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CALL FOR PAPERS
Second International Workshop on « Agent Technology for Disaster
Management » (ATDM’09)
December 13rd 2009, Nagoya, Japan
Web site : http://doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=ATDM2009
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This workshop will take place in December 2009 in Nagoya (名古屋市),
during the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in
Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA'09). A first workshop on the same topic
already took place in May 2006 in Hakodate, Japan during the Fifth
International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems.
Description
In the context of large natural disasters like the Indian Ocean
Tsunami in 2004 or Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005∞ but also
man-made disasters like terrorist attacks, the topic of disaster
management has become a key concern both from a social and political
point of view. It is critical to provide rescue personnel with
information technology tools that enable more effective and efficient
mitigation during crisis response. A number of distinct actors and
agencies (local and international rescue teams, NGOs, etc.), each with
their own aims, objectives, and resources, should be able to
coordinate their efforts in a flexible manner in order to prevent
further problems or to effectively manage the aftermath of a disaster.
This workshop will focus on the use of agent technology for disaster
management and response and includes the following non-exhaustive list
of special interest topics:
• Dedicated frameworks and architectures for agent-based spatial
decision support systems (SDSS) for natural and man-made disasters,
• Coordination, communication and collaborative planning in
large-scale multi-agent systems that deals with uncertainty and
conflicting information during crisis management,
• Coordination and deployment of multi-robots system or wireless
sensors network on site,
• Human-Agent or Human-Robot interactions (HRI) during search &
rescue operations,
• Security issues in agent-based systems for search and rescue
missions, use of games,
• Agent-based simulation systems, participatory simulations,
• Behavioural modelling and simulation of rescue workers,
• Development methods for agent based systems in emergency management.
Multi-Agent Systems are being increasingly applied to real-life
applications that deals with uncertain, complex and dynamic
environments. Future disaster response systems may involve a complex
mixture of humans performing high level decision-making, intelligent
agents coordinating the response, sensors networks providing real-time
observations and robots undertaking physical tasks in large-scale
environments, which are prone to uncertainty, ambiguity and
incompleteness given the dynamic and evolving nature of disasters.
Although, this workshop will mainly focus on the potential of agent
technology for disaster management and response, we also welcomes
contributions focusing on potential problems and risks associated with
the use of this technology.
Important dates
- Due date for full workshop papers submission: Sep. 15, 2009
- Final acceptance: Oct. 1, 2009
- Camera-ready paper due: Oct. 31, 2009
- Early registration deadline: Nov. 4, 2009
- Registration deadline: Dec. 1, 2009
- Workshop date: Dec. 13, 2009 (full-day workshop)
Submission guidelines
Springer has committed to publish the post-proceedings of all the
PRIMA 2009 workshops in the "Studies in Computational Intelligence"
book series. All accepted workshop papers will be published by
Springer.
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least two reviews
for each paper will be conducted. All workshop papers should be
submitted electronically in PDF format through the Easychair website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atdm09 and should use the
Springer SCI format. You can find the format requirements on Springer
SCI website: http://www.springer.com/series/7092 The final accepted
papers are limited to 16 pages.
Organizers
- Serge Stinckwich, (UMI UMMISCO IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI, Vietnam)
- Sarvapali D. Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
Program committee
• Narjes Bellamine-Bensaoud (RIADI-GDL lab., Tunisia)
• Noury Bouraqadi (École des Mines de Douai, France)
• Alexis Drogoul (UMI UMMISCO IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI, Vietnam)
• Julie Dugdale (MAGMA-LIG, France)
• Alessandro Farinelli (University of Verona, Italy)
• Frank Fiedrich (Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management,
Georges Washington University, USA)
• Alexander Kleiner (University of Freiburg,Germany)
• Paul Scerri (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
• Tomoichi Takahashi (Meijo University, Japan)
• Tomohisa Yamashita (AIST, Japan)
• Khaldoun Zreik (Université de Paris 8, France)
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Serge Stinckwich
UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
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