Track Chair

• Stefano Ferretti, University of Urbino, Italy
• Claudio Ettore Palazzi, University of Padua, Italy

Scope

Recent advances in distributed systems have gone in several, often cross-cutting directions. Examples are concerned with decentralization, deployment of hierarchical systems, networking communication technologies, opportunistic solutions for data dissemination, data management and retrieval. All these solutions can be put to good use to devise novel systems and applications where real-timeliness, reliability and scalability are main factors to pursue. This is certainly true for disaster management applications. There is the need for adaptive strategies, able to effectively react to sudden and unexpected emergency situations.

The Distributed Systems and Applications for Disaster Management track aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging research areas relevant to systems and applications with the aim to ensure high resilience in disaster contexts. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting novel technical research studies as well as broader position papers.

The Distributed Systems and Applications for Disaster Management track seeks original contributions in the following topical areas, plus others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related:

• Applications for emergency management
• Cloud/edge/fog computing systems for disaster management
• Decentralized systems and blockchain technologies for monitoring, prevention and disaster management
• System and networking solutions for emergency and disaster management
• Distributed monitoring for disaster and emergency prevention
• Opportunistic and ad-hoc communication systems
• IoT monitoring systems for emergency prediction
• Data analysis techniques for emergency prediction and disaster management