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May 26, 2006 - RESCUE Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop

On May 26, 2006 the RESCUE project hosted its first Earthquake Information Dissemination Workshop. Invited guests included representatives from schools, government and industry. The goal of this workshop was to:

1. To update researchers and stakeholders on state of the art developments in earthquake alert and warning since the conclusion of the TriNet study (2002).
2. To introduce and explain the goals and plans for public information dissemination within RESCUE.
3. To discuss issues pertaining to public information dissemination from the fields of earthquake engineering science, social science, information technology, state and local policy-makers, emergency managers, schools/school districts, parents and community members, etc.

 

May 23-24, 2006 - IEEE Intelligence Security Informatics Conference

Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) is the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies, computer science, and algorithms for national/international and homeland security related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy based approach.

IEEE ISI-2006 will provide a stimulating intellectual forum for discussion among often dispartate communities: academic researchers (in information technologies, computer science, public policy, and social and behavioral studies), local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners. IEEE ISI-2006 will be co-located with the 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (http://dgrc.org/dgo2006).

 

May 14-17, 2006 - International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) 2006 Conference

The third international meeting of the Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) will be held May 14-17, 2006, at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). The theme is integration of phases of the Emergency Management and Preparedness lifecycle: planning, training, mitigation, detection, alerting, response, recovery, and assessment. Three outstanding keynote speakers will anchor the meeting on Monday through Wednesday, with topics ranging from the requirements for emergency management of New York City, through worldwide humanitarian relief efforts, to nationwide planning for New Zealand.

 

December 18-21, 2005 - IEEE International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks (IEEE WoNGeN 2005)

Next generation wireless networks face many challenges such as the presence of chaotic and heterogeneous wireless access technologies, the increasing popularity and wide spread use of license free bands for communication, limited wireless spectrum and increasing interference, and above all the difficulty of these networks to provide a reliable and always available service in the event of  emergencies. It is expected that, in the next decade, the design of wireless networks would undergo a radical change from the traditional centralized systems to the modern distributed wireless mesh architectures. Unlike in the past, when protocol or system functionality was the prime concern during their design, it becomes imperative to incorporate a multi-modal design approach that can enable not just system functionalities but also reliability, availability, and emergency response capability. Any physical world emergency situation can translate to network emergencies and hence the failure of critical wireless communication infrastructure can lead to disastrous consequences. Towards our journey to a pervasive computing and communication paradigm, we need to ensure that the architectures and protocols for next generation wireless networks should be designed with an in-built capability to provide a reliable, available, and fault tolerant design which in turn enable wireless networks to handle networked-world emergencies. The first IEEE International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks 2005 (IEEE WoNGeN '05) held in conjunction with IEEE HiPC '05, provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and students to present their  latest research results to advance the hot research area of next generation wireless networks.

 

October 7-8, 2004 - International Workshop on the Use of Remote Sensing for Post-disaster Response

Dr. Beverley Adams, Remote Sensing Group Leader at ImageCat, chaired sessions in which researchers from the US, Japan and Europe presented papers addressing the use of satellite and airborne imagery for post-earthquake and multi-hazard damage assessment and building inventory development. Lively discussion sessions rounded off each day, exploring the development of a standardized remote sensing-based earthquake damage scale, and the integration of remote sensing data within multi-hazard loss estimation. The keynote address was given by Professor Shinozuka, UCI Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCI.

 

June 17, 2004 - Databases In Virtual Organizations (DIVO 2004)

DIVO 2004 is the first in a series of workshops exploring the use of database technology in virtual organizations. A virtual organization is a dynamically formed coalition of parties from different home organizations who want to cooperate with one another to reach a common goal, often within a very short time frame. Virtual organizations arise in business, government, educational, and military contexts, often in response to opportunities or challenges that cannot be anticipated in advance and require a rapid response. Virtual organizations have information sharing needs that cross traditional organizational boundaries and require rapid deployment; they cannot be fully satisfied using traditional database technology.

The DIVO workshops are formulated with three goals in mind: to serve as a forum for members of the database research community to learn about the needs of particular kinds of virtual organizations, and to serve as a forum for presenting research results and position papers that show how information technology can address the needs of virtual organizations. To this end, each DIVO workshop will focus on a particular database need found in virtual organizations, and highlight the requirements found in a particular type of virtual organization. The technical focus for DIVO 2004 is on information integration for virtual organizations, and the application area is crisis management.