Albrecht Gnauck, Ralph Heinrich (eds.): The Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union

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Albrecht Gnauck, Ralph Heinrich (eds.)

The Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union

17th International Conference Informatik for Environmental Protection, Cottbus 2003

"Current Environmental Informatics" · volume 31

970 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-89518-440-6

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Information transfer and communication technologies processed by computer systems are indispensable for our modern life. Informatics’ tools are commonly used to solve management problems and decision processes. Especially, the management of environmental systems can only be done by regarding the socio-economic development of nations. Therefore, the information exchange within an enlarged European Union plays an important role for a sustainable development as well as for environmental resource management and protection.

This is the general topic of the 17th International Conference Informatics for Environmental Protection ENVIROINFO COTTBUS 2003. The conference brings together people from the scientific community, public administration and business organisations that develop or use informatic tools in the field of environmental management. The aim of this conference is to document the State-of-the-Art in environmental informatics within an enlarged Europe as well as fostering the dialogue between theory and practice. The conference book contains key notes and papers as well as poster papers. Because of the complexity of environmental systems including time and space dependent natural successions and anthropogenic activities, a great variety of subject areas such as informatics, mathematics, statistics, ecology, geology, geography, logistics and others must therefore be covered by environmental informatics.

During the last two decades environmental informatics has become an increasing interdisciplinary interest. Especially for environmental management modelling and simulation, decision support systems, environmental information systems and geographical information systems are attractive areas of application. On the other hand, scientists working in the field of environmental informatics have to understand environmental systems in the context of natural resource availability and sustainable development as well as socio-economics. Therefore, environmental informatics must contribute to a sustainable resource management, to protect nature and to support biodiversity for our survival on earth.

Part I: Concepts and Methods

Key Notes

Wolfgang Birthler
Umweltvorsorge und Zukunftssicherung im Informationszeitalter - Herausforderung an Umweltpolitik und Informatik
Erwin Staudt
Unsere Chancen in der Informationsgesellschaft
Jürgen Wernstedt and Thomas Rauschenbach
Forecast, Control of Water Level/Flow and Flood Prevention in River Basins and Water Reservoirs - Cybernetical Aspects
Jürgen W. Einax
Chemometrics in the Environmental Sciences - Challenges and New Methods
Olgierd Hryniewicz and Jan Studzinski
Application of Systems Analysis Tools in Environmental Engineering
Michael Angrick
A Sustainable Information Society Within the Enlarged European Community - Reflections on the Infrastructure of the Information Society

Information Society and Enlargement of the European Union

New Tasks for the Information Society

Werner Pillmann and Elisabeth Mrakotsky
The Importance of Being Environmentally Conscious
Jerome Simpson and Gabor Heves
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe: Its Contribution Past, Present and Future to the Environmental Information Society, in the Context of Enlargement

Information Society and Sustainable Development

Rudolph Braun, Valentin Nicolescu, Helmut Krcmar, Werner F. Schulz and Martin Kreeb
Modern Communication Instruments for the Imparting of Sustainable Management - by the Example of an Avatar
Peter Jakob, Gustav Schneiter, Erik Rösler, Christian Hug, Flurin Sutter
IT-Replacement Investments and Sustainability Within Swiss Forest Ecosystem Research: The Broad and the Narrow Strategy
Imran S. Khalid
Implementing Environmental Management at the Village Community Level: A Case Study Based on Pakistani Experience

Sustainable Development and Information Exchange

Jiří Hřebíček, Tomá? Pitner and Vladimir Benko
Standardization of Environmental Data and Information Management in the Czech and Slovak Republic
Miroslav Lacu?ka, Dana Lape?ova and Jiří Hřebíček
Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer, Slovakia in the Process of EU Enlargement
Ulrich Eimer
"Virtual Environmental Office? for Municipalities in Central and Eastern Europe
Gergely Lukács
Decision Support for Consumers - Information Services for a More Sustainable World

Environmental Informatics

Concepts of Environmental Informatics

Kostas Karatzas
Environmental Informatics: Concepts and Definitions
Gergely Lukacs, Arnd Otterstätter, Claus Hofmann, Marcus Briesen, Gunter Vogt, Gerhild Lienau, Hans Neumann, Volker Schuchardt and Dirk Weber
Data Warehouse for Water Management - Geographic Data and ETL Processes

Web Technology

Michael Haase, Jörg Westbomke, Thomas Schütz, Roland Mayer-Föll, Burkhard Schneider and Michael Bilo
An Approach Towards an Unified View on Environmental Data - The Environmental Markup Language
Rudolph Braun, Markus Russ, Werner F. Schulz, Helmut Krcmar and Martin Kreeb
An Open-Source Community for Building Ecological Tools
Érica Bezerra Queiroz Ribeiro, Hugo Cesar Hoeschl and Filipe Corrêa da Costa
Web Portals for Environmental Information Dissemination - Artificial Intelligence Use Cases
Sonja Bec, Jadranka Pecar-Ilic and Ivica Ruzic
Architecture of River Information System with Automatic XML Processing
Jörg Westbomke, Thomas Dombeck, Michael Haase, Renate Ebel and Dieter Lehne
WAP-Based Environmental Information Services
Harry Storch
Mobile Portals for Community-Based Collaborative Environmental Monitoring
Herwig Zeiner, Alexander Almer, Harald Stelzl, Iris Frech and Werner Haas
Virtual Environmental Scenarios Applied in a Geo-Multimedia System

Modelling and Simulation

Ekkehard Holzbecher
What is a Coupled Model?
Christoph Horner, Ekkehard Holzbecher, Bernd Wiese and Gunnar Nützmann
A Coupled Model for Transport, Geochemistry and Redox Processes
Christian Fischer, Andra Hirsemann, Heidrun Matejka and Tobias Riekeberg
Rule-Based Modelling of Soil-Water Interactions Influenced by Subsidence Caused by Mining Activities
François Sarradin, Daniel Siret and Jacques Teller
Visual Urban Space Assessment from Sky Shape Analysis
Erik Löfving and Anders Grimvall
Data Models for Physical Flow
Rüdiger Schaldach
A GIS-Based Integrated Simulation Environment for Linking Land Use Patterns to Ecosystem Processes
Nguyen Xuan Thinh
Contemporary Spatial Analysis and Simulation of the Settlement Development of the Dresden City Region
Johannes Rosen, Dominik Möst, Wolf Fichtner and Otto Rentz
Use of the PERSEUS Models to Analyse the Effects of Large-Scale Renewable Energy Production

Environmental Management

Environmental Risk Management

Gabriele Vierhuff
Computer-Based Risk Assessment Using Structure-Activity Relationship Calculation
Charlotte Kämpf, Jürgen Ihringer, Anusch Daemi and Jaques Calmet
Agent-Based Expert Information Retrieval for Flood-Risk Management

Environmental Management and Climate Change

Martin C. Maguire
Meeting User Needs in the Development of the EUROCLIM Climate Information System
Heinrich Humer, Wilfried Winiwarter and Gerald Schimak
Multiple Dependencies and Scenario Management in Emission Inventories
Rostyslav Stolyarchuk and Lubomyra Kujii
Greenhouse Gas Inventory Analysis in the Energy Sector of Ukraine

Logistics

Lorenz M. Hilty, André J. Rogger and Frank A. Hartmann
Assessment of Telecommunication-Supported Dynamic Vehicle Routing Strategies
Stefan Naumann and Kerstin Schäfer
Reducing Traffic and Enhancing Communication by Computer-Supported Mobility-Coops
Nicolas Knaak, Ruth Meyer and Bernd Page
Agent-Based Simulation of Sustainable Logistic Strategies for Large City Courier Services

Life Cycle Analysis

Andreas Ciroth
A Model to Dynamically Change Settings in a Life Cycle Assessment for Packaging Systems
Daniel Heubach and Uwe Rey
Implementation of Corporate Material Flow Management in Automotive Suppliers - Development of Methods
Silke Prötzsch and Claus Rautenstrauch
Approaches to Remove Data Defects from Material Flow Networks

Water Management

Jørgen Würtz
Development of an Environmental Management System Based on Agent Technology for Inland Water Data in the European Union
Josef Hejzlar, Paul Boers, Brian Kronvang and Feza Karaer
Nutrient Retention - A Key Element in Evaluating Reference Conditions of Lakes and Reservoirs for the EU Water Framework Directive
Thomas Petzoldt, Ronny Peters and Katja Siemens
Construction of Simplified Lake Water Quality Modules (SWQM) Using Monte Carlo Simulation and Artificial Neural Networks
Albrecht Gnauck, Bernhard Luther, Thomas Wiedemann and Wilfried Krug
Coupling of Simulators for Optimal Control of Water Quality

Environmental Information Systems

Environmental Information and Data Management

Jan Sluka and Jiří Hřebíček
Model of the Object-Oriented Environmental Information - A New Approach in the Environmental Data and Information Management
Ulrich Hussels, Matthias Lüttgert and Janet Nagel
Developing Different Environmental Database Applications Using a Generic Software

Knowledge and Information Management Systems

Klaus Tochtermann, Konrad Zirm and Stefanie Lindstaedt
Introducing Knowledge Management in the Federal Environmental Agency of Austria
Thomas Usländer, Holger Schmid, Martin Schmieder and Jörg Stumpp
Thematic User Environment for Water Body Information Systems and Beyond
Weihua Zeng, Han Shi, Rongchang Chen and Yongjun Zhang
Analysis and Designing of System on Sharing EST Information

Environmental Information Systems

Thomas Schütz, Gerrit Vonkeman and Andreas Lippke
E-CUISINE - European Competence Centre for Users of Information Systems on the Environment
Jaroslav ?olc and Tereza Votočková
Prague Environmental Information System (IOZIP)
Markus U. Müller, Birgit Augstein, Mathias Bock and Reiner Glowinski
Development of an Environmental Data Infrastructure for Hamburg
Petra Köhler
Development of an Open Information Infrastructure for Disaster Research: Results and Prospects from DFNK and CEDIM
Petra Jahnke and Matthias Menger
GSBL - Concept + Software Suite of an Information System for Chemical Substances
Hans-Martin Mulisch and Mirko Filetti
Construction of the Expert Database Environment and Health www.umweltdaten-online.de (UDO)

Environmental Standardisation

Grigor Boyadjiyski
Main Accents in the Standard ISO 14001 Concerning the Information Resources Management
Wassilios Kazakos, Alexei Akhounov, Heiko Paoli, Sven Behrens, Hugo Niesing and Stephane Lombardo
Editing ISO 19115 Compliant Metadata in EUROSION
Oliver Karschnick, Fred Kruse, Stefanie Töpker, Thomas Riegel, Marco Eichler and Sven Behrens
The UDK and ISO 19115 Standard

Environmental Metadata

Marion Wilde, Manfred Lange, Hardy Pundt, Nicole Ostländer and Krzysztof Janowicz
An Environmental Metadata Profile in the EU Project MEDIS
Michael Haase, Thomas Dombeck, Matthias Neidlinger, Günter Barnikel, Fred Kruse and Oliver Karschnick
Comparison of the Different Instances of the German Environmental Data Catalogue
Fred Kruse, Oliver Karschnick, Stefanie Töpker and Thomas Riegel geinÒ - Planning the Next Generation

Part II: Applications, Workshops, Posters

Applications

Environmental Data Representation

Uwe Rammert and Friedhelm Hosenfeld
Dynamic and Interactive Presentation of Environmental Information
Dirk Görtzen, Stefan Schneberger and Uwe Rammert
Schleswig-Holsteins Environmental Atlas as Content Management System for Environmental Geographical Data?

Environmental Reporting

Ralf Isenmann, Jan Brosowski and Christian Lenz
Target-Group Tailored Corporate Environmental Reporting - Stereotyping, Individualisation, Personalisation
Jorge Marx-Gómez, Mario Amelung, Claus Rautenstrauch and Ralf Isenmann
A Case Study on an Automated Generation of Environmental Reports
Ralf Isenmann, Jan Brosowski, Jorge Marx-Gómez and Hans-Knud Arndt
Going Ahead in Harmonising XML-based DTDs for Corporate Environmental Reporting
Eric Weihs, Artur Kawicki and Piotr Wezyk
Compliance With the Reporting Requirements With Regard to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Poland Within the Scope of the EU Directive

Knowledge Management and Transfer

K.-Peter Holz, Gerald Hildebrandt and Frank Molkenthin
Virtual Laboratories for Projects in Environment-Water
Miguel A. Barrientos, Ari Fainchtein and Natan Zaidenweber
Web-Based Application for Implementing Triple-Bottom Line Search Process
Antje Dietrich, Renate Ebel and Klaus Zetzmann
Evaluation of a Content Management System (CMS) for the Ministry of Environment and Transportation Baden-Württemberg (UVM)
Ulrich Bosler, Thorsten Bell and Elwin Savelsbergh
The New Modelling Environment Co-Lab: Survey on the Design of Software and Learning Materials

Data Management

Simon Wood, Christoph Roenick and Michael Natschke
Requirements of a Modern Hydrological Workbench Illustrated by the Integrated Data Management Information System WISKI and its Implementation at the Environment Agency of England and Wales
Peter Strobl, Albin Blaschka and Paul Heiselmayer
BISxml 1.0: An Open Framework for Management and Interchange of Ecological Data

Environmental Statistics

Kristina Voigt
Evaluation of Environmental Chemicals in Databases: An Example for the Interdisciplinarity between Environmental Informatics and Environmetrics/Chemometrics
Nadine Hölzinger and Andreas Ciroth
RFM2 - Calculating Qualitative Information
Mohamed Hussian and Anders Grimvall
A Generic Procedure for Simultaneous Estimation of Monotone Trends and Seasonal Patterns in Time Series of Environmental Data
Sascha Koch, Jürgen Meister and Martin Rohde
MUSTANG - A Framework for Statistical Analyses of Multidimensional Data in Public Health
Anders Nordgaard
Impact of Sampling Frequency on the Power of Nonparametric Tests for Water Quality Trends

Pilot Projects

Nicolas Moussiopoulos, Kostas Karatzas, Geir Endregard, Kurt Fedra, Rainer Friedrich, Per Henrik Johansen, Liana Kalognomou, Ari Karppinen, Per Haavard Kraggerud, Jaakko Kukkonen, Steinar Larssen, Frank de Leeuw, Achim Lohmeyer, Chris Naneris, Daniel Nicklass, Giannis Papaioannou, Gertraud Peinel, Tinus Pulles, Stefan Reis, Thomas Rose, Martin Sedlmayr and Dick van den Hout
Environmental Services and Data Brokerage Portal: ENV-e-CITY in Action
Gijs van den Dool, Teemu Mustonen, Konsta Sirvio, Mikko Kolehmainen and Juhani Ruuskanen
Intelligent Waste Management
Felipe Omar Tapia Silva and Nikolaus Model
Measurement and Model Supported Alternative Rain Water Management in Urban Areas of Berlin Using Trackbed Naturation for Railway Tracks

Software Tools

Nikolay Tsanov
A CORBA-Based Polymorph Software Architecture for Applications Serving the Quality and Environmental Management Systems
Gregor Dürrenberger and Christoph Hartmann
ECO2 Regio: A New Software Tool for Regional Energy and CO2 Modelling
Jens Finke, Frank Köster, Karin Frank and Michael Sonnenschein
A Software Tool for Assessing the Effect of Traffic on Wildlife Populations

Geographical Information Systems

Nelley Kovalevskaya and Elena Mitrophanova
Environmental Mapping Based on Spatial Variability and Computational Vision Models
Désirée Hilbring and Burkhard Schneider
Visualisation of Digital Elevation Models in Different Resolutions With Interactive Reloading of New Parts in a 3D-GIS-Viewer
Rudolf Orthofer, Peter Kutschera, Heinrich Humer and Wolfgang Loibl
EnviroMap Austria - A Novel Web-Based Environmental Atlas
Gotthard Meinel and Michael Winkler
Provision of Recreational Areas in Urban Spaces - An International Long-Term Comparison of the Developments of Selected European Cities
Rainer Roosmann, Wolfgang Busch, Julita Gorczyk, Frank Mauersberger, Stefan Nickel and Peter Vosen
Geographic Information Systems Support for Monitoring Environmental Impacts Caused by Deep Hard Coal Mining
Uwe Rüppel, Gerrit Seewald and Michael Petersen
Geographical Framework for the Network-Based Management of Duds
Stefan Fuest
Online - Visualization of Water Level Data in North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW)
Uwe Rüppel, Thomas Gutzke, Michael Petersen and Gerrit Seewald Online-Processing of 2½ - Dimensional Groundwater Maps
Wim Mol
Coupling of AIRBASE With the EEA Map Service Tool
Rostyslav Bun, Mykola Gusti, Volodymyr Dachuk, Bohdan Oleksiv and Yaroslav Tsybrivskyy
Geoinformation System for Greenhouse Gas Inventories as a Practical Tool for Decision Makers
Matthias Horn, Volkmar Triestram and Jo van Nouhuys
Data Evaluation Using the Generic Selection Component of the New IMIS System

Workshops

Disturbed Landscapes

Reinhard F. Hüttl
Disturbed Landscapes: Case Study Lusatian Lignite Mining District
Hubert Hasenauer
Concepts Within Forest Ecosystem Modelling and Their Application
Michael Hauhs
The Harz as a Historic Mining Landscape: A Case Study Based on Interactive Visualisations of Forest Growth
Rüdiger Grote, Katja Patzner and Thomas Seifert
Modelling Water Availability in Individual Trees - a Contribution of Process-Based Simulation to the Prediction of Developments in Heterogeneous Stands

Chemometrics

Armin Aulinger, Simone Wiegel, Wolf von Tümpling, Heinz Harms and Burkhard Stachel
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Drug Concentrations Measured in the River Saale
Jörg Kraft, Corinna Kowalik and Jürgen W. Einax
The Extractable Information Depending on the Scale of the Investigated River Catchment Area
Wolf von Tümpling, Franziska Horst und Martin Schultze
A Method to Optimise Sampling Strategies - Key Study Goitsche, Bitterfeld, Germany
Michael Winterstein
How to Use Information From Measured Values Between Lower Level of Quantification and Detection Limit?

Simulation in Environmental Informatics

Jochen Wittmann
Trends in Environmental Modeling and Simulation 840
Thomas Clemen
Environmental Modeling and Simulation - Bridging the Gap Between Theory, Experiment, and Application
Albrecht Gnauck
Theoretical Concepts Applied on Environmental Data and Decision Problems

The New Modelling Environment Co-Lab

Thorsten Bell, Ulrich Bosler and Elwin Savelsbergh
The New Modelling Environment Co-Lab: Design of Software and Learning Materials

Environmental Information Systems as Components in Twinning Projects

Anja Jenichen, Michael Schmidt and Claus Heuberger
Incorporating Environmental Information Technologies into "Capacity-Building? Projects - Examples and Experiences of Twinning Projects in CEE - Countries
Anja Jenichen
Short Introduction of Twinning - An Institution Partnership Between Member Countries and Candidate Countries
Claus Heuberger
Environmental Information and Management System - The New Czech-German Twinning Project
Christian Kühne and Gabriel Striegel
Implementation of an IPPC Information System and an Integrated Pollutant Register in the Czech Republic - Exercises and Experiences of a Czech Republic - German Twinning Project
Markus Weidenbach and Piotr Wezyk
INFOOS: The Polish Environmental Information and Communication System - Technological and Organisational Aspects of the Implementation of a System to Support Poland in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process
Hans W. Jakobi and Uwe Buell
Origin and Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls - Exercises and Experiences of a Bulgarian - German Twinning Project
Helmut Lorentz, Jürgen Friebertshaeuser and Achim Lohmeyer
GIS Based Urban Scale Air Pollution Modelling - Exercises and Experiences of a Bulgarian - Twinning Project

Posters

Miroslav Kubásek
Semantic Web Technology - Ontology Extraction from Environmental Webs
Wassilios Kazakos, Rainer Lehfeldt, Christian Michl, Carsten Heidmann and Alexei Valikov
Metadata Repositories in Governmental Information Systems for Coastal Regions in Germany
Tobia Maike Lakes
From Environmental Information Systems to Environmental Information Management - A Case Study of Berlin
Jaroslav Ráček, Jan Ministr and Josef Fiala
Reengineering of Public Environmental Administration Grigor Boyadjiyski, Ilia Nemigenchev and Nikolay Tsanov A System for Vocational Lifelong Training on Quality and Environmental Management for Staff Engaged in Bulgarian SMEs
Radmila Bojkovska
Environmental Monitoring System in the Republic of Macedonia
Jaroslav ?ilberský
Environmental Decision Support Using Multidimensional Database Technology
Jan Pe?l and Jaroslav Ráček
Searching for Extreme Limits of Environmental Phenomena by Means of Numerical Optimisation
Clemens Deilmann
Modelling the Mass Flow and Land Use of Future Housing Demand in Germany 2025 - Scenario Results of UBA - Research Project BASiS-2
Abaah Johnson
Introduction to the Sustainable Transport Operational Programme
Marc van Liedekerke, Panos Panagos, Faycal Bouraoui and Antonio Nogueira
The EUROHARP Information System: A Prototype System in Support to Environmental Issues Within the Water Framework Directive
Michael Fischer, Günter Barnikel, Michael Haase and Jörg Westbomke
A GIS - Based Tool for Detailed Planning Works for Enhancing the Ecomorphological Quality of Running Waters
Dierk Wagenschein and Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt
Modelling River Water Quality as a Dependence of River Morphology and Structure - Concept for Simulations of the Weisse Elster River
Albrecht Gnauck, Ralph Heinrich and Bernhard Luther
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