COPECH 2014 - 5th Track on Collaboration tools for Preservation of Environment and Cultural Heritage

Cultural heritage are increasingly exposed to degradation, in particular historical buildings and monuments made of stone materials or metal (bronze), glassware, etc, due to their location, are directly exposed to the environment factors.
Their preservation is a challenge involving many scientific areas, especially for the protection against environmental deterioration processes or natural hazards like earthquakes.
Nowadays, mobile and wireless communications become a commodity and recently we have assisted to the emerging of wireless systems and Internet of Things. This emerging paradigms open even more new opportunities for many interesting research topics targeting at concepts, methodologies, and techniques to support advanced mobile value-added services.
On this basis, monitoring of Cultural Heritage buildings in different scenarios may be crucial to develop methodologies that are tailored to complex systems.
The aim of the Collaboration tools for preservation of Environment and Cultural Heritage (COPECH) workshop is to bring together practitioners, engineers, scientists and researchers to give an overview on the Cultural Heritage preservation and also providing ideas exchange among specialists about concepts, methodologies, and techniques to support advanced mobile value-added services (monitoring building, big data analysis, etc.). This collaboration of specialists will give the workshop an innovative Smart profile, addressing the concept of “smart citiy” as environment of innovation for experimenting and validating services mixing different technologies and socio-economic strategies.