ICT-DM'2019 (IEEE Technically sponsorship ... pending request) aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning, disaster recovery, etc., to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research on using ICTs for detection, prevention, preparation, response and recovery of disasters. There will also be invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as special sessions dedicated to case studies, demonstrations and experiences based on pragmatic approaches. This way, the conference will provide a forum for supporting and encouraging both academic researchers, as well as practitioners involved in applied-focused research.

The 2019 ICT-DM conference program will be split into the following tracks:

Track 1: IA, Big data and analytics for crisis management
Chairs:
- Nicolas Hidalgo, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
- Tran anh Quang Pham, Inria, France

Track 2: Risk assessment and cyber security
Chair:
- Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Track 3: Crowdsourcing and social media for disaster management
Chair:
- Yue Cao, Lancaster University, UK

Track 4: Geographic Information and Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management
Chair:
- Lina Xu, University College Dublin, Ireland

Track 5: IoT and wireless communications for disaster management
Chairs:
- Marwen Abdennebi, University of Paris 13, France
- Rahim Kacimi, University of Toulouse, France


Submission Instructions
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the standard IEEE 2-column format. The IEEE template can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. The conference accepts three types of submissions, specifically full papers (5 to 8 pages), short papers (3 to 4 pages), and posters & demos (2 pages). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings