PhD Workshop - Umwelt

PhD Workshop “Environmental Informatics – envision concepts, present approaches
and discuss implementations“
The EnviroInfo is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year in September 2016 in Berlin and invites new
researchers and PhD students, to share their current research or research proposals with a community
that always thrived on new ideas, concepts and research questions. The PhD workshop will focus on
bringing PhD students from similar fields together and provide them with a platform where they can
network, discuss approaches and challenges as well as present their current state of work. In addition,
there will be opportunities to obtain feedback from the established research community.
THEMES
Topics related to the workshop are:
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ICT for environmental protection,
ICT for climate change and scarce resources,
ICT for ecological system modeling and simulation,
ICT for power grids/smart grids,
Environmental impacts of ICT,
Energy aware software development,
Energy informatics,
Green IT and green by IT,
Green software engineering,
Renewable energy,
Resource and energy efficiency,
Sustainability dimensions and indicators,
Sustainability reporting,
Sustainable manufacturing applications,
Sustainable mobility,
Carbon footprinting tools and applications,
Environmental modeling, visualization, simulation and optimization,
Multi-Criteria-Analysis/Optimization for environmental applications,
Information modeling and interoperability for sustainability applications.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
The PhD Workshop is an opportunity for PhD students to
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share and discuss approaches, challenges and open questions of their individual projects,
receive feedback, new ideas and fresh perspectives for their own work,
learn from and exchange with other researchers, working in the same research field,
obtain an overview of other research activities belonging to environmental informatics,
promote the development of a supportive community of PhD students and a spirit of
collaborative research,
contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and
conference events.
HOW TO APPLY
The participants of the workshops should be PhD candidates or those who are about to start their PhD
studies. In order to arrange and cluster the presentations in a meaningful way, please describe briefly
the state of completion of your thesis in your submission (i.e., research proposal, data collection,
finished models, programs or thesis, etc.).
Depending on your aims considering the publication of your work, we invite you to send us your
abstracts or full papers according to the table below:
TYPE
SUBMISSION/REVIEWING
PUBLICATION
full scientific
paper
complete text for peer review,
double-blind
6-8 pages
Work in
progress
Extended abstract
Short
contribution
(problems,
ideas, visions)
Poster
(1000 words) for peer review
4-6 pages
4 pages
Abstract
(500 words) for peer review
OR
2 pages
Final version for peer review
2 pages
Please submit full papers by 31st of March 2016 or respective abstracts by 15th of July 2016 using the
conference submission tool. Submission implies that an author will attend the EnviroInfo 2016 to
present the paper and all clearance required for publication of the paper will be obtained in time (see
“important dates”).
Note that PhD students may attend the EnviroInfo 2016 conference at a reduced fee.
We are looking forward meeting you in Berlin!