The First Annual Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management
(In conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010)

http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/pernem2010/

Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010


Scope
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The events that took place on 11 September 2001 have brought to the
forefront the unique challenges that occur during a crisis, which require
effective sensing, communications and decision making with demanding time
constraints in highly dynamic environments. Pervasive systems address these
requirements by providing decision support to rescuers and evacuees,
guaranteeing communications and collecting information that is vital for
planning and organising the emergency operation. This workshop focuses on
pervasive networked sensing and decision making, both wired and wireless,
geared towards emergency management. PerNEM 2010 addresses leading edge
research in these areas through the use of sensing, communication, decision
support, simulation tools and modelling methods with focus on system design,
optimisation and experimental evaluation.

Topics
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PerNEM will bring together contributions which include but are not
limited to the following areas:

* Networked sensors for emergency management
* Pervasive middleware for emergency management
* Decentralised algorithms for pervasive systems
* Self-aware and self- adaptive network design and evaluation
* Network self-healing, security and self-defence
* Wireless Networks for emergency support
* Mobile sensors for disaster monitoring
* Networked robotics for wireless communications
* Pervasive emergency management systems
* QoS in critical communications

Registration and Submission Details
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Accepted papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries
(Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom.

Submitted papers should be no longer than 6 pages in length, and formatted
to 2 columns, 10pt fonts, using the IEEE Computer Society 8.5" x 11" authors
kit.

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair PerNEM 2010 page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pernem2010

Paper submission: October 20, 2009 (Extended)
Author notification: December 21, 2009
Camera-ready due: January 29, 2010


Organising Committee
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Erol Gelenbe
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Georgia Sakellari
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK

Programme Committee
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Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, UK
Gokce Gorbil
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Alex Healing
Centre for Information and Security Systems Research, British Telecom,UK
Laurence Hey
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Eleni Karatza
Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios Loukas
Intelligent Systems & Networks Group, Imperial College London, UK
Gulay Oke
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Alex Rogers
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, University of Southampton, UK
Simone Silvestri
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Oliver Smith
General Dynamics UK Ltd