Overview
- Editors:
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Ralf Denzer
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Saarland State University for Technology and Business, Gaiberg, Germany
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Gerald Schimak
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Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Austria
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David Russell
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Penn State Great Valley, USA
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Table of contents (25 papers)
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Decision Support
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- D. C. L. Lam, D. A. Swayne, G. S. Bowen, D. F. Kay
Pages 175-184
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- R. Brüggemann, K. Voigt, E. Halfon
Pages 185-195
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Distributed Environmental Information
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Front Matter
Pages 197-197
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- Peter Kutschera, Gerald Schimak, Heinrich Humer
Pages 199-208
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- Ralf Kramer, Tom Quellenberg
Pages 209-218
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- Reiner Güttler, Ralf Denzer
Pages 219-225
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Artificial Intelligence Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 227-227
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- W. J. Walley, S. Džeroski
Pages 229-240
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- N. Robinson, S. Burek, G. Burns
Pages 241-250
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- Haojin Wang, Jan Wolter, Jungfu Tsao
Pages 251-259
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Environmental Data Visualization
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Front Matter
Pages 261-261
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- H. F. Mayer, W. Haas, J. Züger, W. Loibl
Pages 272-277
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Back Matter
Pages 287-290
About this book
Due to increasing practical needs, software support of environmental protection and research tasks is growing in importance and scope. Software systems help to monitor basic data, to maintain and process relevant environmental information, to analyze gathered information and to carry out decision processes, which often have to take into account complex alternatives with various side effects. Therefore software is an important tool for the environmental domain. When the first software systems in the environmental domain grew - 10 to 15 years ag- users and developers were not really aware of the complexity these systems are carrying with themselves: complexity with respect to entities, tasks and procedures. I guess nobody may have figured out at that time that the environmental domain would ask for solutions which information science would not be able to provide and - in several cases - can not provide until today. Therefore environmental informatics - as we call it today - is also an important domain of computer science itself, because practical solutions need to deal with very complex, interdisciplinary, distributed, integrated, sometimes badly defined, user-centered decision processes. I doubt somebody will state that we are already capable of building such integrated systems for end users for reasonable cost on a broad range. The development of the first scientific community for environmental informatics started around 1985 in Germany, becoming a technical committee and working group of the German Computer Society in 1987.
Editors and Affiliations
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Saarland State University for Technology and Business, Gaiberg, Germany
Ralf Denzer
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Austrian Research Centre Seibersdorf, Austria
Gerald Schimak
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Penn State Great Valley, USA
David Russell