Information technologies in environmental engineering : proceedings of the 4th International ICSC Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-29, 2009

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. Front Matter....Pages 1-10 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Future Directions....Pages 3-22 Semantically driven meta-modelling: automating model construction in an environmental decision support system for the assessment of ecosystem services flows....Pages 23-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Governance of a Service-Oriented Architecture for Environmental and Public Security....Pages 39-52 Integration of Environmental Management Information Systems and ERP systems using Integration Platforms....Pages 53-63 State of the art and future research in Environmental Management Information Systems - a systematic literature review....Pages 64-77 AKX – An Exchange for Predicting Water Dam Levels in Australia....Pages 78-90 Environmental Engineering and Facility Management of Berlin’s Public Buildings....Pages 91-104 Spatial disaggregated emissions inventory for Cyprus....Pages 105-119 A web-based information system rating regional projects by considering sustainable development....Pages 120-131 Development of a Spatial Decision Support Framework for IMPETUS project in West Africa....Pages 132-148 Development of a decision support system for the operation of thermal power plants in Western Macedonia....Pages 149-161 Towards a Novel Early Warning Service for State Agencies: A Feasibility Study....Pages 162-175 Application of Optimization Algorithms for the Improvement of Water Quality Monitoring Systems....Pages 176-188 SQCB - Sustainability Quick Check Tool for Biofuels....Pages 189-202 Volatile Organic Compounds measurements at schools in Kozani, Greece....Pages 203-214 NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones....Pages 215-228 Monitoring of environment by energy efficient usage of Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 229-237 Plant Phenotyping with Low Cost Digital Cameras and Image Analytics....Pages 238-251 Reproducing human decisions in reservoir management: the case of lake Lugano....Pages 252-263 Predicting chemical parameters of the water from diatom abudance in lake Prespa and its tributaries....Pages 264-277 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Analysing chromatographic data using data mining to monitor petroleum content in water....Pages 278-290 An Experimental Evaluation of ZCS-DM for the Prediction of Urban Air Quality....Pages 291-304 An investigation of the effectiveness of advanced modeling tools on the forecasting of daily PM10 values in the Greater Athens Area....Pages 305-316 Traffic Related PM Predictor for Besiktas, Turkey....Pages 317-330 Development and Evaluation of Data Mining Models for Air Quality Prediction in Athens, Greece....Pages 331-344 Artificial neural networks based modelling of carbon monoxide: Effects of spatial parameters....Pages 345-356 Using Preprocessing Techniques in Air Quality forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 357-372 Approach for Dynamic Problems in Clustering....Pages 373-386 Stakeholder Interaction in Sustainability Reporting with Web 2.0....Pages 387-398 Meta-modelling for cross-sectoral land use policy impact analysis: A model requirements analysis of the SIAT....Pages 399-410 An interdisciplinary approach to resolving conflict in the water domain....Pages 411-424 Conceptual design and implementation of a model for the integrated simulation of large-scale land-use systems....Pages 425-438 Enterprise systems applications development plans to build and develop robust and environmentally sensitive green logistics systems management software....Pages 439-452 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....Pages 453-464 Evaluating long-term contamination in soils amended with sewage sludge....Pages 465-477 Evaluation by simulation of the social acceptability of agricultural policies for water quality....Pages 478-490 COPERT: A European Road Transport Emission Inventory Model....Pages 491-504 A Survey of Knowledge Organization Systems in Environmental Sciences....Pages 505-517 Semantic modeling of temporal information in a database for biotope inventories....Pages 518-534 Environmental notions representation and description: Towards a redefinition of the relationships between information systems development and individual cognition....Pages 535-548 Front Matter....Pages 37-37 Multi-agent-based System Technologies in Environmental Issues....Pages 549-562 Specimen’s behavior management: A masterpiece for Biodiversity Information System’s representation....Pages 563-578 MACE – Multiagent Control for Energy Infrastructures....Pages 579-592 Front Matter....Pages 593-593 Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) for Sustainable Development....Pages 595-597