SEDM 2012 - Second International Workshop on Smart Environments for Disaster Management (SEDM-2012)

The second International Workshop on Smart Environments for Disaster Management (SEDM-2012) is dedicated to the dissemination of completed or work in progress original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of smart environments and emerging collective and collaborative technologies for the specific purpose of managing disasters. That is to say, SEDM-2012 is focused on the applicability - for the purpose of managing disasters - of autonomous adaptation to complex dynamic environments caused from highly dynamic user contexts. In particular, SEDM-2012 will discuss relevant advances in situated and pervasive computing, that is to say about computing devices having the autonomous ability of adapting, detecting, interpreting and responding to the user's smart environment.
SEDM-2012 will highlight issues from various stakeholders' perspectives. Thus, advances of applicable technologies including internet of things, smart spaces and sensors, context-aware, 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 will to be explored and discussed. The scope of SEDM-2012 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of smart environments and collective intelligence in satisfying the disaster's management challenging requirements. Finally, SEDM-2012 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 smart environments for managing disasters.
The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Internet of Things and Autonomous Adaptation
Changing Network Environments
Distributed Environments, Crowd and Collaborative Computing
Middleware for Pervasive Network Computing
Sensor and Robots Networks in Pervasive Network Computing
Smart Environments and Ambient Intelligence
Transparency, Locality and Scalability Issues in Middleware for Pervasive Network Computing
Interfaces and Methods for Interconnection of Heterogeneous Networks and Devices
Programming Interfaces for Smart Environments, Personalization
New Interactive Styles (of Human Computer Interaction) in Pervasive Network Computing
Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery
System Architectures, Resource Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
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, Crowds, Mashups, etc)
Critical Reviews on Disaster Management stages: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery
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.
Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-chairs:
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Email: n.bessis-AT-derby.ac.uk
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Email: eleana.asimakopoulou-AT-googlemail.com.
Workshop Programme Committee Members:
To be confirmed.
Submission
Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their 4 to 6 pages long manuscripts (with up to 5 keywords) following the IEEE 8.5 two-column format. Full submission guidelines are available from:
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/%7Enet4all/3PGCIC-2012/subm...
To submit, you must follow the instructions, and select the SEDM-2012 workshop among the options. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the SEDM-2012 Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Proceedings
All accepted submissions of the SEDM workshop papers will be included in the main proceedings of the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration by at least one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and archived in the Digital Library. Previous proceedings of the 3PGCIC conferences are available on the IEEE website (www.ieee.org, Xplore service, only abstracts are free).
Best Papers
Selected authors of best papers may invited to submit extended versions of their papers to be published in an edited book volume or in a special issue of a peer reviewed journal.
Important dates
Submission Deadline: 15 May 2012
Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2012
Final Manuscript: 30 July 2012
Author Registration: 30 July 2012
Conference Dates: 12 - 14 November 2012.