Michiel Blind

TL;DR: This paper organizes and presents the results of a number of workshops held that brought IEM practitioners together to share experiences and discuss future needs and directions, and presents IEM as a landscape containing four interdependent elements: applications, science, technology, and community.

TL;DR: An overview of the OpenMI standard is given, which relies entirely on the "pull" principle, where data are pulled by one model from the previous model in the chain.

TL;DR: The HarmonIT project is described, which is developing and implementing a standard interface for modelling components and other relevant tools: The Open Modelling Interface (OpenMI), and the roles for different types of stakeholders in modelling are described, varying from software coders to non-specialized users of decision support systems.

TL;DR: The application of a quantitative approach to evaluating environmental decision support systems with small groups of end-users in two case studies where the objective was to facilitate the participatory decision-making process in water management projects suggests that end-user's employment influences their perceptions of EDSS effectiveness.

TL;DR: The HarmoniRiB project as discussed by the authors supports the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) by developing concepts and tools for handling uncertainty in data and modelling, and by designing, building and populating a database containing data and associated uncertainties for a number of representative basins.