{"confrec":{"ConfID":858,"ConfTitle":"BioDivGrid 2008 - Distributed Sensing and Collective Intelligence in Biodiversity Monitoring","OrigTitle":null,"OrigTitleLangCode":null,"OrigTitleLangID":null,"Location":"CWI, Amsterdam","Capacity":null,"RegFee":null,"Diploma":null,"Duration":null,"BeginDate":"2008-12-03","EndDate":"2008-12-05","Email":"w.los@uva.nl","Notes":null,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"Description":" Global biodiversity is profoundly affected by both natural and man-made changes. Monitoring the resulting impact on the environment requires gathering and analysing large collection of data. The confluence of three technological trends promises to have a profound influence on this process:\r\n<ul type=disc>\r\n <li>Modern sensor and computer technology is furnishing researchers with increasingly sophisticated equipment to set up radio-linked sensor networks, tailor-made for the unsupervised monitoring of large and distributed biotopes.\r\n<li>The ubiquity of internet access provides experts with efficient means to tap into the combined contributions and expertise of large crowds of web-connected people, thus creating an enormous pool of resources ready to be harnessed.\r\n<li>Last but not least, emerging semantic web technologies are forging standards and tools that facilitate aggregation and analysis of, and access to, heterogeneous web-based databases.\r\n</li></ul type=disc>\r\n\r\nAs a result, it has become feasible to link up sensors, databases, human expertise, and even machine intelligence in large scale monitoring projects. This effectively signals the emergence of a new trend in biodiversity monitoring: the use of pervasive sensing and collective intelligence in distributed networks allowing resources to be shared and reconfigured in a dynamic fashion.\r\n\r\nThis three day workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges that result from these new developments. In addition to invited talks on pioneering applications, there will be peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations. Companies specializing in sensor technology will be invited to demonstrate their products. A selection of the presented papers will be published in a special issue (Journal to be announced).","EnvName":"Netherlands","EventType":"Conference/Workshop","AudienceType":null,"Periodicity":null,"Degree":null,"PartCNT":1},"projects":null,"participants":[{"instituterec":null,"parent":null,"institutes":null,"references":null,"conferences":null,"datasets":null,"persons":null,"pastpers":null,"subpers":null,"projects":null,"urls":null,"pictures":null,"published":null,"affrefs":null,"collections":null,"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"nXtins":null,"previns":null,"spcols":null,"resmessage":"no id specified","complete":0,"participantrec":{"ConfPartID":1724,"PublicFlag":1,"VLIZCoreFlag":1,"Role":"Organiser","Acronym":"CWI","OrigNameLangCode":"nl","OrigNameLangID":41,"FullStandardName":"National research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands","FullOrigName":"Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica","InsID":7574},"peerrevs":null,"urlmaps":null}],"refs":null,"urls":null,"pictures":[],"thesterms":null,"taxterms":null,"geoterms":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1}