2nd International Workshop on
Collaboration in Emergency Response and Disaster Management (ERDM 2014)
Call for Papers and Participation
As part of
The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014)
May 19-23, 2014
The Commons Hotel
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP
(Pending)
Extended Submission Deadline: January 30, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Disasters are events that cause dramatic losses of life and property and disrupt the normal functioning of the economy and society on a large scale. Disaster management is a multifaceted process aimed at minimizing the social and physical impact of these large-scale events. Emergency response seeks to contain the event and minimize loss of life and injuries (rescue), health impacts, and property loss. Examples of immediate response include search and rescue operations. Responding to disasters involves such information- and communication-intensive activities as planning and marshaling available resources and materiel, mobilizing and organizing sufficient skilled personnel, determining emergency situations and levels, deploying them with those resources to where they are needed, and finally coordinating their activities and services. Specific tasks include establishing connectivity with potential resource and service providers, authorizing the use of resources and coordinating their use into something akin to a supply chain, integrating information from diverse (including ad hoc) sources, reducing the volume of data to relevant information for recipients, directing ongoing operations based on an overall awareness of the situation, adjusting and altering prior plans and commitments based on the evolving situation, and supporting collaboration and distributed decision making.
This workshop on Collaborations in Emergency Response and Disaster Management – to be held as part of the 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2014) – will focus on collaborative systems and technologies that support effective team work in crisis and emergency management. Emergency response and disaster management typically require collective intelligence from multiple, distributed agencies, task groups, and individuals, and involve making collaborative decisions and taking coordinated actions. However, current information systems are rarely designed to support group work in emergency response situations. There is a need for establishing a long-term, interdisciplinary research agenda that aims to improve information technology support to collaborations in disaster management and emergency response.
The objective of this workshop is to highlight key design challenges and major advances in the design, implementation, and assessment of collaborative technologies for crisis management. We invite original contributions from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry in this emerging field.
ERDM Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:
Conceptualizing the roles of information technologies in collaborations during emergency response and disaster management
Social Media and Networks in Crisis and Disasters
Emergency and Disaster Prediction
Collaborative sense-making and information foraging
Collaborative decision-making under stress, time pressure and inadequate resources
Supporting collaborations in emergency operation centers (EOCs).
Infra-structures, technologies and services for mediating same-time, different place collaboration communications among distributed crisis management teams and organizations
Supporting collaborations among citizens (in disaster impacted area) through personal mobile computing devices and novel information services
Social Science aspects of Emergency Response and Disaster Management
Collaborative information systems architectures, technologies, or algorithms that address particular challenges in crisis management
Collaborative virtual environment for situation awareness
Experiences in applying collaborative technologies to emergency responses or exercises
Geospatial information technology and geocollaboration
Military/civilian and federal/state/local cultural and doctrinal conflicts
Implications of Web 2.0 society as resource/threat
Geo-Information technologies for disaster management
Gamification in emergency management/response
Community Engagement and Volunteer Involvement
International Humanitarian Aid and Cooperation
Special Needs Groups in Crisis and Emergency Situations
Planning and Logistics for Disaster Mitigation
Animals and Crops in Disasters
Instructions for Authors:
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to collaborative emergency response and disaster management. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged at additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and poster (please refer to http://cts2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission details) will also be accepted. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author is responsible for correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop submission Web page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=erdm2014 . If the submission is for a short paper, a poster paper, or a poster, please indicate that on the manuscript as well.
Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, technical clarity, and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2014 web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services accordingly.
If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------- January 30, 2014
Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------- February 17, 2014
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: -------- March 10, 2014
Conference Dates: -------------------------------------- May 19 - 23, 2014
Workshop Organizers
Guoray Cai
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Penn state University - University Park , PA, USA
Voice: +1 814-865-4448
Fax: +1 814-865-5604
Email: cai@ist.psu.edu
Junaid A. Zubairi
Department of Computer Science
SUNY at Fredonia, NY, USA
Voice: +1 716-673-4694
Fax: +1 716-673-4821
Email: zubairi@fredonia.edu
Technical Program Committee *:
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in CTS 2014.
Kenneth Anderson, University of Colorado-Boulder, CO, USA
Vincenzo Ferrara, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada
Sajjad A. Madani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
Athar Mahboob, DHA Suffa University, Pakistan
Omer Mahmoud, International Islamic University, Malaysia
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA
TBA, TBA
(*Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.)
For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://cts2014.cisedu.info or contact one of the Conference's organizers or Co-Chairs.