MCEM 2009 - International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM2009)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aims and Scope

The First International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009) will be held in conjunction with IWCMC 2009. The "International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009)" provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in Computer and communication technologies with a particular attention to Emergency Management.

In this workshop, we explore fundamental questions regarding the modern approach to emergency management, taking into accounts the advantages of modern elaboration architectures. In particular the joint approach of grid computing and heterogeneous networking represent one of the most interesting approaches for managing emergency situations.

Areas of Interest

The areas of interest for First International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009) include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wireless communication for emergency management
- Communication infrastructure
- Heterogeneous networking
- Resource allocations in wireless broadband area networks
- Cognitive radio
- Mobile grids
- Programming models and environments
- Application development methodologies and tools
- Context-Awareness
- Self-awareness (QoS and adaptivity)
- Adaptivity in Computations and Communications
- Integration of communication and computing
- Demo and field trials

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate the study of joint approaches to computing and communication for managing complex situations with a particular focus on emergency management.


Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding six pages (hard limit), including text, figures, tables, and references. Papers must be written in English and must be in standard IEEE conference format. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS system http://edas.info, and must be in PDF format.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be included in IEEE Digital Library (pending approval).


Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 15, 2009
Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009


Workshop Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs
- Romano Fantacci, University of Florence, Italy
- Francesco Tisato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Marco Vanneschi, University of Pisa, Italy

Publicity Chair
- Daniele Tarchi, University of Florence, Italy

TPC Chairs
- Francesco Archetti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Marco Listanti, University of Roma ¡°La Sapienza¡±, Italy
- Aldo Roveri, University of Roma ¡°La Sapienza¡±, Italy

Technical Program Committee
- Marco Aldinucci, University of Pisa, Italy
- Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa, Italy
- Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy
- Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
- Dania Marabissi, University of Florence, Italy
- Vincenzina Messina, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University, Greece
- Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Thierry Priol, INRIA, France
- Alex Rogers, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA