The software tool presented in this paper, named AniTraX, was developed in close cooperation of the Oldenburg Research and Development Institute for Tools and Systems in Computing Science (OFFIS) and the Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (UFZ). It is intended to support researchers and managers in the field ...

Load balancing in electricity grids becomes a more sophisticated problem by the increased availability of time-varying stochastic availability of electricity from renewable resources. Demand side management by load shifting is one attempt to cope with this problem. In this paper we discus and compare two control strategies ...

This paper covers the design, development and implementation of a review-based quality management system for an ecological database. We define a quality assurance process similar to that of a peer-review, whereby incoming data is separated into smaller items suitable for individual reviewing based on individual expertise. ...

Most data mining techniques have rarely been used in ecology. To address the specific needs of scientists analysing data from a plant trait database developed during the LEDA project, a web-based data mining tool has been developed. This paper presents the DIONE data miner and the project it has been developed in. It ...

In providing an open European-wide web-based database of plant traits relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in changing European landscapes, the LEDA project aims to support different user groups by providing information about plant traits related to the key features of plant dynamics. The ...

To transfer knowledge of risk analysis of metapopulations into praxis UFZ started a joint project with OFFIS with the objective to develop a computer tool which gives aid to decision making in nature reserve. The design of the resulting simulator, which is based on a generic metapopulation model, is oriented to support ...

Complex ecological and socio-economic systems often have to be modelled spatially ex- plicitly. Therefore, cellular automata (CA) are a widely used method for such applica- tions. But CA in its original form do not allow to model processes on different time scales and also define a common grid for all processes. This ...

We describe an agent-based simulation tool for examining the impact of real-time pricing methods upon the power consumption of domestic users (households). The main entities within the model are electricity suppliers and electricity consumers scheduling their demand according to real-time prices for electricity. The main ...

Recently proposed approaches for biomass networks rely on efficient algorithms for automated procurement of offered and requested biomass. Automated procurement for optimal network formation on online biomass exchanges is presumed to be superior to manual search with regard to different objectives. Especially, a great ...