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Call for Papers - Smart Environments and Collective Computational Intelligence for Disaster Management

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Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Collective Computational Intelligence

Important dates

  • Submission Deadline - 16 December 2011
  • Notification of Acceptance - 10 February 2012.

*This call is now closed*

A special issue on Smart Environments and Collective Computational Intelligence for Disaster Manager will run in the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), Springer

Guest editors

  • Professor Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
    Dr Eleana Asimakopoulou, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom.

Objective of the special issue

Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilisation of emerging technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence required for protecting individuals, communities, their environment and critical infrastructures.

The special issue is dedicated to the dissemination of original contributions that are related to the theories, practices and concepts of smart environments and emerging collective computational and collaborative technologies for the specific purpose of improving intelligence when managing natural or man-made disasters. In particular, the special issue is focused on the applicability - for the purpose of managing disasters - of technologies that can support autonomous adaptation to complex and messy situations caused from these, highly dynamic contexts.

Various methods and technologies including simulations, multi-dimensional decision modeling, data mining, swarm intelligence, smart spaces and sensors, context-aware, situated and pervasive computing, geographical information systems, ad-hoc mobile networks, wireless communications, grid and cloud computing, social networks and crowd sourcing are a smart technology means to enable a more informed decision making to mitigate and prepare for, respond to and recover from growing occurrences of disasters.

Recommended topic areas include, but are not limited to (contextualised):

  • Ad-Hoc (Social) Networking Analysis, Business Continuity and Recovery
  • Architectures, Discovery, Retrieval, Scheduling, Allocation, Monitoring Artificial Intelligence, Self-adaptive Ant Colony, Swarm and Evolutionary Agents 
  • Critical Infrastructure Threat Detection, Monitoring, Management and Recovery
  • Critical Reviews on ICT used for Disaster Management 
  • Critical Reviews on Computational and/or Collective Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence
  • Data/Text Mining, Data Clustering, Graph Partitioning, Collaborative Decision Making
  • Enabling Distributed Technologies including Grids, P2P, Cloud, Crowd sourcing, Data Mashup, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Geographical Information Systems, Early Warning and Alerting Systems, Sensors, Robot Networks, Smart Spaces and Environments, Complexity and Autonomous Adaptation, Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks, Wireless Communications, Pervasive, Situated, Context-Aware Computing
  • Multi-objective Optimization Techniques, Complex Event Engines and Reasoning 
  • Ontology Management, Semantics, Web Services, Multi-Agents and Formal Concepts 
  • Programming, Middleware, Interfaces and Methods for Interconnection and Interoperability between Heterogeneous Networks and Devices
  • Security, Trust, Service Reliability, Identity Management and Privacy 
  • Stakeholders Structures and Dynamics, Needs Analysis, (Dynamic) Risk Mapping and Vulnerability Analysis, Contingency Planning, Policies, Public Awareness, Resilience, Hazard Identification, Monitoring and Assessment, Urban Risks, Public Safety and Disturbance
  • Transparency, Locality and Scalability Issues in Middleware for Pervasive Network Computing.

Important dates

  • Submission Deadline: 16 December 2011
  • Notification of Acceptance: 10 February 2012.

Submission

Submissions are available through the following options:

Open call

Authors must follow the instructions detailed in www.springer.com/engineering/mathematical/journal/12652 (see: Instructions for authors) to submit their 5,000-7,000 words paper.

Authors must submit their papers using the special issue "SECITDM" link that is available at www.editorialmanager.com/aihc/.

Extended papers

Authors of the best papers accepted at the workshops below will be invited to submit extended versions following the open call instructions. Thus, prospective authors are encouraged to submit work in progress at the following international workshops:

All papers will be reviewed on a double-blind basis by three independent reviewers.

Enquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (in Word or PDF) to:

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