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Watermatex 2007 Sponsored by MOSTforWATER 7th international IWA symposium on systems analysis & integrated assessment The Watermatex series of symposia aims to address all aspects of the formal methods of applying systems analysis to managing the quality of the aquatic environment (drinking and waste water, surface and groundwater, technical and natural systems). This includes, for example, the development and use of mathematical models, optimisation algorithms, process monitoring and control systems, Bayesian belief networks, time-series analysis and forecasting, computational procedures for decision analysis and support, soft computing, and so on. Increasingly, managing the water environment presents challenges in which the engineering and economic elements of problem-solving need to be augmented with those having human, institutional, and cultural dimensions to them. The symposium is also directed, therefore, at developing and promoting the application of systematic procedures of Integrated Assessment. Hence, the conference is scheduled back-to-back (with one day overlap with a combined session) with The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS) Workshop on 9-11 May 2007 Proposed Themes: Systems Analysis Analysis of Uncertainty Time-series Analysis and Forecasting Benchmarking – BSM, Good Modelling Practice – GMP Control Software Engineering Data Quality Assessment Cyberinfrastructure Data Assimilation Mathematical Programming and Optimisation Decisión Support Risk Assessment Environmental Observatories Bayesian Belief Networks Models at the Science-Society Interface Signal Processing, Integrated Assessment Integrated Water Management in Planning and Management of the Water Environment The conference will also feature the following two workshops: Benchmarking Task Group Workshop - The workshop will report on the progress of the IWA Task Group on Benchmarking of Control Strategies for WWTPs, which has been focusing on the unbiased evaluation of control strategies related to removal of organics and nitrogen. The work of the TG is focused on the extension of the Benchmark Simulation Model no. 1 (BSM1) to include plant-wide aspects by adding on primary treatment and the sludge train, resulting in the BSM2. The workshop is aimed at getting professional feedback from the research community and water industry about the progress and direction taken so far, and to generate ideas about future developments. Good Modelling Practice Task Group Workshop - The Modelling Expert Group of the Americas (MEGA), together with the SAIA Specialist Group, will hold a workshop on good modelling practice for activated sludge plants. The workshop will feature expert based and system analysis-based case studies in such areas as model validity for different application fields, model calibration, data filtering and quality evaluation. The objective is to generate discussion between practice-oriented and SA-oriented participants that will result in more expert knowledge in systems analysis and more frequent use of SA tools in practice. There will also be a course on the use of calibration, validation, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis methods in relation to the application of the SWAT-model, one of the main watershed management tools used in the world. Visit the website : www.watermatex2007.org 07.05.2007 - 09.05.2007 |
