Topics

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 Computational decision, risk assessment and management, business continuity and recovery

o Threat detection, prevention, monitoring, management and recovery (including network recovery)

o Needs analysis, contingency planning, policies, public awareness, training, resilience

o Risk identification, monitoring and assessment, safety, disturbance, pandemics, sustainable livelihood

o Security, trust, service reliability, identity management and privacy

o Ad-hoc networks, (sensor) network topologies & dynamics, network graphs, social networking analysis 

o Artificial intelligence (AI), self-adaptive agents evolutionary computing, multi-objective optimization

o Machine and deep learning, data/IoT analysis, mining, visual computing, visual analytics

o Critical infrastructures, early warning and alerting systems, remote sensing, wireless communications, geographical information systems, satellite imagery, fault tolerance 

o System architecture, languages, components, protocols, programs, portals, applications, dashboards

o Future Concepts and Frameworks in various disaster management settings