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Chapter 10
Ecoinformatics Problems in the Future
World
10.1 Problems, Perspectives and Waitings
As it was mentioned by Krapivin and Shutko (2012) that ecoinformatics is the science
of information in ecology and environmental science. This topic demonstrates different
de
nitions, semantic structures, algorithms, methods, and models that help to
parameterize various environmental processes in the nature-society system. One of
main ecoinformatics objectives is to develop new effective informational technologies
for the detection and prognosis of environmental factors that are signi
cant for human
life. Really ecoinformatics is an interdisciplinary study between ecology, GIS, math-
ematical modeling, and computer science. Ecoinformatics promotes novel exploitation
and integration of ecological data and knowledge by means of state-of-the-state
simulation technology. Ecoinformatics and GIMS technology are leading-edge
technologies transforming the ways data that are collected and analyzed.
Environmental science such as ecoinformatics emerged practically at the same
time in series publications in Russian Federation (Arsky et al. 1992; Krapivin and
Potapov 2002) and United States (Kaeiva 2001; Brunt et al. 2002). Dengler et al.
(2011) consider the ecoinformatics as ecological science that develops biodiversity
informatics. The
field of ecoinformatics provides concepts, methods and standards
to guide management and analysis of ecological data with particular emphasis on
exploration of co-occurrences of organisms and their linkage to environmental
conditions and taxon attributes. Moreover, ecoinformatics develops new informa-
tion-modeling technologies for future global change research with special focus on
important environmental problems connected with human society survivability.
Nature-society system evolution depends on the numerous economical, social,
natural and technological processes taking place both in regions and world. Coupled
investigation of these processes is principal problem of its sustainable development.
Effective instrument to solve regional and global problem of sustainable develop-
ment is based on the combined use of knowledge from different sciences. One of
such instruments is the GIMS-technology described in above chapters. It is evident
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