Te international conference entitled ”Forestry: Bridge to the Future” is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of higher forestry education in Bulgaria and it will take place in Sofia during the period 13-15 May, 2010. You will there find topics related to FORSYS. The conference is organized by the University of Forestry, Sofia. (For more information see Useful_Information-2.pdf, or contact Dr Tzvetan Zlatanov, E-mail: tmzlatanov@gmail.com.)
Archive for February, 2010
Conference ”Forestry: Bridge to the Future”, Sofia 13-15 May, 2010
February 16th, 2010Conference 170 year anniversary Faculty of Forestry, Kyiv, Ukraine 30 Sept. – 2 Oct. 2010
February 16th, 2010The International Conference “Education, research and innovations in forestry and park management in Ukraine in the context of regional and global challenges”, Kyiv, Ukraine, 30 September – 2 October, is making its first announcement (for more information, see 170_year_Faculty_Forestry_Kyiv_Ukraine_First_letter.pdf ).
KEOD 2010 Valencia, Spain, October 25 – 28, 2010
February 16th, 2010The KEOD 2010 (International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development – http://www.keod.ic3k.org/) has currently an open call for papers, whose deadline is on May 20, 2010.
Organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), KEOD 2010 will be held in Valencia, Spain, next October 25 – 28, and it aims at becoming a top reference for researchers and practitioners in its area.
Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multidisciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. From the software development point of view, KE uses principles that are strongly related to software engineering. KE is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works. Currently, KE is strongly related to the construction of shared knowledge bases or conceptual frameworks, often designated as ontologies.
Ontology Development aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures representing the entities within a domain and the relationships between those entities. Ontologies, have been gaining interest and acceptance in computational audiences: formal ontologies are a form of software, thus software development methodologies can be adapted to serve ontology development. A wide range of applications is emerging, especially given the current web emphasis, including library science, ontology-enhanced search, e-commerce and configuration.
This meeting will take place yearly, bringing together top researchers and practitioners in knowledge technologies, especially those related to KEOD main topic areas. The conference is co-located with two related conferences in a joint conference format, namely:
- Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/)
- Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (http://www.kmis.ic3k.org/)
Registration to one conference allows free access to all conferences.
For more information please contact
Vera Coelho – KEOD Secretariat
Av. D. Manuel I, 27A 2. esq.
2910-595 Setubal, Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 100 033
Fax: +44 203 014 8639
e-mail: keod.secretariat@insticc.org
FORSYS – our FOCUS
February 1st, 2010FORSYS aims at producing decision support guidelines for forest management planning problems, where a forest management planning problem involves …
► the definition of the timing and location of forest management options in a unit of forestland over a planning horizon,
► in order to approximate or optimize management objectives,
► that are single or multiple and relate to goods and services that are traded or non-traded, and
► subject to resource constraints.
Thus the output of a decision support tool as understood in FORSYS ideally includes …
► an efficient set of actions,
► tradeoffs between management goals, and
► impacts of changing uncertain parameters.
