-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - MODIES 2008 Preliminary CfP - MObile and DIstributed approaches in Emergency Scenarios Datum: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:07:04 -0400 Von: info@icstconferences.org Antwort an: info@icst.org An: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on MObile and DIstributed approaches in Emergency Scenarios (MODIES)

At the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2008 Tampere, Finland, January 29th, 2008 http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

The field of medical emergencies is more dynamic and subject to context variability compared to other e-health fields. The emergency management domain is very information-intensive and mission-critical, and the involved tasks exhibit wide heterogeneity, difficulties in communicating and in physically reaching the place. The efficiency of the assistance is an aspect of vital importance, so that all involved people (healthcare workers, drivers, police, firemen, and so on) need to communicate, coordinate and access distributed resources in a simple and fast way. The employed resources (users and medical devices) must dynamically organize themselves in a temporary net, where communication links are established just in time. Therefore, the major requirements of such support systems are dynamicity and context-awareness, i.e. they have to easily self-configure and adapt to the situation variability. The above described context demands the adoption of very innovative and powerful paradigms, much more dynamic and flexible than those usually adopted for conventional distributed systems. The workshop we propose will focus on mobile and distributed approaches to face the issues of emergency scenarios, and to support involved actors in their tasks.

This workshop solicits papers (from researchers and practitioners) that address key issues, open problems, models, infrastructures and innovative applications related to mobile and distributed approaches in emergency scenarios.

TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP include, but are not limited to: - Mobile health care - Emergency management - Disaster response - Architectures, infrastructures and middleware for distributed and mobile health care - Applications in emergency scenarios - Monitoring in mobile contexts - Distributed medical data acquisition, integration and management - (Mobile) agents and e-health - Context-aware approaches for distributed and mobile health care

IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2007 Notification to Authors: November 2nd, 2007 Camera Ready: November 16th, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION MODIES 2008 accepts submissions that describe original, research work not submitted or published elsewhere. The workshop accepts two types of submissions: Full Papers presenting significant contributions to research and practice (maximum 10 pages) and Short Papers presenting late-breaking results and ongoing work (maximum 4 pages). All submissions must follow IEEE's conference style two-column format including figures and references. Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically using COCUS System (http://www.cocus.info) by following the link and instructions at the workshop home page

WORKSHOP CHAIR Giacomo Cabri, Francesco De Mola Email giacomo.cabri@unimore.it, francesco.demola@unimore.it

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Manfred Bortenschlager, Salzburg Research, Austria Massimiliano De Leoni, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy Mark Gaynor, Boston University, US Massimo Mecella, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy John O' Donoghue, University College Cork, Ireland Marcin Paprzycki, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland Mu Sun, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US

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