Environmental Software Systems. Infrastructures, Services and Applications: 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, March 25-27, 2015. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
A Provenance Maturity Model....Pages 1-18
Challenges in Modelling of Environmental Semantics....Pages 19-25
Topics in Environmental Software Systems....Pages 26-43
The Framework for Environmental Software Systems of the European Environment Agency....Pages 44-55
Crowdsourcing in Crisis and Disaster Management – Challenges and Considerations....Pages 56-70
Evolution of Environmental Information Models....Pages 71-80
An Interactive Website for the River Eurajoki....Pages 81-90
An Information Model for a Water Information Platform....Pages 91-101
Towards Linked Data Conventions for Delivery of Environmental Data Using netCDF....Pages 102-112
Information Technology and Solid Residue Management: A Case of Study Using Freeware and Social Networks....Pages 113-120
Joining the Dots: Using Linked Data to Navigate between Features and Observational Data....Pages 121-130
An SMS and Email Weather Warning System for Sheep Producers....Pages 131-140
The Emergency Response Intelligence Capability Tool....Pages 141-150
Civic Issues Reporting and Involvement of Volunteers as a Phenomenon in the Czech Republic....Pages 151-159
Mobile Field Data Collection for Post Bushfire Analysis and African Farmers....Pages 160-168
Provenance in Systems for Situation Awareness in Environmental Monitoring....Pages 169-177
Decision Making and Strategic Planning for Disaster Preparedness with a Multi-Criteria-Analysis Decision Support System....Pages 178-186
A Cotton Irrigator’s Decision Support System and Benchmarking Tool Using National, Regional and Local Data....Pages 187-195
Water Pollution Reduction: Reverse Combinatorial Auctions Modelling Supporting Decision-Making Processes....Pages 196-206
Scenario Planning Case Studies Using Open Government Data....Pages 207-216
Training Support for Crisis Managers with Elements of Serious Gaming....Pages 217-225
A Software System for the Discovery of Situations Involving Drivers in Storms....Pages 226-234
An Application Framework for the Rapid Deployment of Ocean Models in Support of Emergency Services: Application to the MH370 Search....Pages 235-241
Exposure Modeling of Traffic and Wood Combustion Emissions in Northern Sweden....Pages 242-251
Medium-Term Analysis of Agroecosystem Sustainability under Different Land Use Practices by Means of Dynamic Crop Simulation....Pages 252-261
SPARK – A Bushfire Spread Prediction Tool....Pages 262-271
Construction of a Bio-economic Model to Estimate the Feasibility and Cost of Achieving Water Quality Targets in the Burnett-Mary Region, Queensland....Pages 272-281
Integrating Hydrodynamic and Hydraulic Modeling for Evaluating Future Flood Mitigation in Urban Environments....Pages 282-292
Modelling of Air Flow Analysis for Residential Homes Using Particle Image Velocimetry....Pages 293-302
Open Data Sources for the Development of Mobile Applications and Forecast of Microbial Contamination in Bathing Waters....Pages 303-310
Ecohydrology Models without Borders?....Pages 311-320
A Distributed Computing Workflow for Modelling Environmental Flows in Complex Terrain....Pages 321-332
An Integrated Workflow Architecture for Natural Hazards, Analytics and Decision Support....Pages 333-342
Quality Control of Environmental Measurement Data with Quality Flagging....Pages 343-350
Towards a Search Driven System Architecture for Environmental Information Portals....Pages 351-360
National Environmental Data Facilities and Services of the Czech Republic and Their Use in Environmental Economics....Pages 361-370
A Best of Both Worlds Approach to Complex, Efficient, Time Series Data Delivery....Pages 371-379
Implementing a Glossary and Vocabulary Service in an Interdisciplinary Environmental Assessment for Decision Makers....Pages 380-387
Requirement Engineering for Emergency Simulations....Pages 388-396
Requirements Engineering for Semantic Sensors in Crisis and Disaster Management....Pages 397-406
Context Ontology Modelling for Improving Situation Awareness and Crowd Evacuation from Confined Spaces....Pages 407-416
Reconstructing the Carbon Dioxide Absorption Patterns of World Oceans Using a Feed-Forward Neural Network: Software Implementation and Employment Techniques....Pages 417-425
Three Levels of R Language Involvement in Global Monitoring Plan Warehouse Architecture....Pages 426-433
Process Design Patterns in Emergency Management....Pages 434-444
Advanced Data Analytics and Visualisation for the Management of Human Perception of Safety and Security in Urban Spaces....Pages 445-454
Combined Aggregation and Column Generation for Land-Use Trade-Off Optimisation....Pages 455-466
A Software Package for Automated Partitioning of Catchments....Pages 467-474
Understanding Connectivity between Groundwater Chemistry Data and Geological Stratigraphy via 3D Sub-surface Visualization and Analysis....Pages 475-483
Distributed Minimum Temperature Prediction Using Mixtures of Gaussian Processes....Pages 484-491
A Framework for Optimal Assessment of Planning Investments in Urban Water Systems....Pages 492-502
Measuring and Benchmarking Corporate Environmental Performance....Pages 503-511
GeneralBlock: A C++ Program for Identifying and Analyzing Rock Blocks Formed by Finite-Sized Fractures....Pages 512-519
On the Volume of Geo-referenced Tweets and Their Relationship to Events Relevant for Migration Tracking....Pages 520-530
Benchmarking Systems and Methods for Environmental Performance Models....Pages 531-541
Scalability of Global 0.25° Ocean Simulations Using MOM....Pages 542-551
A Performance Assessment of the Unified Model....Pages 552-560
The Czech e-Infrastructure and the European Grid Infrastructure Perspective....Pages 561-568
The NCI High Performance Computing and High Performance Data Platform to Support the Analysis of Petascale Environmental Data Collections....Pages 569-577
Big Data Architecture for Environmental Analytics....Pages 578-588
A Performance Study of Applications in the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator....Pages 589-598
A New Approach for Coupled Regional Climate Modeling Using More than 10,000 Cores....Pages 599-607
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