Environmental Software Systems. Infrastructures, Services and Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes and Context Articles

   1. A Provenance Maturity Model

      • Kerry Taylor, Robert Woodcock, Susan Cuddy, Peter Thew, David Lemon

      Pages 1-18

   2. Challenges in Modelling of Environmental Semantics

      • Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

      Pages 19-25

   3. Topics in Environmental Software Systems

      • Ralf Denzer

      Pages 26-43

   4. The Framework for Environmental Software Systems of the European Environment Agency

      • Jiří Hřebíček, Stefan Jensen, Chris Steenmans

      Pages 44-55

   5. Crowdsourcing in Crisis and Disaster Management – Challenges and Considerations

      • Gerald Schimak, Denis Havlik, Jasmin Pielorz

      Pages 56-70

   6. Evolution of Environmental Information Models

      • Katharina Schleidt

      Pages 71-80

3. Information Systems, Information Modelling and Semantics

   1. An Interactive Website for the River Eurajoki

      • Ari Jolma, Anne-Mari Ventelä, Marjo Tarvainen, Teija Kirkkala

      Pages 81-90

   2. An Information Model for a Water Information Platform

      • Pascal Dihé, Ralf Denzer, Sascha Schlobinski

      Pages 91-101

   3. Towards Linked Data Conventions for Delivery of Environmental Data Using netCDF

      • Jonathan Yu, Nicholas J. Car, Adam Leadbetter, Bruce A. Simons, Simon J. D. Cox

      Pages 102-112

   4. Information Technology and Solid Residue Management: A Case of Study Using Freeware and Social Networks

      • José Tarcísio Franco de Camargo, Estéfano Vizconde Veraszto, Adriano Aparecido Lopes, Tainá Ângela Vedovello Bimbati

      Pages 113-120

   5. Joining the Dots: Using Linked Data to Navigate between Features and Observational Data

      • Robert A. Atkinson, Peter Taylor, Geoffrey Squire, Nicholas J. Car, Darren Smith, Mark Menzel

      Pages 121-130

   6. An SMS and Email Weather Warning System for Sheep Producers

      • Anna Weeks, Malcolm McCaskill, Matthew Cox, Subhash Sharma

      Pages 131-140

   7. The Emergency Response Intelligence Capability Tool

      • Robert Power, Bella Robinson, Catherine Wise, David Ratcliffe, Geoffrey Squire, Michael Compton

      Pages 141-150

   8. Civic Issues Reporting and Involvement of Volunteers as a Phenomenon in the Czech Republic

      • Miroslav Kubásek

      Pages 151-159

   9. Mobile Field Data Collection for Post Bushfire Analysis and African Farmers

      • Bradley Lane, Nicholas J. Car, Justin Leonard, Felix Lipkin, Anders Siggins

      Pages 160-168

   10. Provenance in Systems for Situation Awareness in Environmental Monitoring

       • Markus Stocker, Mauno Rönkkö, Mikko Kolehmainen

       Pages 169-177

4. Decision Support Tools and Systems

   1. Decision Making and Strategic Planning for Disaster Preparedness with a Multi-Criteria-Analysis Decision Support System

      • Sascha Schlobinski, Giulio Zuccaro, Martin Scholl, Daniel Meiers, Ralf Denzer, Sergio Guarino et al.

      Pages 178-186

   2. A Cotton Irrigator’s Decision Support System and Benchmarking Tool Using National, Regional and Local Data

      • Jamie Vleeshouwer, Nicholas J. Car, John Hornbuckle

      Pages 187-195

   3. Water Pollution Reduction: Reverse Combinatorial Auctions Modelling Supporting Decision-Making Processes

      • Petr Šauer, Petr Fiala, Antonín Dvořák

      Pages 196-206

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2015, held in Melbourne, Australia, in March 2015. The 62 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: information systems, information modeling and semantics; decision support tools and systems; modelling and simulation systems; architectures, infrastructures, platforms and services; requirements, software engineering and software tools; analytics and visualization; and high-performance computing and big data.

• HPC
• analytics
• big data
• computing infrastructures
• decision support systems
• e-government
• eGovernment
• eco-informatics
• enviromatics
• environmental data
• environmental informatics
• environmental sciences
• environmental software systems
• linked data
• modelling and simulation
• parallel computing
• semantics
• sensor networks
• service-oriented architectures
• visualization

• Environmental Informatics Group (EIG), Saarbrücken, Germany

  Ralf Denzer

• Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

  Robert M. Argent

• Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Seibersdorf, Austria

  Gerald Schimak

• Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Jiří Hřebíček

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