PerNEM 2010

The First Annual Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management (In conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010)

http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/pernem2010/

Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010

Scope -

The events that took place on 11 September 2001 have brought to the forefront the unique challenges that occur during a crisis, which require effective sensing, communications and decision making with demanding time constraints in highly dynamic environments. Pervasive systems address these requirements by providing decision support to rescuers and evacuees, guaranteeing communications and collecting information that is vital for planning and organising the emergency operation. This workshop focuses on pervasive networked sensing and decision making, both wired and wireless, geared towards emergency management. PerNEM 2010 addresses leading edge research in these areas through the use of sensing, communication, decision support, simulation tools and modelling methods with focus on system design, optimisation and experimental evaluation.

Topics --

PerNEM will  bring  together contributions  which include but are not limited to the following areas:

* Networked sensors for emergency management * Pervasive middleware for emergency management * Decentralised algorithms for pervasive systems * Self-aware and self- adaptive network design and evaluation * Network self-healing, security and self-defence * Wireless Networks for emergency support * Mobile sensors for disaster monitoring * Networked robotics for wireless communications * Pervasive emergency management systems * QoS in critical communications

Registration and Submission Details ---

Accepted papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom.

Submitted papers should be no longer than 6 pages in length, and formatted to 2 columns, 10pt fonts, using the IEEE Computer Society 8.5" x 11" authors kit.

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair PerNEM 2010 page: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pernem2010

Paper submission: September 28, 2009 Author notification: December 21, 2009 Camera-ready due: January 29, 2010

Organising Committee

Erol Gelenbe Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK Georgia Sakellari Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK

Programme Committee ---

Christoforos Anagnostopoulos Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, UK Gokce Gorbil Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK Alex Healing Centre for Information and Security Systems Research, British Telecom,UK Laurence Hey Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK Eleni Karatza Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Georgios Loukas Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK Gulay Oke Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Alex Rogers Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, University of Southampton, UK Simone Silvestri University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Oliver Smith General Dynamics UK Ltd This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP