EM-GIS 2015 - 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS'2015)

1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS'2015), jointly held with ACM SIGSPATIAL on Nov 3, 2015, Seattle, Washington, USA.
The purpose of the EM-GIS 2015 workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and progress in related areas. This workshop to be jointed with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015 (http://sigspatial2015.sigspatial.org/) conference addresses the challenges of emergency management based on advanced GIS technologies. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in massive spatio-temporal data management, spatial database, spatial data analysis, spatial data visualization, data integration, model integration, cloud computing, parallel algorithms, internet of things, complex event detection, optimization theory, intelligent transportation systems and social networks to support better public policy through disaster detection, response and rescue.
The EM-GIS 2015 workshop welcomes papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on GIS applications associated with emergency management. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to new technologies in GIS, data integration, model integration, disaster detection, response and rescue. A number of invited papers will also be solicited.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Spatial data and models for emergency management
Data integration in emergency management
Model integration in emergency management
Geospatial data mining applications in emergency management
Decision support based on GIS for emergency management
Statistical analysis on massive spatio-temporal data for emergency management
Spatial data analytics in emergency management
Spatial agent-based modeling for emergency management
Event detection techniques based on GIS in emergency management
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis based on GIS for emergency management
Prediction and decision based on GIS in emergency management
Location based rescue resource management in emergency management
Resource planning and scheduling base on GIS
Cloud computing based on GIS in emergency management
Web spatial data analysis in emergency management
Web spatial data processing in emergency management
Web of things based on GIS in emergency management
Spatiotemporal intelligence for spontaneous planning
Important Dates
Full paper due: August 29, 2015
Author Notification: September 19, 2015
Camera-Ready deadline: September 29, 2015
All submissions are due at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Co-Chairs
Yan Huang, University of North Texas, USA, huangyan-AT-unt.edu
Jean-Claude Thill, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, Jean-Claude.Thill-AT-uncc.edu
Hui Zhang, Tsinghua University, China, USA, zhhui-AT-mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
For more information please visit http://www.dviz.cn/em-gis2015/.