[LINK] Emergency Management Seminar, Canberra, 14 July 2006

[Tom Worthington]

Dr. Andreas Meissner from Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, will be 
presenting a seminar on Emergency Management and Security Research, 
here at the Australian National University in Canberra on Friday: 
<http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=224>

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NICTA ASSET SEMINAR

Emergency Management and Security Research
Dr. Andreas Meissner (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)

DATE: 2006-07-14
TIME: 12:30:00 - 13:30:00
LOCATION: RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North 
and Daley Roads, ANU



ABSTRACT:
The presentation will address work in security research carried out 
both at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany and at NICTA's Queensland 
Research Lab. Fraunhofer's ICT group is a major player in this field 
in Europe. Following an introduction to the group's mission and 
structure, the MIKoBOS demonstrator will be discussed, allowing 
emergency services to expand their HQ dispatch system to the 
emergency site. An ongoing survey project at NICTA's Queensland Lab 
looks into emergency management practice and contributions from the 
academic community, covering Australia on a state-by-state basis as 
well as New Zealand. The second half of the talk will give a glimpse 
at this work-in-progress.

BIO:
I joined the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute 
in 1997 after completing my Master's in Business Administration and 
Computer Science at the University of Mannheim. Since then, I've 
worked on a number of national and international research projects in 
the field of Mobile Networking. In particular, I was responsible for 
IPSI's contributions to COSMOS and GCAP. I've also taught at 
Technical University of Darmstadt -- for recent activities see my 
group's teaching site. Since 2002, I am the head of IPSI's Mobile 
Distributed Information Systems division. In 2004/2005, I worked, in 
addition to my IPSI affiliation, as a guest researcher at TU 
Braunschweig's IBR Institute in the group of Prof. Dr. Lars Wolf.

My current research interests are Mobile Networking, Telematics, and 
'e-Emergency', i.e. IT support for Emergency Services and Disaster Response.
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