CIDM 2013 - The Fourth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2013)

The fourth International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2013) is dedicated to the dissemination of completed or work in progress original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging computational and collaborative technologies for the purpose of managing disasters. Various advanced and emerging computational paradigms could be applied as a means to mitigate and prepare for, respond to and recover from growing occurrences of natural and man-made disasters. Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilization of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence that it is required in the decision-making for protecting lives, organizations, property, environment and technical infrastructures. CIDM-2013 aims to prompt relevant discussion and highlight issues related to the stakeholders' needs and the available technologies, which could be applied to support the operation and functioning during the aforementioned disaster stages.
CIDM-2013 will highlight issues from various stakeholders' perspectives as well as discuss advanced ICTs supporting stakeholders' operations. Thus, advances of applicable technologies including smart spaces and sensors, context-aware, Internet of Things, situated and pervasive computing, geographical information systems, ad-hoc mobile networks, wireless communications, grid and cloud computing, social networks, Web 2.0 and crowd sourcing need to be discussed.
Following last years' successes, the scope of CIDM-2013 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of computational intelligence in satisfying the disaster's management domain challenging requirements. Finally, CIDM-2013 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions in the emerging area.
Topics
Papers should be focused on past, current and emerging methods and/or use of technologies with a particular focus to the computational intelligence in the decision-making required for managing disasters.
The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Critical Reviews on Disaster Management stages: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery
Critical Reviews on Computational Intelligence, Decision, Operational and Risk Management
Critical Reviews on Implications and Impacts of Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management
Ad-Hoc (Social) Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Continuity and Recovery
Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery
Security, Trust, Service Reliability, Identity Management and Privacy
System Architectures, Resource Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
Artificial Intelligence, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
Ontology Management, Semantics, Meta-data, Mining, Clustering, Partitioning
Enabling Technologies (Social Networking, Web 2.0, Geographical Information Systems, Early Warning and Alerting Systems, Sensors, Smart Spaces, Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks, Wireless Communications, Pervasive, Situated, Context-Aware Computing, Web Services, Multi-Agents, Grids, P2P, Clouds, Internet of Things, Crowds, Mashups, Robots, etc)
Stakeholders Structures and Dynamics, Needs Analysis, Contingency Planning, Policies, Public Awareness, Training, Resilience, Hazard Identification, Monitoring and Assessment, Urban Risks, Public Safety and Disturbance, Pandemics, Sustainable Livelihood
Languages, Components, Programs, Knowledge Portals and/or Applications
Future Concepts and Frameworks in various Disaster Management settings
Organising Committee
Workshop Co-chairs:
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
eleana.asimakopoulou-AT-googlemail.com
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
n.bessis-AT-derby.ac.uk