Table of Contents International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies Volume 7 • Issue 4 • October-December-2016 • ISSN: 1947-3532 • eISSN: 1947-3540 An official publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Special Issue on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management; Guest Editorial Preface

v Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, , Rennes,

Samer Lahoud, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France

Research Articles

1 Modelling and Monitoring Environmental Risks through a Semantic Framework;

Domenico Calcaterra, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, , Catania, Italy

Marco Cavallo, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Giuseppe Di Modica, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Orazio Tomarchio, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

22 Designing Information Systems to Facilitate Civil-Military Cooperation in Disaster Management;

Wolfgang Vorraber, Department of Engineering and Business Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Gerald Lichtenegger, Department of Engineering and Business Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Julia Brugger, Department of Engineering and Business Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Ivan Gojmerac, Digital Safety and Security Department, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Maria Egly, Digital Safety and Security Department, Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Katrin Panzenböck, Public Social Responsibility Institute, Vienna, Austria

Erik Exner, ICT Innovation Division, Command Support Center, Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna, Austria

Helmut Aschbacher, XiTrust Secure Technologies, Graz, Austria

Markus Christian, ICT Innovation Division, Command Support Center, Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna, Austria

Siegfried Voessner, Department of Engineering and Business Informatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

41 Security in Transnational Interoperable PPDR Communications: Threats, Requirements and Architecture Solution;

Ramon Ferrús, Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona,

Oriol Sallent, Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Cor Verkoelen, Den Haag, Netherlands

Frank Fransen, TNO, Den Haag, Netherlands

Keld Andersen, Motorola Solutions, Glostrup, Denmark

Christian Bjerrum-Niese, Motorola Solutions, Glostrup, Denmark

Jaakko Saijonmaa, Airbus Defence & Space OY, Helsinki, Finland

Claudia Olivieri, Finmeccanica S.p.a., Genova, Italy

Michel Duits, Direktoratet for Nødkommuikasjon, Oslo, Norway

Anita Galin, MSB-Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, Karlstad, Sweden

Franco Pangallo, Radio Mobile Department, Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni (ISCOM), Rome, Italy

Debora Proietti Modi, Radio Mobile Department, Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni (ISCOM), Rome, Italy

61 Proximity-Based Alert Forwarding Under Varying Mobility Levels in Adhoc Networks;

Konstandinos Koumidis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of , , Cyprus

Panayiotis Kolios, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Christos Panayiotou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

Georgios Ellinas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

77 An Open Source Approach for Watershed’s Delimitation to Support Flood Monitoring;

Tiago Carvalho, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP), Campinas, Brazil

Leonardo B. L. Santos, Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil

Eduardo F. P. Luz, Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil

Rogério Ishibashi, Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil

Aurelienne A. S. Jorge, Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil

Luciana R. Londe, Brazilian National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), São José dos Campos, Brazil Copyright The International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) (ISSN 1947-3532; eISSN 1947-3540), Copyright © 2016 IGI Global. All rights, including translation into other languages reserved by the publisher. No part of this journal may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher, except for noncommercial, educational use including classroom teaching purposes. Product or company names used in this journal are for identification purposes only. Inclusion of the names of the products or companies does not indicate a claim of ownership by IGI Global of the trademark or registered trademark. The views expressed in this journal are those of the authors but not necessarily of IGI Global.

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