Posted by patrick_maue on June 30, 2010 under Dissemination | 
We had a presentation at the INSPIRE conference last week about our proposal for exposing environmental models on the Web. We suggest to use the SOS standard for preconfigured models which don’t require any user interaction, and the SPS for un-configured models which depend on input parameters defined by the users. Our oil spill scenario is an example for the latter: you have to manually provide information about the oil spill location and the oil type to be able to invoke the model. The slides are here. The paper is on the Website of the conference, here’s the link.
Posted by patrick_maue on under Dissemination, News |
We have a new publication by Roy from SINTEF coming from the ENVISION project:
Roy Grønmo (2010). Can Graph Transformation Make Aspect Languages for BPEL Redundant? In Proceedings of 14th IEEE International EDOC Conference, Vitória, Brazil.
Posted by patrick_maue on June 19, 2010 under News |
“This European initiative will provide Europeans with information that can be used to further improve their quality of life through a better knowledge of the living environment, delivering the necessary information to fight climate change, respond to emergencies, and alert citizens if air quality gets bad, to cite a few examples. Recently, GMES has also been used to help rescue operations in Haiti and fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The European Parliament has taken an important step in the legislative process”, said Vice-President Antonio Tajani. (link)
With its approval by the European Parliament, the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiative has take an important step.
The approval of the Parliament gave green light to the development of the GMES system by 2014, which would enable the EU to collect its own data – most of which currently comes from American satellites. The adopted regulation contains a provision for open and free of charge access to the collected data, so that all local, regional and national players can use these data to respond to natural disasters, to monitor climate change as well as to take better decisions on agriculture, forestry, energy, urban development, infrastructure or transport. The open access should also boost a “downstream market” for which small and medium-sized software companies can develop new applications. (link)
This is great news for ENVISION and all other FP7 research projects which focus on applications for earth observation data.
Posted by patrick_maue on June 7, 2010 under Dissemination |
Two new publications were added to our list. The submission for the workshop “Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web” co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (May30 – June 4, 2010) presents the concept repository. It has been initially implemented for the SWING project and is now extended and improved to match the new requirements of ENVISION. The paper with the title “Context-aware access to ontologies on the Web” (P.Maué, A. Llaves, T. Fechner) will soon be published as part of the workshop proceedings. The slides for the talk are here: slides_ores2010_maue.
The second publication titled “Using Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Extraction from Geographically Distributed and Heterogeneous Sensor Data” (A. Moraru, C. Fortuna, D. Mladenić) will be presented July 25th at the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data“, co-located with the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
