Advances and new trends in environmental informatics : managing disruption, big data and open science / Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Volker Weinberg, Jens Weismüller, Volker Wohlgemuth, editors

Intro; Preface; Enviroinfo 2018 Organizers; General Chairs; Program Chair; Publication Chair; Local Chair; Communication Chair; Programme Committee; Contents; About the Editors; Environmental Information Systems, Platforms and Tools; A Web-Based Environmental Information and Visualization System for Interdisciplinary Project Contexts: An Insight; 1 Introduction; 2 Current Status on Web-Based Geographic Information Systems; 3 Non-functional Requirements of ELVIS; 4 Insights into Environmental Visualization and Information System (ELVIS)

4.1 Overview of Architecture and Software Components in ELVIS4.2 Software Project Management and Infrastructure; 4.3 The Frontend for Project-Specific Use; 4.4 Backend Layer for Project-Specific Use; 4.5 Data Management Layer for Project-Specific Use; 5 Conclusion; References; Providing Open Environmental Data-The Scalable and Web-Friendly Way; 1 Introduction; 2 Data Model; 3 System Architecture; 3.1 Time Series Database; 3.2 Spatial and Relational Database; 4 Importing; 4.1 ID Mapping and Metadata Integrity; 4.2 Data Retrieval; 4.3 Typical Load Patterns; 5 Data Consumption; 5.1 Web API

5.2 Map Interface6 Related Work; 7 Conclusion, Limitations, and Future Work; References; Hydrometeorological Time Series Management-A Case Study from the Western Balkans; 1 Introduction; 2 Time Series Management in the Hydrometeorological Sector; 3 Time Series Management Tool MCH; 4 Project Work with MCH in the Western Balkans; 4.1 Drought Monitoring; 4.2 Hydrometeorological Yearbooks, Environmental Reporting; 4.3 Flow and Flood Forecasting; 5 Summary and Outlook; References; Information and Communication Technology

ICT-Enabled Sharing Economy and Environmental Sustainability-A Resource-Oriented Approach1 Introduction; 2 Conceptualizing the Sharing Economy; 3 Sustainability of Shared Resources; 4 Discussion and Conclusion; References; An Approach to Assess Indirect Environmental Effects of Digitalization Based on a Time-Use Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Assessment of Indirect Environmental Effects of ICT; 3 Interaction Among ICT Use Cases; 4 The Time-Use Approach for the Assessment of Indirect Environmental Effects of ICT; 4.1 The Time-Use Approach

4.2 Assessment of Indirect Environmental Effects of ICT with a Time-Use Approach5 Towards a Framework of Indirect Environmental Effects of ICT and Individual Time Use; 6 Conclusion; References; Environmental Modelling and Simulation; Modelling e-Waste Management Towards the Circular Economy Concept: A South America Case Study; 1 Introduction; 2 Methodology; 3 Results; References; Efficient High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Elements with Matrix-Free Implementations; 1 Introduction; 2 Application Context; 3 Discretization of Model Operators; 3.1 Laplacian; 3.2 Advection Operator