Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

Increasing environmental concerns demand interdisciplinary approaches enabling engineers, natural scientists, economists and computer scientists to work together. Information technology is vital to all scientists involved in environmental engineering, covering modeling and simulation, information systems, formal methods and data processing techniques, tools and measurement techniques. This book presents the proceedings of the ITEE 07 conference, where new concepts as well as practical applications and experiences in environmental engineering were presented and discussed.

InhaltsangabeKeynotes.- Our Energy Supply Future - 10 BULLENSEE ASSUMPTIONS.- Sustainability Impact Assessment - The Role of Numerical E3-Models.- The Material Side of Virtualization.- Electric Power Management and a Clean Environment - a Discrepancy and an Algorithmic Challenge.- Air Pollution.- A Spatial Assessment of Air Pollution Impact of a Highway Project Using GIS.- The Air Quality Management System AirQUIS.- Danger Assessment of Potential Resources of Air Pollution once Natural Disasters Occur.- Corporate Sustainability Reporting.- Using Topic Maps for Sustainability Reporting.- Conception of System Supported Generation of Sustainability Reports in a Large Scale Enterprise.- Information Management for Sophisticated Environmental Reporting.- Decentralized Energy Management Systems.- Data Quality Mining: Employing Classifiers for Assuring Consistent Datasets.- Models for Optimization of Electrical Energy Delivery for Regional Utilities.- Implementing and Evaluating the Common Information Model in a Relational and RDF-based Database.- Optimization of Adaptive Consumers to a Time-varying Electricity Supply.- Distributed Power Generation: Requirements and Recommendations for an ICT Architecture.- Environmental Information Systems.- Designing a Bilingual Eco-Ontology for Open and Intuitive Search.- Data Warehousing with Environmental Data.- New Measures for Evaluating Decision Systems Using Rough Set Theory: The Application in Seasonal Weather Forecasting.- A Protocol to Secure Context-aware Service Discovery in Complex Earth Experiments.- The Concept of Closed-loop Supply Chain Integration Through Agents-based System.- Integrating Environmental Information with Systems of Factory Planning.- Designing a Flexible ICT Framework for Processing Remote Gauging-Data.- Ecological and Economic Effects of Web-based Integrated Management Systems.- Modeling of a Corporate Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS) for Production Processes.- Petri Net Based EMIS-Mappers for Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- Environmental Management Systems and Information Management - Strategic-Systematical Integration of Green Value Added.- Integration of MRP II and Material Flow Management Systems.- Environmental Policy and Management.- Spatial Inventory of Greenhouse Gases on Regional Level.- Weblogs, Legitimacy and Organizations.- Unifying Architecture for Industrial Ecology Communication and Education.- SmartLIFE: Toward European Approaches to Sustainable Building.- The Effect of ICTs on Mobility and Environment in Urban Areas.- Data Mining as a Suitable Tool for Efficient Supply Chain Integration - Extended Abstract.- A Pilot Project for Eco Industrial Parks in North Rhine-Westphalia - Extended Abstract.- Environmental Risk Assessment.- Knowledge Acquisition and Risk Analysis in Material Recovery Facilities by a Virtual Team.- Early Warning and Risk Management - An Interdisciplinary Approach.- Development of a GIS-based Risk Assessment Methodology for Flood Pollutants.- Modeling Arsenic and Oil Contamination After High Water Events in the Town and Floodplain of Bitterfeld (Germany).- Life Cycle Assessment.- EcoClass - An Easy-to-access GUI for LCA Data to Assess Product Utilization Schemes.- Combining LCA with Thermodynamics.- RFID-based Information Management in the Automotive Plastic Recycling Industry.- Material Flow Management in a Motor Fabrication: Identifying Saving Potential in the Mechanical Production by Modeling Energy- and Material Flows as Well as Machine Time Using Umberto.- Spatial Applications.- Semantic Modeling in Farming Systems Research - The Case of the Agricultural Management Definition Module.- Simulation and Optimization of Habitat Network Permeability.- System Architecture for Coverage and Visualization of Underground Pipeline Structures in Detectino.- Finding Optimal Directions for Forest Trees Harvesting Using GIS-based Techniques.- Water Pollution.- Evaluating Water Quality Standards Through Time Series Modeling by Wavelets.