This book is based on the work of the YEEES Research Centre, an international network of scientists from partner universities in Germany, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. It presents inter- and transdisciplinary research that explores different ways of understanding resilience, an essential characteristic for systems, organizations and people – providing them with strength in the face of attacks and challenges, and both enabling and fostering constant adaptation and improvement.

Building resilience to face today’s ever-changing societal and environmental realities requires unbiased research activities that transcend the borders of countries and academic disciplines alike. The research addressed in this book, thus, is multidisciplinary and includes contributions to areas such as sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and smart communities, as well as groundbreaking work on skills development and ICT education. Highlighting the variety of research activities and their outcomes, this book offers a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in the fields of sustainable resilience development.

The highly dynamic world of information technology service management stresses the benefits of the quick and correct implementation of IT services. A disciplined approach relies on a separate set of assumptions and principles as an agile approach, both of which have complicated implementation processes as well as copious benefits. Combining these two approaches to enhance the effectiveness of each, while difficult, can yield exceptional dividends.

Balancing Agile and Disciplined Engineering and Management Approaches for IT Services and Software Products is an essential publication that focuses on clarifying theoretical foundations of balanced design methods with conceptual frameworks and empirical cases. Highlighting a broad range of topics including business trends, IT service, and software development, this book is ideally designed for software engineers, software developers, programmers, information technology professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

This edited volume covers essential and recent development in the engineering and management of data centers.  Data centers are complex systems requiring ongoing support, and their high value for keeping business continuity operations is crucial. The book presents core topics on the planning, design, implementation, operation and control, and sustainability of a data center from a didactical and practitioner viewpoint.

This book bridges the gap between academia and the industry, offering essential reading for practitioners in data centers, researchers in the area, and faculty teaching related courses on data centers. The book can be used as a complementary text for traditional courses on Computer Networks, as well as  innovative courses on IT Architecture, IT Service Management, IT Operations, and Data Centers.

This book presents new concepts as well as practical applications and experiences in the field of information technology for environmental engineering. The book has three main focus areas: firstly, it shows how information technologies can be employed to support natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Secondly, it demonstrates the application of computing in the everyday practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists and social scientists. And thirdly, it demonstrates how the complexity of natural phenomena can be approached using interdisciplinary methods, where computer science offers the infrastructure needed for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting.
The book collects selected papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in July 2015. It discusses recent success stories in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem-solving and decision-making.

This book presents the latest findings and ongoing research in the field of green information systems and green information and communication technology (ICT). It provides insights into a whole range of cross-cutting topics in ICT and environmental sciences as well as showcases how information and communication technologies allow environmental and energy efficiency issues to be handled effectively. The papers presented in this book are a selection of extended and improved contributions to the 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection dedicated to ICT for energy efficiency. This book is essential and particularly worth reading for those who already gained basic knowledge and want to deepen and extend their expertise in the subjects mentioned above.

The EnviroInfo 2014 is the 28th edition of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary conference series on leading environmental information and communication technologies. Combining and shaping international activities in the field of applied informatics and environmental informatics in making the world a better place for living, the EnviroInfo conference series aims at presenting and discussing the latest state-of-the-art development on ICT and environmental related fields. Under the supervision of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, the 28th EnviroInfo conference discusses the special topics of ICT for energy efficiency as main conference theme as well as the whole range of cross-cutting topics in ICT and environmental sciences. As the EnviroInfo conference series strengthens the interdisciplinary activities in the fields of sustainable development, participants from industry, higher education and research institutes have been invited to exchange ideas and solutions for current and future problems.

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support, documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while presenting new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems constitute a demanding application domain for modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems, control systems, as well as sustainable manufacturing and reverse logistics. This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Engineering, held in July 2013, in Lüneburg, Germany. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, industrial engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

Renewable energies, for example wind energy, are regarded as sustainable energies. A conference at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study, HWK) in June, 2012, raised the question whether this is really the case: “Sustainable Material Life Cycles – Is Wind Energy Really Sustainable?”. The conference addressed all materials involved throughout a full life cycle of a wind turbine.

Sessions on the most relevant issues structured the event:

• Material Flows and Sustainability
• International Developments
• Lifecycle Approach
• Logistics and Rotor Blades

Stimulating presentations and lively discussions characterized all sessions. With wind energy being a very young field, a lot of research still needs to be done, especially on all aspects of sustainability. Two areas were identified as especially relevant: offshore wind park maintenance and material efficiency. With this volume, we hope to stimulate more interdisciplinary discussions and related research.

Editors: Alexandra Pehlken, Andreas Solsbach, Wolfgang Stenzel
Can be ordered for 13,80€ at the BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
ISBN: 978-3-8142-2283-7
Contact: jurkea.morgenstern(at)uni-oldenburg.de

The book Soft Computing for Business Intelligence is the remarkable output of a program based on the idea of joint trans-disciplinary research as supported by the Eureka Iberoamerica Network and the University of Oldenburg.

It contains twenty-seven papers allocated to three sections: Soft Computing, Business Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery, and Knowledge Management and Decision Making. Although the contents touch different domains they are similar in so far as they follow the BI principle “Observation and Analysis” while keeping a practical oriented theoretical eye on sound methodologies, like Fuzzy Logic, Compensatory Fuzzy Logic (CFL), Rough Sets and other softcomputing elements.

The book tears down the traditional focus on business, and extends Business Intelligence techniques in an impressive way to a broad range of fields like medicine, environment, wind farming, social collaboration and interaction, car sharing and sustainability.

Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) are specialized IT-based systems that support some or several phases of the individual, team, organizational or inter-organizational decision making process by deploying some or several intelligent mechanisms.

This book pursues the following academic aims:

1. generate a compendium of quality theoretical and applied contributions in Intelligent Decision-Making Support Systems (i-DMSS) for engineering and management IT-based service systems (ITSS)
2. diffuse scarce knowledge about foundations, architectures and effective and efficient methods and strategies for successfully planning, designing, building, operating, and evaluating i-DMSS for ITSS, and
3. create an awareness of, and a bridge between ITSS and i-DMSS academicians and practitioners in the current complex and dynamic engineering and management ITSS organizational.

The book presents a collection of 11 chapters referring to relevant topics for both IT service systems and i-DMSS including: problems of selection of IT service providers, optimization of supply chain systems, IT governance decisions, clinical decision support, dynamic user-interface adaptation, re-engineering of processes, and generic decision problems. Advanced IT technologies used in some chapters are: fuzzy multi-criteria mechanisms, semantic processing, data mining processing, and rough sets. Other chapters report traditional DSS mechanisms but used or suggested to be used in innovative mode for IT service engineering and management tasks.

Sustainability embraces many concepts. It requires in-depth cross disciplinary knowledge and the ability to think differently and creatively about current and future development challenges. A wide range of geographical and cultural perspectives inform the research papers presented in this text. From games to governance, technology to teaching, design to decisions the dimensions of sustainability are explored.

This publication showcases emerging research being conducted across the Dorich House Group of European member Universities and some of their partner institutions.

In diesem Tagungsband zu den 5. BUIS-Tagen (15. Tagung der Fachgruppe Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.) werden aktuelle Themen des IT-gestützte Ressourcen- und Energiemanagements präsentiert mit dem Fokus auf: Green IT und Energieeffizienz, Stoffstrommanagement, Green Production, Green Logistics, Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und Kommunikation, Green Software sowie Materialeffizienz und Recycling. In der "Students Corner" präsentieren Studierende eigene Lösungsansätze aus Projekten und Abschlußarbeiten.

The book provides a collection of individual chapters from the participants in the OEPI project, which represent a mix of academic and practical chapters and contributions. The first part of the book is dedicated to a theoretical introduction to Organisations' Environmental Performance Indicators and to a state-of-the-art overview in literature and practice. The second part of the book contains several chapters describing information systems and their components supporting the management of Environmental Performance Indicators, especially in inter-organizational contexts. The third part is dedicated to three case studies from practice, and the book concludes with part four, in which practical guidelines for the innovative management of Environmental Performance indicators in organizations and in inter-organizational contexts are presented.

This monograph contains recent studies in eco-informatics, promising ideas and new challenges in information management for supporting sustainability in companies and other organization. The scope of this book includes sets of solutions which show different stakeholders’ viewpoints on sustainability. In individual chapters, authors discuss the role which Environmental Information Systems (EIS) play in the environmental conscious functioning of enterprise. New models, methods and tools supporting sustainability are presented. Emphasis is placed on the innovative approach to eco-friendly organization and coordination of transport, logistics processes and operations management. The information management and decision making in manufacturing and service organizations is highlighted. The scope of this monograph also encompasses topics related to the modeling and monitoring of climate change.

In recent years, the focus of environmental responsibility has shifted toward companies and a variety of highly specific, heterogeneous solutions for different environmental issues have been created. These solutions comprise a special category of information systems, termed Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS).

Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems: Advancements and Trends addresses the continuing need for companies to take a holistic and strategic approach towards material and energy efficiency, emission and waste reduction, recycling, stakeholder engagement, and legal compliance. As Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems that support only operational goals are becoming obsolete, the need for a reference redefining these systems to provide integrated solutions to environmental and economic problems is needed.

Am 26.04.2012 fanden zum 4. Mal die Berliner BUIS Tage im Rahmen der 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme statt. Schwerpunkte waren diesmal: Methodische Grundlagen von BUIS, Aktuelle Entwicklungstendenzen von BUIS, Anbindung von BUIS an betriebliche Informationssysteme, Probleme und Lösungen spezieller Branchen.

The increasing environmental problems demand interdisciplinary approaches where engineers, natural scientists, economists and computer scientists work together. Information technology has become significant to all scientific groups and fields involved in environmental engineering covering the topics: modeling and simulation, information systems, formal methods and data processing techniques, tools and measurement techniques; and economists approaches for environmental policy and management. This book publishes the proceedings of the ITEE 07 conference, where new concepts as well as practical applications and experiences in the field of environmental engineering have been presented and discussed.

Neben der wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Dimension unternehmerischen Handelns kommt der Wirtschaftsinformatik auch im Bereich der ökologischen Dimension eine herausragende Rolle zu. So ist sie zum einen dafür verantwortlich, Energieeffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit bei der Gestaltung von Informationsinfrastrukturen maßgeblich zu berücksichtigen, zum anderen nimmt sie eine Schlüsselrolle ein, wenn es darum geht, in anderen Unternehmensbereichen und ganzen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken durch Nutzung von Optimierungspotenzialen Ressourcenschonung und Energieeffizienz herbeizuführen. Nicht zuletzt ist sie zudem zuständig dafür, eine Informationslogistik, die der ökologischen Dimension Rechnung trägt, bereitzustellen und durch betriebliche Umweltinformationssysteme aktiv zu unterstützen. Das Schwerpunktheft behandelt verschiedene Aspekte der ökonomischen und ökologischen Dimension des Nachhaltigkeitsmanagements in Unternehmen und Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken durch und mit Informationsverarbeitung. Auf Basis von Befragungen, Fallstudien, prototypischen Implementierungen sowie konzeptionellen Beiträgen diskutiert es Forschungsfragen, Perspektiven und State-of-the-Art-Anwendungen in diesem Feld.

Anhand einer durchgängigen Fallstudie wird die Geschäftsprozessintegration mit Hilfe von SAP-Technologien erläutert. Konzeptionelle und technische Grundlagen, insbesondere die Einführung in die verwendete Integrationsplattform SAP PI und SAP Business Workflows, werden der Fallstudie vorangestellt. Die Fallstudie des Buches beschäftigt sich mit der Ermittlung der Umweltwirkung von Produkten und thematisiert damit eine Problemstellung, die im Kontext unterschiedlicher Geschäftsprozesse und Branchen auftritt: um das kundenseitige Informationsbedürfnis zur Umweltwirkung eines Produktes erfüllen zu können, werden Produktionsdetails entlang der Wertschöpfungskette von der Rohstoffentnahme bis zum Vertrieb gesammelt. Auf Grundlage der so gewonnenen Daten erhält der Verbraucher Aufschluss über die Herkunft der verarbeiteten Rohstoffe und die angewendeten Produktionsverfahren. Die erforderlichen Prozesse werden am Beispiel des produktbezogenen Carbon Footprint (PCF) konzipiert und implementiert.

This volume presents the proceedings of the ICT Innovations conference 2009 held in Ohrid, Macedonia. The proceedings gather the reports of academics, professionals and practitioners about valuable experiences in developing solutions and systems in the industrial and business arena especially innovative commercial implementations, novel applications of technology, and experience in applying recent research advances to practical situations, in any ICT areas.

The topics focus on issues concerning a variety of ICT fields: multimedia information systems, artificial intelligence, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, eco and bio informatics, internet and web applications and services, wireless and mobile communications and services, computer networks, security and cryptography, distributed systems, GRID and cloud computing, and nanotechnology.

Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collection and management, scientific simulations, decision support documentation and reporting. Ecology, environmental engineering and natural resource management comprise an excellent real-world testbed for IT system demonstration, while raising new challenges for computer science. Complexity, uncertainty and scaling issues of natural systems form a demanding application domain for sensor networks and earth observation systems; modelling, simulation and scientific workflows, data management and reporting, decision support and intelligent systems, distributed computing environments, geographical information systems, heterogeneous systems integration, software engineering, accounting systems and control systems.

This books offers a collection of papers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Engineering, held in May 2009, in Thessaloniki, Greece. Recent success stories in ecoinformatics, promising ideas and new challenges are discussed among computer scientists, environmental engineers, economists and social scientists, demonstrating new paradigms for problem solving and decision making.

Mehr Transparenz und Kostenkontrolle: Jorge Marx Gómez, Horst Junker und Stefan Odebrecht vermitteln, wie Sie IT-Projekte mit IT-Controlling zum Erfolg führen: Notwendigkeit einer IT-Strategie, Chancen und Risiken sowie Alternativen des IT-Outsourcings, Werkzeuge wie Kennzahlensysteme und Benchmarking. Besonders anschaulich durch zahlreiche Fallstudien.

Der Druck, eine leistungsfähige IT im Unternehmen einzurichten, steigt permanent. Trotzdem sprengen viele IT-Projekte in der Praxis Terminpläne und Budgets oder sie scheitern vollends. Jorge Marx Gómez, Horst Junker und Stefan Odebrecht vermitteln, wie sich IT-Projekte mit IT-Controlling zum Erfolg führen lassen:

• IT-Controlling und die Notwendigkeit einer IT-Strategie
• IT-Outsourcing: Chancen und Risiken, Alternativen zum Outsourcing
• Werkzeuge des IT-Controllings: Kennzahlensysteme, Portfoliomanagement, Benchmarking und mehr.

Das Buch mit zahlreichen Fallstudien unterstützt die Leser, mehr Transparenz und eine zuverlässige Kostenkontrolle bei ihren IT-Aufgaben in der Praxis zu erzielen.

Noch vor wenigen Jahren war das "Data Warehouse" ein sehr mächtiger Begriff. Doch stellte sich bald heraus, dass Technologie allein keinen Wettbewerbsvorteil bietet. Erst wenn sie korrekt angewendet wird, lassen sich Investitionen in die Informationstechnologie rechtfertigen. Daher spricht man nun von der Business Intelligence, dem effektiven und anwendergerechten Technologie- und Dateneinsatz zur unternehmensweiten Informationsbereitstellung.

Ein Softwarepaket zur Business Intelligence wird von der SAP in Form des SAP NetWeaver 7.0® bereitgestellt. Gerade dieses Release von SAP NetWeaver® eignet sich hervorragend für die Lehre in Business Intelligence, weil aktuelle Technologie praxisnah und anschaulich präsentiert werden kann. SAP NetWeaver® bietet die Verknüpfung von Data Warehouse Technologie mit dem SAP Business Information Warehouse®, der integrierten Planung und Portaltechnologie ein breites Spektrum an Themengebieten, so dass sich der Forschungsbereich BI aus verschiedenen Richtungen betrachten lässt.

Integrierte Fallstudien mit präzisen Anweisungen und anschaulichen Grafiken zeigen das Zusammenspiel der verschiedenen Disziplinen in SAP NetWeaver 7.0® und lassen den Anwender Business Intelligence praktisch erleben.

Corporate Social Responsibility: Wie gelingt es Ihnen, Nachhaltigkeit gegenüber den Stakeholdern Ihres Unternehmens zu kommunizieren? Ralf Isenmann, Jorge Marx Gómez und weitere Experten liefern Ihnen das notwendige praktische Know-how: Anforderungen und Perspektiven in der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung, effizientes Informationsmanagement, aktuelle Technologien und Software-Werkzeuge etc. Mit diesem Buch schöpfen Sie das ganze Potenzial moderner IT für einen lebendigen und maßgeschneiderten Dialog mit den Stakeholdern aus. Stichwort Corporate Social Responsibility: Von Unternehmen wird zunehmend auch ökologisches und soziales Handeln erwartet. So genannte Nachhaltigkeitsberichte, die solches Engagement dokumentieren, fragt die Öffentlichkeit immer stärker nach. Wie es den Unternehmen gelingt, diese Informationen attraktiv und gleichzeitig effizient zu präsentieren, erläutern Ralf Isenmann, Jorge Marx Gómez und weitere Autoren in diesem Buch:

• Perspektiven der Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung
• Anforderungen an IT-gestützte Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation
• Aufbau eineseffizienten Informationsmanagements
• aktuelle Technologien, Software-Werkzeuge, Medien- Verknüpfung mit weiteren Steuerungsinstrumenten.

Das Buch unterstützt die Leser dabei, einen lebendigen und maßgeschneiderten Dialog mit den Stakeholdern zu gestalten und dafür das ganze Potential moderner IT zu nutzen.

Das BW (Business Information Warehouse) von SAP ist ein Werkzeug, mit dem unternehmenswichtige Daten aus einer Vielzahl von Quellen gespeichert, aufbereitet und analysiert werden können. ... Das vorliegende Buch gibt einen allgemeinen Einstieg für Leser ohne spezielle Vorkenntnisse. Erläutert wird anhand von 3 großen Fallbeispielen das Arbeiten mit BW. … Gute graphische Aufbereitung. Viele Bildschirmabbildungen und tabellarische Übersichten; Zusammenfassungen. Definitionen und wichtige Hinweise sind deutlich hervorgehoben. Umfassendes, aktuelles Literaturverzeichnis.

Dieses Lehrbuch gibt eine umfassende Einführung in alle relevanten Grundlagen, Methoden und Technologien von Software-Architekturen für das E-Business aus Sicht der Enterprise-Application-Integration mit verteilten Systemen. Im Gegensatz zur aktuellen Literatur zu diesem Thema, werden in diesem Buch Software-Architekturen aus den betriebswirtschaftlichen Anforderungen hergeleitet und als Lehrbuch für die Systementwicklung zusammengefasst. Dafür werden die Ideen der Pattern, Patternsprachen, Fachkomponenten und Web-Services in einem Vorgehensmodell zur Systementwicklung vereint. Ziel ist es, dem Benutzer situationsabhängige, personalisierte und ortsbezogene Dienste zur Verfügung zu stellen. Einfluss in den Prozess der Systementwicklung nimmt somit das Lebenslagenmodell, das aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht hergeleitet wird.