Environmental Software Systems. Frameworks of eEnvironment

1. Environmental Information Systems and Services – Infrastructures and Platforms

   1. Using Negotiation for Dynamic Composition of Services in Multi-organizational Environmental Management

      • Costin Bădică, Sorin Ilie, Michiel Kamermans, Gregor Pavlin, Mihnea Scafeş

      Pages 177-188

   2. data.reegle.info – A New Key Portal for Open Energy Data

      • Florian Bauer, Denise Recheis, Martin Kaltenböck

      Pages 189-194

   3. GENESIS, a Flexible Solution for Building Networks of Collaborative Environmental Services

      • Stephane Bonnot, Simone Gianfranceschi, Steven Smolders, Marc Gilles, Thomas Holzer-Popp, Marc Erlich

      Pages 195-207

   4. An Environmental Decision Support System for Water Issues in the Oil Industry

      • Ralf Denzer, Fernando Torres-Bejarano, Thorsten Hell, Steven Frysinger, Sascha Schlobinski, Reiner Güttler et al.

      Pages 208-216

   5. Open Environmental Platforms: Top-Level Components and Relevant Standards

      • Dumitru Roman, Sven Schade, Arne J. Berre

      Pages 217-225

   6. Best Practice Network GS SOIL Promoting Access to European, Interoperable and INSPIRE Compliant Soil Information

      • Katharina Feiden, Fred Kruse, Tomáš Řezník, Petr Kubíček, Herbert Schentz, Einar Eberhardt et al.

      Pages 226-234

   7. A Concept of a Virtual Research Environment for Long-Term Ecological Projects with Free and Open Source Software

      • Mirko Filetti, Albrecht Gnauck

      Pages 235-244

   8. Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Measuring Corporate Performance

      • Zuzana Chvatalová, Alena Kocmanová, Marie Dočekalová

      Pages 245-254

   9. Software Architectures for Distributed Environmental Modeling

      • Ari Jolma, Kostas Karatzas

      Pages 255-260

   10. Supporting the Use of Environmental Information Systems and Services – Experiences with a Course for Postgraduate Professional Education

       • Roman Lenz, Werner Rolf, Christian Tilk

       Pages 261-271

   11. Envimat.cz – Online Database of Environmental Profiles of Building Materials and Structures

       • Julie Hodková, Antonín Lupíšek, Štěpán Mančík, Luděk Vochoc, Tomáš Žd’ára

       Pages 272-279

   12. The ENVISION Environmental Portal and Services Infrastructure

       • Patrick Maué, Dumitru Roman

       Pages 280-294

   13. Crop Simulation Model Registrator and Polyvariant Analysis

       • Sergey Medvedev, Alexander Topaj

       Pages 295-301

   14. Process Methodology for Emergency Management

       • Tomáš Ludík, Jaroslav Ráček

       Pages 302-309

   15. Architecture of a Pan-European Framework for Integrated Soil Water Erosion Assessment

       • Daniele de Rigo, Claudio Bosco

       Pages 310-318

   16. Towards a Universal Search in Environmental Information Systems

       • Clemens Düpmeier, Werner Geiger, Thorsten Schlachter, Rainer Weidemann, Renate Ebel, Ulrich Bügel

       Pages 319-326

   17. Methodology for the Efficiency Evaluation of the Municipal Environmental Protection Expenditure

       • Jana Soukopová, Michal Struk

       Pages 327-340

   18. CryoLand - GMES Service Snow and Land Ice - Interoperability, Service Integration and User Access

       • Gerhard Triebnig, Andrei Diamandi, Richard Hall, Eirik Malnes, Lars Marklund, Sari Metsämäki et al.

       Pages 341-348

   19. RBIS - An Environmental Information System for Integrated Landscape Management

       • Franziska Zander, Sven Kralisch, Carsten Busch, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel

       Pages 349-356

2. Semantics and Environment

   1. User-Friendly Access to Structured Environmental Data

      • Andreas Abecker, Veli Bicer, Wassilios Kazakos, Gabor Nagypal, Radoslav Nedkov, Aleksei Valikov

      Pages 357-363

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2011, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2011. The 68 revised full papers presented together with four invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: eEnvironment and cross-border services in digital agenda for Europe; environmental information systems and services - infrastructures and platforms; semantics and environment; information tools for global environmental assessment; climate services and environmental tools for urban planning and climate change - applications and services.

• climat model
• data mining
• decision support systems
• geographical information systems
• semantic Web

• Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  Jiří Hřebíček

• Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT), Seibersdorf, Austria

  Gerald Schimak

• Environmental Informatics Group (EIG), Saarbrücken, Germany

  Ralf Denzer

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