Call for Papers: First International Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management
March 24-25, 2014 Algiers, Algeria
Paper Submission deadline: September 23, 2013
ICT-DM’2014 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research. The conference topics are (but not limited to):
Communication systems for disaster management
Infrastructures, technologies and services for distributed crisis management teams and organizations
Mobile and wireless communication networks
Hastily formed networks (MANETs, Mesh, VANETs, Sensor, …)
Opportunistic communications
Multi-platform and multi-sensor data collection
Infrastructure protection and security
Interoperability of heterogeneous systems
Coordination and collaboration technologies and systems for disaster management
Collaborative information systems architectures, frameworks, technologies
Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and limited resources
Service Oriented Architectures for collaboration
Ontology approaches
Contextual and situation-based collaboration
Security and privacy concerns in information sharing
Cloud computing for disaster management
Pervasive and mobile computing
Social media and networks for participation and collaboration
Modeling and simulation of collaboration
Data/information management and analysis for disaster management
Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data
Human-system interactive information extraction
Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery
Context-awareness information analysis and extraction
Data mining from multiple information and huge sources
Mining and making decisions on time-evolving and uncertain data
Crowd sourcing
Trust and information credibility in social networks
Damage and loss assessment
Post disaster needs assessment
Geo-Information technologies for disaster management
Geospatial information technology and geo-collaboration
Situation awareness
Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Integration of data: building information models (BIM) and GIS
Standardization developments (models, icons, symbols)
Visualization and visual analytics
Evacuation and rescue geo-planning
Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management
Preparation and mitigation for managing disasters
Prediction and early warning
Remote sensing
Risk assessment, modeling and simulation tools for crisis situations
Healthcare crisis information systems
Multimedia-based communication skills for citizens and civil servants
E-government and population education
Practices for risk reduction and rapid response in developing countries
ICT in emergency planning and civil protection
Case studies, particular incidents and learned lessons
Benchmark and case studies in e-governance for disaster management
Case studies of the use of social media and networks
Innovative uses of technologies adapted to the readiness
Requests can be sent to:
E-Mail: ictdm2014@gmail.com
Fax: +213 (0) 21 91 21 26
