ISESS Symposium

The ISESS symposium was initiated in 1995 by Ralf Denzer, Gerald Schimak and David Russell. The symposium has been held at Penn State University, USA (1995), at Whistler Resort, Canada (1997), at the Nature Parc Soelk Valleys, Austria (1998), at the University of Otago, New Zealand (1999), at Zell am See, Austria (2000), in Banff, Canada (2001), at the Panhans, Semmering Austria (2003), at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA (2004), and at the Hotel do Mar, Sesimbra, Portugal (2005). In addition there was a paper stream within the iEMSs conference in Lugano, Switzerland in 2002 and a special session has been arranged for the iEMSs conference in Burlington, Vermont in 2006. Since 1996, all events have been organized by Environmental Informatics Institute (EII). ISESS is held as a biennial conference in odd-numbered years and covers the full range of Enviromatics topics. Beginning in 1998, a topic-specific workshop was organized for even-numbered years. In 1998, the workshop Design Principles in Environmental Information Systems took place in the Nature Park Sölktäler (St. Nikolai, Austria). In 2000 the workshop Integration in Environmental Information Systems took place in the Grand Hotel Zell Am See, Austria. In 2004, the workshop Environmental Risk and Emergency Management was held at James Madison University, USA. Current information about ISESS can be found at: www.isess.org These conferences on Environmental Informatics continue to be co-sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the world's umbrella organization of computer societies.