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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Bassoukos, Anastasios"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    ICT Technologies and Somputational Intelligence Methods for the Creation of an Early Warning Air Pollution Information System
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Karatzas, Kostas D.; Bassoukos, Anastasios; Voukantsis, Dimitris; Tzima, Fani; Nikolaou, Kostas; Karathanasis, Stavros
    Contemporary air quality management calls for effective, and in advance, AQ information dissemination. Such dissemination requires for communication that should not be based solely on written or oral language forms, but should make use of graphical, symbolical and multimedia language communication schemes, via available communication channels. Previous experiences and published research results indicate that the content of environmental information systems should include both real time information and forecasting for key parameters of interest, like the maximum concentration values of air pollutants. The latter are difficult to achieve, as air quality forecasting requires both domain expertise and modelling skills for the complicated phenomenon of atmospheric pollution. One of the ways to address this need and to extract useful knowledge for better forecasting and understanding of air pollution problems, is the application of Computational Intelligence (CI) methods and tools. The present paper discusses the creation of an environmental information portal for the dissemination of air quality information and warnings, for the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. The system is developed with the aid of state-of-the art, web-based technologies, including modular, on the fly software integration to operating applications, and implements CI for the forecasting of parameters of interest. In addition, observation data are made accessible to the public via an internet-based, graphics environment that deploys open source geographic information services.
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    ISBEEM: Indoor Environment and Energy Management for School Buildings
    (Managing Environmental Knowledge, 2006) Karatzas, Kostas; Bassoukos, Anastasios
    The present paper describes an informatics system that is being developed for indoor environment and energy management in school buildings. On the basis of a workflow analysis performed, actions and tasks related to school building maintenance and management have been recorded, while users involved have been identified (teachers, administrators, engineers). ISBEEM supports the actions and tasks that need to be undertaken towards the improvement of indoor air quality and for optimising energy usage in buildings. Schools have been selected as the studied building category due to their importance and specific characteristics when it comes to the interactions they have with children. The system under development contains technical information, practical advices and suggestions and guidelines, in order to address problems that are recorder on the basis of predefined, school-tailored questionnaires. Java-oriented, open source related technologies are used, that allow for flexible, adaptable and low cost applications to be developed. The system and its services are platform neutral, support access via the internet using PC’s, laptops, PDAs or mobile phones, and will be made available via http://isbeem.meng.auth.gr.
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    Open tools and services for INSPIRE related environmental data and metadata: reporting on experiences gained in GS Soil
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Epitropou, Victor; Karatzas, Kostas; Bassoukos, Anastasios
    The main issue with environmental geographic data and their associated metadata is that they are often scattered across numerous data providers around the world or just within a country/federation (including the EU), and that there’s a large variability in the used formats and presentation/delivery methods, especially at the web service level. The EU INSPIRE directive aims at standardizing at least the metadata format and its minimum mandatory contents, defining a minimum common degree of information interoperability and interchange in order to maximize the homogeneity and usability of metadata. Within the framework of the GS Soil project, a set of essential Free and Open Source Software tools to be used by participating partners were evaluated and tested, in order to identify and provide a free, standards-compliant set of tools to similar future geospatial environmental projects within the EU.