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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Berre, Arne J."

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Environmental Services Infrastructure with Ontologies – A Decision Support Framework
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Environmental Protection: Concepts, Methods and Tools, 2009) Roman, Dumitru; Schade, Sven; Berre, Arne J.; Bodsberg, Nils Rune; Langlois, Joël
    An important challenge for today’s environmental applications is to support the migration of environmental models to be provided as a service on the Web, and to be able to use other services, in the context of a potential wider environmental user community of service providers and service consumers. We refer to this shift in the way environmental modes are provided as Model-as-a-Service (MaaS). This paper briefly presents MaaS and introduces ENVISION – an easy-to-use framework to support the emerging MaaS paradigm. We propose a general architecture (comprising components ranging from environmental Web portals to semantic service annotations to adaptive service chains execution) for ENVISION. Our architectural choices are motivated and validated by two scenarios (one from oils spill and the other from landslide monitoring and analysis), which we present in this paper. Finally, we identify a set of general scenarios supported by the ENVISION framework.
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    Future Internet enablers for VGI applications
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Havlik, Denis; Soriano, Javier; Granell, Carlos; Middleton, Stuart E.; van der Schaaf, Hylke; Berre, Arne J.; Pielorz, Jasmin
    This paper presents the authors experiences with the development of mobile Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) applications in the context of the ENVIROFI project and Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) FP7 research programme. FI-PPP has an ambitious goal of developing a set of Generic FI Enablers (GEs) - software and hardware tools that will simplify development of thematic future internet applications. Our role in the programme was to provide requirements and assess the usability of the GEs from the point of view of the environmental usage area, In addition, we specified and developed three proof of concept implementations of environmental FI applications, and a set of specific environmental enablers (SEs) complementing the functionality offered by GEs. Rather than trying to rebuild the whole infrastructure of the Environmental Information Space (EIS), we concentrated on two aspects: (1) how to assure the existing and future EIS services and applications can be integrated and reused in FI context; and (2) how to profit from the GEs in future environmental applications. This paper concentrates on the GEs and SEs which were used in two of the ENVIROFI pilots which are representative for the emerging class of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) use-cases: one of them is pertinent to biodiversity and another to influence of weather and airborne pollution on users wellbeing. In VGI applications, the EIS and SensorWeb overlap with the Social web and potentially huge amounts of information from mobile citizens needs to be assessed and fused with the observations from official sources. On the whole, the authors are confident that the FI-PPP programme will greatly influence the EIS, but the paper also warns of the shortcomings in the current GE implementations and provides recommendations for further developments.
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    Mobile technologies and personalized environmental information for supporting sustainable mobility in Oslo: The Citi-Sense-MOB approach
    (Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2014) Castell, Nuria; Liu, Hai-Ying; Kobernus, Mike; Berre, Arne J.; Noll, Josef; Cagatay, Erol; Gangdal, Reidun
    Urban and peri-urban growth is increasing world-wide and Europe is now one of the most urbanized continents in the world. Oslo is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. This creates pressure on its infrastructure, including traffic and environmental urban quality. Additionally, vehicular traffic is a major contributor to CO2 emissions, which impacts climate change. It is recognized that air quality is a major factor for human health however, although different measures have been implemented, improving air quality and lowering carbon emissions still remains an unsolved problem in Oslo. The main objective of Citi-Sense-MOB is to demonstrate how using innovative technology to continuously measure environmental data at the road level combined with innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can help to create a dynamic city infrastructure for realtime city management, access to personalized environmental information and sustainable development. The output from the project will be mobile services for citizens and authorities based on the use of near real-time data on air quality and CO2 emissions at road level. The societal importance of these services arises from a need to mitigate the effects of air pollution and climate change, and to combat respiratory diseases related to traffic-related air pollution. In order to motivate citizens to use the information generated by the project, Citi-Sense-MOB will provide them with personalized environmental information, as for instance alerting systems when pollution levels exceed a critical threshold. Customized information will also be provided to authorities consisting of detailed air quality maps at high spatial resolution and an evaluation of possibilities to reduce CO2 emissions by improving driving practices in public urban fleets.