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                                PerNEM 2010 Call for Papers

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: September 28, 2009
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
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