International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009)

Co-located with

5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009)

"Connecting the World Wirelessly"

http://iwcmc.com

June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany

Technically Sponsored by ACM

CALL FOR PAPERS

Aims and Scope

The First International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009) will be held in conjunction with IWCMC 2009. The "International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009)" provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in Computer and communication technologies with a particular attention to Emergency Management.

In this workshop, we explore fundamental questions regarding the modern approach to emergency management, taking into accounts the advantages of modern elaboration architectures. In particular the joint approach of grid computing and heterogeneous networking represent one of the most interesting approaches for managing emergency situations.

Areas of Interest

The areas of interest for First International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Mobile Computing for Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms (MCEM 2009) include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Wireless communication for emergency management

- Communication infrastructure

- Heterogeneous networking

- Resource allocations in wireless broadband area networks

- Cognitive radio

- Mobile grids

- Programming models and environments

- Application development methodologies and tools

- Context-Awareness

- Self-awareness (QoS and adaptivity)

- Adaptivity in Computations and Communications

- Integration of communication and computing

- Demo and field trials

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate the study of joint approaches to computing and communication for managing complex situations with a particular focus on emergency management.

Camera Ready Submission Guidelines

The deadline for submitting the camera-ready version paper + Copyright form is April 20, 2009. Please try to submit it earlier if possible.

The paper can be uploaded by login into EDAS using your EDAS user name and accessing the EDAS page for your paper.

The camera-ready version of your paper should incorporate modifications made to address the reviewers comments, and be no more than 5-page long [+2 extra pages at 100 € each] when formatted according to the following ACM guidelines:

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In the mean time, at least one author MUST register & pay the Conference fees before April 20, 2009 deadline [FIRM]. Failure to register by this deadline will result in your paper NOT being included in the ACM Digital Library.

All registrations must be done through: https://iwcmc09.suvisoft.net

For any other information on this issue please refer to the main conference website http://iwcmc.com/

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding six pages (hard limit), including text, figures, tables, and references. Papers must be written in English and must be in standard IEEE conference format. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS system http://edas.info, and must be in PDF format.

For any other information on this issue please refer to the main conference website http://iwcmc.com/

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008

Extended Paper Submission Deadline: January 20, 2009

Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009

Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 20, 2009

Registration Deadline for Authors: April 20, 2009

Workshop Organizing Committee

Workshop Chairs

- Romano Fantacci, University of Florence, Italy

- Francesco Tisato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

- Marco Vanneschi, University of Pisa, Italy

Publicity Chair

- Daniele Tarchi, University of Florence, Italy

TPC Chairs

- Francesco Archetti, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

- Marco Listanti, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

- Aldo Roveri, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

Technical Program Committee

- Marco Aldinucci, University of Pisa, Italy

- Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA

- Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

- Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa, Italy

- Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy

- Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada

- Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

- Dania Marabissi, University of Florence, Italy

- Vincenzina Messina, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

- Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University, Greece

- Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada

- Thierry Priol, INRIA, France

- Alex Rogers, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

- Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

- Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA

Technical Program

MM-2: Room: Schiller 2

Session Title: Emergency Management I (MCEM Workshop)

Session Chair: Romano Fantacci, University of Florence, IT

1569174903 Dynamic Update of Data Analysis Models in Emergency Systems

Daniele Toscani; Marco Frigerio (Consorzio Milano Ricerche, IT); Diego Bernini (University of

Milano-Bicocca, IT)

1569174925 Fast and safe emergency communication through network virtualization

Peter Dedecker (University College Ghent, BE); Jeroen Hoebeke; Dries Naudts; Ingrid Moerman

(Ghent University, BE); Joris Moreau (Hogeschool Gent - Industriële wetenschappen, BE); Piet

Demeester (Ghent University, BE)

1569174973 A Software Architecture for the Deployment of Executable Transformation Models

Diego Bernini (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT); Daniele Toscani; Marco Frigerio (Consorzio

Milano Ricerche, IT)

1569177553 Topology Management for Public Safety Networks

Daniel Camara (EURECOM, FR); Christian Bonnet (Institut Eurecom, FR)

1569182735 Genetic DOA Estimation in Sparse MIMO Systems for localization of rescuers

Laura Pierucci (University of Florence, IT)

1569183101 How to Localize Domain Entities: the Case of a Flooding Prediction and Risk Management System

Daniela Micucci (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)

1569174248 A Software-Defined Radio Receiver for APCO Project 25 Signals

Stephen Glass (Griffith University, AU); Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy (Griffith University, AU);

Marius Portmann (University of Queensland, AU)

TM-2: Room: Schiller 2

Session Title: Emergency Management II (MCEM Workshop)

Session Chair: Daniele Tarchi, University of Florence, IT

1569183135 Scheduling Cooperative Emergency Response (or how the Meek shall overcome the Greedy)

Carol Dottin; Bilal Khan (City University of New York, US)

1569183207 Combining Mobility and Heterogeneous Networking for Emergency Management: a PMIPV6 and HIP-based approach;

Giuliana Iapichino (Eurecom, FR); Christian Bonnet (Institut Eurecom, FR); Oscar Del Rio (ESTEC TOS-ETC, European Space Agency, NL); Cedric Baudoin; Isabelle Buret (Thales Alenia Space, FR)

1569183333 Carawa–A clinical documentation system for use in mobile ad-hoc networks

Martin Lablans; Frank Ueckert (University of Muenster, DE)

1569183345 Design of a Backup Network for Catastrophe Scenarios

Sergio Alves (Collab, PT); Boris Koldehofe (Universitat Stuttgart, DE); Hugo Miranda (Universidade de Lisboa, PT); Francois Taiani (Lancaster University, UK)

1569184307 The Communication Infrastructure for Emergency Management: the In.Sy.Eme. Vision;

Daniele Tarchi (University of Florence, IT); Romano Fantacci (University of Florence, IT); Dania Marabissi (Università di Firenze, IT)

1569183107 Rescue Information System for Earthquake Disasters Based on MANET Emergency Communication Platform,

Hung-Chin Jang (National Chengchi University, TW)

1569176169 Structured and Real Time Heterogeneous Sensor Deployment in Preferential Areas

Rabie Ramadan (German University in Cairo, EG)