TY - BOOK ID - 7837257 TI - Information technologies in environmental engineering : proceedings of the 4th International ICSC Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 28-29, 2009 AU - Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. AU - ITEE International ICSC Symposium AU - International ICSC Symposium PY - 2009 SN - 3642100015 3540883509 9786613693648 1280783257 3540883517 PB - Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental engineering --Information technology --Congresses. KW - Environmental monitoring --Data processing --Congresses. KW - Environmental protection --Data processing --Congresses. KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental engineering KW - Environmental monitoring KW - Environmental Engineering KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Civil & Environmental Engineering KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Data processing KW - Information technology KW - Biomonitoring (Ecology) KW - Ecological monitoring KW - Environmental quality KW - Monitoring, Environmental KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental effects KW - Environmental stresses KW - Measurement KW - Monitoring KW - Environment. KW - Environmental management. KW - Pollution. KW - Pollution, general. KW - Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. KW - Environmental Management. KW - Chemical pollution KW - Chemicals KW - Contamination of environment KW - Environmental pollution KW - Pollution KW - Contamination (Technology) KW - Asbestos abatement KW - Bioremediation KW - Factory and trade waste KW - Hazardous waste site remediation KW - Hazardous wastes KW - In situ remediation KW - Lead abatement KW - Pollutants KW - Refuse and refuse disposal KW - Environmental stewardship KW - Stewardship, Environmental KW - Environmental sciences KW - Management KW - Environmental aspects KW - Applied ecology KW - Engineering KW - Environmental health KW - Sustainable engineering KW - Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. KW - Environmental monitoring. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7837257 AB - Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while raising new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems form a demanding application domain for sensor networks and earth observation systems; modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems and control systems. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in May 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making. ER -