First International Workshop on
Smart Environments and Collective Intelligence for Disaster Management (SECIDM-2011)

http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/research/secidm2011

in conjunction with the
8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems
(MobiWIS 2011)
September 19-21, 2011, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/

Aims and Scope
The first International Workshop on Smart Environments and Collective Intelligence for Disaster Management (SECIDM-2011) 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 specific purpose of managing disasters. Various advanced and emerging 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. Such emerging technologies include recent advances in situated and pervasive environments, which enable a more informed decision making via the autonomous service adaptation caused from a highly dynamic crowd.

SECIDM-2011 will focus on the 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. The scope of SECIDM-2011 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of utilising smart environments and collective intelligence in satisfying the disaster’s management domain challenging requirements. Finally, SECIDM-2011 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:
o Critical Reviews on ICT for Disaster Management
o Critical Reviews on Computational and/or Collective Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence
o Artificial Intelligence, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents
o Critical Reviews on Threat Detection for Secure Environments
o Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery
o Security, Trust, Service Reliability, Identity Management and Privacy
o Ad-Hoc (Social) Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Continuity and Recovery
o System Architectures, Resource Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring
o Ontology Management, Semantics, Meta-data, Mining, Clustering, Partitioning
o Smart Environments, Complexity and Autonomous Adaptation
o Programming and Middleware for Pervasive Network Computing
o Sensor and Robots Networks in Pervasive Network Computing
o Transparency, Locality and Scalability Issues in Middleware for Pervasive Network Computing
o Interfaces and Methods for Interconnection of Heterogeneous Networks and Devices
o 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)
o 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
n.bessis at derby.ac.uk

Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, UK
eleana.asimakopoulou at googlemail.com

Workshop Programme Committee Members (TBC):

Submission
Submitted papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their 6 pages long manuscripts (with up to 5 keywords) following the format according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Elsevier. The authors must follow the Elsevier guidelines as given in MobiWIS-2011Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobiwis-11/ . To submit, you must follow the instructions, and select the SECIDM-2011 workshop among the Easychair options. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two or more independent referees of the SECIDM-2011 Workshop programme committee and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit, originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Proceedings
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 main proceedings. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the MobiWIS-2011 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The selective outstanding papers presented at the SECIDM-2011 workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: May 3, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2011
Author Registration: May 30, 2011
Final Manuscript: June 20, 2011
Conference Dates: September 19-21, 2011