ISEI 2012 - The 8th International Conference on Ecological informatics

8th International Conference on Ecological Informatics
Informing decisions on biodiversity and natural resources conservation
Brasília, 4-7 December, 2012
After successful biennial conferences of the International Society for Ecological Informatics ISEI since 1998 in France, Australia, Italy, South Korea, United States, Mexico and Belgium, the 8th ISEI Conference will be hosted by Brazil in 2012.
The conference theme Informing Decisions on Biodiversity and Natural Resources Conservation addresses such crucial environmental issues as ecological data acquisition and visualisation by remote sensing and GIS, ecogenomics and biogeography, ecological data assimilation and sharing, integration and sharing of ecological models, as well as decision-support systems.
Ecological informatics is providing frameworks and tools for informing decisions on complex environmental challenges both at small and large scales exemplarily documented in 6 volumes of the international journal Ecological Informatics issued since 2006.
The organising committee is confident that the 8th ISEI conference will provide a multidisciplinary forum to further stimulate communication and collaboration between ecologists, computer scientists, environmental engineers, decision makers and stakeholders towards sustainable solutions of complex environmental problems beneficial to all parties involved.
To hold this conference for the first time in South America is a tribute to the achievements in science and society of the continent in general and of Brazil in particular.
Conference Topics
Theory and applications of ecoinformatics
Principles of information processing from genomes to ecosystems
Novel developments in bio-inspired computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Spatial-temporal simulation of ecological entities, ecosystem structure and behaviour by artificial life, cellular automata, hybrid models and adaptive agents
Knowledge discovery, clustering and forecasting of ecological processes and patterns, ecosystem functions and behaviours by bio-inspired computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Processing of uncertain ecological data by fuzzy logic and qualitative reasoning
Standardisation and integration of ecological data and models by meta-information concepts and object-oriented programming
Ecological data warehousing including data archival, retrieval, sharing, mining and visualisation
Ecological data acquisition, spatial analysis and visualisation by GIS and remote sensing
Computational frameworks for decision making in relation to environmental sustainability, biodiversity, water management and global environmental changes
Education and training in ecological informatics
Special sessions
Spatio-temporal Computation
Bio-inspired Computation
GIS and Remote Sensing
Theory of Ecoinformatics
Data Management and LTER
Hybrid Modelling
Ecogenomics
Education on Ecological Informatics
Qualitative Reasoning
Conservation of Natural Resources
Biodiversity Conservation
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