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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Allam, Nabil"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A Central Collaborative CEMIS
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Allam, Nabil; Mahmoud, Tariq; Junker, Horst; Marx Goméz, Jorge
    There have been research projects on Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS) during the last 20 years. Nowadays we have different CEMIS in the market that provide different approaches and techniques that are solving environmental (-related) issues in companies. However, such environmental information systems are rarely used. In addition, different projects in Asia and USA has been developing and implementing industrial ecology/symbiosis strategy. This strategy has generated new revenues and reduced environmental emissions and disposal costs, while simultaneously improving the quality of services and products. In her investigation, Elke Perl found out that CEMIS are rarely used in the German-speaking region (Perl, 2006). Following her research work, three rationales are mainly responsible for this situation. Collaborative Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (Collaborative CEMIS) provide approaches to conquer the issue of rare use of CEMIS in the German-speaking region and support the efforts of collaborative work to gain the benefits of industrial symbiosis. In Collaborative CEMIS solution, Web Services and semantic techniques are involved. Collaborative CEMIS, been based on Web Services, provides powerful integration of environmental applications and data. Instead of being connected to several disparate environmental applications, Web Services-enabled collaborative CEMIS solution provides a connection point between these heterogeneous applications. This work will present a collaborative CEMIS solution that is mainly relying on the idea of supplying Web Services from one CEMIS that can be used from different company information systems to handle corporate environmental issues. The requirements will be discussed and model will be presented for such a system. The main goals of this solution is reducing the efforts to achieve a legal compliance environmental management and supporting the new perspective on industrial development resembling natural ecosystem to use energy, water, material, and human resources optimally while at the same time minimizing wastes and efforts of environmental management. It proposes an environmental collaboration between companies via summing up all the required information from different involved players in form of Web Services. In this solution, the companies will act as clients and providers at the same time. They are both requesting and supplying environmental data. They maintain their identities by not revealing the information regarding their resource details.
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    A Data Classification to support Collaboration in an Enterprise Network
    (Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2014) Allam, Nabil; Mahmoud, Tariq
    To face contemporary environmental problems, we have to find every possible new way to use the available potentials of saving environmental and natural resources. The collaboration in environmental management networks is one of these ways that opens new alternatives for environmental systems. One of the main constraints to facilitate collaboration in a network is the ability to exchange information and data. However, most enterprises are not willing to give any data to other organizations in the sense that they give away corporate secrets. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to facilitate the work of enterprise networks by developing a data classification method to solve the problem of data exchange between companies. This developed approach should help enterprises to trust collaborating with other companies, or more specifically methods that initiate interaction and support the development of trustful relationships.
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    CEMIS Software Available on the German Market
    (Innovations in Sharing Environmental Observations and Information, 2011) Allam, Nabil; Junker, Horst
    Since 20 years there have been research projects on corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS). Based on these projects nowadays we have different EMIS on the market that provide different approaches solving environmental issues in companies. Even so such information systems are rarely used. Up to now, there is no empirical study to investigate the environmental standard software market about an impression of offered software systems and their functionalities, which can be used by companies. Within the project “IT for Green” we conduct such a study and start investigations to describe the actual standard software systems that are available on the German market. The project will present a simplified classification of corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS) products on the German software market which makes the information accessibility for interested companies. This should help to remove barriers that impede the use of these systems.
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    Collaborative corporate environmental management information systems
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Allam, Nabil; Junker, Horst; Gómez, Jorge Marx
    Since 20 years there have been research projects on corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS). Based on these projects nowadays we have different EMIS on the market that provide different approaches solving environmental issues in companies. Even so such information systems are rarely used [5][7][4] in the German-speaking regions. In her investigation Elke Perl [5] found out that three rationales are responsible for this situation. Collaborative corporate environmental management information systems (cCEMIS) provide approaches to conquer this problem.
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    Solving Environmental Management and Public Relation Issues by Combining Industrial Environmental Information Systems with Automated Environmental Reporting
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Süpke, Daniel; Allam, Nabil; Gomez, Jorge
    This paper covers the environmental problems from a) the management of environmental issues for companies to b) the semi-automatic gathering of environmental data in form of reports to the public. To achieve this goal a software system is proposed, which uses one data base for both topics. In the first part the challenges of managing legal compliance in a modular system is discussed while the second part focuses on environmental reporting. Finally a proposal is made how to combine these two tasks efficiently in one system using a service oriented architecture and event-listeners. Legal compliance is one of the major management challenges for companies. Due to changing laws towards a more sustainable economy and the fact that environmental law is more and more determined by supranational organisations (especially in the European Union), companies have to show much more flexibility towards fulfilling these requirements. A modular software system for e.g. regular measurements, application for licenses, accidents management etc. can provide flexible reaction to upcoming problems. A modular software approach for aiding companies in handling their environmental issues is one step towards more efficiency and reliability. But as this system already requires the handling of environmental data, it can also be used to inform authorities and the general public about the environmental performance of a company, thus additionally helping to create a positive image of it and allow the company to perform better not only in terms of economy, but ecology as well.