the software Sub-wet developed to design constructed wetlands or use of
natural wetlands for the treatment of waste water or agricultural drainage
water. The application of the software will be presented. A copy of the
software is free of charge and will distributed to
make it possible for the participants of the course to follow on own lab top
the demonstration. The users of Sub-wet are exchanging experience and
knowledge by internet to facilitate the use of the software on new (and
different?) case studies. The participants are invited to join this network. |
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Cellular
automata: an exquisite framework for constructing ecological models Drs.
Jan Baetens and Prof. Bernard De Baets (KERMIT, Department of Applied
Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium) 15
December 2010 – morning As a consequence of their rigorous formulation of
macroscopic phenomena, as well as their rich history which can be traced back
to the development of modern calculus during the 17th and 18th century, and
during which their efficacy has been proven manifold, partial differential
equations (PDE) are generally resorted to for describing spatio-temporal
(a)biotic processes. Unfortunately, for most PDE only approximate solutions
can be found. Furthermore, they make abstraction of spatially explicit
relations by assuming mean field approximations, while their relative
simplicity can be largely attributed to the simplifying assumptions under
which they were derived. Of course, these shortcomings limit their usefulness
for describing real-world phenomena. For these reasons other model types are
increasingly explored, further stimulated by the growth of computational
power during the last decades. Among these model types, the most promising
are cellular automata (CA). Their success can be explained by their intrinsic
simplicity, though not hindering their applicability, which comes forward in
the large number of articles in prominent journals wherein CA are used to
describe, among others, biofilm dynamics,
groundwater flow, biological competition and tumor growth Nonetheless von Neumann conceptualized CA already in
the first half of the 20th century, it lasted until
the previous decade before CA caught the attention of the academia. A
cellular automaton is a spatio-temporal modeling
paradigm based upon a discretized time, space and
state domain, while its dynamics is governed by simple, spatially explicit
rules. Despite this intrinsic simplicity, CA are
able to evolve complex spatial temporal patterns that resemble patterns
observed in a natural environment, such as forest fires, chemical reactions
and microbiological interactions. In this session we will elaborate on the CA concept
in all its aspects, and we will exemplify some representative CA-based
ecological models. |
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Knowledge-based
modeling using fuzzy set methods Dr.
Ans Mouton (Institute for Forest and Nature Research, Brussels, Belgium) Prof.
Bernard De Baets (KERMIT, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and
Process Control, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium) Prof. Peter Goethals (Department Applied
Ecology and Environmental Biology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium) 15
December – afternoon Fuzzy modelling techniques
are especially suitable to analyse and predict the
distribution of species since they are easily interpretable and take into
account the ecological gradient theory. As these models (e.g. CASiMiR) apply expert knowledge to link abiotic characteristics to ecological variables, the need
for expert knowledge may be one of the bottlenecks in the application of
fuzzy species distribution models. The collection of expert knowledge is not
only often difficult and tedious, but various authors also doubt the
consistency of this expert knowledge. Recent research showed that the
combination of fuzzy systems with data-driven techniques may resolve this
issue. However, to
develop reliable data-driven models, correct model training and evaluation is
needed. The assessment of the model performance is a crucial step in these
processes and is based on the criterion that quantifies the model
performance. A review of the most commonly applied performance criteria for
the optimisation and evaluation of species
distribution models showed that different performance criteria evaluate a
model differently, which results from the relation between these criteria and
the prevalence of the evaluation dataset. To test these results empirically, a data-driven optimisation method for fuzzy species distribution models
was developed. Specifically, a hill-climbing algorithm was applied to optimise the fuzzy rules of the model, while the impact
of different performance criteria on the optimisation
result was analysed. This course aims to provide insights into
data-driven development of fuzzy rules and sets that may be applied in fuzzy
systems (e.g. CASiMiR). Further, general habitat modelling issues and the impact of the training
performance criterion (CCI, Kappa, ...) on the model
results will be discussed. Hands-on excercises
based on artificial data and real-life case studies will demonstrate these
issues and will allow the participant to gain experience with FISH, a toolbox
designed to develop a fuzzy knowledge base from ecological data. The
theoretical part of this course will be explained shortly, but further
theoretical background will be provided during the HS session on Tuesday
(10.00-10.40). Participants should bring their laptop and install FISH on
beforehand (download from ftp://ftp.inbo.be/Users/Ans_Mouton/ ;
if the program does not work, the .net framework should be installed as well:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9cfb2d51-5ff4-4491-b0e5-b386f32c0992 ,
however, this is standard on most laptops). If any problem should occur,
please contact Ans.Mouton@INBO.be |
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Demo’s
related to DynaLearn software for education and
training in ecological informatics
(www.DynaLearn.eu) Prof.
Paulo Salles Prof.
Bert Bredeweg 16
December - morning Conceptual knowledge about systems behaviour (physical, biological, social, etc.) is crucial
for society to understand and be successful while interacting with the
environment. The EU funded project DynaLearn ( www.DynaLearn.eu
) aims at developing an interactive learning environment to support secondary
school and undergraduate students to learn by building models. This goal is achieved by
means of integrating three types of technology: Qualitative Reasoning,
Pedagogical Agents and Ontology Mapping. In this session different
qualitative ecological models will be used to explore the main
functionalities of the software. |
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Course
registration!!!!! |
Course
participation is included in the registration fee, however, during the
registration, it is needed to mention which courses will be followed as for
each course the
number of participants is limited. Please send an email to sigrid.schuermans@ugent.be to indicate which courses
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Deadlines: 3 December 2010: Final registration
and payment deadline ‘t
Pand conference Center Address:
Onderbergen 1, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) tel.
0032 9 264 82 62 fax
0032 9 264 83 96 email
pand@UGent.be Free
wifi internet access during the conference
How to get there: Due to traffic works, it is best to take a taxi from
the train station (conference center is about 4km from Gent Sint-Pieters train station, and costing about 10-15 EUR) For people coming by car: A car park is available in front of the conference
building Registration
fees: 13-16
December 2010: 400 EUR (350 EUR for students) 14-16
December 2010: 300 EUR (280 EUR for students) One
day fee: 125 EUR (100 EUR for students) The
fee includes coffee breaks, lunches, receptions and abstract book. Registration
procedure: Send
an email with your name, contact details and registration details to the
ISEI7 secretariat (Sigrid.Schuermans@UGent.be). You
will receive a reply with our bank details. As
soon as we receive your payment we will send a confirmation email via the
ISEI7 secretariat. You’re
registration is only official after payment and confirmation via the ISEI7
secretariat. Hotels
and information about Gent: A
high amount and diversity of hotels is available in Gent. We recommend
checking the offer of hotels and related information on the city at: Here
are some suggestions in the direct vicinity (walking time and indicative room
rates in table below) of ‘t Pand conference center:
How
to get to Gent: Gent
is located in the centre of Europe. When travelling to Gent by air, it is
easiest to fly to Brussels Airport, and go by train to Gent. However also via
Amsterdam and Paris is possible.
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Local Organizing
Committee of the Ghent University: Peter Goethals (Chair), Sigrid Schuermans, Nancy De Saeyer, Emmy Pequeur, Pieter Boets, Gert
Everaert, Ine Pauwels, Javier Holguin, Seid Tiku, Koen Lock, Katrien Töpke,
Pham Thu Phuong, Pham Viet Anh, Ans Mouton, Alain Dillen, Rob D’hondt Contact: Peter.Goethals@UGent.be or
Sigrid.Schuermans@UGent.be International Scientific
Committee: F. Recknagel (Chair),
Adelaide, Australia B. Beck, Athens, USA L. Boddy,
Cardiff, UK B. Bredeweg, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands Q. Cai,
Wuhan, China N. Change, Orlando, USA D. Chen, South Dakota,
USA Q. Chen, Beijing, China E. Cho, Frankfort, USA T.-S. Chon, Pusan, South
Korea P. Culverhouse, Plymouth,
UK M. Dreyfus-Leon, Baja
California, Mexico S. Dzeroski, Ljubljana,
Slovenia A. Fielding, Manchester,
UK G. Foody, Nottingham, UK M. French, Louisville,
USA U. Gaedke,
Potsdam, Germany P. Goethals,
Ghent, Belgium D. Green,
Melbourne, Australia P. Hogeweg,
Utrecht, The Netherlands P. Hraber,
Santa Barbara, USA K. Jeong,
Pusan, South Korea M. Jones, Santa Barbara,
USA G.-J. Joo,
Pusan, South Korea S.E. Jørgensen,
Copenhagen, Denmark J.H.-w. Lee,
Hong Kong, China S. Lek,
Toulouse, France A.G. Marsh, Delaware, USA R. McKay, Seoul, South
Korea Z. Michalewicz,
Adelaide, Australia E. Micheli-Tzanakou,
Rutgers, USA W. Michener, Albuquerque,
USA W.A. Ozinga,
Wageningen, The Netherlands Y.-S. Park, Seoul, South
Korea L. Parrott, Montreal,
Canada B.C. Patten, Athens, USA N.L. Poff,
Fort Collins, USA M. Purvis, Dunedin, New
Zealand P. Salles, Brasilia,
Brazil A. Salski,
Kiel, Germany M. Scardi, Rome, Italy K. Schleidt,
Vienna, Austria L. Song, Wuhan, China S. Soyupak,
Ankara, Turkey M. Thomas, Pocatello, USA E. van Donk,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands M. Vos,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands B.Walley, Staffordshire, UK P. Whigham,
Dunedin, New Zealand S.Worner, Christchurch, New
Zealand X.Yao, Birmingham, UK |
