Environmental Software Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Invited Lectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Environmental Informatics Towards a new Discipline in Applied Computer Science for Environmental Protection and Research

      • B. Page

      Pages 3-22

   3. Development of an environmental risk characterization methodology for the Philadelphia Energy Risk Study

      • William C. Miller

      Pages 23-40

   4. Requirements on Integrated Information Systems from an Ecological Point of View

      • R. J. M. Lenz

      Pages 41-53

   5. Software for hard decisions: Scientific influence through interactive visualisation

      • D. G. Peters, P. K. Robertson, R. L. Cordy

      Pages 54-65

3. Environmental Information Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. An Information Framework for Environmental Research and Management

      • D. D. Cowan, C. I. Mayfield, P. M. Koch, D. A. Swayne

      Pages 69-79

   3. Semantic enhancement of forest inventories by reengineering

      • H. Hasenauer, G. Pernul

      Pages 80-89

   4. Complex Metadata management in Earth Observation for environmental research

      • M. Zingler, H. Pintaritsch

      Pages 90-100

   5. The Ecological Information-Managing System of Bashkortostan Republic

      • R. Z. Khamitov, V. E. Gvozdev, S. V. Pavlov

      Pages 101-109

4. Modeling and Simulation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Environmental modeling and simulation — applications and future requirements

      • R. Grützner

      Pages 113-122

   3. A Framework for Distributed Processing of Air Pollution Dispersion Models

      • Gerhard Eschelbeck, Christian Hartl

      Pages 123-129

   4. Trinity: model-based support for multi-actor environmental problem solving

      • Henk B. Diepenmaat

      Pages 130-141

   5. EIS/GWM — An Integrated Automated Computer Platform for Regional Multimedia Environmental Audits

      • D. L. Toth

      Pages 142-151

5. Environmental Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Computer-supported environmental management — why simulation methods are useful

      • L. M. Hilty

      Pages 155-164

   3. Quality Management as Basis of Environmental Management Systems for Industrial Plants

      • P. H. Osanna, D. Prostrednik, A. Osanna

      Pages 165-172

6. Decision Support

   1. Front Matter

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Due to increasing practical needs, software support of environmental protection and research tasks is growing in importance and scope. Software systems help to monitor basic data, to maintain and process relevant environmental information, to analyze gathered information and to carry out decision processes, which often have to take into account complex alternatives with various side effects. Therefore software is an important tool for the environmental domain. When the first software systems in the environmental domain grew - 10 to 15 years ag- users and developers were not really aware of the complexity these systems are carrying with themselves: complexity with respect to entities, tasks and procedures. I guess nobody may have figured out at that time that the environmental domain would ask for solutions which information science would not be able to provide and - in several cases - can not provide until today. Therefore environmental informatics - as we call it today - is also an important domain of computer science itself, because practical solutions need to deal with very complex, interdisciplinary, distributed, integrated, sometimes badly defined, user-centered decision processes. I doubt somebody will state that we are already capable of building such integrated systems for end users for reasonable cost on a broad range. The development of the first scientific community for environmental informatics started around 1985 in Germany, becoming a technical committee and working group of the German Computer Society in 1987.

• artificial intelligence
• complexity
• computer
• computer science
• development
• information system
• management
• modeling
• simulation
• society
• software
• time
• ecotoxicology

• Saarland State University for Technology and Business, Gaiberg, Germany

  Ralf Denzer

• Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Austria

  Gerald Schimak

• Penn State Great Valley, USA

  David Russell

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