MN 2012 - Special Session - Maritime Navigation

The centenary of Titanic's tragedy leads to a reflection on the maritime navigation. Shipping may seem to many a traditional industry well far away from our digital life. However this could not be further from the truth. A vast majority of the world's population depends -in a way or another- on a safe and efficient shipping trade network: 23 million tonnes of cargo and 55,000 passengers travel by ship every day.
Global shipping, maritime safety and security and the movement of goods by sea have seen substantial changes during the last decades in an increasingly interconnected global economy, with the consequence that the traditional techniques are often no longer sufficient to satisfy the needs of the maritime stakeholders.
The ITST 2012 special session on maritime navigation would like to set the basis for an in depth analysis of the last developments in the maritime domain, with the aim to exchange new ideas and to review the progress made from the first International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (1914) that followed the 'unsinkable' liner's fate.
Authors are kindly invited to submit papers on any of the topics listed below:
Maritime Transport:
Route planning in Marine Navigation;
Arctic and Ice Navigation;
Inland Shipping;
Pleasure Cruise;
Collision Avoidance;
Crew and Bridge Resource Management.
Shipyard, VTS and Ports Management:
Ship Handling and Ship Manoeuvring;
Single Window concept;
Ship Construction;
Ship Propulsion Systems;
Automation;
Prototyping.
Safety and Security at Sea:
Decision Support Tools;
Search & Rescue (SAR);
Oil Spill Detection;
Piracy;
Laws, Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence;
Protection of Marine Environment.
Training, Simulations and Planning:
Maritime Educations;
Military Academies and Civil Schools;
Training Centres and Certifications;
Bridge Simulators and Crew Management;
Maritime Spatial Planning.
e-Navigation:
On-Board data integration (INS and IBS);
Harmonized Maritime Presentation and Human Machine Interface (HCI) On Board and Ashore;
Ship-Ship, Ship-Shore, Shore-Ship and Shore-Shore Data Exchange and Communications;
On Board Wireless Communications.
Sensors and Command & Control Components:
Radar, Cameras (E/O, IR);
AIS, LRIT, AtoN;
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS);
Military and Civil Data Links;
Cartography and Electronic Information Display (ECDIS);
Ship Tracking, Recognition & Classifications;
Data Fusion.
Submission of other related topics are also encouraged particularly on new and in progress projects.