IMPORTANT: session is canceled due to insufficient participation

March 2nd, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

The session has to be cancelled due to insufficient participation. We are  sorry for any inconvenience caused.  We will organize it early in advance with the next opportunity.

Session chair

Kostas Karatzas

Session information and call for papers

Environmental Informatics may be considered as the combination of software and environmental engineering methods and tools for the creation of a new “knowledge-paradigm” towards serving environmental engineering needs. EI is therefore an integrator of science, methods, and techniques and not just the result of using information and software technology methods and tools for solving environmental problems. To this end, EI is a “bridging discipline” dealing with the development and application of Information Society Technologies (IST) systems in the environmental domain. Being a relatively new discipline, EI aims to furnish systems engineers attempting to manage and direct information flow regarding the environmental domain to decision makers and the public with time-proven methodologies that have evolved from the application of the Software Engineering discipline. To this end, Artificial Intelligence may very well serve the needs of environmental engineering and management problems, by providing with methods for knowledge extraction and key parameter identification for better understanding and analysis of environmental problems. Moreover, AI may provide with various methods and algorithms for simulating, modelling, and forecasting the behaviour of environmental systems. This is of particular importance in the case of quality of life oriented problems, like in the case of air pollutant concentrations in the atmospheric environment. The proposed session aims at addressing these issues and invites papers in the following areas (indicative list):

• Environmental knowledge engineering and extraction
• System analysis and modelling
• Environmental quality monitoring and forecasting
• Environmental information management
• Web technologies and AI methods for the environmental sector
• Quality of life services
• Urban pollution problems
• Combined EI and AI courses

Organizer

Kostas D. Karatzas, Informatics Systems and Applications Group, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Important Dates

• Full paper submission:  22 Feb. 2010
• Author notification: 5 March 2010
• Camera ready paper: 20 March 2010.

Author guidelines

Papers must be submitted following the author guidelines available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 .

Authors should send their papers to the session organizer via e-mail. Camera ready papers should be submitted in PDF format.

Paper publication

Accepted papers will be published in a companion volume (ISBN referenced). All conference participants will receive, via their registration, a CD with the conference proceedings including the companion volume. The latter will be available for purchase as a hard copy.