Background
Grid computing and e-Research have begin to play
global importance in collaborative research cross computer science and
other disciplines. The e-Water Workshop series aims to promote research
collaborations and develop research programs between Information and
Communication technology (ICT ) researchers and domain experts in water
resouce management and to exchange ideas and research results on water
resounce management and ICT related issues. This workshop is to be held
in Harbin, China during January 15-16, 2006, in conjunction with 8th
Asia Pacific Web Conference.
Water resource management requires access to meteorological data, and
spatial data such as digital elevation, land use and remote sensing
data. Current approaches to water resource management, for the most
part, operating independently whilst generally working towards the same
objective (for example, improved water quality in waterways in a
region). While each of these activities has been effective in their own
right, there are major benefits and synergies to be gained through a
coordinated integration of these tasks.
This workshop brings ICT researchers and domain
experts in water resouce management to exchange ideas and research
results on water resounce management and ICT related issues, including
the framework for the integration of all data and modelling services
related to water resource management for a region, field monitoring with
its associated spatial, temporal trend analysis, remote sensing
(including satellite and autonomous stations), and predictive modelling
which facilitates and supports management decisions.
Topics
Topics
include but not limited to the following: the application of ICT to
issues related to
urban water management;
irrigation;
groundwater management;
real time water supply;
monitoring of water flow or water storage;
control of the supply of water resources;
water trading strategies ;
remote censoring;
sensor reliability;
security of the water supply and measurement system ;
simulation of the water supply system;
archival of data/information on water resources ;
optimisation process;
Submision
Full length research papers
up to 5000 words are invited. These should be submitted via the workshop
site. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee.
Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and included in the
proceedings by a prestigious international publisher (IEEE CS/Springer).
Important Dates
Paper
submission: August 15, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2005
Final camera ready copy: October 20, 2005
Workshop
Organisation
Workshop Co-Chairs
Guangcai Wang, National Natural Science Foundation
of China
Yanchun Zhang, Dept. Computer
Science and Mathematics, Victoria University, Australia
Funding Chair
Feng Xu, Hohai University,
China.
Local
Arrangement Chair
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of
Technology, China.
Program
Committee (incomplete)
Eva Abal, SEQ
Regional Water Quality Management Strategy, Australia
Ian Atkinson, School of IT, James Cook University
Rajkumar Buyya, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The University of Melbourne
Jesse Jin, Newcastle University, Australia
Rao Kotagiri, Dept Comp Sci & Software Eng, The University of
Melbourne,Australia
Xuemin Lin, School Comp Sci & Engineering, The University of New South
Wales, Australia
Chengfei Liu, Swinburne University, Australia
Iven Mareels, Dept Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University
of Melbourne, Australia
Yuan Miao, Computer Science and Mathematics,
Victoria University, Australia
Stuart Minchin, CSIRO Land and Water, Australia
Maria Orlowska, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information
Infrastructure (EII) and University of Queensland, Australia
Andy Steven, Aquatic Biogeochemistry & Ecology, CSIRO Land & Water, Australia
Bailing Zhang, Computer Science and Mathematics,
Victoria University, Australia
Xiaofang Zhou, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information
Infrastructure and University of Queensland, Australia
Jinyun Fang, Institute of
Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Huili Gong, Capital Normal University, China
Qingcheng He, China Institute for Geo-Environmental Monitoring, China
Hai Jin, School of Computer, Huazhong University of Science &
Technology, China
Huaizhong Kou,
Hydrology Bureau of Yellow River Conservancy Commission, China
Minglu Li, Dept Computer Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China
Jianzhong Li, Dept Computer Science & Engineering, Harbin Institute of
Technology, China
Lei Wang, Zhejiang University, China
Zhijian Wang, Hohai University, China
Dongguang Wen, China Geological Survey (CGS), China
Jichun Wu, Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China
Zhaohui Wu, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
Feng Xu, Hohai University, China.
Qingping Zhu, Yellow River Conservancy Commission, Ministry of Water
Resources, China
Xiaofeng Zhou, School of Computer Science & Information Engineering,
Hohai University, China
Steering Committee
Prof Ah Chung Tsoi,
Australian Research Council (Co-Chair)
Prof Ziyong Liu, National
Natural Science Foundation of China (Co-Chair)
Prof Rao Kotagiri,
University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof Minglu Li, Shanghai
Jiaotong University, China
Prof Yanchun Zhang,
Victoria University, Australia
Prof Xiaofang Zhou,
University of Queensland, Australia