ECOSUD 2015

10th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development
3 - 5 June, 2015
València, Spain

Organised by:
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

ECOSUD 2015 is the 10th International Conference in the well established series on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. The meetings provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on different aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, including physical sciences and modelling.

This successful series first started in Peniscola, Spain (1997) and continued in Lemnos, Greece (1999); Alicante, Spain (2001); Siena, Italy (2003); Cadiz, Spain (2005); Coimbra, Portugal (2007); Chianciano Terme, Italy (2009), Alicante, Spain (2011) and Bucharest, Romania (2013).

The aim of the Conference is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between scientists, engineers, economists and professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world. The conference objectives have evolved over the years, seeking to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into “ecodynamics”.

The papers presented at this conference as well as all preceding meetings in the series have been permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary as WIT Transactions (see http://library.witpress.com) where they are easily accessible to the scientific community. They contribute a whole record of the state of the art in ecosystems and sustainable development fields. The conference books are produced in paper and digital format and widely distributed throughout the world.

Conference Topics

• Energy and the environment
• Environmental indicators
• Sustainable development and planning
• Ecosystem modelling
• Natural resources management
• Sustainable development studies
• Waste management
• Soil contamination and recovery
• Recovery of damaged areas
• Protection and mitigation
• Sustainable energy systems
• Economic and benefit analysis
• Policies
• Environmental management
• Climate change and adaptation
• Forensic analysis
• Knowledge dissemination
• Social responsibility
• Environmental monitoring and assessment
• Innovation in environmental management
• Sustainable indicators, monitoring and assessment
• Natural resources in periurban spaces
• Territorial risk management

Webpage

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Urban Transport 2015

21st International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment
 
2 - 4 June, 2015
València, Spain

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Overview

This International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has successfully been reconvened annually for over 20 years. It has always attracted a wide international spread of delegates and is well-established as the premier event of its type.

This conference started in Southampton in 1995; continuing in Barcelona (1996); Acquasparta, Italy (1997); Lisbon (1998); Rhodes (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Lemnos, Greece (2001); Seville (2002); Crete (2003); Dresden (2004); Algarve (2005); WIT Campus in the New Forest (2006); Coimbra (2007); Malta (2008); Bologna (2009); Limassol (2010); Pisa (2011), La Coruña (2012) and Kos (2013). All papers are included in the WIT Transactions and archived in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary at http://library.witpress.com, where they are permanently and easily available to the international community.

The continuing requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environment has added to the increasing success of this annual meeting which attracts international delegates from many different countries. Innovative systems, new approaches and original ideas need to be thoroughly tested and critically evaluated before they can be implemented in practice, which highlights the importance of meetings such as this. Moreover, there is a growing need for integration with telecommunications systems and IT applications in order to improve safety, security and efficiency. The Meeting also addresses the need to solve important pollution problems associated with urban transport in order to achieve a healthier environment.

The variety of topics covered by the conference reflects the complex interaction of the urban transport systems with their environment and the need to establish integrated strategies. The aim is to arrive at optimal socio-economic solutions while reducing the negative environmental impacts of current transportation systems.

Conference Topics

• Urban transport planning and management
• Urban transport strategies
• Public transport systems
• Environmental aspects
• Economic and social impact
• Safety and security
• Travel behaviour studies
• Customer satisfaction
• Transportation modelling and simulation
• Infrastructure development
• Intelligent and advanced transport systems
• Transportation integration
• City logistics
• Resilience and inter-modal transport systems
• Mass transport strategies
• Social impacts
• Freight transport
• Railway systems
• Transport governance and administration
• Port and City
• Mobility and public space
• Life cycle management

Webpage

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Air Pollution 2015

23rd International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution
1 - 3 June, 2015
València, Spain

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
University of the West of England, UK

Overview

Air Pollution 2015 is the 23rd Annual Meeting in the successful series of international conferences organised by the Wessex Institute dealing with Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution.

The series started in Mexico (1993) and continued in Barcelona (1994); Halkidiki (1995); Toulouse (1996); Bologna (1997); Genova (1998); San Francisco (1999); Cambridge, UK (2000); Ancona (2001); Segovia (2002); Catania (2003); Rhodes (2004); Cordoba (2005); New Forest (2006); Algarve (2007); Skiathos (2008); Tallinn (2009); Kos (2010) Malta (2011), A Coruna (2012), Siena (2013) and Split (2014).

These meetings have attracted outstanding contributions from leading researchers from around the world. The papers selected for presentation and included in the Conference Proceedings have been permanently stored in the WIT eLibrary as Transactions of the Wessex Institute (see http://library.witpress.com). These collected papers provide an invaluable record of the development of science and policy pertaining to air pollution.

The conferences in this series have discussed and considered many important air pollution issues and the international nature of the attendees has ensured that the conference findings and conclusions enjoy a wide and rapid dissemination amongst the air pollution science and policy communities. Air pollution issues remain one of the most challenging problems facing the international community. The series has demonstrated the wide spread nature of the air pollution phenomena and has explored in depth the impacts of air pollution on human health and the environment.

The series also recognised, at a very early stage, that science alone will not improve a polluted atmosphere. The scientific knowledge derived from well designed studies needs to be allied with further technical and economic studies in order to ensure cost effective and efficient mitigation. In turn, the science, technology and economic outcomes are necessary but not sufficient. Increasingly, the conference has recognised that the outcome of such research needs to be contextualised within well formulated communication strategies that help policy makers and citizens to understand and appreciate the risks and rewards arising from air pollution management. Consequently, the series has enjoyed a wide range of high quality papers that develop the fundamental science of air pollution and an equally impressive range of presentations that places these new developments within the frame of mitigation and management of air pollution.

This important conference brings together contributions from scientists from around the world to present recent work on various aspects of air pollution phenomena. Notable in each of the conferences in this series has been the opportunity to foster scientific exchange between participants. New collaborations amongst scientists, and between scientists and policy makers or regulators have arisen through contacts made in this series. Each meeting has provided a further opportunity for identifying new areas of air pollution science demanding collaborative investigation.

The conference papers deal with a rich variety of topics. The presentation of case studies of specific regions and cities, including those in emerging countries are particularly encouraged.

Conference Topics

• Air pollution modelling
• Monitoring and measuring
• Air quality management
• Indoor air pollution
• Aerosols and particles
• Emission studies
• Air Pollution chemistry
• Source identification
• Global and regional studies
• Exposure and health effects
• Economics of air pollution control
• Policy and legislation
• Case studies
• Innovative technologies

Webpage

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Disaster Management 2015

4th International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes
20 - 22 May, 2015
Istanbul, Turkey

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 

Overview

The fourth International Conference on Disaster Management is being reconvened following the success of the previous three meetings, held at Wessex Institute in the New Forest in 2009, the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA in 2011 and A Coruña, Spain in 2013.

This series of conferences originated with the need for academia and practitioners to exchange knowledge and experience on the way to handle the increasing risk of natural and human-made disasters. Recent major earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods and other natural phenomena have resulted in huge losses in terms of human life and property destruction. A new range of human-made disasters have afflicted humanity in modern times; terrorist activities have been added to more classical disasters such as those due to the failure of industrial installations for instance.

It is important to understand the nature of these global risks to be able to develop strategies to prepare for these events and plan effective responses in terms of disaster management and the associated human health impacts.

The conference provides a forum for the exchange of information between academics and practitioners, and a venue for presentation of the latest developments. The corresponding volume of WIT Transactions on the Built Environment containing the papers presented at the meeting has been published in paper and digital format and widely distributed around the world. The papers are also archived in the WIT elibrary (http://library.witpress.com) where they are available to the international community.

Conference Topics

• Disaster analysis
• Disaster monitoring and mitigation
• Emergency preparedness
• Risk mitigation
• Risk and security
• Safety and resilience
• Socio-economic issues
• Health risk
• Case studies
• Human factors
• Multihazard risk assessment

Webpage

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Sustainable Development and Planning 2015

7th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning
19 - 21 May, 2015
Istanbul, Turkey

Oganised by:
Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The seventh International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos, Greece, followed by other meetings in Bologna (2005), Algarve (2007), Cyprus (2009), New Forest, UK (2011), and Kos, Greece (2013).

The Conference addresses subjects of regional development in an integrated way as well as in accordance with the principles of sustainability. It has become apparent that planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising the ability of future generations.

Problems related to development and planning affect rural and urban areas, and are present in all regions of the world. Accelerated urbanisation has resulted in deterioration of the environment and loss of quality of life. Urban development can also aggravate problems faced by rural areas, such as forests, mountain regions and coastal areas, among many others. Taking into consideration the interaction between different regions and developing new methodologies for monitoring, planning and implementation of novel strategies can avoid solutions leading to environmental pollution and non-sustainable use of available resources.

Energy saving and eco-friendly building approaches have become an important part of modern development, which places special emphasis on resource optimisation. Planning has a key role to play in ensuring that these solutions as well as new materials and processes are incorporated in the most efficient manner.

Sustainable Development and Planning 2015 aims to bring together scientists and other stakeholders from across the globe to discuss the latest scientific advances in the field. The conference will also seek and highlight developments in managerial strategies and assessment tools for policy and decision makers.

Conference Topics:
 

• Regional planning
• City planning
• Sustainability and the built environment
• Cultural heritage
• Environmental management
• Environmental policies and planning
• Sustainable tourism
• Resources management
• Social and political issues
• Rural developments
• Sustainable solutions in emerging countries
• Transportation
• Energy Resources
• Environmental Economics
• Sustainable assessment
• Sustainable development indicators
• Sustainability modelling
• Governance
• Resilience
• Community planning
• Planning for equality
• Quality of life

Webpage

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Complex Systems 2015

International Conference on Complex Systems in Business, Administration, Science and Engineering
12 - 14 May, 2015
New Forest, UK

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK

The Open University, UK

Overview

The Conference aims to bring together practitioners of a variety of disciplines interested in developing and discussing the new approaches for resolving complex issues that cannot be formulated using conventional, mathematical or software models. Applications in modelling complex issues using multi-agent technology and similar distributed approaches, which have achieved credible results, are welcomed.

The Conference is particularly focused on methods for resolving complex issues that exhibit some of the following attributes:

Connectivity - A system consists of a large number of diverse components, referred to as Agents, which are richly interconnected.

Autonomy - Agents are not centrally controlled; they have a degree of autonomy but their behaviour is always subject to certain laws, rules or norms.

Emergence - Global behaviour of a complex system emerges from the interaction of agents and is therefore unpredictable but not random; it generally follows discernible patterns.

Nonequilibrium - Global behaviour of a complex system is far from equilibrium because frequent occurrences of disruptive events do not allow the system to return to the equilibrium between two such events.

Nonlinearity - Relations between agents are nonlinear, which occasionally causes an insignificant input to be amplified into an extreme event (butterfly effect).

Self-Organisation - A system is capable of selforganizing in response to disruptive events, a feature termed Adaptability. Self-organisation may also be initiated autonomously by the system in response to a perceived need, a feature termed Creativity.

Co-Evolution - A system irreversibly coevolves with its environment.

High level dynamics of such systems, which are usually expressed through the frequent occurrence of unpredictable disruptive events, make conventional optimizers, batch schedulers and resource planning systems unworkable.

Complex Systems occur in an infinite variety of problems, not only in the realm of physical sciences and engineering, but encompassing fields as diverse as the economy, environment, humanities, social and political sciences. Further examples are given in the list of topics which although incomplete gives an idea of the themes to be covered by the meeting.

The conference objective is to bring together researchers, developers and users of complex systems, aiming to form a community directed at solving complex issues in novel ways.

   

Conference Topics:

• Complex ecological systems
• Complexity science and urban developments
• Complex energy systems
• Complex issues in biological and medical sciences
• Extreme events: natural and human made disasters
• Climate change
• Complexity of the internetbased global market
• Complex business processes
• Supply chain complexity
• Transportation complexity
• Logistics complexity
• Closed and open systems
• Attractions and chaotic systems
• Complex adaptive software
• Complexity of big data
• Management of complexity
• Global economy as a complex system
• Complexity in social systems
• Complex political systems
• Administrations as complex systems
• Complexity in engineering
• Complexity and environment
• Complexity and evolution
• Complexity in linguistics, literature and arts

Webpage 


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SAFE 2015

6th International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering

6 - 8 May, 2015
Opatija, Croatia

Organised by:
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy
University of Split, Croatia 
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

This sixth Conference on Safety and Security Engineering follows the success of the first five meetings held in Rome (2005), Malta (2007), Rome (2009), Antwerp (2011) and Rome (2013). The purpose of the Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent academic and industrial developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of Safety and Security Engineering.

Safety and Security Engineering, due to its special nature, is an interdisciplinary area of research and application that brings together in a systematic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the traditional to the most technologically advanced. The conference covers areas such as crisis management, security engineering, natural disasters and emergencies, terrorism, IT security, man-made hazards, risk management, control, protection and mitigation issues, and many others.

The meeting aims to attract papers in all related fields, in addition to those listed under the Conference Topics, as well as case studies describing practical experiences. Due to the multitude and variety of topics included, the list is only indicative of the themes of the expected papers. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts in all areas of Safety and Security, with particular attention to integrated and interdisciplinary aspects.

The conference is aimed at engineers, scientists, field researchers, managers and other specialists involved in one or more aspects of safety and security.

Conference Topics

• Risk analysis, assessment and management
• System safety engineering
• Incident management
• Information and communication security
• Natural disaster management
• Emergency response
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Public safety and security
• Human factors
• Transportation safety and security
• Modelling and experiments
• Security surveillance systems

Webpage

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CMEM 2015

17th International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements

5 - 7 May, 2015
Opatija, Croatia

Organised by:
University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy
University of Split, Croatia
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

CMEM 2015 is the 17th International Conference in this well established series on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements. These successful meetings provide a unique forum for the review of the latest work on the interaction between computational methods and experimental measurements.

This well known series of conferences started in Washington DC (1981) followed by a meeting on board the Queen Elizabeth II Ocean Liner (1984); Porto Carras, Greece (1986); Capri (1988); Montreal (1991); Siena (1993); Capri (1995); Rhodes (1997); Sorrento (1999); Alicante (2001); Sani Beach, Greece (2003); Malta (2005); Prague (2007); the Algarve (2009), the New Forest, UK (2011) and A Coruña, Spain (2013).

The principal intention of the conference has always been to provide to the international technical and scientific community, an opportunity to discuss the interaction between experimental measurements and computational methods with all associated topics. Foremost consideration and importance are devoted to their reciprocal and advantageous integration.

The continuous improvement in computer efficiency, coupled with their diminishing costs and the rapid development of numerical procedures have generated an ever-increasing expansion of computational simulations that permeate all fields of science and technology. As these procedures continue to grow in magnitude and complexity, it is essential to be certain of their reliability, ie to validate their results. This can be achieved by performing dedicated and accurate experiments, which have undergone a constant and enormous development. At the same time, current experimental techniques have become more complex and sophisticated so that they require the exploitation of computers, both for running experiments as well as acquiring and processing the resulting data.

Conference Topics

• Computational and experimental methods
• Fluid flow
• Structural and stress analysis
• Materials characterisation
• Heat transfer and thermal processes
• Advances in computational methods
• Automotive applications
• Applications in industry
• Process simulations
• Environmental modelling and applications
• Computer modelling
• Validation of computer modelling
• Computation in measurements
• Data processing of experiments
• Virtual testing and verification
• Simulation and forecasting
• Measurements in engineering

Webpage

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