Scope
Information technologies have evolved into an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in everyday practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena require interdisciplinary approaches, where computer science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting.
Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstrations, while bringing up new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems set up a demanding application domain for sensor networks and earth observation systems; modelling, simulation and scientific workflows; data management and reporting; decision support and intelligent systems; distributed computing environments; geographical information systems; heterogeneous systems integration; software engineering; accounting systems; and control systems.
The 4th International Symposium on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering aims to present recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.
ITEE-2009 will be held in May 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece, hosted by the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering Labgroup (ISSEL) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Following a peer-review, accepted papers will be published in an edited volume by Springer-Verlag.
Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering II
Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering II is the title of the edited volume of all accepted conference papers. It will be published by Springer (see publisher's website). All conference participants will receive a complementary copy, sponsored by DRAXIS SA.
