About the Workshop

The goal of the 2nd International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTeS) 2020 is to explore the application of new and innovative technology research towards improving emergency response and management. The focus is to provide an inter-disciplinary platform for researchers to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, stimulate new research, and foster collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, social scientists, representatives from government and non-governmental organizations and disaster science experts to develop recommendations for effective emergency response.

Call for Papers

Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics that tentatively include, but are not limited to:

• Emergency communication infrastructures, technologies and services
• Peer-to-peer networks based emergency communication systems and protocols
• Modeling and simulation tools for emergency situations
• Crowd sourcing, remote sensing, cyber-physical systems for emergency response
• Coordination, collaboration and decision support systems
• Big data analytics in emergency management
• Blockchain applications in emergency management
• Logistics and supply chain management in emergency response
• IoT based solutions for emergency response
• Emergency management in smart city environments
• Querying and filtering of heterogeneous, multi-source and multi-modal situational data
• Post disaster damage and loss assessment
• Planning, foresight and risk analysis
• Security and privacy issues in information sharing
• Social media and networks for emergency response and management
• Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for emergency response