ITDRR-2022: The 7th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction University of Agder Kristiansand, Norway, October 12-14, 2022

ITDDR-2022 invites experts, researchers, academicians and all other who are interested to disseminate their work. The conference establishes an academic environment that fosters the dialogue and 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). 

List of Topics

The organizers of this conference invite prospective authors to submit high-quality research papers 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
• 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

Committees

Program Committee

• Ahmed A.A.S Aboughonim, University of Agder, Norway
• A Min Tjoa, TU Wien, Austria 
• Benny B. Nasution, Politeknik Negeri Medan, Indonesia 
• Bjørn Erik Munkvold, University of Agder, Norway
• Denis Trcek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
• Devinder Thapa, University of Agder, Norway
• Dimiter Velev, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria 
• Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria 
• Frederick Benaben, IMT Mines Albi, France 
• Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, U.S.A. 
• Igor Grebennik, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine 
• Ioannis Dokas,  Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
• Julie Dugdale, University of Grenoble, France 
• Jun Sasaki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan 
• Kayoko Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan 
• Kenny Meesters, Tilburg University, Netherlands 
• Keisuke Utsu, Tokai University, Japan 
• Marcos R. S. Borges, Universidad de Navarra, Spain 
• Mihoko Sakurai, International University of Japan, Global Communication Center
• Osamu Uchida, Tokai University, Japan 
• Plamena Zlateva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 
• Sofie Pilemalm,  Linköping University, Sweden 
• Tadeusz Czachorski, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics – PAS, Poland 
• Terje Gjøsæter, University of Agder, Norway
• Tilo Mentler, Trier University of Applied Sciences , Gremany 
• Tim A. Majchrzak, University of Agder, Norway
• Walter Seböck, University for Continuing Education Krems
• Yuko Murayama, Tsuda University, Japan 

Organizing committee

Honorary Chairs: 

• Jose J. Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus University of Agder, Norway 
• Dimiter Velev, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria 

General Chair: 

• Jaziar Radianti, University of Agder, Norway 

Program Committee Chairs: 

• Jaziar Radianti, University of Agder, Norway 
• Terje Gjøsæter, University of Agder, Norway 
• Yuko Murayama, IFIP WG 5.15 Chair, Tsuda University, Japan 

Publicity Committee:

• Bjørn Erik Munkvold, University of Agder, Norway (Chair)
• Plamena Zlateva IFIP WG 5.15 Vice-chair, Bulgaria 
• Osamu Uchida, Tokai University, Japan 
• Benny Benyamin Nasution, Politeknik Negeri Medan, Indonesia 

Local Organizing Committee: 

• Charlotte Nilsen, University of Agder 
• Eirik Rustad, University of Agder
• Lucia Castro Herrera, University of Agder
• Sindisiwe Magutshwa, University of Agder

Publication

ITDRR-2022 proceedings with all accepted papers will be published in IFIP AICT series by Springer as post-conference proceedings and they will be indexed by Scopus.

Venue

The conference will be held in Kristiansand, Norway at the University of Agder. it will be organized in hybrid mode, allowing for digital participation.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to terjeg@uia.no