Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering New Trends and
This monograph contains recent studies in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges in information management for supporting sustainability incompanies and other organization. The scope of this book includes sets ofsolutions which show different
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Series Editors Ulrich Förstner Robert J. Murphy W. H. Rulkens
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7487
Paulina Golinska Marek Fertsch Jorge Marx-Gómez Editors •
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Paulina Golinska Poznan University of Technology Strzelecka 11 60-965 Poznan Poland e-mail: [email protected]
Jorge Marx-Gómez Department für Informatik Universität Oldenburg Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118 26129 Oldenburg Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Marek Fertsch Poznan University of Technology Strzelecka 11 60-965 Poznan Poland e-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 1863-5520 ISBN 978-3-642-19535-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19536-5
e-ISBN 978-3-642-19536-5
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Preface Nowadays every area of human activity leaves a footprint on the natural environment. New legal regulations, shifts in consumption patterns and economic crises force companies and other institutions to change their traditional practices to more environmentally friendly ones. In the “new economy”, computing plays an important role in the daily practices of environmental engineers, industrial engineers, economists and social scientists. The complexity of sustainable development requires interdisciplinary approaches where computer science provides the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting. The International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE) has, for the past 8 years, provided a forum for discussions on state-of-the-art researches and the latest technological trends. Also ITEE 2011 aims to bring researchers from various countries together to present and discuss how Information Technology can support natural resources management, environmental engineering, simulations and integrated assessment studies. This monograph contains recent studies in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges in informa
