-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [ACM CoNEXT 2017 I-TENDER Workshop] CFP - Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief, paper submission by September the 15th Datum: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:17 +0000 Von: Casas Pedro Pedro.Casas@AIT.AC.AT Antwort an: Casas Pedro Pedro.Casas@AIT.AC.AT An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

ACM CoNEXT 2017 I-TENDER Workshop The First Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2017 December 12, 2017 Seoul, South Korea

http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2017/#!/i-tender

+ Paper Submission: September 15, 2017 + Notification of Acceptance: October 9, 2017

***Call for Papers***

Raising awareness on the provision of public safety services through the most diverse ICT technologies is a key opportunity and one of the most urgent challenges in the field of today's communication networks.

Relevant scenarios include the natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires or floods that disrupt traditional communication infrastructures, or that displace large crowds, overloading what is left of the communication infrastructure. In these scenarios, people are in need of directions, advice, updates on the current situation and they often need to send out requests for help or to make their location known to rescue teams. Ideally, users should be able to communicate directly between themselves, even in the absence of a cellular infrastructure - a common occurrence in disaster scenarios. However, it is also crucial that solutions and platforms are developed to integrate emergency management data coming from multiple sources, including feeds provided by citizens through social media and crowdsourcing.

The I-TENDER workshop will aim at capturing the research and technology trends that enable such awareness by soliciting contributions along three main directions. First, solutions that leverage the widespread availability of handheld devices (smartphone, tablets) that act as the prime contact point to alert the population of impending dangers and as a locating device for rescue teams. Secondly, data analysis techniques that take into account the pervasive role of social networks in collecting and spreading information and provide accurate checking using appropriate tools. And, finally, emerging networking paradigms that go beyond the traditional infrastructure-based model, rather leveraging disruption-tolerant models and device-to-device communication, such as Wi-Fi direct and LTE-D2D. The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers describing new research approaches and results. Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are welcome, provided they focus on particularly innovative solutions or applications for emergency and disaster relief. We also invite authors to submit papers presenting extensive experiences with implementation, deployment, and operation.

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

+ Challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management) + Network systems for emergency scenarios (e.g., UAV-supported base stations) + Peer-to-peer and overlay networks for infrastructureless communication + Delay/disruption-tolerant networks + Participatory and opportunistic networking, computing and sensing + Security/trust/privacy topics in emergency scenarios + Social Media-based localization and data filtering + Local mobile clouds + Tools for building emergency and disaster relief solutions + Location and positioning in constrained scenarios + User interface and mobile application design for emergency management

***Submission Instructions***

Electronic submissions will be handled using HotCRP: https://i-tender17.hotcrp.com

The workshop will accept both long papers and short papers. Long papers may be up to 6 pages long, while short papers may be up to 2 pages long. These lengths include all figures, tables, references, and appendices. Papers must obey the same CoNEXT formatting requirements outlined here: http://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2017/#!/submission (with the exception of page length). The review process is single-blind. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers are required to present their papers at the workshop.

Extended versions of papers of special merit will be considered for possible fast track publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal.

***Organization Committee***

+ Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy + Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France + Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Dr. Pedro Casas CoNEXT 2017 Publicity chair

PEDRO CASAS Scientist Information Management Center for Digital Safety & Security

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