This minitrack provides a venue for collaborative systems and technologies related to all phases in the disaster management cycle: prevention and mitigation; preparedness; alert; response; recovery; and post disaster. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborative systems and technologies in disaster or emergency situations aimed at citizens, NGOs, non-government officials, and victims
• Early warning systems
• Social media in emergencies and disasters
• Human Centered Sensing for collaboration and communication
• Privacy, security and ethical issues in crisis and emergency management
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) based content management, disaster mapping
• Crisis informatics
• Pattern recognition, triage and prioritization of assistance
• Case studies; theory and practice
• Advances in crisis management methods and practice
• Security and safety models for emergency management systems
• eHealth for disasters and emergencies
• Drones for disaster response and management
• Disaster robotics
• Computational simulation of crisis or emergency situations, including agent based modeling and social simulation
• Culture-dependent learning and training
• Collaboration and interoperability at technical and/or operational level
• Mobile ad-hoc networks for emergencies

You can find all informations related to the author instructions here: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/

Paper submission deadline is JUNE 15 (11:59pm HST)

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Julie Dugdale (Primary Contact)
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble
Julie.Dugdale@imag.fr

Elsa Negre
Université Paris-Dauphine
elsa.negre@dauphine.fr

Murray Turoff
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Murray.Turoff@gmail.com