UncertWeb is an EC funded research project running from Feb 2010 – Jan 2013 developing the uncertainty enabled model web. The model Web concept, formulated within the Global Earth Observation System of Systems activity envisages the integration of complex resources, such as data and models, to construct complex models, composed of chains of model and data components exposed as web services. This offers exciting opportunities for model development in a more loosely coupled, component oriented manner, encouraging sharing, re-use and easy access.
However, when combining services of limited, or unknown, quality it is necessary to account for uncertainty if the outputs of the model web are to be used for rational decision making. UncertWeb develops mechanisms, standards, tools and case studies to enable uncertainty management in an interoperable model web context.
An IEEE Web Seminar on “Setting up web services for biodiversity: the case of the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA)” is organized for Wednesday, Apr. 4, 2012 at 16:00 Central European Time (UTC+2). The event will last an hour, with time for questions at the end. This will present som...
A production version of the Elicitator is ready for use at http://elicitator.uncertweb.org/. You can use this tool to elicit beliefs about parameters or variables in problems you are working on. It allows users to set-up a problem and then invite participants to specify their beliefs about the ra...
On November 30 2011, the UncertWeb netCDF Uncertainty Conventions (netCDF-U) were presented to the Earth System Science Domain Working Group at the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Bruxelles (see the Publications section for the presentation).
NetCDF-U is based on a generic mechanism for an...
The UncertWeb project has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° [248488].