Artificial Intelligence Applications in Environmental Protection Workshop 25 April 2009
http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/aiaep2009
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5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI-2009) 23-25 April, Thessaloniki, Greece http://delab.csd.auth.gr/aiai2009
Workshop Notes Editors Mihaela Oprea, Nick Bassiliades
Thessaloniki, Greece April 2009
Introduction We are glad to introduce the IFIP AIAI 2009 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Environmental Protection (AIAEP’2009). This is the first edition of this scientific forum under the IFIP framework. The evolution of the climatic changes from the recent years has raised new challenges for the researchers in the environmental sciences that has to find new solutions to the environmental problems. Artificial intelligence can provide efficient tools for most environmental problems of monitoring, analysis, interpretation, forecasting, management, and control. The development of interdisciplinary research groups between specialists from environmental sciences and artificial intelligence can lead to new ideas and innovative applications in the area of environmental protection systems. We hope that AIAEP’2009 will be a good opportunity for the researchers to exchange ideas and to initiate new collaborations in this interdiciplinary area, as both, Artificial intelligence and Environmental protection are domains of strategic interest. For this first edition, we received 12 papers and after a reviewing process, 9 papers were selected based on the judgement of two referees from the organising committee. The technical issues addressed by the selected papers for this workshop come from all environmental fields: water resources management, environmental accounting, wastewater treatment, maritime pollution, oil spill pollution, soil erosion risk assessment, air pollution dispersion assessment, detection and classification of waste on irregular terrains, residential fire detection, biological foaming in anaerobic digestion simulation and estimation of permeability of granular soil. The artificial intelligence tools and techniques that were applied range from data mining, abductive reasoning, decision support systems, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, planning, autonomous
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inspection robots, semantic techniques, fuzzy logic to artificial neural networks and neuro-fuzzy systems.
Acknowledgements We would like to express our acknowledgements to many people and organisations: IFIP AIAI 2009 Tecnical and Workshop Programme Committees, IFIP, the organizers of the AIAI 2009, Prof. I. Vlahavas, Prof. I. Manolopoulos, and Assist. Prof. L. Iliadis. The co-chairs like to express their thanks to the Programme Committee and the referees for their invaluable help and advice during the reviewing process. It has been a pleasure to work with them. Also, we like to thank to all the authors for their effort on writing the papers and for sharing their research work of applying Artificial intelligence in Environmental protection. Without their works the AIAEP’2009 workshop could not have been possible. Mihaela Oprea1 and Nick Bassiliades2 1
Department of Informatics University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti Romania.
[email protected] 2
Department of Informatics Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
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Chairs and Workshop Notes editors • •
Mihaela Oprea, University Petroleum-Gas of Ploiesti, Department of Informatics, Romania Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, Greece
Programme Committee •
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece (
[email protected])
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Vladan Devedzic, Department of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro (
[email protected])
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Ioannis Douros, Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (
[email protected])
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Karina Gibert, Statistics and Operations Research Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain (
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Tony Jakeman, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (
[email protected])
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Mihaela Oprea, Department of Informatics, University PetroleumGas of Ploiesti, Ploiesti, Romania (
[email protected])
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Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (LEQUIA). University of Girona, Girona. Catalonia, Spain (
[email protected])
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Miquel Sànchez-Marrè, Knowledge Engineering & Machine Learning Group, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (
[email protected])
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Athanassios Tsadiras, Department of Information Technology, Alexander Technology Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece (
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Grigorios Tsoumakas, Department of Informatics, University of Thessaloniki, Greece (
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Franz Wotawa, Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria (
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Contents Invited Talk Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Atmospheric Environment: Status and Future Trends Kostas D. Karatzas ................................................................................................................. 1 ID 402 Hydrological Neural Modeling aided by Support Vector Machines L.S. Iliadis, S.I. Spartalis (Greece) ................................................................................................................. 3 ID 403 A Data Mining System for Estimating a Largesize Matrix for the Environmental Accounting Ting Yu, Manfred Lenzen, Blanca Gallego, John Debenham (Australia) ............................................................................................................... 15 ID 404 Abductive Reasoning in Environmental Decision Support Systems Franz Wotawa, Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, Joaquim Comas (Austria, Spain) ............................................................................................................... 25 ID 405 Supporting Decision Making in Maritime Environmental Protection with a Knowledge-based Education and Awareness Approach Konstantinos Kotis, Andreas Papasalouros, Nikitas Nikitakos (Greece) ............................................................................................................... 35
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ID 406 An Environmental Diagnosis Expert System Mihaela Oprea, Daniel Dunea (Romania) ............................................................................................................... 46 ID 408 Autonomous Inspection Of Complex Environments by Means of Semantic Techniques M. Ziegenmeyer and K. Uhl and J.M. Zöllner, R. Dillmann (Germany) ............................................................................................................... 58 ID 409 Use of AI Techniques for Residential Fire Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Majid Bahrepour, Nirvana Meratnia, Paul J. M. Havinga (The Netherlands) ............................................................................................................... 66 ID 410 Validation of a knowledge-based risk model for biological foaming in anaerobic digestion simulation J. Dalmau, J. Comas, I. Rodríguez-Roda, E. Latrille, J.P. Steyer (Spain, France) ............................................................................................................... 77 ID 411 Estimation of the permeability of granular soils using neuro-fuzzy system A. Sezer, A.B. Göktepe, S. Altun (Turkey) ............................................................................................................... 86
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