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During the first two years of the SHARE project the consortium carried out many dissemination activities and the project is well known in the scientific community and the rescue organization domain. The first dissemination activity was the official kick-off meeting in Dortmund, Germany, where the whole consortium presented the ideas of the SHARE project to journalists from the local press. Press releases were published in the German news services. Directly after the kick-off meeting the official SHARE website was established www.ist-share.org. The website is hosted by Fraunhofer IAIS. The next important dissemination event was a presentation of the SHARE project at a workshop on Sicherheitskommunikation für mobile Hilfsorganisationen organized by the ALCATEL SEL Stiftung in Berlin by beginning of 2005. A paper was published in the workshop proceedings. The event that was most visible in the public up to know was the presentation of the project and demonstration of the first prototype at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany.

The project partners attended various scientific and domain-specific conferences. Scientific papers were published in conference proceedings and international scientific journals. A presentation of the project at the eChallenges conference in Barcelona in October 2006 was in important event for the consortium.
The next important event will be MobileResponse 2007- International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response. This workshop is organized by the SHARE consortium together with the EU project wearIT@work. The workshop will take place in February 2007 at the Fraunhofer Campus in Sankt Augustin, Germany.

For beginning of next year it is also planned to present the SHARE system to other fire departments in Germany and to discuss applicability for real fire operations. The Fire Department of Dortmund will play an important role in this dissemination process.

Finally, the consortium is talking to various companies about marketability of a SHARE product and possible co-operations. Large interest from large companies and from public organizations was observed recently.

Mobile Response 2008

International Symposium on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response

May 29 - 30, 2008
Fraunhofer Campus
Sankt Augustin, Germany

Following the success of Mobile Response 2007, we’d like to announce the continuation of this event in 2008 and invite paper submissions to Mobile Response 2008, the International Symposium on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response.
The gap between the great potential benefit that usable mobile IT could yield in the domain of emergency response and the specific design challenges for such technologies in this particularly demanding domain was the foundation of our decision to create a new venue for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines. Mobile Response 2008 aims at a focussed exchange on how mobile information technology can be effectively used to the benefit of emergency response.
The symposium will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of mobile information technology for emergency response planning and execution.
We invite participation from research, industry and public rescue organizations to enable an in-depth discussion of the opportunities and drawbacks of new digital technologies for emergency response.
Symposium Topics

  • Mobile and wearable computing
  • Context-aware applications
  • Geographic information systems and location-based services
  • Rescue operation management and decision support systems
  • Multimedia and multimodal communication systems
  • Requirements, design and empirical foundations
  • System support for cross-organizational cooperation
  • Critical infrastructure protection
  • Strategies for involving the general public
  • Information systems for environmental monitoring

The URL of the project website is: www.mobile-response.de.

Mobile Response Workshop 2007

International Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response

The international workshop MobileResponse 2007 will take place on February 22-23, 2007 at the Fraunhofer campus in Sankt Augustin. It is organized together with the EU project wearIT@work. We already received more then 30 contributions from the following countries: Austria, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom. Keynote speakers who are well known in the field of emergency response and management will be invited to give presentations at the workshop. Proceedings will be published with a great European Publisher if negotiations will be successful. The URL of the project website is: www.mobile-response.de.

CeBIT 2006

The SHARE system was demonstrated and presented to the public at CeBIT 2006 in Hannover, Germany. An immense interest in the SHARE project and the first prototype was observed. Many official representatives from public institutions, government and industry were visiting our booth.

The system was demonstrated at two separated locations in one exhibition hall. A fire fighting car and three client devices were located at the BMBF (German Ministry for Education and Research). Another two clients and a table with personal equipment of a fire fighter were shown at the Fraunhofer booth. With this set-up it was possible to demonstrate the distributed aspects of the SHARE system very well. The prototype was working over one week without problems with nine operating hours daily.

Many officials visited our booths to get an impression of SHARE. The minister of Defense of New Zealand and the Minister for Environmental Affairs of Australia were impressed to see the functionality that was already available after one year of the project. We also had the chance to demonstrate our system to the president of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Bullinger, with great success.

Presentation of SHARE to the Minister of Defense of New Zealand at CeBIT 2006             Presentation of SHARE at CeBIT 2006
Professor Bullinger at the BMBF booth at CeBIT 2006

Conferences and Publications

Bonardo Davide, Zovato Enrico:
Speech Synthesis Enhancement In Noisy Environments
Proc. InterSpeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium, 27-31 August 2007

Schäfer Klaus, Koch Rainer, Bonardo Davide:
Speech Technology in Advanced Multimodal Mobile Service for the Dortmund Fire Fighters' Emergency Forces
SpeechTEK 2007, New York, 20-23 August 2007

Andras Hajdu and Ioannis Pitas:
Optimal approach for fast object-template matching
IEEE Trans. on Image Processing 16/8 (August 2007), 2048-2057.

Hernandez Ernst, V., Löffler, J.:
Im Notfall Geodaten
GIS Business Zeitschrift, 8/2007, abcverlag GmbH, ISSN 1430-3663, 2007

Pottebaum, J., Löffler, J., Schon, J., Schneider, D., Koch, R.:
SHARE: Semantische Interoperabilität - Ein anwenderorientierter Ansatz
Tagungsband Informatik 2007, 37. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, ISBN 978-3-88579-203-1, 2007

Pottebaum, J., Konstantopoulos, S., Koch, R. and Paliouras, G.:
SaR Resource Management based on Description Logics
In: J. Löffler and M. Klann (eds), 1st Mobile Responses Workshop, Bonn, February 2007.
Proceedings published in Lecture Notes in AI series, vol. 4458, Springer, ISBN-13: 978-3540756675, Berlin, 2007

Löffler, J., Schon, J., Hernandez Ernst, V., Pottebaum, J., Koch, R.:
Intelligent Use of Geospatial Information for Emergency Operation Management
Proceedings of ISCRAM 2007 conference, ISBN 978-90-5487-417-1, 2007

Andras Hajdu and Ioannis Pitas:
Tracing on heterogeneous grids to improve concavity performance of snake algorithms
International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications (ISSPA 2007) (2007), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).

Andras Hajdu and Ioannis Pitas:
Content adaptive heterogeneous snakes
International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2007) (2007), San Antonio, Texas, USA, Vol. I, 253- 256.

Andras Hajdu and Ioannis Pitas:
Compression optimized tracing of digital curves using graph theory
International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2007) (2007), San Antonio, Texas, USA, Vol. VI, 453-456.

Andras Hajdu, Charalambos Giamas and Ioannis Pitas:
Object simplification using skeleton-based weight function
8th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISSCS 2007) (2007), Iasi, Romania, Vol 2, 4 pages.

Andras Hajdu, Charalambos Giamas, Nikolas Vretos and Ioannis Pitas:
Metadata description of thermal videos for rescue operations
8th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISSCS 2007) (2007), Iasi, Romania, Vol 2, 4 pages.

Koch, R., Pottebaum, J., Harnasch, R., Lee, B.-S.:
Advanced Mobile Services for Search and Rescue (SaR)
Presentation at conference eChallenges e-2006, Barcelona, Oct 2006

Dellis, E. and Paliouras, G.:
Management of Large Spatial Ontology Bases
In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases and Information Systems (ODBIS) of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2006), Seoul, Korea, September, 2006.

Roubies, A., Hajdu, A., Pitas, I.:
Optimized chamfer matching for snake-based image contour repre-sentations
Proc. IEEE ICME2006, Toronto, Canada, 9-12 July 2006

Roubies, A., Hajdu, A., Pitas, I.:
Improving the performance of the GVF snake algorithm
Proc. IEEE ISCCSP 2006, Marrakech, Morocco, 13-15 March 2006

Löffler, J., Schon, J., Köhler, J.:
SHARE: Supporting Large-Scale Rescue Operations with Communication and Information Services over Mobile Networks
Conference proceedings of MobiMedia 2006, ACM Digital Library, 2006

Konstantopoulos, S., Paliouras, G., Chatzinotas, S.:
SHARE-ODS: An Ontology Data Service for Search and Rescue Operations
In: Proc. of the 4th Conference of the Hellenic AI Society (SETN 2006), Crete, 2006. Published as Lecture Notes in AI, Vol. 3955, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006.

Löffler, J. and Larson, M.:
Robust Keyword Spotting and Mobile Information Retrieval for Emergency Team Communication in the EU Project SHARE
Speech and Language Technology for Vehicles, Sprache und Datenverarbeitung - International Journal for Language Data Processing, SDV, Vol. 29.2, 2005

Vande Velde, L., Chatzinotas, S., Larson, M., Löffler, J., Paliouras, G.:
Interactive 2D-3D digital maps for the support of emergency forces during rescue operations
Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005

Koch, R., Lee, B.-S., Harnasch, R., Löffler, J., Köhler, J.:
EU-Projekt SHARE: Datenfunkgestütztes multimodales Informationsmanagement für die Einsatzleitung bei Großschadenslagen
Sicherheitskommunikation für mobile Hilfsorganisationen, Alcatel SEL Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung, Stiftungsreihe, ISSN 0932-156x, 2005