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BESAI
Binding Environmental Sciences and
Artificial Intelligence Working Group
BESAI is a
mainly-European working group of Artificial Intelligence scientists and
Environmental Science scientists who try to create an interdisciplinary
knowledge for the solution of environmental problems and the
development of better AI techniques. In fact, in any software system
for real-world applications, several sources of information ought to be
combined in a common framework to provide a realistic and useful
knowledge base.
The issues and techniques BESAI works on are:
Basic
Environmental issues:
- Aquatic Environmental Sciences
- Marine Pollution
- Water Management
- Waste Management
- Atmospheric Environmental Sciences
- Air Pollution
- Meteorological Prediction
- Waste Management
- Terrestrial Environmental Sciences
- Forest Management
- Waste Management
- Environmental-Process Supervision
- Biodiversity
- Ecological-System Modeling and Simulation
- Environmental-Crime Detection
- Environmental Data Base Management
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Global Climatic Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Remote Sensing
- System Ecology
Artificial
Intelligence approaches and techniques:
- Autonomous Agents
- Belief, Bayessian and Possibilistic Networks
- Case-Based Reasoning
- Constraint-Based Reasoning
- Distributed Problem Solving
- Genetic Algorithms
- Heuristic Search
- Image Processing
- Internet-Based Information Systems
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Machine Learning
- Ontologies
- Optimization in Engineering Design
- Robotics
- Signal Processing
The
first and founding workshop of BESAI (ECAI'98-BESAI) was
within the European
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'98), held in Brighton, U.K. (August, 1998).
You can find here
the papers presented at the workshop.
That was the occasion for binding common
interests and research lines. Through cooperation we will try to get
results that are more than a mere sum of members' efforts. Funding
stuff is left to each research group, even if the creation of large
EU-funded projects is likely.
Updated January 31, 2000
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