CIDM 2012 - Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM 2012)

The third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2012) is dedicated to the dissemination of completed or work in progress original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of emerging computational and collaborative technologies for the purpose of managing disasters. Various advanced and emerging computational paradigms could be applied as a means to mitigate and prepare for, respond to and recover from growing occurrences of natural and man-made disasters. Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilization of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence that it is required in the decision-making for protecting lives, organizations, property, environment and technical infrastructures. CIDM-2012 aims to prompt relevant discussion and highlight issues related to the stakeholders' needs and the available technologies, which could be applied to support the operation and functioning during the aforementioned disaster stages.
CIDM-2012 will highlight issues from various stakeholders' perspectives including civil protection, fire and rescue services, ambulance and health services, humanitarian bodies and, technical infrastructure managers and administrators. CIDM-2012 aims also to discuss advanced ICTs supporting stakeholders' operations. Thus, advances of applicable technologies including 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 need to be discussed.
Following last years' successes, he scope of CIDM-2012 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of computational intelligence in satisfying the disaster's management domain challenging requirements. Finally, CIDM-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 the computational intelligence in the decision-making required for managing disasters.
The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
Critical Reviews on Disaster Management stages: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery
Critical Reviews on Computational Intelligence, Decision, Operational and Risk Management
Critical Reviews on Implications and Impacts of Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management
Ad-Hoc (Social) Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Continuity and Recovery
Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery
Security, Trust, Service Reliability, Identity Management and Privacy
System Architectures, Resource Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
Artificial Intelligence, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
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)
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
Languages, Components, Programs, Knowledge Portals and/or Applications
Future Concepts and Frameworks in various Disaster Management settings.
Organizing Committee
Workshop Co-chairs:
Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Email: eleana.asimakopoulou-AT-googlemail.com
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Email: n.bessis-AT-derby.ac.uk
Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Email: fatos-AT-lsi.upc.edu.
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. You can find instructions to format the Proceedings Manuscript, at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/.
Full submission guidelines are available from: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/~incos2012/submission.....
To submit, you must follow the instructions, and select the CIDM-2012 workshop among the options. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the CIDM-2012 Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Presented papers at IEEE CIDM-2012 international workshop will be considered for publication in a book volume or in a Special Issue in a refereed International Journal.
Proceedings
The INCoS 2012 proceedings will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service in the form of CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be accessible on-line. All accepted submissions including CIDM workshop papers will be included in the 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.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 25 March 2012
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2012
Camera-Ready Submission: 15 May 2012
Registration: 15 May 2012
Workshop and INCoS main Conference: 19 - 21 September 2012.