CfP Track EMIS (Environmental Management Information Systems)

Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) are software systems with the aim to gather, process, and provide environmental information, inside companies and in exchange with other actors in industry, governmental bodies, and society. EMIS help to identify environmental impacts and support measures avoiding these impacts or reducing them. They provide the necessary information support for decision making in companies. Hence, EMIS can be viewed as certain Information Systems usually implemented in companies as a part of their Environmental Management Systems.

Currently, many EMIS in use are still focused strongly on specific, separate tasks like legal compliance. New research is going beyond current practice, establishing new integrated systems. These next generation EMIS use a comprehensive, holistic approach that help to assess a company’s integrated sustainability performance, i.e. environmental, social, economic, and mutual interrelations. From a sustainability perspective material input and energy consumption/efficiency as well as production-integrated environmental protection become more and more important.

The goal of this track within EnviroInfo 2010 is (i) to describe the current state of the art and latest developments of EMIS and (ii) how to gain a holistic view of next generation EMIS in order to integrate environmental management on all layers of a company's IT infrastructure and management processes.

Authors are invited to submit a paper to the following (but not limited) topics:

  • ICT-based Risk Management
  • Green IT
  • IT for Green
  • ICT for Energy and Material Efficiency
  • Sustainability Reporting and communication
  • GIS
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Modelling and Simulation of environmental-relevant processes
  • Material Flow Management Eco-balancing
  • Active Environmental Data Warehouses
  • Ecological Performance Indicators
  • Carbon Footprint
  • Integration EMIS and ERP-Systems
  • Case Studies

Important Dates:

  • Full Paper Submission: 30.04.2010
  • Authors Notification: 07.06.2010
  • Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: 02.07.2010

Track Organizing Committee:

  • Andreas Möller
  • Frank Teuteberg
  • Ralf Isenmann
  • Burkhardt Funk
  • Peter Niemeyer
  • Corinna Lang
  • Horst Junker
  • Volker Wohlgemuth
  • Klaus Fichter
  • Lorenz Hilty
  • Jorge Marx Gómez (Track Chair)

For further information see: EnviroInfo2010