Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics
ICT for Sustainable Solutions
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2019
VIII, 178 pages
978-3-030-30862-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is an outcome of the 33rd International Conference EnviroInfo 2019, held at the University of Kassel, Germany. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of computational sustainability. The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advances in core technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, big data and machine learning, as well as applications of ICT solutions intended to support societal transformation processes toward the more sustainable management of resource use, transportation and the energy supply. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VIII, 178 p. 53 illus., 36 illus. in color.
File size
5,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-30862-9 (9783030308629)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-30862-9
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Rüdiger Schaldach | Karl-Heinz Simon | Jens Weismüller
Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics
ICT for Sustainable Solutions
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Persons
Rüdiger Schaldach is head of the research group for Land Use Systems at the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests include spatial modelling and simulation of human-environment systems as well as questions related to sustainable land management and global change implications for ecosystems and societies.
Karl-Heinz Simon is a systems researcher, associated to the Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany. His research interests are in modelling and simulation, socio-cybernetics, and in systems approaches to society-environment relationships.
Jens Weismüller is a senior researcher of the Environmental Computing Team at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ). His research interests include algorithms and HPC implementations for hydrometeorologic as well as deep Earth applications.
Volker Wohlgemuth is a Professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the HTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences. His research fields are material flow management, modeling and simulation, mobile computing and environmental management information systems.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Assessing the Sustainability of Software Products-A Method Comparison
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Related Work
- 2.1 Software-Based Approaches
- 2.2 Hardware-Based Approaches
- 3 Methods
- 3.1 Method A
- 3.2 Method B
- 4 Case Study: Sorting Algorithms
- 4.1 Results
- 4.2 Remarks
- 5 Comparison and Discussion
- 5.1 Approach Similarities
- 5.2 Approach Differences
- 5.3 Approach Synergies
- 6 Conclusion and Outlook
- References
- Estimate of the Number of People Walking Home After Compliance with Metropolitan Tokyo Ordinance on Measures Concerning Stranded Persons
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Survey on Individual Course of Action After Major Earthquake
- 2.1 Comparison with Previous Surveys and Research
- 2.2 Outline of Survey
- 2.3 Information Affecting Decisions to Stay or Leave
- 2.4 Decrease in Frequency of Intention to Return Home with Distance and Time Earthquake Occurrence
- 3 Construction of Motion/Action Model and Predictions
- 3.1 Motion/Action Model
- 3.2 Model Predictions
- 3.3 Structure of Decision-Making Discerned from Motion/Action Model
- 4 Estimation of Numbers of People Classified by Behavior and Personal Situations at the Time of Earthquake
- 4.1 Personal Situations and Numbers of People in or Traveling Through Tokyo
- 4.2 Numbers of People as Classified by Action
- 4.3 Reductions in the Number of People Walking Home by the System for Encouraging People to Stay at Work/School
- 4.4 Number of People Walking Home, Considered by Attribute
- 5 Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Gamification for Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications: An Example from Flood Protection
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State of Research and Research Methodology
- 2.1 Background-Mobile Crowdsourcing and Gamification
- 2.2 Related Work-Use of Gamification in Mobile Crowdsourcing
- 2.3 Research Design (Methodical Approach)
- 3 Analysis of Motivators to Be Activated in Mobile Crowdsourcing
- 4 Assignment of Game Design Elements and Motivators
- 5 Gamification of the Mobile Crowdsourcing Application INUNDO
- 5.1 Identification of Motivational Barriers
- 5.2 Selection of Game Design Elements for Overcoming Motivational Barriers
- 5.3 Concept for the Integration of Game Design Elements
- 6 Summary and Outlook
- References
- MoPo Sane-Mobility Portal for Health Care Centers
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Problem Description
- 2.1 Actual Situation
- 2.2 Research Approach
- 3 Degree of Innovation
- 3.1 Portal Characteristics
- 3.2 Comparison to Existing Portals
- 4 Research Method and Conduct
- 5 Conclusion and Future Outlook
- References
- Platform Sustainable Last-Mile-Logistics-One for ALL (14ALL)
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Fundamentals and Innovations
- 2.1 Fundamentals of the Platform
- 2.2 State of the Art
- 2.3 Innovations
- 3 Conceptual Model
- 4 Approach
- 5 Risks
- 6 Future Outlook
- References
- Scientific Partnership: A Pledge For a New Level of Collaboration Between Scientists and IT Specialists
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Knowledge and Know-How Biases
- 3 The Issue with IT Services
- 4 The IT Expert's Perspective
- 5 An Analogy from Medicine
- 6 A Path Towards Computationally Unbiased Research
- 7 Supporting the Complete Workflow
- 8 E-Infrastructures and Research Data Management
- 9 Science Managers, Embedded Librarians, Etc.
- 10 Need for Partnership
- References
- Emission-Based Routing Using the GraphHopper API and OpenStreetMap
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Motivation
- 1.2 Current Status
- 1.3 Problem
- 2 Methodical Approach
- 2.1 Routing Algorithms
- 2.2 Street Graphs
- 2.3 Extension of GraphHopper
- 3 Implementation Methods
- 4 Outcomes
- 4.1 Route 1-Route with Motorway
- 4.2 Route 2-Town with Surrounding Road
- 4.3 Route 3-City Centre
- 4.4 Summary Results
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusions
- References
- Digitally Enabled Sharing and the Circular Economy: Towards a Framework for Sustainability Assessment
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Relevance of Sharing for the Circular Economy
- 3 The Digital Sharing Economy (DSE)
- 4 Conceptualizations of ICT Effects on Sustainability
- 5 Qualitative Sustainability Assessment of Digital Sharing
- 6 Discussion
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Exploring the System Dynamics of Industrial Symbiosis (IS) with Machine Learning (ML) Techniques-A Framework for a Hybrid-Approach
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Systematic Literature Review
- 3 Artificial Intelligence Techniques
- 3.1 Positioning of Machine Learning as an Artificial Intelligence Technique
- 3.2 Machine Learning
- 4 Fields of Action of Industrial Symbiosis
- 4.1 Industrial Symbiosis Case Studies
- 4.2 Current State of ICT Tools
- 5 General Framework for a Hybrid-Approach
- 6 Discussion and Concluding Impulses for Future Research
- References
- Graph-Grammars to Specify Dynamic Changes in Topology for Spatial-Temporal Processes
- 1 Motivation: Models with Spatial Reference
- 2 State of the Art: Modeling Spatio-Temporal Processes
- 2.1 Spatial Reference in Simulation
- 2.2 Dynamics in GIS
- 3 Coupling Simulation and GIS at Software System Level
- 4 Basic Primitives for Dynamic Changes of Spatio-Temporal Objects
- 4.1 Dynamics of Geo-Objects
- 5 Graph Grammars as an Approach to Formalize Topological Changes
- 5.1 Definitions
- 5.2 Example for Graph Substitution
- 5.3 Examples for an Application on Geo-Objects
- 6 Approaches for the Optimization of the Algorithmic Handling of a Dynamic Specification by Graph Grammars
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Online Anomaly Detection in Microbiological Data Sets
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Background and Methods
- 2.1 Data Collection-Flow Cytometry
- 2.2 Data Analysis-Detecting Anomalies in Multivariate Distributions and Time Series
- 3 Concept and Implementation
- 4 Evaluation
- 5 Discussion
- 6 Conclusion
- References
- Applying Life Cycle Assessment to Simulation-Based Decision Support: A Swedish Waste Collection Case Study
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodology
- 3 Case Study
- 3.1 Case Company Overview
- 3.2 Problem Definition
- 3.3 System Activities Mapping
- 3.4 Scope Definition
- 3.5 Data Collection and Analysis
- 3.6 Systems Modeling and Validation
- 3.7 Evaluation
- 4 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
