The Second International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster management

Event Dates

Nov 30, 2015 - Dec 02, 2015

Location

Rennes, France

Submission Deadline

May 23, 2015

CALL FOR PAPER

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ICT-DM’2015 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied‐focused research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following scope:

– Communication infrastructures, technologies and services for crisis management

– Mobile and wireless communication networks

– Sensor networks

– Opportunistic communications

– Pervasive and mobile computing

– Context-aware computing

– Internet of things for disaster and emergency management

– M2M communications management and operations

– Smart cities for disaster and emergency management

– Cloud computing

– Data/information management and analysis for disaster management

– Querying and filtering on heterogeneous, multi-source streaming disaster data

– Data mining from multiple information and huge sources

– Big data analytics in disaster management

– Social media and networks

– Crowd sourcing

– Coordination, collaboration and decision support technologies and systems for disaster management

– Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

– Cyber-physical systems

– Service Oriented Architectures

– Ontology based approaches

– Prediction and early warning systems

– Security and privacy issues in information sharing

– Human-system interactive information extraction

– Uncertainty and possibly adversity in data handling and delivery

– Situation awareness

– Risk, damage and loss assessment

– Modeling and simulation tools for crisis and disaster situations

– Geo-Information technologies for disaster management

– Remote sensing

– Web mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

– Evacuation and rescue geo-planning

– Open source data and space based resources to support disaster management

– E-governance

– Cyber security

COMMITTEES

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• General Co-Chairs

Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Nadjib Badache, CERIST, Algeria

• Steering Committee

Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, CERIST, Algeria

Nadjib Badache, CERIST, Algeria

Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland

Ahcène Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algeria

Omar Nouali, CERIST, Algeria

• Technical Program Committee Co-chairs

Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, CERIST, Algeria

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, University of Rennes 1, France

Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland

• Local Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

Samer Lahoud, University of Rennes 1, France

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, University of Rennes 1, France

Members

Fabienne Cuyollaa, INRIA, France

Elisabeth Lebret, INRIA, France

Publicity Co-Chairs

Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland

Ivan Gojmerac, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

• Technical Program Committee

Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, University of Technology of Campiegne (UTC), France

Abdelslam Boukhtouta, Defence Scientist, Canada

Adlen Ksentini, IEEE ComSoc, France

Ahcène Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algeria

Ahmed Nacer Mohamed, USTHB University, Algeria

Ajay Kumar, University of Muenster, Germany

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University, Malaysia

Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece

Amir Qayyum, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Pakistan

Antoine Bagula, Cape Town University, South Africa

Antonio De Nicola, ENEA, Italy

Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Bill Karakostas, VLTN GCV, Belgium

Bruno Vallespir, University of Bordeaux, France

Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon 1, France

Djamal Meddour, Orange Labs, France

Djamel Bouchaffra, CDTA, Algeria

Domenico Potena, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Derby, UK

Ernesto Damiani, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Fabio Giulio Tonolo, ITHACA, Italy

Fadila Bentayeb, University of Lyon 2, France

Fouad Bendimerad, Stanford University, USA

Francesco Archetti, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Frédérique Vallée, IEEE, France

Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland

Ghalem Belalem, University of Oran, Algeria

Hassan Badir, National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier, Morocco

Hassina Aliane, CERIST, Algeria

Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany

Ivan Gojmerac, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria

Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia

Jihad Mohamad Aljaam, Qatar University, Qatar

José H. Canós Cerdá, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

José Ramiro Martínez de Dios, University of Seville, Spain

Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland

Keshav Dahal, University of the West of Scotland, UK

Khaled Khan, Qatar University, Qatar

Koushik Sinha, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar

Laurent Franck, Télécom Bretagne / Institut Mines Télécom, France

Laurent Reynaud, Orange Labs, France

Lyes Koukhi, University of Technology of Troyes, France

Malika Silhadi-Mehdi, University of Boumerdes, Algeria

Maniam Kaliannan, Nottingham University of Malaysia, Malaysia

Marc Ibrahim, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon

Marcello Trovati, University of Derby, UK

Marcos R.S. Borges, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mario Lezoche, University of Lorraine, France

Marwen Abdennebi, University of Paris 13, France

Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia

Milan Zdravkovic, University of Nis, Serbia

Mohammed Erradi, Mohamed V-Souissi University, Morocco

Mouloud Atmani, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Murali Raman, Multimedia University, Malaysia

Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Nadir Bouchama, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Nawel Zangar, El Manar University, Tunisia

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Nomusa Dlodlo, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa

Olga Battaïa, EMSE, France

Omar Nouali, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Oriol Sallent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Ovidiu Noran, Griffith University, Austalia

Pantelis Frangoudis, INRIA, France

Pascal Lorenz, IEEE ComSoc, France

Pascal Van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australian National University, Austalia

Pethuru Chelliah, IBM, India

Philippe Bertin, Orange Labs, France

Rahim Kacimi, University of Toulouse , France

Rajat Mehrotra, University of Virginia, USA

Raphael Couturier, University of Franche Comte, France

Ricardo Goncalves, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Rifaat Abdalla, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Robert Dew, Deakin University, Australia

Roman Tandlich, Rhodes University, South Africa

Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France

Saïd Yahiaoui, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Samira Moussaoui, USTHB, Algeria

Sergio Toral Marín, University of Seville, Spain

Sid Ahmed Hamdaoui, University of Science and Technology of Oran, Algeria

Sidi Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France

Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden

Sisi Zlatanova, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Sivasothy Shanmugalingam, Astellia, France

Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, Greece

Sonia Pajkovska, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany

Soufiène Djahel, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland

Sofiane Hamrioui, USTHB, Algiers, Algeria, GRTC, UHA, France.

Stefan Sackmann, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

Stelios Sotiriadis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Tuong Thuy Vu, University of Nottingham, Malaysia campus, Malaysia

Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Yacine Belhoul, CERIST Research Center, Algeria

Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France

Yao-Nan Lien, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, University of Rennes 1, France

Yingpeng Sang, Beijing Jiao Tong University, China

Zaia Alimazighi, USTHB, Algeria

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates

Zonghua Zhang, Telecom Lille, France

AUTHORS

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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published.

Manuscript format

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of Eight (7) printed pages (10-point font) including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge if accepted). Papers should follow the IEEE formatting rules.

Standard IEEE Conference templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submission

Papers should be submitted in .pdf format using EasyChair submission link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictdm2015

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