Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Sustainable Software Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. An Approach to Describe Design Pattern Structures for Sustainable Software Products

      • Benno Schmidt

      Pages 3-16

   3. A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability

      • Yassin Bischoff, Robin van der Wiel, Bart van den Hooff, Patricia Lago

      Pages 17-33

3. Software Design for Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Microservice-Based Architecture for the Integration of Data Backends and Dashboard Applications in the Energy and Environment Domains

      • Jannik Sidler, Eric Braun, Christian Schmitt, Thorsten Schlachter, Veit Hagenmeyer

      Pages 37-48

   3. A Literature Review to Analyze the State of the Art of Virtual Power Plants in Context of Information Security

      • Erfan Koza, Asiye Öztürk

      Pages 49-69

4. Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Rebound Effects in Methods of Artificial Intelligence

      • Martina Willenbacher, Torsten Hornauer, Volker Wohlgemuth

      Pages 73-85

   3. Assisting PV Experts in On-Site Condition Evaluation of PV Modules Using Weather-Independent Dark IV String Curves, Artificial Intelligence and a Web-Database

      • Joachim Rüter, Felix Meyer, Grit Behrens, Konrad Mertens, Matthias Diehl

      Pages 87-102

5. Modelling and Simulation of Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Resource and Energy Efficiency Analysis in Bottle-To-Bottle Recycling Plant—Case Study

      • Amna Ramzy, Ahmed Elfeky, Hazem Aboulseoud, Lamia Shihata, Volker Wohlgemuth

      Pages 105-115

   3. Air Pollution Due to Central Heating of a City-Centered University Campus

      • Andreas Gavros, Kostas Karatzas

      Pages 117-133

   4. EpiDesktop—A Spatial Decision Support System for Simulating Epidemic Spread and Human Mobility Trends Under Different Scenarios

      • Ahmed Derdouri, Toshihiro Osaragi

      Pages 135-152

6. Urban Environments and Information Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Human Behavior Model in Public Pedestrian-Only Space Estimated Using High-Precision Trajectory Data

      • Toshihiro Osaragi, Arisa Homma, Hiroyuki Kaneko

      Pages 155-169

   3. Approaches to Assessing the Vulnerability of Large City Population to Natural and Man-Made Hazards Using Mobile Operators Data (Case Study of Moscow, Russia)

      • S. Badina, R. Babkin, A. Mikhaylov

      Pages 171-186

   4. CITADINE: A Platform to Provide the Experiences of Survivors of Natural Disasters as Open Educational Resources for Risk Communication

      • Michael Klafft, Ivana Harari, Ricardo Gacitua Bustos, Agnieszka Dudzińska-Jarmolińska, Solhanlle Bonilla Duarte

      Pages 187-196

7. Sustainable Mobility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Evaluation of a Sustainable Crowd Logistics Concept for the Last Mile Based on Electric Cargo Bikes

      • Richard Schulte, Mattes Leibenath, Lars Wöltjen, Uta Kühne, Benjamin Wagner vom Berg

      Pages 199-216

This book is an outcome of the 35th International Conference EnviroInfo 2021, held at Humboldt University Berlin, organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of environmental sustainability, promoted and facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core environmental informatics-related technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, robotics, smart agriculture and food solutions, renewable energy-based solutions, optimization of infrastructures, sustainable industrial processes and citizen science, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and energy supplies.  A special focus lies on the question how environmental informatics can contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

• Environmental informatics
• Environmental modelling and simulation
• Environmental information systems
• Emerging technologies in environmental informatics
• Agent-based simulations in environmental informatics
• Disaster risk modelling
• Environmental sensors
• Sustainable transportation
• Sustainable energy systems
• Managing and mitigating climate change
• Sustainable resource management
• Green software engineering
• Robotics
• Artificial intelligence applications
• Disaster response
• Sustainable software engineering
• Sustainable mobility
• Software architecture
• Software design for sustainability
• Digital sharing economy

• HTW Berlin - Univ of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany

  Volker Wohlgemuth

• Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Trier University of Applied Sciences, Birkenfeld, Germany

  Stefan Naumann

• FB Campus Minden, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Minden, Germany

  Grit Behrens

• Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  Hans-Knud Arndt

Volker Wohlgemuth is a full professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the School of Engineering—Technology and Life, University of Applied Sciences, HTW Berlin (Germany). His research fields are material flow management, modelling and simulation, industrial symbiosis and environmental management information systems.  

Stefan Naumann is a full professor for Computer Science, Mathematics and Environmental/ Sustainability Informatics at the Trier University of Applied Sciences (Germany). His research interests are the environmental impacts of IT, especially of software, and environmental informatics in general.  

Grit Behrens is a full professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences, FH Bielefeld (Germany). Her research fields are applications in machine learning in the fields of photovoltaic solutions and generally in environmental informatics.  

Hans-Knud Arndt is a full professor of Business Informatics–Management Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany). His environmental informatics research focuses on meta data, sustainable reporting, sustainable design of information systems and sustainable usability/user experience.  

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