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Collaborative Technology for Coordinating Crisis Management (CT2CM)
http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=CT2CM2012 track of WETICE-2012, Toulouse, France This track will take place in Toulouse from June 25th to 27th 2012 during the 21th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2012). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description In crisis situations (natural or industrial disasters, riots, ...), the different actors managing crisis resolution have to act simultaneously in emergency situations to reduce its impacts on the real world. To achieve this common goal as quickly and efficiently as possible, these actors (police, military forces, medical organizations, NGOs but also emerging groups) have to collaborate and act in a coordinated way. In the term 'coordination', we include all the work needed for the actors, for the connected integration of their information systems and also for the flexible synchronization of their efforts, in order to handle the crisis in the most efficient way. Coordination raises several problems such as the definition of the universe of discourse, without which it would be impossible to solve the various semantic conflicts that are bound to occur between several autonomous and heterogeneous actors and their ISs. It involves the finding of partners, emergent partners integration, their collective decisions, partners plans negotiation and the synchronization of the distributed and concurrent execution of their actions and plans. Moreover, in a highly dynamic, open, unstable and uncertain environment, such as the one met in crisis context, coordination should be redesigned to be more reactive, pro-active, adaptive, robust and visible for all the partners while preserving the essential part of their autonomy. It is intended that this track should focus mainly on the benefits of adopting collaborative enabling information technologies such as: Agent based-systems, Collaborative BPMS, Semantic Web or Group Decision Support Systems (DSS). This track will try to address the following issues: how can collaborative information technologies help with the coordination of Crisis Management ? It is meant to cover the foundations, techniques, methodologies and applications of Collaborative Information Technologies for Coordinating Crisis Management. The track is interdisciplinary in nature and open to contributions from fields as varied as Cooperative Information Systems, Multi- Agent Systems, Business Process Management and the Semantic Web. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track topics Topics include, but are not limited to: Cooperative Information Gathering and Situation Awareness, Social Networks (media, citizens, ...) observations, Crisis Ontology, Adaptive and self-organization of the crisis management teams, Information System Interoperability and Inter-organizational issues, Group decision support, Crisis process design, enactment and adaptation, Agent models for : negotiation, trust, resource allocation, planning and acting collaboratively, Crisis Management Systems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions guidelines All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least three reviews for each paper will be conducted. We are looking for submission of full research papers and reports on field studies (up to 8 pages). All track papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the Easychair website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ct2cm2012 and should use the IEEE US letter format. Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published along with the WETICE 2011 proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Note that at least one author from each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2012 for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Download the LateX template in US Letter Download the Word template in US Letter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Papers submission deadline: March 26, 2012 Notification of acceptance to authors: April 16, 2012 Camera Ready papers to IEEE: April 30, 2012 21th IEEE WETICE-2011 conference: June 25-27, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Track co-chairs Fran?ois Charoy, University of Nancy 1, France Chihab Hanachi, University of Toulouse 1, France Serge Stinckwich, UMI 209 UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI), Vietnam Program committee Pedro Antunes, University of Lisboa, Portugal Narjes Bellamine-Ben Saoud, ENSI, Tunisia Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales, Australia Maroua Bouzid, Universit? de Caen Basse Normandie, France Monica B?scher, Lancaster university, United Kingdom Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and technology, Norway Julie Dugdale, Universit? Pierre Mend?s France, France Frank Fiedrich, Public Safety and Emergency Management, Wuppertal University, Germany Hiromitsu Hattori, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan Jozef Ristvej, University of Zilina, Slovakia Pascal Salembier, Universit? de Technologie de Troyes, France Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, Netherlands Gerhard Wickler, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Contact Please contact Serge Stinckwich (Serge DOT Stinckwich AT gmail DOT com) for further enquiries about the workshop. --- |
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