CFP: INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR CRISIS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Call For Papers
INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR CRISIS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

5th International Conference on
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Washington, DC, USA
May 4-7, 2008
http://www.iscram.org

Session ID: INT-02

HTML version of the call:
http://loma.civil.duth.gr/ISCRAM2008.htm

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http://www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2008/SpecialSessionsCFP/ISCRAM2008_CFP131.pdf

Motivation
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The management of crises and emergencies, resulting
from man-made or natural disasters, is a very difficult
and complex task. Imminent decisions must be taken that
lead to the most effective use of the available
resources in different managerial levels, all based
on the limited information available when events are
still unfolding. In order to manage a large crisis
effectively and to minimize the anticipated adverse
impacts, decision makers need intelligent information
technology that helps them to make sense of a given
situation, to focus awareness on the most important
issues, to take appropriate decisions about courses of
action to be taken, and to ensure that these actions
are implemented. In these situations, decision makers
require agile, adaptive and robust Information Management
and Decision Support Systems which decrease the cognitive
load and help focus on the most important issues at hand.

Research Area
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Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management
must take into account the nature of human decision
making processes which requires the systems and
interfaces to behave intelligently. Thus issues like
extraction, integration, representation and processing
of data, information and knowledge is of importance.
In this perspective Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive
Science provide the background for the development of
intelligent disaster management systems which could act
autonomously or be used as a part of a broader management
system. Today, such intelligent systems take many forms
and use different technologies from a wide range of
principals. Such systems encompass a variety of approaches
(including multi-agent systems, automated and
mixed-initiative planning, etc) and include many design
challenges (such as the development of intelligent user
interfaces, semantic web services and ontologies, etc).

This special session aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners working on different aspects of
intelligent systems for crisis and disaster management
in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and to
discuss the challenges and opportunities of this field as
well as to explore new research directions. We strongly
welcome original and high-quality contributions on the
general theme of Intelligent Systems for Disaster
Management.

Topics
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The following is a non-exhaustive list with topics of
special interest:

* Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems
* Agent co-ordination and communication
* Artificial intelligence search and constraint programming
* Knowledge capture, representation, maintenance and reuse
* Knowledge-based systems and reasoning about knowledge
* Automated and mixed-initiative planning
* Data integration, uncertainty handling and decision making
* Machine learning and adaptive systems
* Intelligent human-machine interfaces
* Semantic web services

Important Dates:
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* December 21, 2007: Paper submission deadline
* February 10, 2008: Notification of (conditional) acceptance
* February 22, 2008: Early registration deadline
* March 1, 2008: Final camera-ready paper submission deadline
* May 4-7, 2008: ISCRAM 2008

Session Chairs:
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*Ioannis Dokas
i.dokas (A_t) 4c.ucc.ie
Cork Constraint Computational Centre, University College Cork,
Cork, Ireland

*Hagen Engelmann
engelmann (A_t) tmb.uni-karlsruhe.de
Institute for Technology and Management in Construction,
Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany

*Frank Fiedrich
fiedrich (A_t) gwu.edu
Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management,
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

*Gerhard Wickler
g.wickler (A_t) ed.ac.uk
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

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