[ecoop-info] MODIES 2008 Preliminary CfP - MObile and DIstributed approaches in Emergency Scenarios

[Giacomo Cabri]

                      PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on MObile and DIstributed approaches in Emergency Scenarios 
(MODIES)

At the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies 
for Healthcare 2008
Tampere, Finland, January 29th, 2008
http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

The field of medical emergencies is more dynamic and subject to context 
variability compared to other e-health fields. The emergency management 
domain is very information-intensive and mission-critical, and the 
involved tasks exhibit wide heterogeneity, difficulties in communicating 
and in physically reaching the place. The efficiency of the assistance 
is an aspect of vital importance, so that all involved people 
(healthcare workers, drivers, police, firemen, and so on) need to 
communicate, coordinate and access distributed resources in a simple and 
fast way. The employed resources (users and medical devices) must 
dynamically organize themselves in a temporary net, where communication 
links are established just in time.
Therefore, the major requirements of such support systems are dynamicity 
and context-awareness, i.e. they have to easily self-configure and adapt 
to the situation variability.
The above described context demands the adoption of very innovative and 
powerful paradigms, much more dynamic and flexible than those usually 
adopted for conventional distributed systems.
The workshop we propose will focus on mobile and distributed approaches 
to face the issues of emergency scenarios, and to support involved 
actors in their tasks.

This workshop solicits papers (from researchers and practitioners) that 
address key issues, open problems, models, infrastructures and 
innovative applications related to mobile and distributed approaches in 
emergency scenarios.

TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP include, but are not limited to:
- Mobile health care
- Emergency management
- Disaster response
- Architectures, infrastructures and middleware for distributed and 
mobile health care
- Applications in emergency scenarios
- Monitoring in mobile contexts
- Distributed medical data acquisition, integration and management
- (Mobile) agents and e-health
- Context-aware approaches for distributed and mobile health care

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2007
Notification to Authors: November 2nd, 2007
Camera Ready: November 16th, 2007

PAPER SUBMISSION
MODIES 2008 accepts submissions that describe original, research work 
not submitted or published elsewhere. The workshop accepts two types of 
submissions: Full Papers presenting significant contributions to 
research and practice (maximum 10 pages) and Short Papers presenting 
late-breaking results and ongoing work (maximum 4 pages). All 
submissions must follow IEEE's conference style two-column format 
including figures and references.
Authors are requested to submit their PDF manuscripts electronically 
using COCUS System (http://www.cocus.info) by following the link and 
instructions at the workshop home page

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Giacomo Cabri, Francesco De Mola
Email giacomo.cabri at unimore.it, francesco.demola at unimore.it


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| Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor
| Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
| Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia
| e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it
| tel. +39-059-2056190  fax +39-059-2056129
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