Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Informatics

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http://sites.meng.auth.gr/EnvAI/

Organizer:
Kostas D. Karatzas, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

Description:
Environmental Informatics may be considered as the combination of software and environmental engineering methods and tools for the creation of a new "knowledge-paradigm" towards serving environmental engineering needs. EI is therefore an integrator of science, methods, and techniques and not just the result of using information and software technology methods and tools for solving environmental problems. To this end, EI is a "bridging discipline" dealing with the development and application of Information Society Technologies (IST) systems in the environmental domain. Being a relatively new discipline, EI aims to furnish systems engineers attempting to manage and direct information flow regarding the environmental domain to decision makers and the public with time-proven methodologies that have evolved from the application of the Software Engineering discipline. To this end, Artificial Intelligence may very well serve the needs of environmental engineering and management problems, by providing with methods for knowledge extraction and key parameter identification for better understanding and analysis of environmental problems. Moreover, AI may provide with various methods and algorithms for simulating, modelling, and forecasting the behaviours of environmental systems. This is of particular importance in the case of quality of life oriented problems, like in the case of air pollutant concentrations in the atmospheric environment.