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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">T</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">he International
Symposium on Environmental Software Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">ISESS 2015 Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">March 25-27, 2015, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">We have the following news regarding ISESS 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#10253F;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">Visibility of publications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Your publication at ISESS is likely to receive considerable interest in the scientific community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">The ISESS 2011 and 2013 books “Environmental Software Systems”, part of the IFIP-AICT series and indexed by ISI and SCOPUS,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">have recently shown excellent visibility in the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Both are among <b>the top 25% of downloaded e-Books</b> in the Springer eBook collection in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Performance report for 2011 proceedings are available here: (<a href="http://www.springer.com/alert/urltracking.do?id=L4b90cbbMf74747Sae51d2d">http://www.springer.com/alert/urltracking.do?id=L4b90cbbMf74747Sae51d2d</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Book home pages are here:
<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/book/978-3-642-22284-9">http://www.springer.com/computer/book/978-3-642-22284-9</a>,
<a href="http://www.springer.com/book/978-3-642-41150-2">http://www.springer.com/book/978-3-642-41150-2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#10253F;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">Topic: Use of Computing Infrastructures for the simulation of environmental phenomena<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Together with the National Computing Infrastructure (</span><a href="http://nci.org.au"><span lang="EN-GB">http://nci.org.au</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">), which is one of
the conference supporters, we plan a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">special topic / stream / workshop on the
<b>use of computing infrastructures and parallel simulation</b> <b>of environmental phenomena</b>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">potentially on the day prior to the conference. This activity is aimed at discussing new technological opportunities and practical gaps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">If you are interested to contribute, please contact Ralf Denzer (</span><a href="mailto:ralf.denzer@enviromatics.org"><span lang="EN-GB">ralf.denzer@enviromatics.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">)
and Robert Argent (</span><a href="mailto:r.argent@bom.gov.au"><span lang="EN-GB">r.argent@bom.gov.au</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">in addition to registering your abstract at the web site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">Call for Special Topics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">If you think that a specific topic should be organised as a stream / workshop please contact Ralf Denzer (</span><a href="mailto:ralf.denzer@enviromatics.org"><span lang="EN-GB">ralf.denzer@enviromatics.org</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#10253F;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);">4-page abstracts, abstract pre-registration, abstract submission</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">
are on-line</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(16, 37, 63);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">The submission page is on-line. Remember that unlike many conferences,
<b>we request 3-4 page abstracts</b>, in order to give high quality review comments back already at the first reviewing stage. Abstract submission is available now.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">If you intend to submit an abstract, please pre-register your paper title right away or submit your 4-page abstract.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Find attached the second version of the Call for Papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Gerald Schimak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Chair, IFIP WG 5.11<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">GERALD SCHIMAK<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(122, 132, 136);">AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="DE-AT" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(122, 132, 136);">Bundestrasse 60 | A-2444 Seibersdorf | Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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