Hans Scholten - Böcker

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services, IDMS 2000, held in Enschede, The Netherlands in October 2000.The 24 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The book offers topical sections on efficient audio/video coding and delivery; multimedia conferencing, synchronization and multicast; communication, control, and telephony over IP networks; QoS models and architectures; multimedia applications and user aspects; design and implementation approaches; and mobile multimedia and ubiquitous computing systems.

There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still open. To advance the systems and make them intelligent, an extensive collaboration is required between emergency responders, disaster managers, system designers and researchers. To facilitate this process the Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) conference has been organized since 2005. Gi4DM is coordinated by the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)  and the ad-hoc Committee on Risk and Disaster Management. This volume presents the results of the Gi4DM 2012 conference, held in Enschede, the Netherlands, on 13-15 December . It contains a selection of around 30 scientific and 25 best-practice peer-reviewed papers. The 2012 Gi4DM focuses on the intelligent use of geo-information, semantics and situation awareness.