Aims and Scope

The third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management (CIDM-2012) 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 purpose of managing disasters. Various advanced and emerging computational 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. Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilization of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence that it is required in the decision-making for protecting lives, organizations, property, environment and technical infrastructures. CIDM-2012 aims to prompt relevant discussion and highlight issues related to the stakeholders’ needs and the available technologies, which could be applied to support the operation and functioning during the aforementioned disaster stages.

CIDM-2012 will highlight issues from various stakeholders’ perspectives including civil protection, fire and rescue services, ambulance and health services, humanitarian bodies and, technical infrastructure managers and administrators. CIDM-2012 aims also to discuss advanced ICTs supporting stakeholders’ operations. Thus, 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 need to be discussed.

Following last years’ successes, he scope of CIDM-2012 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of computational intelligence in satisfying the disaster’s management domain challenging requirements. Finally, CIDM-2012 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 Disaster Management stages: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery

o Critical Reviews on Computational Intelligence, Decision, Operational and Risk Management

o Critical Reviews on Implications and Impacts of Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management

o Ad-Hoc (Social) Networking Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Continuity and Recovery

o Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery

o Security, Trust, Service Reliability, Identity Management and Privacy

o System Architectures, Resource Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring

o Artificial Intelligence, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents

o Ontology Management, Semantics, Meta-data, Mining, Clustering, Partitioning

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

o Languages, Components, Programs, Knowledge Portals and/or Applications

o Future Concepts and Frameworks in various Disaster Management settings