EMSOA 2010 - EMSOA 2010 : International Workshop on Emergency Management through Service Oriented Architectures

International Workshop on Emergency Management through *
Service Oriented Architectures *
in conjunction with *
ServiceWave 2010 Conference *
* *
http://emsoa2010.ws.dei.polimi.it *


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: **** October 23, 2010 ****
Notification: November 13, 2010
Workshop Date: December 13, 2010
Camera Ready Copy (PostProceedings): December 31, 2010


Emergency Management Information Systems (EMISs), usually employed in the Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), provide a set of ICT tools for supporting the emergency management process during its entire lifecycle: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery phases. More specifically, during the pre-event phases, emergency operators can take advantage of an EMIS for designing a contingency scenario and deriving the related contingency plan. Likewise, during emergency, information systems guide the involved EOC operators through the execution of the contingency plan workflows. At the current stage, the presence of diverse EMISs accessible to heterogeneous users and stakeholders both in expertise and in specializations generates in a non-crisis time the collection of a huge amount of disaggregated data and misaligned procedures that may cause, in an emergency context, failing results. In addition, in multi-hazard and multi-risk scenarios, the collection of disaster agent-g!

enerated requests changes as time passes from the time of impact; requests associated with initial impact may decline while new demands arise from secondary threats. These changes occurring over time may be associated to information and/or operation management needs. Moreover, the coordination of actors on the fields require flexible approaches based on collaborative tools supporting processes and access to services.

ICT solutions for emergency management need to cope with these dynamic scenarios by proposing methods and tools for integrating heterogeneous systems. In this scenario, service orientation is considered as the most promising paradigm to make the integration possible.

Goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of emergency management in order to improve these current approaches. In particular, crisis and risk management requires a flexible EMIS architecture, easily customizable, to support people on the field by considering the actual characteristics of the disruptive event that has occurred. This architecture needs to involve the adoption of emergent technologies, such as lightweight and highly configurable multi-agent systems, service oriented solutions in mobile environments , or ad-hoc sensor networks. In addition, it is fundamental to have an enriched information management that allows the collection, the classification and the extraction of data throughout the overall amount of information inflowing into the process. Such information regards data not only coming from sensor networks and connected EMIS, but also gathered from external and not-supervised data sources as Web sites and Social Ne!

tworks.



TOPICS OF INTEREST
EMSOA 2010 welcomes research submissions and real-world experiences on all topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Service-based architectures for EMIS
Services supporting disaster management
Sensors as a Service
Adaptive service coordination and management
Data and service modelling for emergency scenarios
Ontologies and standards for emergency scenarios
Light and flexible approaches to integration
Grid-based systems for crisis management


SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers (written in English). Workshop papers will be published as a joint ServiceWave workshops post-proceedings in the Springer LNCS Services Science series.

Paper submission will be handed electronically through Easy Chair
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If you have never used EasyChair before, notice that you have to create an account (free) with EasyChair to obtain a password and log in before you can make the submission.

Full research papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS style format describing novel solutions to relevant problems.

We also welcome a stream for short papers for work-in-progress and/or position statements (particularly, from industry). Short papers (position papers / work-in progress papers) should not exceed 6 pages in Springer LNCS style format describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. About the registration, please see details at the Service Wave website:

http://servicewave.eu/2010/



WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Massimo Mecella (SAPIENZA Universit? di Roma, Italy)
Pierluigi Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
For any additional info please visit the workshop web site at http://emsoa2010.ws.dei.polimi.it

If you have any queries about the workshop, please contact

plebani[at]elet[dot]polimi[dot]it
mecella[at]dis[dot]uniroma1[dot]it