Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Keynotes

   1. Our Energy Supply Future - 10 BULLENSEE ASSUMPTIONS

      • Werner Brinker

      Pages 1-2

   2. Sustainability Impact Assessment — The Role of Numerical E3-Models

      • Christoph Böhringer

      Pages 3-4

   3. The Material Side of Virtualization

      • Lorenz M. Hilty

      Pages 5-6

   4. Electric Power Management and a Clean Environment — a Discrepancy and an Algorithmic Challenge

      • Horst F. Wedde

      Pages 7-9

3. Air Pollution

   1. A Spatial Assessment of Air Pollution Impact of a Highway Project Using GIS

      • M. L. Agrawal, B. Maitra, M. K. Ghose

      Pages 11-20

   2. The Air Quality Management System AirQUIS

      • Leiv Håvard Slørdal, Harold McInnes, Terje Krognes

      Pages 21-33

   3. Danger Assessment of Potential Resources of Air Pollution once Natural Disasters Occur

      • Tabassom Hashemi Farzad, Ebrahim Omidi Garekani

      Pages 35-45

4. Corporate Sustainability Reporting

   1. Using Topic Maps for Sustainability Reporting

      • Hans-Knud Arndt, Henner Graubitz, René Klesinski

      Pages 47-59

   2. Conception of System Supported Generation of Sustainability Reports in a Large Scale Enterprise

      • Christian Grünwald, Jorge Marx Gómez

      Pages 61-68

   3. Information Management for Sophisticated Environmental Reporting

      • Ralf Isenmann

      Pages 69-84

5. Decentralized Energy Management Systems

   1. Data Quality Mining: Employing Classifiers for Assuring Consistent Datasets

      • Fabian Grüning

      Pages 85-94

   2. Models for Optimization of Electrical Energy Delivery for Regional Utilities

      • Swantje Nikolai

      Pages 95-107

   3. Implementing and Evaluating the Common Information Model in a Relational and RDF-based Database

      • Stefan Schulte, Rainer Berbner, Ralf Steinmetz, Mathias Uslar

      Pages 109-118

   4. Optimization of Adaptive Consumers to a Time-varying Electricity Supply

      • Ute Vogel, Michael Sonnenschein

      Pages 119-131

   5. Distributed Power Generation: Requirements and Recommendations for an ICT Architecture

      • Ludger Winkels, Jan-Patrick Osterloh, Fabian Grüning, Martin Tröschel, Dave Boers, Tanja Schmedes et al.

      Pages 133-142

6. Environmental Information Systems

   1. Designing a Bilingual Eco-Ontology for Open and Intuitive Search

      • Bettina Bauer-Messmer, Rolf Grütter

      Pages 143-152

   2. Data Warehousing with Environmental Data

      • Ansgar Burmann, Jorge Marx Gómez

      Pages 153-160

   3. New Measures for Evaluating Decision Systems Using Rough Set Theory: The Application in Seasonal Weather Forecasting

      • Yailé Caballero, Leticia Arco, Rafael Bello, Jorge Marx Gómez

      Pages 161-173

   4. A Protocol to Secure Context-aware Service Discovery in Complex Earth Experiments

      • Ricardo R. M. do Carmo, André C. M. Costa, José L. Campos dos Santos, José G. Pereira Filho

      Pages 175-187

Potentially dangerous environmental changes are happening in the atm- phere, oceans, animal habitats and places where hazardous materials are used, or have been discarded without adequate environmental protections. These increasing problems that also affect human health demand for int- disciplinary approaches where engineers, natural scientists, economists and computer scientists work together. Information technology has become significant to all scientific groups and fields involved in environmental - gineering: Model based systems which enable the study of environmental changes have been developed and are being extended to manage those - vironments. New paradigms for designing objects to enable easy dis- sembly and recovery of components contribute to reuse. Web-based - formation systems enhance public awareness to environmental changes and allow participation in decision making. Developments in exploiting - ternative energy sources are reducing dependence on non-renewable - sources. Numerical economy-environment models contribute to co- benefit analysis of environmental policy, and environmental monitoring and accounting systems facilitate market-based environmental regulation. Further advance is only possible if scientific teams have adequate expe- ence, methods and tools for investigation of the changes in the envir- ment. Success requires a high level of organization related to technical as well as scientific and human aspects of information handling. This book publishes the results of the ITEE 2007 conference where information about the topics above has been presented and discussed among environmental engineers, computer scientists and economists. March 2007 Jorge Marx Gómez Michael Sonnenschein Martin Müller Heinz Welsch Claus Rautenstrauch VI Editors Prof.Dr.

• Environmental Economics
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Informatics
• Environmental Management
• Operations Management and Economics
• life-cycle assessment (LCA)
• sustainability

• Fakultät für Informatik, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften Department für Informatik, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  Jorge Marx Gómez, Michael Sonnenschein

• Fakultät für Informatik, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Wirtshcaftspädagogik, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  Martin Müller

• Fakultät für Informatik, Wirtschafts- und Rechtswissenschaften Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

  Heinz Welsch

• Institut Für Technische und Betriebliche Informationssysteme, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  Claus Rautenstrauch

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