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EMDS Workshop at ESRI User Conference (2/6/2008)

The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system is an application framework for knowledge-based decision support of environmental analysis and planning at any geographic scale (http://www.institute.redlands.edu/emds/). EMDS integrates state-of-the-art GIS as well as knowledge-based reasoning and decision modeling technologies in the Microsoft Windows® environment to provide decision support for a substantial portion of the adaptive management process of ecosystem management.

The EMDS development team, now a private non-profit consortium, will be putting on a Preconference Seminar on Sunday, 3 August, at the 2008 ESRI User Conference in San Diego, CA (San Diego Convention Center, August 4-8,2008).Registration to the User Conference is required to attend the session (please visit http://www.esri.com/events/uc/ to register). A check box on the registration form also is provided to indicate if you are interested in attending the session.

Agenda
1. EMDS Overview and Tutorial for new users (8:30 - 9:45 AM)
2. What's New in EMDS 4.0 (10:00 to 11:00 AM)
3. EMDS application presentations by users (11:00 to 1:00 PM)
4. User input on requested fixes, new features and functionality (1:00 to 2:00 PM)
5. Discussion with users on a budget model for future training and development (2:00 to 3:00 PM)

EMDS users interested in making a presentation at the workshop should contact Keith Reynolds at kreynolds@fs.fed.us or 541-750-7434.

EMDS 4.0 (1/15/2008)

The next release of EMDS is currently under development. Starting in March 2008, we will begin a beta testing phase and hope to release a full version by the beginning of April 2008. Highlights of EMDS 4.0 include:

• Full ArcGIS 9.2 compatibility
• Central project file for easy sharing of projects among users
• Full .NET 2.0 and 3.5 compatibility
• Ability to run EMDS as a standalone application (outside of ArcMap) with ArcGIS Engine
• Performance enhancements
• Ability to read and store information within personal and file geodatabases