ITDRR2024: 9th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction University for Continuing Education Krems Krems an Der Donau, Austria, October 14-16, 2024

ITDRR-2024: The 9th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction

University for Continuing Education Krems

Krems an der Donau, Austria, October 14-16, 2024

Conference website              https://itdrr.org

Submission link         https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itdrr2024

Submission deadline            July 14, 2024

ITDDR-2024 warmly welcomes experts, researchers, academics, and all other stakeholders who are interested in disseminating their work. The conference is designed to foster an inclusive environment that encourages dialogue and the exchange of ideas between different levels of academic, research, business, and public communities.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

Full papers of total length 10 - 16 pages according to IFIP AICT Guidelines (including tables, figures, and references).

Posters (abstract within Easychair; 2 pages; the poster will not be part of the proceedings)

List of Topics

The organizers of this conference invite prospective authors to submit high-quality research papers and case studies from practitioners addressing, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

• Advanced ICT (IoT, sensors) for disaster management
• Artificial Intelligence and disasters
• Climate change and disaster risk
• Climate information management
• Cloud Computing in emergency management
• Command and control studies
• Crowdsourcing, digital volunteers and citizen journalism
• Data analytics and information visualization for disasters
• Digital transformation in emergency management
• Disaster information processing
• Disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness
• Disaster relief and resilience
• Disaster vulnerability and risk management and assessment mapping
• Disaster monitoring
• Disaster information management systems
• Disaster risk reduction
• Disaster communications
• Emerging technology support for disaster risk reduction (Robotics, UAV)
• Hazard and vulnerability analysis
• ICT challenges in emergency management
• Integrated risk governance
• misinformation and fake news in emergency management
• Mobile computing and emergency management
• Pandemic management
• Security, privacy and trust issues in disaster management
• Simulation and gaming for disaster management
• Situation awareness and common operational picture
• Social media and disasters
• Socio-economic impacts of disasters
• Trust Issues in the disaster risk reduction context
• Universal design thinking for disaster risk reduction
• VR/AR technology application for disaster management and training

Publication

ITDRR-2024 proceedings with all accepted papers will be published in the IFIP AICT series by Springer as post-conference proceedings, and they will be indexed by Scopus.

Venue

The conference will be held at the University for Continuing Education Krems in Krems an der Donau, Austria. It will be organized in a hybrid mode, allowing for digital participation.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to thomas.lampoltshammer@donau-uni.ac.at