PerNEM 2014 - The 4th International Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management

The PerNEM2014 workshop, to be held in Budapest Hungary, in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2014 builds on the very successful PerMEM 2012 and Pernem 2013 workshops. It will address the unique technical and scientific challenges of emergency and crisis management, which require effective sensing, communications and decision making with stringent time constraints in dynamic environments. Pervasive systems can provide decision support to rescuers and evacuees, collecting information that is vital for the emergency operation. This workshop will focus on pervasive networked sensing and decision making, both wired and wireless, for emergency management, including advances in sensing, communication, decision support, simulation tools, modelling methods and experimental evaluation.
Topics
PerNEM 2014 will bring together contributions which include but are not limited to the following areas:
Networked sensors for emergency management
Pervasive middleware for emergency management
Architectures and Systems for Emergency Management Applications
Decentralised algorithms for pervasive systems
Modeling and Performanxce Evaluation for Emergency Management
Self-aware and self- adaptive network design and evaluation
Network self-healing, security and self-defence
Energy efficiency in pervasive networks
Wireless Networks for emergency support
Mobile sensors for disaster monitoring
Wireless Protocols for Emergency Management
Networked robotics for wireless communications
Emergency Communication Systems
Pervasive emergency management systems
QoS in critical communications
Adaptive Routing for Emergency Situations