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SWDM-WWW 2012 : First International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management at WWW 2012

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Link: http://swdmwww12.wordpress.com/
 
When Apr 17, 2012 - Apr 17, 2012
Where Lyon, France
Submission Deadline Jan 23, 2012
Notification Due Jan 30, 2012
Final Version Due Mar 8, 2012
Categories    social web   disaster
 

Call For Papers

            C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

First International Workshop on Social Web for Disaster Management (SWDM)

            In conjunction with WWW 2012

            April 17, 2012 - Lyon, France

                http://swdmwww12.wordpress.com/

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*** Submission deadline: January 23, 2012 *** Submit by e-mail to swdmwww12@gmail.com
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The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in employing data from the social Web for disaster management. While traditionally a handful of news channels report updates, recently citizens and organizations have used multiple communication channels to share, predict, detect, discuss and report on large-scale events. Prime examples are the communications patterns and sharing motifs that emerged shortly after the London underground bombings (cell-phone based updates), Hurricane Katrina (Craigslist), or the Hudson River plane crash (Twitter). Existing approaches to mining public feeds are primarily aimed at searching for specific information or providing general trends within the whole dataset, and crucially post event (e.g. time or location based crowd clustering). To enable effective management of large-scale events, whether natural or economic disasters, there is a need for advances in situational awareness and reduction in response times in disaster management processes. In order to achieve that, a system needs to go beyond using post-event system-generated data, and incorporate both algorithm and crowdsourcing techniques to gather, analyze, organize and then visualize Web data and activity around an event in real-time.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not restricted to the following:
* Making sense of social Web Data in disasters
* Mining community generated feeds to obtain situational awareness of the events
* Modeling global events from a variety of Web sources
* Trust model for Web-based community contributions to extract credible information
* Web-platform for Disaster Management
* Cross-referencing, summarizing and presenting social Web in consumable manner

IMPORTANT DATES
Manuscripts due: January 23, 2012
Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2012
Final revised manuscript: March 8, 2012
Workshop: April 17, 2012

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We welcome original, unpublished manuscripts of up to 4 pages.  Vision papers and work-in-progress are welcomed as abstracts (2 pages). Papers must follow ACM SIG format (2-column).
Papers are to be submitted by emailing:  swdmwww12@gmail.com

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Maja Vukovic, IBM Research, USA, maja@us.ibm.com
Soundar Kumara, Penn State University, USA, skumara@psu.edu
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Oulu, Finland, vassilis@ee.oulu.fi

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Prof. Reka Albert, Penn State, USA
Col (Ret) William Crowder, LMI, USA
Dr. Li Ying Cui, Kimberley Clark, USA
Dr. Jason Ellis, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
Prof. Lee Giles, Penn State University, USA
Prof. Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse, France
Prof. Pinar Keskinocak, Georgia Tech, USA
Dr. Afra J. Mashhadi, UCL, UK
Prof. Jonghun Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Dr. Gopal Pingali, IBM India Research Lab, India
Jakob Rogstadius, University of Madeira, Portugal
Prof. S. Rajagopalan, IIIT-B, India
Prof. S. Sadagopan, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India
Prof. Munindar Singh, North Carolina State, University, USA

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