Call for Papers: "IT and the Climate Change"

Die Daten und Fakten im Einzelnen aus dem englischen Orginalflyer:

• April 28, 2008  - Call for papers

• June 16, 2008 - Submission of extended abstracts (per Email or via website www.bui-berlin.de)
• July 10, 2008 - Notification of acceptance of papers and presentation
• August 04, 2008 - Final submission of full papers (Camera Ready)

Climate change (popularly known as global warming), will demand responses from all areas of technology.Information technology will be an important area. Information technology is used to help define the problem with mathematical modeling, remote sensing and knowledge integration. IT is part of the response management system by providing meaningful feedback loops and related regulatory and control systems. In some cases IT can be a direct part of the solution by providing remote communications as a substitute for people movement and thus reducing the carbon foot print.

The International Conference on IT and Climate change will be held at the FHTW Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, in Berlin on September 25/26 2008. The conference will bring together academics, researchers, developers, and practitioners who are interested in theoretical and/or applied aspects of Environmental Informatics and Climate Change. It will serve as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas, practical applications and best practices. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of IT use to combat the climate change. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Environmental Informatics and the Climate Change
• IT-use and the Challenges of Complexity
• IT’s role in the History of Climate Change
• IT-use and the Global Warming
• IT-use and the Ocean Variability
• IT-use and Climate Control
• Non-climate Mechanisms driving Climate Change
• Human induced effect on Climate Change
• Simulation Modeling Studies
• Carbon Foot Printing of Companies, Pocesses and Products
• Carbon Foot Printing and IT-Assistance
• Environmental Management Information Systems
• (EMIS), Climate Change and Industrial Environmental Protection
• Potentials of IT for Limitation and Migation of the human induced Climate Change
• Environmental Geomatics - GIS, RS and other Spatial Information Technologies
• Monitoring the current Status of Climate
• Monitoring and Analytical Techniques of Environmental Quality
• Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems for Environmental Applications
• Interplay of Climate Change of Factors - Tools & Technologies
• Computer Graphics and Visualization for Environmental Decision Support
• Environmental Data, Information and Knowledge Management
• Communication, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Environmental Science
• Knowledge Discovery (AI, Data Mining, Text & Web Mining) in Environmental Science
• Knowledge Organization (Meta Data, Taxonomies & Ontologies) in Environmental Science
• Knowledge Management in the Public Sector, for Environmental Policy
• Knowledge Management Strategies and Implementations
• Technical and Social Networks and the Psychological Dimension

Organisation:

• Wladimir Bodrow, FHTW Berlin
• Volker Wohlgemuth, FHTW Berlin
• Email: w.bordrow@fhtw-berlin.de
• volker.wohlgemuth@fhtw-berlin.de

• K.-H. Bernhardt (General Chair), Germany
• W. Bodrow (General Co-Chair), Germany
• A. Ghose, Australia
• P. Fleissner, Austria
• S. Franck, Germany
• K. Fuchs-Kittowski (General Co-Chair), Germany
• L. Hilty, Switzerland
• W. Hofkirchner, Austria
• B. Page, Germany
• W. Pillmann, Austria
• R. Sadananda (General Chair), Australia
• E. Schmeer, Germany
• E.-L. Viskari, Finland
• V. Wohlgemuth (General Co-Chair), Germany

FHTW Berlin
Studiengang Betriebliche Umweltinformatik
Blankenburger Pflasterweg 102
D-13129 Berlin
Germany