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The 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Resilient Information and Communication Technologies for Management of Natural Disasters (RITMAN 2014)

June 16, 2014, Sydney, Australia http://newslabx.csie.ntu.edu.tw/RITMAN14/

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GENERAL INFORMATION --------------------------------

RITMAN 2014 is the second of the workshop series on resilient information and communication technologies (ICT) for management of natural disasters and will be held at Sydney, Australia in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2014. The previous workshop RITMAN 2012 was held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2012), December 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. Disaster management is a multi-phase process, from mitigation, to preparedness, response, recovery, to reconstruction.

RITMAN workshops focus primarily on preparedness, response and recovery phases. In recent years, we have seen tremendous advances in technologies for the predication and detection of natural disasters. Many standards and tools have enabled interoperability of diverse sensors, sensor networks and web services. Open platforms and message exchange standards have emerged to facilitate alert delivery and support response operations. Despite these advances, statistics on natural disasters still show that even technologically advanced regions are not as well prepared and resilient against calamitous events that bring damage, destruction and loss of property and life. RITMAN workshop series aims to provide researchers and developers with a forum for the purpose of stimulating discussions and collaborations on missing ICT and novel applications that can enhance preparedness and resiliency against disasters, especially events of unforeseen sizes and severity.

The central theme of RITMAN 2014 will be the exploitation of wireless and mobile technologies for disaster preparedness and response. Topics of interest include but not limited to the following:

- Disaster resilient communication - Responsive messaging services during mega disasters - Technology for crowdsourcing disaster surveillance sensor data - Assessment and reduction of uncertainty in disaster information - Mobile device based cloud - Cyber-physical devices and applications for disaster preparedness and response - Integration of resources and information in cyber and physical spaces - Privacy protection of rescue/emergency information - Disaster information system for resilient communities

PAPER SUBMISSION --------------------------------

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 4 (IEEE style) pages. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5" x 11", two-column format. The paper formatting instructions are available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.

IMPORTANT DATES ---------------

Paper Submission Due: March 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 16, 2014 Camera Ready Submission: May, 2014 Workshop: June 16, 2014

ORGANISING COMMITTEE --------------------

Steering Committee - Feng-Tyan Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan - Hsueh-Cheng Chou, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan - Jane Liu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

General Chair - Chi-Sheng Shih, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Program Chairs - Giovanni Pau, UPMC - LIP6, France - Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Committee TBA

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