Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Assessing the Sustainability of Software Products—A Method Comparison

   • Javier Mancebo, Achim Guldner, Eva Kern, Philipp Kesseler, Sandro Kreten, Felix Garcia et al.

   Pages 1-15

3. Estimate of the Number of People Walking Home After Compliance with Metropolitan Tokyo Ordinance on Measures Concerning Stranded Persons

   • Toshihiro Osaragi, Tokihiko Hamada, Maki Kishimoto

   Pages 17-35

4. Gamification for Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications: An Example from Flood Protection

   • Leon Todtenhausen, Frank Fuchs-Kittowski

   Pages 37-53

5. MoPo Sane—Mobility Portal for Health Care Centers

   • Benjamin Wagner vom Berg, Aina Andriamananony

   Pages 55-65

6. Platform Sustainable Last-Mile-Logistics—One for ALL (14ALL)

   • Benjamin Wagner vom Berg, Franziska Hanneken, Nico Reiß, Kristian Schopka, Nils Oetjen, Rick Hollmann

   Pages 67-78

7. Scientific Partnership: A Pledge For a New Level of Collaboration Between Scientists and IT Specialists

   • Jens Weismüller, Anton Frank

   Pages 79-89

8. Emission-Based Routing Using the GraphHopper API and OpenStreetMap

   • Martin Engelmann, Paul Schulze, Jochen Wittmann

   Pages 91-104

9. Digitally Enabled Sharing and the Circular Economy: Towards a Framework for Sustainability Assessment

   • Maria J. Pouri, Lorenz M. Hilty

   Pages 105-116

10. Exploring the System Dynamics of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) with Machine Learning (ML) Techniques—A Framework for a Hybrid-Approach

    • Anna Lütje, Martina Willenbacher, Martin Engelmann, Christian Kunisch, Volker Wohlgemuth

    Pages 117-130

11. Graph-Grammars to Specify Dynamic Changes in Topology for Spatial-Temporal Processes

    • Jochen Wittmann

    Pages 131-148

12. Online Anomaly Detection in Microbiological Data Sets

    • Leonie Hannig, Lukas Weise, Jochen Wittmann

    Pages 149-163

13. Applying Life Cycle Assessment to Simulation-Based Decision Support: A Swedish Waste Collection Case Study

    • Yu Liu, Anna Syberfeldt, Mattias Strand

    Pages 165-178

This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of computational sustainability. The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and the energy supply. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

• Environmental informatics
• Computational Sustainability
• Big Data
• Earth Observation and Monitoring
• Open and transdisciplinary science
• Environmental modelling and simulation
• Applications of geographical information systems
• Machine learning
• Smart cities
• Sustainable transportation and energy
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Health and food security
• Green software engineering
• Environmental information systems

• CESR, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

  Rüdiger Schaldach, Karl-Heinz Simon

• Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany

  Jens Weismüller

• Department of Engineering - Technology and Life, HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

  Volker Wohlgemuth

Rüdiger Schaldach is head of the research group for Land Use Systems at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests include spatial modelling and simulation of human-environment systems as well as questions related to sustainable land management and global change implications for ecosystems and societies.

Karl-Heinz Simon is a systems researcher, associated to the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests are in modelling and simulation, socio-cybernetics, and in systems approaches to society-environment relationships.

Jens Weismüller  is a senior researcher of the Environmental Computing Team at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). His research interests include algorithms and HPC implementations for hydrometeorologic as well as deep Earth applications.

Volker Wohlgemuth is a Professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences. His research fields are material flow management, modeling and simulation, mobile computing and environmental management information systems.

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