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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 protection --- Environmental monitoring --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Data processing --- Information technology --- Environmental control --- Environmental effects --- Environmental stresses --- Engineering --- Environmental health --- Sustainable engineering --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Environmental management. --- Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. --- Environmental Management. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Environmental monitoring.

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The book provides a collection of individual chapters from the participants in the OEPI project, which represent a mix of academic and practical chapters and contributions. The first part of the book is dedicated to a theoretical introduction to Organisations' Environmental Performance Indicators and to a state-of-the-art overview in literature and practice. The second part of the book contains several chapters describing information systems and their components supporting the management of Environmental Performance Indicators, especially in inter-organizational contexts. The third part is dedicated to three case studies from practice, and the book concludes with part four, in which practical guidelines for the innovative management of Environmental Performance indicators in organizations and in inter-organizational contexts are presented.

Geology. Earth sciences --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Production management --- Geography --- milieukunde --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- geografie

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In diesem Tagungsband zu den 5. BUIS-Tagen (15. Tagung der Fachgruppe Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) werden aktuelle Themen des IT-gestützte Ressourcen- und Energiemanagements präsentiert mit dem Fokus auf: Green IT und Energieeffizienz, Stoffstrommanagement, Green Production, Green Logistics, Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und Kommunikation, Green Software sowie Materialeffizienz und Recycling. In der "Students Corner" präsentieren Studierende eigene Lösungsansätze aus Projekten und Abschlußarbeiten.

Computers. --- Management information systems. --- Computer science. --- Environmental management. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Business ethics. --- Energy efficiency. --- Information Systems and Communication Service. --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Environmental Management. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Business Ethics. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Data processing service centers --- Information technology --- Green technology. --- Energy conservation. --- Environmental aspects.

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Today, ICT has enlarged its horizons and it is practiced under multidisciplinary contexts that introduce new challenges to theoretical and technical approaches. The most critical benefit of introducing new ICT technologies in our real world living are the new ways of working that the online world makes possible. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of real world problems as well as natural phenomena in ecology, medicine and biology demanding ICT assistance create challenging application domains for artificial intelligence, decision support and intelligent systems, wireless sensor networks, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, multimedia information systems, data management systems, internet and web applications and services, computer networks, security and cryptography, distributed systems, GRID and cloud computing. This book offers a collection of papers presented at the First International Conference on ICT Innovations held in September 2009, in Ohrid, Macedonia. The conference gathered academics, professionals and practitioners willing to report their recent success stories with valuable experiences in developing solutions and systems in the industrial and business arena especially innovative commercial implementations, novel applications of technology, and experience in applying recent ICT research advances to practical situations. A special attention on this conference was given to the application of new technologies in eco-informatics and bio-informatics. Prof. Danco Davcev is a Professor at the Computer Science Department at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. Prof. Jorge Marx Gomez is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Carl von University, in Oldenburg, Germany.

Knowledge management. --- Strategic planning. --- Information technology --- Knowledge management --- Computer networks --- World Wide Web --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Electrical Engineering --- Telecommunications --- Information Technology --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Information technology. --- Computer networks. --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- IT (Information technology) --- Engineering. --- Computers. --- Electrical engineering. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Information Systems and Communication Service. --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Distributed processing --- Telecommunication. --- Information systems. --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Electric engineering --- Engineering

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Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) are specialized IT-based systems that support some or several phases of the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational decision making process by deploying some or several intelligent mechanisms. This book pursues the following academic aims: (i) generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied contributions in Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) for engineering and management IT-based service systems (ITSS); (ii)  diffuse scarce knowledge about foundations, architectures and effective and efficient methods and strategies for successfully planning, designing, building, operating, and evaluating i-DMSS for ITSS, and (iii) create an awareness of, and a bridge between ITSS and i-DMSS academicians and practitioners in the current complex and dynamic engineering and management ITSS organizational. The book presents a collection of 11 chapters referring to relevant topics for both IT service systems and i-DMSS including: problems of selection of IT service providers, optimization of supply chain systems, IT governance decisions, clinical decision support, dynamic user-interface adaptation, re-engineering of processes, and generic decision problems. Advanced IT technologies used in some chapters are:  fuzzy multi-criteria mechanisms, semantic processing, data mining processing, and rough sets. Other chapters report traditional DSS mechanisms but used or suggested to be used in innovative mode for IT service engineering and management tasks.

Artificial intelligence. --- Engineering. --- Construction --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Computational intelligence. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Information resources management. --- Information technology --- Management.