環(huán)境建模與軟件以研究文章、評論和簡短交流的形式發(fā)表關(guān)于環(huán)境建模和/或軟件的最新進(jìn)展的貢獻(xiàn)。其目的是提高我們在所有實(shí)際尺度上表現(xiàn)、理解、預(yù)測或管理環(huán)境系統(tǒng)行為的能力，并向廣泛的科學(xué)和專業(yè)觀眾宣傳這些改進(jìn)。它尋求的是:?通用框架、技術(shù)和問題，可以集成一系列學(xué)科和領(lǐng)域，也可以跨領(lǐng)域應(yīng)用?模型開發(fā)、模型評估、過程識別和應(yīng)用于環(huán)境的不同部門(如下所述)，前提是它們能夠揭示見解并有助于知識的存儲。洞察可以與建模、方法、模型應(yīng)用和/或建模的系統(tǒng)的通用性和局限性相關(guān)。洞察力應(yīng)該是那些在某種程度上是可概括的，并且可能對那些研究其他系統(tǒng)，最好是其他系統(tǒng)類型的人感興趣。?環(huán)境軟件、信息和決策支持系統(tǒng)的開發(fā)和應(yīng)用?軟件技術(shù)的實(shí)際應(yīng)用——特別是最先進(jìn)的環(huán)境軟件，能夠處理復(fù)雜的需求、沖突的用戶視角和/或不斷發(fā)展的數(shù)據(jù)結(jié)構(gòu)。與軟件可用性、可靠性、驗(yàn)證和驗(yàn)證相關(guān)的方面應(yīng)該盡可能多地得到定量結(jié)果的支持。應(yīng)該解決開發(fā)和維護(hù)成本，以及在目標(biāo)用戶組中采用和滲透軟件的問題。許可證問題和開放源碼訪問應(yīng)該明確指定。?與環(huán)境系統(tǒng)集成建模、評估和管理相關(guān)的問題和方法——包括相關(guān)政策和制度分析、公眾參與原則和方法、決策方法、模型集成、質(zhì)量保證以及模型、數(shù)據(jù)和程序的評估。

Environmental Modelling & Software publishes contributions, in the form of research articles, reviews and short communications, on recent advances in environmental modelling and/or software. The aim is to improve our capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of environmental systems at all practical scales, and to communicate those improvements to a wide scientific and professional audience.It seeks presentation of: ? Generic frameworks, techniques and issues which either integrate a range of disciplines and sectors or apply across a range ? Model development, model evaluation, process identification and applications in diverse sectors of the environment (as outlined below) provided they reveal insights and contribute to the store of knowledge. Insights can relate to the generality and limitations of the modelling, methods, the model application and/or the systems modelled. Insights should be ones that are generalizable in some way and are likely to be of interest to those studying other systems and, preferably, other system types.? Development and application of environmental software, information and decision support systems? Real-world applications of software technologies - particularly state-of-the-art environmental software able to deal with complex requirements, conflicting user perspectives, and/or evolving data structures. Aspects related to software usability, reliability, verification and validation should be backed up with quantitative results as much as possible. Development and maintenance costs, and adoption and penetration of the software in the target user groups should be addressed. Licensing issues and open source access should be clearly specified.? Issues and methods related to the integrated modeling, assessment and management of environmental systems - including relevant policy and institutional analysis, public participation principles and methods, decision making methods, model integration, quality assurance and evaluation of models, data and procedures.