Environmental Data Exchange Network for Inland Water (Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment) (Developments in Integrated Environmental Assessment) ... in Integrated Environmental Assessment)

Table of Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 14
1.1 Introduction......Page 18
1.2 General background......Page 20
1.3 Technical background......Page 22
1.4 Social considerations......Page 26
1.6 Book outline......Page 28
2.1 The french system for water......Page 32
2.2 Information system structure......Page 33
2.3 Perspectives......Page 36
2.4 Technical principles and choices......Page 39
2.5 Discussion......Page 41
3.1 Historic legacy and political background......Page 44
3.2 Identifying business processes and streamlining reporting obligations......Page 45
3.3 Reportnet as a current technological solution to streamline reporting......Page 46
3.4 Review of monitoring......Page 48
3.6 From water data flows to a water information system......Page 49
3.7 From a reporting to an information system......Page 51
Notes......Page 52
4.1 Introduction......Page 54
4.2 Project motivation......Page 55
4.3 Infosleuth......Page 56
4.4 Technical system description......Page 57
4.5 Project description......Page 59
4.6 Conclusion......Page 62
Acknowledgements......Page 63
5.1 Introduction......Page 66
5.2 RDBMS, SQL and data warehouses......Page 67
5.3 The global view database integration model......Page 69
5.4 Distributed databases......Page 70
5.6 XML, web services and the grid......Page 71
5.7 The semantic web......Page 74
5.8 Agents and multi-agent systems......Page 78
5.9 Concluding remarks......Page 82
6.1 Introduction......Page 84
6.2 RDBMS security mechanisms......Page 85
6.3 Interfaces between agent software and the RDBMS......Page 86
6.4 Network configurations......Page 88
6.5 Installing the resource agent in a corporate network configuration......Page 90
6.6 Conclusions......Page 95
7.1 Introduction......Page 98
7.2 Main results......Page 99
7.3 Independent software agents......Page 100
7.4 Inland water application......Page 102
7.5 Environmental analysis......Page 105
7.6 Agent communication visualiser......Page 107
7.7 Semantic management......Page 109
7.8 Discussion......Page 110
8.1 Introduction......Page 112
8.2 Specification of MAS using FIPA standards......Page 115
8.3 Developing MAS applications......Page 122
8.4 EDEN-IW MAS system design and implementation......Page 126
8.5 Discussion and conclusions......Page 135
9.2 What is an ontology?......Page 138
9.3 Inland water data application requirements......Page 140
9.4 EDEN-IW semantic model and services......Page 142
9.5 Discussion......Page 158
10.1 Introduction......Page 160
10.2 The quadrilingual list of determinands......Page 162
10.3 The terminology reference system......Page 170
10.4 Discussions and conclusions......Page 184
11.1 Introduction......Page 190
11.2 Goals of the agent communication visualiser......Page 192
11.3 The ACV project......Page 193
11.4 The ACV in use......Page 196
11.6 The ACV website......Page 202
11.7 Conclusive remarks......Page 203
12.2 Web application design......Page 208
12.3 Web application overview......Page 213
12.4 Using EDEN-IW for inland water analysis......Page 219
12.5 Final remarks......Page 226
Notes......Page 227
13.2 GIS data in the inland-water domain......Page 228
13.3 Open geospatial consortium standards......Page 229
13.4 EDEN-IW GIS system architecture......Page 230
13.5 Concluding remarks......Page 239
14.2 The setup......Page 240
14.3 Analysis method......Page 241
14.4 The search for available determinands......Page 243
14.5 The search for stations......Page 245
14.6 The search for measurement data......Page 250
14.7 A simple model for the performance of a distributed system......Page 254
14.8 Summary and conclusions......Page 256
15.2 Operational edge issues......Page 260
15.3 The semantics edge: A major challenge and promising opportunity......Page 262
15.4 Concluding remarks......Page 271
Notes......Page 272
16.1 Introduction......Page 274
16.2 Components of the reference......Page 276
16.3 Radar sensing techniques to detect elevation......Page 278
16.4 Detection of water surfaces......Page 281
16.5 Automated coding methods for hydrological systems......Page 287
16.6 Inclusion of objects influenced by man......Page 294
16.7 Display of results......Page 296
16.8 Conclusions and recommendations for further research......Page 297
16.9 Glossary of terms......Page 299
Notes......Page 300
17.1 Introduction......Page 302
17.3 The information system......Page 303
17.4 The future development of wise......Page 305
References......Page 312
Acronyms......Page 322
Index......Page 326