ISWSO2020: The 2nd International Symposium on Water System Operations Online September 1-3, 2021 |
Conference website | http://iswso2020.info/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswso2020 |
Submission deadline | July 9, 2021 |
Water infrastructure such as reservoirs and diversion projects are essential to enhance water security, and their development has historically gone hand in hand with the socio-economic development of countries all over the world. However, dams and diversion projects typically have high financial, societal and environmental costs, often well beyond those anticipated at planning stage. While increased awareness of unintended impacts reduces the attractiveness of new developments, improving the efficiency of existing infrastructure has become of primary importance for achieving and maintaining water security, particularly in face of growing demand for water in a potentially warmer and drier future.
From a scientific perspective, several factors make this a very exciting time to design and experiment innovative solutions for the efficient management of water systems. Ever growing amount of information from new monitoring systems (such as smart sensors or remote sensing), combined with unprecedented computing power, opens up novel opportunities for developing, testing and implementing new modelling and optimisation approaches to assist and enhance water system operations. On the other hand, past experiences have extensively demonstrated that novel methods and tools need to be tailored to the needs and constraints of the users they are intended for, if they are to be effectively taken-up. Therefore, co-production of research between researchers and practitioners, transparency and reproducibility of testing experiments, and the development of workflows and effective visualisation should be integral part of research efforts in the field.
The Symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of monitoring, modelling and optimisation of water systems operations, to present recent advances, identify future research directions, and discuss how to accelerate the adoption of state-of-art methodologies by industry and policy-makers.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome contributions reporting on new research, software development, case studies, examples of co-production of research between academics and public/private organisations. Accepted contributions will be presented in short (2-minutes) talks supported by 1 slide, and followed by longer time for questions and discussion.
Upon submission authors will also be asked to specify up to 5 keywords. At least one of them must be chosen from the symposium themes:forecasting & real-time operation – hydropower optimisation – demand modelling & management – smart urban water management – reservoirs & diversion systems – decision makingunder uncertainty – downstream impacts of dams – modelling and visualisation tools– academia-industry collaborationsto help us organise thematically homogenous sessions. Abstracts must be maximum two pages long (including figures and references).
They must be prepared according to the following template: abstract_template and must be submitted, as pdf files, through the electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswso2020. We will not accept submission by email.
If you have any questions please contact us by email: iswso2020_at_easychair.org
Publication
After the symposium, extended abstracts will be published in EPiC Series in Engineering(https://easychair.org/publications/EPiC/Engineering) and remain freely accessible under a CCAttribution 4.0 license.
List of Topics
- remote sensing and data assimilation
- real-time operation
- hydropower optimisation
- demand modelling and management
- smart urban water management
- reservoirs networks
- diversion systems and water transfers
- decision-making under uncertainty
- downstream impacts of dams
- forecast value for operations
- modelling and visualisation tools
- academia-industry collaborations
- knowledge transfer
- co-production of research
Committees
Organising Committee
- Francesca Pianosi, University of Bristol (Chair)
- Andres Peñuela-Fernandez, University of Bristol
- Dawei Han, University of Bristol
- Raziyeh Farmani, University of Exeter
- Thomas Beach, University of Cardiff
- Andrew Schofield, GW4 Water Security Alliance
Scientific Committee
- David Butler, University of Exeter, UK
- Jan Hofman, University of Bath, UK
- Owen Jones, University of Cardiff, UK
- Xiaohui Lei, China Institute of Water Resource, China
- Soon-Thiam Khu, Monash University Malaysia campus, Malaysia
- Zoran Kapelan, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Julianne Quinn, University of Virginia, US
- Jim Hall, University of Oxford, UK
- Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Patrick Reed, Cornell University, US
- Nick van de Giesen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
- Julien Harou, University of Manchester, UK
- Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Stefano Galelli, SUTD-MIT, Singapore
- Jon Herman, University of California, Davis, US
- Lindsay Catherine Beevers, Heriot Watt University, UK
- Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Riddhi Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
- Alexandros Makarigakis, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO
Contact
Please visit http://iswso2020.info/
Sponsors
- The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) https://www.iahr.org/
- GW4 Alliance https://gw4.ac.uk/