AIEM 2014 - Workshop on Advances in Intelligent Environmental Monitoring

In this day and age, environmental changes can be caused by either natural disaster; such as floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, etc., or by human related factors and practices; such as industrial pollution and urban development. Whatever the cause of environmental changes, the result may not only be in the loss of life and property in the short term, but also environmental degradation in the long term. To conserve our environment, it is essential to effectively monitor environmental changes; such as variations in the conditions, patterns, and dynamics of air, water, and land resources.
Developing low cost intelligent sensor-network based monitoring systems, enables collecting and processing environmental data into information that can be used for management and planning as well as prediction and recovery.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a scientific forum gathering people with different backgrounds in at least one of the areas relevant to this new multidisciplinary field of research; namely academia, researchers, and industry partners, for discussing the recent advances in sensors for environmental variables, wireless sensor networks, environmental data processing, robotics, etc.
Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
Wireless Sensor Networks for environmental monitoring
Water quality monitoring
Air quality and climate monitoring
Soil quality monitoring
Food quality monitoring
Aquatic and coastal environments monitoring
Remote sensing and GIS
Environmental image processing and data analysis
Decision support systems for environmental monitoring
Recommender systems for environmental monitoring
Energy and Security constraints in environmental monitoring networks
Ubiquitous and context-aware computing
Intelligent user interfaces
Computational intelligence applications in environmental monitoring
Data-driven modelling and optimization techniques
Remote sensing and sensor technologies
GIS and GPS environmental monitoring
Knowledge, metadata, and data management
Model interoperability and standardization
Web-based applications and environmental maps
Natural disasters forcasting systems (floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides)
Early Warning Systems
Disaster mitigation
Robotics
Paper Submission
Papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using EasyChair.
Papers are up to 6 pages and must be formatted according to the ACM proceedings format which can be found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t....
Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected.
Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer reviewers. After the preliminary notification date, authors rebut by evidence and arguments all reviewer inquiries and their comments.
Based on the rebuttal feedback, reviewers notify authors with the final decision.
Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics related to Digital Ecosystems. At least one author should attend the conference to present the paper.
The conference Proceedings will be published by ACM and indexed by the ACM Digital Library and DBLP.
Important dates
Full Papers Submission: May 12, 2014
Rebuttal Deadline: 22 May 2014
Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 23, 2014
Camera ? ready papers: August 07, 2014
Workshop days: September 15-17, 2014
Workshop chairs
Nashwa El-Bendary
Chair of Intelligent Environments and Applications (IEA) Track, (SRGE)
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
Cairo, Egypt
nashwa.elbendary-AT-ieee.org
Aboul Ella Hassanien
Chair of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE)
Information Technology Dept., Faculty of Computers and Information
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Abo-AT-egyptscience.net