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Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels and it is critical to address challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software as well as education around software practices. These challenges can be technological, policy based, organizational, and educational, and are of interest to developers (the software community), users (science disciplines), and researchers studying the conduct of science (science of team science, science of organizations, science of science and innovation policy, and social science communities).
The WSSSPE1 workshop (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/WSSSPE1) engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best practices in areas of interest for sustainable scientific software. At WSSSPE2, we invite the community to propose and discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software development and usage in science and engineering. The workshop will include multiple mechanisms for participation, encourage team building around solutions, and identify risky solutions with potentially transformative outcomes. Participation by early career students and postdoctoral researchers is strongly encouraged.
See more at: http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/ +
RRNW is gearing up for the 13th Annual River Restoration Symposium at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson Washington February 4-6, 2014! We have issued a call for Abstracts and Session Proposals. To get all the details please visit our website at www.rrnw.org. Session Proposals are due August 17th. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are due September 14th. +
RRNW is gearing up for the 19th Annual Stream Restoration Symposium at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson Washington February 4-6, 2020! Have an interesting topic or project to share? We have issued a call for Session Proposals and Oral Presentation/Poster Abstracts. To get all the details and links to submit via our online submission platform, please visit our website at
http://www.rrnw.org.
Mark your calendars:
* Session Proposals are due August 12, 2019.
* Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are due September 16, 2019.
Seems like a few months away...but time flies by during construction season! Get those ideas flowing and on paper. We look forward to reading your abstracts and seeing you at the Symposium in February! +
Rare or catastrophic events, such as large earthquakes, extreme storms, tsunamis, floods, wildfires, or volcanic eruptions, can have complex and long-lasting effects on Earth surface processes and biogeochemical cycles, potentially dominating system dynamics over long time scales.
This conference will bring together scientists studying a range of rare/extreme events and their broader impacts on Earth surface processes, biogeochemical cycles and human systems.
Conference themes will include:
# the adjustment of Earth surface processes to event-driven perturbations
# commonalities and differences between events of different types
# feedbacks between different systems that can enhance post-event impacts
# length scales, time scales, and magnitudes of perturbations
# tipping points in Earth surface systems which yield into instability or irreversibility
Conference venue will include:
* 1.5 days in Kathmandu at the View Brikuti Hote,
* 3 days in the Bhote Koshi River valley at Borderlands Resort, and
* 1.5 days field excursion, looking at multiple extreme events, including the Gorkha Earthquake, glacial lake outburst floods, and a mega-landslide
Abstract submission opens in February and closes in May
Due to venue size, the conference will be limited to 80 participants
Details on costs, key note speakers and preliminary program will follow soon.
For further questions check the conference homepage or get in touch with us directly. +
Recent advances in sensing, low-power radio design, and embedded systems are now enabling the connectivity of huge number of devices across massive spatial and temporal scales. These devices have the ability to last multiple years on simple batteries while assembling into intelligent wireless mesh networks, in which individual nodes, known as motes, exchange information wirelessly with their neighbors. This workshop will explore the role of modern Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) across a range of real-world applications including, but not limited to, real-time environmental monitoring, industrial control, structural health monitoring, and energy management. We will bring together prominent domain experts to showcase the core theory and design behind WSNs, present hands-on programing activities, and showcase the many new real-world deployments which have been enabled by these new technologies.
Specifically, the Wireless Sensing Workshop will serve to:
Present the theory behind WSNs, including low-power radio technologies, synchronization and frequency channel hopping architectures
Provide substantial hands on experiences, teaching participates how to build embedded sensing applications with the NeoMote
Help participants connect their own sensor to the NeoMote WSN platform (if interested, bring your own sensor!)
Present use-cases of NeoMote deployments to facilitate discussions about deployment strategies and real-world expectations
No prior experience is expected (though participants with some C programming background are expected to excel quickly), and participants will acquire the core skills necessary to effectively deploy reliable WSNs upon completion of the workshop. A laptop with MS Windows is recommended, but one computer will be shared between two participants. We will provide all necessary hardware and sensors. +
Registration is now open for our AMS Short Course: Introducing the Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System an Interactive Hands-on Tutorial (http://bit.ly/wrfhydroshort)
The course will be held on Saturday 11 January 2020, prior to the AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Space is limited!
You do not need to register for the entire meeting you can register (http://bit.ly/amsregs) for the short course separately. Each participant is required to come with their own laptop, capable of accessing wireless internet with prerequisite software installed to participate in the hands-on exercises. See the description below for the requirements.
'''Course Description:'''<br>
WRF-Hydro®, an open-source community model, is used for a range of projects, including flash flood prediction, regional hydroclimate impacts assessment, seasonal forecasting of water resources, and land-atmosphere coupling studies. It was designed to link multi-scale process models of the atmosphere and terrestrial hydrology to provide:
* An extensible multi-scale & multi-physics land-atmosphere modeling capability for conservative, coupled and uncoupled assimilation & prediction of major water cycle components such as precipitation, soil moisture, snow pack, ground water, streamflow, and inundation
* Accurate and reliable streamflow prediction across scales (from 0-order headwater catchments to continental river basins and from minutes to seasons)
* A research modeling testbed for evaluating and improving physical process and coupling representations
In this half-day tutorial we will provide an introduction to the capabilities within WRF-Hydro and provide participants with the basic building blocks to start their research with it. Participants will gain experience with hands-on model configuration and execution and run experimental model simulations and comparisons with a prepared example test case. Participants will also be provided with information on additional resources that can be used to further their familiarity with WRF-Hydro and build on the basics learned during this tutorial.
Instructors include subject matter experts and lead developers of WRF-Hydro and the National Water Model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, David Gochis and Aubrey Dugger.
Each participant is required to come with their own laptop, capable of accessing wireless internet with prerequisite software installed to participate in the hands-on exercises.
* Docker (community edition) at least version 18.09.2
* (docker settings: CPUs - 2 (at bare minimum)
* Memory- 8 GB (recommended)
* Swap-1024 MB (recommended)
* Disk image max size 60 GB (recommended)
* Google Chrome web browser
Research into post-wildfire effects began in the USA more than 70 years ago and only later extended into other parts of the world, notably Australia and the Mediterranean, in subsequent decades. The large empirical knowledge base that now exists in these three regions and others suggests that it should now be possible to compile this knowledge into an organizational framework that with analysis and discussion will provide new insights into some of the priority research issues facing the wildfire community.
Post-wildfire science is generally not recognized as a discipline in its own right, so the intention of this Chapman Conference is to bring together experts from the field of post-wildfire research, other fields of related research, and from the hydrologic modeling field to address current priority issues facing the post-wildfire community. The overall goal of the conference is (1) to address the priority research issues, and (2) to synthesize existing empirical data in a quantitative manner that will improve or provide additional model components designed to further post-wildfire research and assist the fire-effects community and land managers in the decision-making process. An additional goal is to encourage young career scientists to contribute papers and to participate in these in-depth discussions. This Chapman Conference encourages all interested scientists to contribute abstracts for oral and poster talks that are clearly related to the five sessions outlined below.
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum: (1) where invited speakers can present different perspectives and new insights on each priority research issue, (2) for in-depth discussions (among all participants representing a variety of disciplines related to wildfire) oriented toward resolving issues, (3) for interactive field trips that highlight some of the issues, (4) to develop plans and proposals for future collaborative research efforts in different regions of the world using identical standard methods established for post-wildfire research, and (5) to determine the interest in establishing long-term measurement programs and organize them at different sites around the world so that post-wildfire response and recovery rates can be directly compared.
Planned products from this conference are: (1) pre-conference review paper, (2) AGU monograph of invited papers and other submitted papers, (3) journal papers focused on proposed resolutions for priority research issues for each topic session, (4) possible journal paper on the relation between burn severity and soil hydraulic properties based on data collected during the conference, and (5) proposals for funding of a joint-international program to monitor post wildfire responses using standard methods.
River Flow, the major international meeting in the area of river engineering and fluvial hydraulics, provides a forum to report the latest scientific findings, and to promote information exchange and cooperation among scientists, engineers, and researchers who share a common interest in river flows and transport processes.
The conference will focus on the latest advances in experimental, theoretical, and computational tools in the field of fluvial hydraulics. Participants will consider how these tools can be used to expand our understanding and capacity to predict flow and the associated fluid-driven ecological processes, anthropogenic influences (e.g., heat, dissolved and suspended organic/inorganic material), sediment transport, and morphodynamic processess.
Major efforts are underway all over the world to clean up our rivers and restore river habitats. Managing rivers in an ecologically friendly way is a major component of sustainable engineering design to maintain and restore ecological habitats. Linking watershed processes with river flow and predicting the impacts of river floods is one of the biggest challenges in river engineering. This is why “River Floods” and “River Management, Ecology, and Restoration” will be two of the four major themes of the conference. Addressing these challenges will help increase the impact of river flow research by providing solutions to important practical problems that integrate hydrological, geomorphological, and/or ecological processes with socio-economic needs. By providing a common forum for presentations and discussions, the Eighth River Flow conference will also foster interdisciplinary research and collaboration and rapid dissemination of latest findings, and provide an opportunity to discuss how novel methods and techniques can be used interchangeably in various fields of river engineering, with particular emphasis on flood protection and river restoration.
River Flow 2016 will include special sessions dedicated to the Upper Mississippi River Basin, one of the largest of its kind in the world. This river is of major economic and societal importance for the human communities in the basin. The Mississippi River is also one of the most heavily engineered large rivers in the United States.
Rivers carry not only water, but sediment. Hydroelectric dams, canals, sand and gravel mining, and other human uses alter sediment fluxes, often with detrimental consequences on the river morphology and ecology as well as on coastal land, including the retreat of many the world’s river deltas. The scale and scope of these physical changes in river systems, deltas and coastal geomorphic processes is tightly linked with economic growth, technological change, and political choices and conflicts over multiple spatial and temporal scales. This workshop aims to investigate the nexus of social and natural processes behind the modification of sediment balance in river systems. We are particularly interested in understanding the long-term geomorphological changes in sediment at a river basin scale, as well as the evolving understanding of sediment-altering activities and the regulation (or lack thereof) of these activities. Understanding the mutual influence between social drivers and geomorphic processes is essential to make sense of river system changes and the responses to these changes (or lack thereof).
Fluvial geomorphology has developed a sophisticated understanding of the links between upstream basins and deltas, including the impact of dams on sediment fluxes, the consequences of sand and gravel mining, and the construction of embankments. Environmental history, historical geography, and science and technology studies (STS) have shed light on the entanglement between river systems and social dynamics, emphasizing the crucial role of technology and engineering and the complexity of policy and politics of river management. We believe that there is much to be gained in combining the insights and approaches of these disciplines to the study of sediments in river systems. The workshop will convene fluvial geomorphologists, environmental historians, historical geographers, and STS scholars with a shared interest in geomorphological change of rivers and deltas, to compare and discuss research questions, methodologies, and empirical cases. Our aim is to lay the foundation for a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue.
This workshop is part of a collaborative effort funded by grants from the France-Berkeley Fund, the UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix and Institute of International Studies, and an Emergence(s) grant from the City of Paris. Within the limits of available budget, we will cover travel expenses and lodging of selected participants. We especially welcome applications from junior scholars (PhD candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and other early career scholars).
'''Conveners:''' Giacomo Parrinello (Sciences Po Paris) & G Mathias Kondolf (UC Berkeley)
Your proposal should consist of an abstract (ca. 300 words) and a brief biographical note (ca. 150 words). Please submit proposals to giacomo.parrinello@sciencespo.fr by 31 January 2019 with the subject “Sediment Workshop.”
Rome grew and developed in a key geological context, between the Apennines chain and the Tyrrhenian Sea, crossed by Tiber River that carved the volcanoclastic deposits to create the “seven hills”. The building stones of monuments (travertine, limestone, pyroclastics), well represent the great relevance of sedimentary geology for Rome and its province. Our ambition is, as stated in the meeting title, to discuss, compare and promote researches able to cope with the societal changes from the specific perspective of the Sedimentology and Sedimentary Geology. We hope to involve in the meeting also scientific communities that, although not directly focused on sedimentology, use reconstruction of sedimentary processes and of stratigraphic record as main investigation tools, such as marine geology, volcanology, extraterrestrial geology, archaeology.
We are looking forward to see you in Rome! +
SEPTEMBER 14th, 12PM Eastern Time<br><br>
This webinar presents an overview of the Landlab Toolkit: a Python package that makes it much easier to create two-dimensional grid-based models of various earth-surface processes. The webinar will provide a basic overview of Landlab, and illustrate some of its key capabilities in creating grids and working with modular "process components". The webinar will also present some example applications of Landlab for model-building, and provide pointers to tutorials, user guides, and other resources for those who wish to learn more.
Instructor: '''Greg Tucker, CSDMS Executive Director, University of Colorado, Boulder'''
When: '''September 14th, 12PM Eastern Time - Register: https://colorado.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6244ee030fc53edb530ad5be4&id=df7ad45adb&e=052cc92b4f''' +
Scientists must provide regulators with defensible quantification of uncertainties associated with sometimes controversial environmental problems (e.g. sustainability, resources management, climate change and impacts, carbon sequestration, fracking). This minisymposium explores how conceptual and data uncertainties are represented, evaluated, and reduced, and how uncertainty quantification is used in risk analysis, decision support, and law. Of interest are probabilistic and non-probabilistic metrics of judging models against data, ranking alternative models and testing hypotheses; sensitivity analyses for unraveling sources of uncertainty; data collection strategies optimized to reduce uncertainty; and how uncertainty measures inform enforcement strategies and legal frameworks.
To address these issues the following speakers have been invited:
Part I (Monday 2:00-4:00pm)
* Emanuele Borgonovo, Bocconi University in Milan – Uncertainty, sensitivity analysis, and risk analysis emanuele.borgonovo@unibocconi.it
* Anthony Jakeman and Joseph Guillaume, Australia National University, Holistic uncertainty management for environmental decision support. Slight uncertainty on commitment tony.jakeman@anu.edu.au joseph.guillaume@anu.edu.au
* Grey Nearing, NASA On the Quantity and Quality of Information Provided by Models and Induction grey.s.nearing@nasa.gov
* Daniel Tartakovsky, UC San Diego – Uncertainty quantification in the presence of subsurface heterogeneity dmt@ucsd.edu
Part II (Tuesday 9:30-11:30am)
* Mary C. Hill, USGS, Computationally frugal evaluation of parameter importance to predictions and their uncertainty
* Burke Minsley. USGS -- Integrating geophysics to reduce groundwater model uncertainty bminsley@usgs.gov
* Ming Ye, FSU , Combined Estimation of Model Scenario, Structure, and Parameter Uncertainty and Sensitivity with Application to Groundwater Reactive Transport Modeling mye@fsu.edu
* Dan Lu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Uncertainty evaluation in subsurface flow and transport, with chemical reactions dlu@fsu.edu
Scope and Aims<br>
The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) seeks to improve modeling tools and related resources specific to the Chesapeake Bay, its watershed, and connected environmental systems by fostering collaborative open source research. Toward this end, the CCMP is convening the fourth bi-annual Chesapeake Modeling Symposium as a venue to identify and showcase existing modeling efforts as well as communicate how models are used as decision support tools by different developer and user groups.
Environmental models are increasingly taking on higher profile roles in the management process. Numerical models have been used extensively to guide management efforts in Chesapeake Bay. These models include simulations of the airshed, watershed and estuary and have included living resource components such as submerged aquatic vegetation and fish. Although these models are some of the most advanced in the world, many challenges remain. These include the need for higher spatial resolution and better mechanistic representations of physical, biological and chemical processes in the airshed, watershed and estuary. More flexible approaches are also needed for representing management impacts on living resources and particularly higher trophic levels. Linking these models to human impacts and socio-economic systems is another challenge that has not yet been addressed. More flexible (modular) approaches could also facilitate the use of multiple models. However, the development of increasingly complex end-to-end models that are difficult to validate, understand and diagnose also points to the need to develop alternative simplified empirical and mechanistic models for specific management applications.
By bringing together modelers, managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, the 2014 Chesapeake Modeling Symposium will highlight recent progress, challenges and prospects for the next generation of Chesapeake Bay research and management models.
Scope:<br><br>
INCREASING POPULATION, increasing water demand, both in quantity and quality, increasing world average temperature, and other climate changes, modify the rainfall-runoff relationships from local to continental scales, and modify the water availability and potability.
ALL HUMAN ACTIVITIES have an important impact on runoff-rainfall processes and runoff regimes: agriculture activities, either pluvial or irrigated, dams and other hydraulic constructions, roads and urbanization, forest management, but also water and soil conservation practices, ecosystem protection, for instance.
FLOW REGULATION throughout the year helps mitigating the floods’ impacts, deserving people with freshwater, agriculture, irrigation and leisure with regulated fluxes of water, maintaining ecosystems, producing energy.
DUE TO THEIR SIZE and their central role in countries’ resources and activities, large river basins are key socio-economic objects.
BUT IN AFRICA, most of them are only poorly monitored and managed. Their water resources have been exploited since long, with poor interest on the sustainability of the water resource and water quality in the ecosystems, and most of all, their management does not take sufficiently into account the preservation of the natural equilibrium along the river stream, from the sources to the coastal areas.
THE REGULATION OF WATER, transferring water from one basin to another, storing sediments into dams, using surface water for irrigation purposes or for locally increase the groundwater level, all these activities have a major impact on downstream hydrology, down to the coast. The dramatic reduction of sediment fluxes to the sea have a direct impact on coastal instability and regression of the shore line, but also changes the equilibriums of coastal ecosystems. Regulating flows reduces the wet areas and associated ecosystems. Increasing urban areas increases the risk of local flash floods, insufficiently drained by under-dimensioned infrastructures.
IN MANY COUNTRIES the hydrological networks do not record data since decades, while in many other the number of permanent gauging stations is critically low and do not cover the whole country. Rainfall and other climatological data are often difficult to access, preventing researchers from working with accurate data, even in their own countries. Some of the needed data can be fortunately replaced by international data bases, but most of them are most often constituted with only a small part of the existing measured data, and few recent data.
SEDIMENT FLUXES AND WATER QUALITY, eventually, are quite never monitored, except for a very few number of stations, part of international observatories.
IN THIS CONTEXT, it is urgent to re-develop large basins hydrology and observatories, to monitor their activity and better model how the changes of their hydrology have affected the environment, with final impacts on societies and socio-economic activities, and this conference is also a good opportunity to advertise the good experiences already working in Africa, like in several international river basin authorities.
THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE is placed under the labels of several international programs and institutions, which aim at a better knowledge and data sharing, the increase of the number of permanent observatories for large rivers basins, more international cooperation, specially within shared river basins, and improved cooperation between development agencies, national and international operators, and the research sector.
Sedimentology and geomorphology have traditionally been seen as fields in which physical, and sometimes chemical, processes dominate completely. Even in settings where biological processes have long been recognised, for example in marine carbonates, focus has been almost entirely on metazoans.<br>
This is curious, because microbial communities since the Pre-Cambrian, have suffused all sedimentary environments on Earth, and at least half global biomass is prokaryotic. Are all these microbes simply bystanders? Recent research has hinted that they are key agents in controlling an impressive range of processes and products in sedimentology, bringing the fields of microbe palaeontology and bio-sedimentology into intimate alignment.<br>
The implications are fundamental, and pose the question “are large-scale sedimentological features actually microbial trace fossils?”.<br>
This meeting will put the majority of life on earth back into its proper place within the sedimentary geosciences. It will shed new light on the important roles that microbial life plays in controlling how sediments erode, transport, precipitate, deposit and cement. We will explore whether microbial processes can leave signatures in sedimentary deposits that prove life was there, despite the fact that the majority of global biomass has nearly zero preservation potential.<br>
Ultimately, we will lift the lid on the exciting field of sedimentary geobiology as we collectively work towards a new paradigm of microbial sedimentology. +
See https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:Annualmeeting2023 +
See: https://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:CSDMS_annual_meeting
=Important dates=
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* '''February 2<sup>nd</sup>''': Registration opens
* '''March 1<sup>st</sup>''': Deadline for student scholarship applications
* '''April 15<sup>st</sup>''': Deadline for abstract submission & registration
* '''May 26-28<sup>th</sup>''': CSDMS annual meeting
* '''May 29<sup>th</sup>''': CSDMS Executive and Steering committees meeting (''by invitation only'') +
Seven sessions highlight the advances in soil modeling during the ISMC Conference 2018. Nov. 5-7, 2018 at Wageningen University and Research, NL. Call for abstracts. Abstract submission open from 30th April - 15th June 2018.<br>
'''Sessions:'''
# Advances in soil-plant-atmosphere modelling and measurements across scales
# Soil modelling for the next generation of Earth System Models
# Linking Big Data to Smart Soil and Smart Environment
# Modeling of soil ecosystem functions and services in landscapes
# Permafrost, peat and frozen soils
# Soil organic carbon dynamics modeling
# New Perspectives on the Modeling of Colloidal Particle Fate in Soils
'''Scientific Committee''': Martine van der Ploeg, Peter Finke, David Robinson, Katherine Todd-Brown, Alejandro Flores, Eugenie Euskirchen, Bertrand Guenet, Eric Michel, Scott Bradford, Jirka Simunek, Ana M. Tarquis, Anne Verhoef, Scott Painter, Umakant Mishra, Jan Vanderborght, Ute Wollschläger, Teamrat A. Gezzehei, Dani Or, Kris Van Looy, Harry Vereecken, Michael Young +
Since its first edition in Genova, Italy, in 1999, the RCEM Symposium has been hosted in 8 different countries spanning 4 continents and has provided the setting for the morphodynamic debate. Since the beginning, the RCEM community has been developing around the discipline areas of fluid mechanics, sediment transport, hydraulic engineering and quantitative geomorphology. The dominant approach has initially been the one of modelling, including analytical theories and numerical models, with the aims of understanding physical mechanisms and mutual feedbacks, predicting patterns and system tendencies and of quantifying underlying processes. During these last two decades, the morphodynamic community has been evolving, impressive advances in computational efficiency and data acquisition have been achieved, and the interaction with a broader set of disciplines has been developing, as also witnessed by the participation to the last RCEM editions. Moving from the same initial spirit that motivated the start of the RCEM Symposium, we aim especially at:
* Strengthening the linkage among the morphodynamic communities that work on rivers, estuaries and coasts, focusing on different approaches (observational, experimental, modelling) and on the potential for their integration;
* Fostering the debate on the role of modelling, the dominant approach in the initial RCEM Symposium and still in the DNA of RCEM, in the light of the state-of-art knowledge on morphodynamics of rivers, estuaries and coasts;
* Exploring how morphodynamics is addressed by nearby disciplines (ecology, sedimentology, forestry, climate sciences, remote sensing);
* Providing a platform for scientific discussion that includes the possibility of experiencing a variety of valuable morphodynamic settings in North-East Italy, as mountain streams in the Dolomites, the Venice Lagoon and the Tagliamento River, one of the few near-natural braided rivers of all Europe.<br><br>
We will have short courses in Trento (September 15-16) and have the conference in Padova (September 18 - 21).
Smart-city inventiveness is rapidly influencing the processes of urban development.This shift and the consequent impact in many areas (population growth, mobility, energy, healthcare, technology, etc.) has motivated public administrators and stakeholders to foresee, plan, and integratethe existing facilities of cities and communities in order to improve individual and collective well-being.
These new ongoing processes aims to facilitate good urban strategies, policies, and short and long-term actions, by triggering a greater economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Focusing on urban government and smart city inventiveness, this workshop may critically explore (but is not limited) these relevant issues:
# How to expand the knowledge of the political machinery that is behind the conceptualisation, implementation and development of so-called smart cities.
# How can we govern current and future urban trends, enhancing the dynamic synergies between the materialand immaterial data of a city (big data, IoT/IoE, sensor networks, blockchain,etc.)
# How can we govern the urban and regional relationships without compromising urban-land synergies (between the city and the territory), also in term of mobility and of distributive logistics.
# How to investigate on appropriated governance models and tools in order to trigger virtuous behaviours, suitable in dynamic cities.
# How and if ‘smart city policies’ have impact on the city and regional economies and make cities competitive at national and international level
# Reflect on the relations between advance technology (ICT in particular) and human – place relations in to-date urban environment
# How can we govern the urban and regional relationships between advanced technology and metamorphosis smart city (competitiveness, cohesion, conservation, …)
# Reflect on the relations between advance technology and the hyper strategic planning in the smart city +
