Duration: 1.1.1998 to 31.10.2002

This project investigated the application of methods and techniques of individual-oriented modelling and simulation as well as Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) in an integrated overall process for the application field of environmental epidemiology. Taking into account the field of application, this overall process has been implemented in the form of a series of software tools to support the explorative analysis of environmental systems and the planning of targeted environmental management measures. Methods and tools for the creation and application of appropriate, in particular spatially explicit models of environmental systems, their testing, analysis and practical use in the context of the often sensitive issues of environmental epidemiology have been and are being developed and evaluated. In addition to work in the field of modelling and simulation, research work was also carried out in the field of KDD, which resulted in the distributed realisation of a data mining technique for multivariate time series data, for example, and the validation of the developed methodology was carried out in co-operation with the University of Münster, Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, PD Dr. Weiland on the design of the ISAAC study.

Since 1 October 2001, the work has been continued in the "Information Systems" department.