Publikationen

@InCollection{Kra11,
Title = {{Towards ontology driven information systemes - the OEPI example}},
Author = {Kramer, F. and Jamous, N.},
Booktitle = {BSOA 2011 - 6. Workshop Bewertungsaspekte serviceorientierter Architekturen, 15. November 2011, Köln},
Publisher = {Shaker},
Year = {2011},
Address = {Aachen},
Editor = {Andreas Schmietendorf and Frank Simon},
Month = {November},
Series = {Berliner Schriften zu modernen Integrationsarchitekturen},
Volume = {8},
Abstract = {Service-orientation and service-oriented software development are not new. However initially expressed excessive estimations on the degree of component reuse and other potential benefits couldn't be matched to far. Various scholars found out, that changing the mindset of people and adopting a holistic view on the field of discourse are critical success factors for SOA success. This paper introduces the use of ontology to build service-oriented information systems as one means to match the aforementioned success factors. It shows by an example of a European Research Project how this could be done and what the potential benefits of an ontology-driven approach are.},
File = {Kra11.pdf:Kra11.pdf:PDF},
ISBN = {9783844005035},
Keywords = {SOA, Ontology, EPI, OEPI},
Owner = {frederik},
Timestamp = {05.02.2013}
}

@InBook{Jam11a,
Title = {{Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering}},
Author = {Jamous, N. and Kramer, F. and Kassem, G. and Marx Gómez, J. and Dumke, R.},
Chapter = {Light-weight composite environmental performance indicators (LWC-EPI) concept},
Editor = {Paulina Golinska and Marek Fertsch and Jorge Marx-Gómez},
Pages = {289-300},
Publisher = {Springer},
Year = {2011},
Address = {Berlin},
Abstract = {Rapid environmental change requires a widely changing attitude starting from individuals over corporations to governments. A closer and more critical review of current environmental policies is needed. Corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS) can play a major role to change attitudes by providing information that enables users to assess the current environmental impact of their processes and operations. One important question with regard to this is whether an organisation is complying with regulations. If the organisation is not complying with regulations the gap must be identified.
Focusing on the growing environmental awareness and the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) we shed light on the information provisioning role of CEMIS as well as on the environmental impact of SME operations as a whole.
The main objective of our work is to provide a dashboard information system to control and monitor the organizations environmental performance indicators (EPI). This shall lead to a reduced gap between the estimated and current values of company‟s environment impact on an almost daily basis. In this paper we will focus on explaining the concept of Light-Weight Composite Environmental Performance Indicators (LWC-EPI), providing clear terms and definitions and presenting technologies which can be used to implement it.},
Booktitle = {Information technologies in environmental engineering},
File = {Jam11a.pdf:Jam11a.pdf:PDF},
Keywords = {Corporate Environmental Management Information Systems (CEMIS), Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS), Environmental Performance Indicator (EPI), Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERPs), Greenhouse Gas (GHG), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)},
Owner = {frederik},
Timestamp = {05.02.2013},
Url = {http://books.google.de/books?id=LMjTXmTgXJoC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false}
}

@InProceedings{Jam11b,
Title = {{Evaluation categorizes, technologies decision for a Composite Environmental Performance Indicators (LWC-EPI) solution}},
Author = {Jamous, N. and Kramer, F. and Kassem, G.},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection},
Year = {2011},
Address = {Ispra},
Editor = {W. Pillmann and S. Schade and P. Smits},
Month = {October},
Pages = {669-682},
Publisher = {Shaker},
Abstract = {Rapid environmental changes have necessitated a closer and more critical review of current environmental policies. In light of a myopic tendency to focus on short- to medium-term objectives within organizations, environmental issues are usually not given full attention. In this regard, recommendation- or dashboard-like systems are useful to increase the awareness of management as to the impact of their decisions on the environment on a more frequent and cost-effective basis. However, the role of current environmental management information systems (EMIS) in providing organizations with the information enabling them to assess the current impact of their processes and operations on the environment has been given more prominence.
Information technology is changing business in ever shortening cycles. Especially with the success of the Java platform, the standardization through the i386 hardware platform and last but not least the rivalry introduced by the Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS) paradigm a sheer inconceivable amount of programming languages, integrated development environments, design patterns and programming frameworks have been disseminated. In this paper, we will start with a state of the art of the available tools support providing dashboard-type solutions to control and monitor the EPI’s in an organization, which may lead to reduce the gap between estimated values and current running values for environment on a more frequent basis than a mere yearly review. Furthermore, we will propose an evaluation categorizes to be used as a methodology to take the technologies decisions.},
File = {Jam11b.pdf:Jam11b.pdf:PDF},
Owner = {frederik},
Timestamp = {05.02.2013},
Url = {http://enviroinfo.eu/sites/default/files/pdfs/vol7233/0669.pdf}
}

@InCollection{Jam11,
Title = {{Deploying OEPI ontology into the Light-Weight Composite Environmental Performance Indicators "LWC-EPI" system}},
Author = {Jamous, N. and Kramer, F. and Kassem, G. and Löschner, E. and Mätäsniemi, T.},
Booktitle = {BSOA 2011 - 6. Workshop Bewertungsaspekte serviceorientierter Architekturen, 15. November 2011, Köln},
Publisher = {Shaker},
Year = {2011},
Address = {Aachen},
Editor = {Andreas Schmietendorf and Frank Simon},
Month = {November},
Series = {Berliner Schriften zu modernen Integrationsarchitekturen},
Volume = {8},
Abstract = {In light of rapid environmental changes, urgent attention and action are required and more attention needs to be directed to examine the relevance of existing ‘Environmental policies’. Nowadays, environmental issues are amongst the hottest topics, and many researchers have been published in various perspectives within different fields.
Corporate environmental management information systems (CEMIS) can play a major role to change attitudes by providing information that enables users to assess the current environmental impact of their processes and operations. In this paper we will introduce the use of ontology to build service-oriented information systems. In addition we will present the OEPI ontology and how it could be deployed into the LWC-EPI architecture.},
File = {Jam11.pdf:Jam11.pdf:PDF},
ISBN = {9783844005035},
Keywords = {Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS), Ontology research, Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI), Software architecture, Environmental reporting},
Owner = {frederik},
Timestamp = {05.02.2013}
}

@TechReport{Mae11,
Title = {{D1.3: Reference Ontology for EPIs – Requirements and Design}},
Author = {Teemu Mätäsniemi and Elke Löschner and Naoum Jamous and Frederik Kramer and Jörg Bremer and Daniel Meyerholt and Barbara Rapp and Katrin Müller and Siegfried Bublitz and Wolfgang Thronicke and Ali Dada and Hans Thies and Hannele Tonteri},
Institution = {OEPI Consortium},
Year = {2011},
Month = {November},
Abstract = {The objective of OEPI work package WP 1 “Ontological Reference Architecture for EPIs” was to define the scope and nature of the information model for exchange and integration of environmental performance indicators (EPI) across different systems, industries, and countries. The results are represented by two deliverables: The first one D1.1 (Jamous and Müller, 2010) provided a seamless and easy-to-follow set of guidelines of environmental policies and standards and a review on existing classifications of environmental indicators and Environmental Management Information Systems. This second deliverable D1.3 1 describes the requirements and the design of a formalized description language for EPIs. An ontological approach has been chosen to achieve this goal. This decision was motivated mainly by its significance for the “semantic web”. The resulting reference ontology establishes a foundation and reference of the information model for the development and evaluation of the OEPI platform and services (work packages WP 2, 3, and 4). As pursuit of an ontological approach was not an evident choice from the beginning, some initial effort had to be invested in a common groundwork of understanding and motivation, which is reflected in this report. Furthermore, explorations of ontology development methodology and of technical possibilities and constraints were necessary particularly regarding ontology languages, suitable ontology design tools, and programming interfaces for ontology use. A survey of relevant existing ontologies and related research had to be undertaken in order to identify potentials for reuse. The findings of those parts of the task are included in this document not only for the benefit of the OEPI project but also for other projects that might consider a similar approach.
The actual development of the reference ontology was structured in a requirements phase and a design phase. About 50 ontology requirements have been documented as result of the requirements phase. They were fed into the requirements-driven ontology design phase. This report presents the formalized description language for EPIs as a combination of the Web Ontology Language OWL 2 with a specific OEPI Ontology expressed in terms of OWL 2. This OEPI Ontology provides the first version of a common formalized description guideline for EPIs regardless of their origin and for the integration of available data sources for those EPIs. Two examples illustrate applicability of the ontology: an automatic ontology glossary and a small case study based on the OEPI use case “design for environment”.
The most important achievement of the conducted work in retrospect is a successful proof of concept that justifies the decision for explicit capturing of EPI domain knowledge in ontology instead of a conventional solution of coding knowledge implicitly in application software. It seems easy and straight forward now to extend and refine the ontology in further incremental steps. The definition of ontology serves as an adequate, maintainable medium of knowledge transfer between domain experts and IT professionals and delivers a formalized result which can be used directly by software developers through means of existing programming interfaces like OWL API.},
File = {Mae11.pdf:Mae11.pdf:PDF},
Owner = {frederik},
Timestamp = {03.08.2011},
Url = {http://p14676.mittwaldserver.info/oepi/images/oepi_d_1_3.pdf}
}