Cellier, F.E., A. Nebot, and J. Greifeneder:
     Object-oriented Modeling of Heat and Humidity Budgets of Biosphere 2 Using Bond Graphs
     Proceedings of the 19^th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, Brno, Czech Republic, Vol.2, Seiten 651-660, September 2005.

Abstract: Biosphere 2 is a closed ecosystem located near Tucson, Arizona, designed for studying the interactions between dif-ferent biological species among each other and with their materially closed controlled environment, taking into ac-count the limited resources that such an environment provides. Energy considerations play a central role in how these interactions play out. To this end, bond graph models were designed that enable the researcher to better under-stand the nature of these interactions, hopefully offering some insight into the much larger ecosystem of planet Earth.

Keywords: Biosphere, Bond graph modeling, Thermodynamics

Authors:		François E. Cellier Institute of Computational Science Departement Informatik ETH Zürich CH-8092 Zürich Switzerland Phone: +41(44)632-7474 Fax:    +41(44)632-1374 Email:  FCellier@Inf.ETHZ.CH		Àngela Nebot Castells Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Mòdul C6, Campus Nord Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3 Barcelona 08034 Spain Phone: +34(93)401-6076 FAX:    +34(93)401-6000 Email:   Angela@LSI.UPC.ES		Jürgen Greifeneder Juniorprofessur Agentenbasierte Automatisierung Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 12 Postfach 3049 67653 Kaiserslautern Germany Phone: +49(631)205-4461 Fax:    +49(631)205-4462 Email: