Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering: Proceedings of the 4th International ICSC Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-29, 2009 (Hardcover)

Keynotes.- Ecological Informatics: Current Scope and Future Directions.- Semantically driven meta-modelling: automating model construction in an environmental decision support system for the assessment of ecosystem services flows.- Regular papers.- Governance of a Service-Oriented Architecture for Environmental and Public Security.- Integration of Environmental Management Information Systems and ERP systems using Integration Platforms.- State of the art and future research in Environmental Management Information Systems - a systematic literature review.- AKX ? An Exchange for Predicting Water Dam Levels in Australia.- Environmental Engineering and Facility Management of Berlin’s Public Buildings.- Spatial disaggregated emissions inventory for Cyprus.- A web-based information system rating regional projects by considering sustainable development.- Development of a Spatial Decision Support Framework for IMPETUS project in West Africa.- Development of a decision support system for the operation of thermal power plants in Western Macedonia.- Towards a Novel Early Warning Service for State Agencies: A Feasibility Study.- Application of Optimization Algorithms for the Improvement of Water Quality Monitoring Systems.- SQCB - Sustainability Quick Check Tool for Biofuels.- Volatile Organic Compounds measurements at schools in Kozani, Greece.- NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones.- Monitoring of environment by energy efficient usage of Wireless Sensor Networks.- Plant Phenotyping with Low Cost Digital Cameras and Image Analytics.- Reproducing human decisions in reservoir management: the case of lake Lugano.- Predicting chemical parameters of the water from diatom abudance in lake Prespa and its tributaries.- Analysing chromatographic data using data mining to monitor petroleum content in water.- An Experimental Evaluation of ZCS-DM for the Prediction of Urban Air Quality.- An investigation of the effectiveness of advanced modeling tools on the forecasting of daily PM10 values in the Greater Athens Area.- Traffic Related PM Predictor for Besiktas, Turkey.- Development and Evaluation of Data Mining Models for Air Quality Prediction in Athens, Greece.- Artificial neural networks based modelling of carbon monoxide: Effects of spatial parameters.- Using Preprocessing Techniques in Air Quality forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks.- Approach for Dynamic Problems in Clustering.- Stakeholder Interaction in Sustainability Reporting with Web 2.0.- Meta-modelling for cross-sectoral land use policy impact analysis: A model requirements analysis of the SIAT.- An interdisciplinary approach to resolving conflict in the water domain.- Conceptual design and implementation of a model for the integrated simulation of large-scale land-use systems.- Enterprise systems applications development plans to build and develop robust and environmentally sensitive green logistics systems management software.- An investigation of the parameters influencing the determination of the number of particulate matter sources and their contribution to the air quality of an indoor residential environment.- Evaluating long-term contamination in soils amended with sewage sludge.- Evaluation by simulation of the social acceptability of agricultural policies for water quality.- COPERT: A European Road Transport Emission Inventory Model.- A Survey of Knowledge Organization Systems in Environmental Sciences.- Semantic modeling of temporal information in a database for biotope inventories.- Environmental notions representation and description: Towards a redefinition of the relationships between information systems development and individual cognition.- Multi-agent-based System Technologies in Environmental Issues.- Specimen’s behavior management: A masterpiece for Biodiversity Information System’s representation.- MACE ? Multiagent Control for Energy Infrastructures.- Concluding talk.- Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) for Sustainable Development.