These is the abstract submitted for this Symposium:

An approach based on concepts and techniques from Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Expert Systems (ES) is proposed for Remote Sensing data needed by atmospheric modelers in the area of coastal and environmental assessment. The ES together with a database and an image-processing engine form a system. The intelligence of the system consists of a knowledge base, which defines the set of rules for satellite data interpretations. The Inference Engine (IE) will be implemented with LPA-Prolog++ language, that combine the best of AI and Object Oriented Programming (OOPS). The Knowledge acquisition facility includes, a non-trivial process of identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and understandable patterns in data. The information retrieval and explanation facilities will be implemented using a conbination of standard query language (SQL) through the internet with C# language. This system will be used for atmospheric studies by querying information about several parameters to obtain more reliable estimates for validation of models and algorithms.

Following are the feedbacks I recived as via e-mail:

Subject: Re: Abstract for NOAA-CREST/NASA-EPSCOR Symposium    
From: Pieter van der Meer    
Date: Wed, November 20, 2002 11:28 am   
To: "M. Cortes"    
Cc: reve@ece.uprm.edu,   
Priority:  Normal  
 


Miguel:

Your abstract is OK. You can submit it electronically accessing the
following web site: http:/www.ece.uprm.edu/cmg (cmg = climate modeling
group).

Vidya:

The last sentence of your husband's students' abstract should read as
follows: examples will be presented rather than "examples presented"
Please submit this also electronically using the same web site and
browser.
Pieter
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Pieter L. Van der Meer; (Office: L-100A in Mechanical Engineering)
Tel. 787-832-4040 x2096 (if no answer call cel. 787-649-3307)
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist;
NASA PaSCoR, NASA EPSCoR and NOAA CREST Facilitator and Coordinator
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (UPRM) - College of Engineering
Office of the Associate Dean - Academic Affairs and Research
P.O. Box 9040, Mayaguez P.R. 00681-9040
Tel. 787-873-1067 (H); FAX 787-804-0111 (H) FAX 787-265-3817 (O)
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From: "CMG"  
To:  
Date: Mon, December 2, 2002 11:29 pm 
Subject: Your Abstract for the NOAA-CREST/NASA-EPSCoR Joint Symposium has successfully received 

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Dear Miguel Cortés,

This is to confirm that we have received your abstract entitled "AN EXPERT
DATABASE SYSTEM FOR ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES IN PUERTO RICO" for the
NOAA-CREST/NASA-EPSCoR Joint Symposium for Climate Studies to be held in
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico on January 10th and 11th, 2003.  We look forward to
receiving your camera-ready paper by December 15th. The template for your
paper can be found at http://ece.uprm.edu/cmg.  Please register for the
Symposium using our on-line registration form at
http://ece.uprm.edu/cmg/registr.htm.  For further details on the Symposium,
please consult the CMG Web site, which is continuously updated.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jorge Gonzalez
Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Dept.