Independent development of research infrastructures leads to unnecessary replication of technologies and solutions whilst the lack of standard definitions makes it difficult to relate experiences in one infrastructure with those of ot hers. The ENVRI Reference Model, www.envri.eu/rm, uses the Open Distributed Processing standard framework in order to model the "archetypical" environmental resea...

infrastructure development often leads to considerable changes in the land use. these changes are major causes of habitat fragmentation and ecosystem loss. moreover, decrease of the environmental impacts on biodiversity is among the most important objectives of sustainable development. for this purpose, environmental impact assessment (eia) along with the other appropriate tools can be applied ...

Information Infrastructures for managing and providing environmental resources are requested by numerous initiatives on regional, national, and international scales. While much research focuses on the discovery and consumption of provided content, environmental data and model provision is hardly addressed. Each time an expert creates new information or develops a novel scientific algorithm it i...

The Doctorate in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering has been operating since the academic year 2008/2009. The program introduces doctoral students to the world of research on key theoretical and technological elements associated with water, environment, hydraulic and transportation infrastructures, geology, as well as geomatics. In this context, the program is grounded on environmenta...

Green technologies for the environmental upgrading of infrastructures Abstract: Over the last few decades, the globalization phenomenon has determined the exponential development – from an economic, cultural and political standpoint – of traffic flows, the number of means and infrastructures involved in communication and exchange. At the same time, these represent one of the most complicated en...

Financial institutions are exposed to a highly dynamic environment that is characterized by an intense competition and short technological hype cycles. Against this background, the assimilation of ondemand computing infrastructures as particularly Grid and Cloud computing can be assumed to be a potential strategic response to address fast changing market and technological demand as well as to c...

Environmental modeling is increasingly more integrative and collaborative work. The Internet and Web hold a promise of a shared environmental information infrastructure, which supports modeling. While the traditional (enterprise) information system architectures have not been much employed in the environmental domain, new standards-based Web technologies create an opportunity. At the same time ...