The competent authorities across Europe have been watching the evolution of a new technology that could play an important role in the practical implementation of integrated water management. A particular challenge of integrated management is to anticipate the wider implications of policies and programmes of measures. Models can be valuable tools in this regard, but to date they have only been able to predict the response of a limited number of processes and how they may interact.
With the aid of EC funding, a new means, the OpenMI, has been developed by which models of almost any process, created by any supplier can be linked to help predict the response to different policy options. The potential therefore now exists to model and predict complex processes.
To demonstrate and evaluate this new technology under operational conditions, competent authorities from Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece have identified seven scenarios. This workshop will describe the four that are being run in the Scheldt basin where interesting results are beginning to emerge.
The aim of the workshop
The aims of the workshop are:
- to introduce the new OpenMI technology
- to describe the four Scheldt scenarios (often referred to as "Use Cases")
- to provide a progress report on these use cases and discuss the results to date
- to describe the plans for the future of the OpenMI
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