Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

An Approach to Describe Design Pattern Structures for Sustainable Software Products.- A Taxonomy about Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability.- Microservice-based Architecture for the Integration of Data Backends and Dashboard Applications in the Energy and EnvironmentDomains.- A Literature Review to analyze the State of the Art of Virtual Power Plants in Context of Information Security.- Rebound Effects in Methods of Artificial Intelligence.- Assisting PV experts in on-site condition evaluation of PV modules using weather-independent dark IV string curves, artificial intelligence and a web-database.- Resource and Energy Efficiency Analysis in Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Plant - Case Study.- Air pollution due to central heating of a city-centered university campus.- EpiDesktop - A Spatial Decision Support System for Simulating Epidemic Spread and Human Mobility Trends Under Different Scenarios.- Human Behavior Model in Public Pedestrian-only Space Estimated using High-precision Trajectory Data.- Assessment of the large city population vulnerability to natural and man-made hazards using mobile operators data (case study of Moscow, Russia).- CITADINE: A platform to provide the experiences of survivors of natural disasters as open educational resources for risk communication.- Evaluation of a sustainable last-mile crowdshipping concept based on electric cargo bikes.- Mobility as a Service and the Avoid-Shift-Improve approach.- Towards a conceptual framework to assess the GHG impacts of ICT applications in passenger transport.- Shared Goods and Impacts on Consumption; The Case of the Digital Sharing Economy.- A review on Key Performance Indicators for Climate Change

Volker Wohlgemuth is a full professor for Industrial Environmental Informatics at the School of Engineering-Technology and Life, University of Applied Sciences, HTW Berlin (Germany). His research fields are material flow management, modelling and simulation, industrial symbiosis and environmental management information systems.  

Stefan Naumann is a full professor for Computer Science, Mathematics and Environmental/ Sustainability Informatics at the Trier University of Applied Sciences (Germany). His research interests are the environmental impacts of IT, especially of software, and environmental informatics in general.  

Grit Behrens is a full professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences, FH Bielefeld (Germany). Her research fields are applications in machine learning in the fields of photovoltaic solutions and generally in environmental informatics.  

Hans-Knud Arndt is a full professor of Business Informatics-Management Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany). His environmental informatics research focuses on meta data, sustainable reporting, sustainable design of information systems and sustainable usability/user experience.