Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

by Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.; Mitkas, Pericles A.; Rizzoli, Andrea E.; Gomez, Jorge Marx

• ISBN13: 9783540883500
• ISBN10: 3540883509
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting.Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while raising new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems form a demanding application domain for sensor networks and earth observation systems; modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems and control systems.This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in May 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

Author Biography

Dr.Eng. Ioannis N. Athanasiadis is a researcher with the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland. Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Until 1999 he was an Associate Professor at Colorado State University, USA. Prof. Andrea Emilio Rizzoli is a senior researcher with the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano, Switzerland. He is the secretary of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. Prof. Jorge C. Marx Gmez is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Carl von University, in Oldenburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Keynotes
Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Future Directions	p. 3
Semantically driven meta-modelling: automating model construction in an environmental decision support system for the assessment of ecosystem services flows	p. 23
Regular papers
Environmental information systems
Governance of a Service-Oriented Architecture for Environmental and Public Security	p. 39
Integration of Environmental Management Information Systems and ERP systems using Integration Platforms	p. 53
State of the art and future research in Environmental Management Information Systems - a Systematic literature review	p. 64
AKX - An Exchange for Predicting Water Dam Levels in Australia	p. 78
Environmental Engineering and Facility Management of Berlin's Public Buildings	p. 91
Spatial disaggregated emissions inventory for Cyprus	p. 105
Environmental decision support systems
A web-based information system rating regional projects by considering sustainable development	p. 120
Development of a Spatial Decision Support Framework for IMPETUS project in West Africa	p. 132
Development of a decision support system for the operation of thermal power plants in Western Macedonia	p. 149
Towards a Novel Early Warning Service for State Agencies: A Feasibility Study	p. 162
Tools and measurement techniques
Application of Optimization Algorithms for the Improvement of Water Quality Monitoring Systems	p. 176
SQCB - Sustainability Quick Check Tool for Biofuels	p. 189
Volatile Organic Compounds measurements at schools in Kozani, Greece	p. 203
Noise Tube: Measuring and Mapping noise pollution with mobile phones	p. 215
Monitoring of environment by energy efficient usage of Wireless Sensor Networks	p. 229
Plant Phenotyping with Low Cost Digital Cameras and Image Analytics	p. 238
Formal methods; data processing and data mining (part 1)
Reproducing human decisions in reservoir management: the case of lake Lugano	p. 252
Predicting chemical parameters of the water from diatom abudance in lake Prespa and its tributaries	p. 264
Analysing chromatographic data using data mining to monitor petroleum content in water	p. 278
An Experimental Evaluation of ZCS-DM for the Prediction of Urban Air Quality	p. 291
An investigation of the effectiveness of advanced modeling tools on the forecasting of daily PM10 values in the Greater Athens Area	p. 305
Formal methods; data processing and data mining (part 2)
Traffic Related PM Predictor for Besiktas, Turkey	p. 317
Development and Evaluation of Data Mining Models for Air Quality Prediction in Athens, Greece	p. 331
Artificial neural networks based modelling of carbon monoxide: Effects of spatial parameters	p. 345
Using Preprocessing Techniques in Air Quality forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks	p. 357
Approach for Dynamic Problems in Clustering	p. 373
Tools for environmental policy and management
Stakeholder Interaction in Sustainability Reporting with Web 2.0	p. 387
Meta-modelling for cross-sectoral land use policy impact analysis: A model requirements analysis of the SIAT	p. 399
An interdisciplinary approach to resolving conflict in the water domain	p. 411
Conceptual design and implementation of a model for the integrated simulation of large-scale land-use systems	p. 425
Enterprise systems applications development plans to build and develop robust and environmentally sensitive green logistics systems management software	p. 439
Modelling and simulation
An investigation of the parameters influencing the determination of the number of particulate matter sources and their contribution to the air quality of an indoor residential environment	p. 453
Evaluating long-term contamination in soils amended with sewage sludge	p. 465
Evaluation by simulation of the social acceptability of agricultural policies for water quality	p. 478
Copert: A European Road Transport Emission Inventory Model	p. 491
Environmental Knowledge, software agents and the semantic web
A survey of knowledge Organization Systems in Environmental Sciences	p. 505
Semantic modeling of temporal information in a database for biotope inventories	p. 518
Environmental notions representation and description: Towards a redefinition of the relationships between information systems development and individual cognition	p. 535
Multi-agent-based System Technologies in Environmental Issues	p. 549
Specimen's behavior management: A masterpiece for Biodiversity Information System's representation	p. 563
MACE - Multiagent Control for Energy Infrastructures	p. 579
Concluding talk
Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) for Sustainable Development H. Junker	p. 595
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