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                  CALL FOR PAPERS

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6th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR-2021)

IFIP 60^th Anniversary event

In cooperation with Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

October 25-27, 2021, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

The conference is to be held hybrid

https://www.itdrr-2021.com/

ITDRR-2021 provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest R&D findings and innovations. The conference is especially focused on the various IT aspects and challenges of copying with disaster risk reduction. ITDDR-2021 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.

All accepted papers will be published in IFIP AICT series by Springer as post-conference proceedings, and they will be indexed by Scopus.

The organisers of this conference invite prospective authors to submit high-quality technical papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

• Advanced ICT(IoT, sensors and UAV) for disaster management and disasters
• Artificial Intelligence and disasters
• Big Data and disasters
• Climate change and disaster risk
• Climate information management
• Cloud Computing in emergency management
• COVID-19 issues
• Crowdsourcing and emergency management
• Disaster Communications
• Disaster information processing
• Disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness
• Disaster relief and resilience
• Disaster vulnerability and risk management and assessment
• Disaster monitoring
• Disaster information management in response, recovery, preparedness, and mitigation
• Disaster risk reduction
• Hazard and vulnerability analysis
• ICT challenges in emergency management
• Integrated risk governance
• Mobile computing and emergency management
• Security and privacy issues in disaster management
• Simulation and gaming for disaster management
• Situation awareness for disaster
• Social media and disasters
• Socio-economic impacts of disasters
• State of the art of command and control room

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IMPORTANT DATES

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• Abstract Deadline: August 24, 2021
• Submission Deadline: August 31, 2021
• Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2021
• Conference: October 25-27, 201
• Camera Ready: December 17, 2021

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

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Please submit your paper to the Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itdrr2021　

Accepted papers will be published in IFIP AICT by Springer as post-conference proceedings.

• Authors should submit papers as PDF file.
• The total length of a paper should be 10 - 16 pages according to IFIP AICT Guidelines (including tables, figures and references).
• Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference.
• At least one author of an accepted paper must presented it at the conference.
• Accepted papers will be published in IFIP AICT by Springer.

Honorable Chairs: Atsuto Suzuki, President of Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

General Chair: Jun Sasaki, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Program Committee Chairs:

• Yuko Murayama IFIP WG 5.15 Chair, Tsuda University, Japan
• Dimiter Velev University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria

PC members:

• Orhan Altan      Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Liz Bacon           Abertay University, U.K.
• Frederick Benaben           IMT Mines Albi, France
• Marcos R. S. Borges         Universidad de Navarra, Spain
• Madhu Chandra               Technische Universitat Chemnitz, Germany, Germany
• Tadeusz Czachorski         Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics – PAS, Poland
• Julie Dugdale    University of Grenoble, France
• Terje Gjøsæter  University of Agder, Norway
• Igor Grebennik Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
• Wei-Sen Li         National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, Taiwan
• Kenny Meesters       Tilburg University, Netherlands
• Tilo Mentler      Trier University of Applied Sciences , Gremany
• Yuko Murayama                Tsuda University, Japan
• Erich Neuhold  University of Vienna, Austria
• Benny B. Nasution           Politeknik Negeri Medan, Indonesia
• Jaziar Radianti   University of Agder, Norway
• Caroline Rizza   Telecom Paris / I3 CNRS, France
• Jun Sasaki          Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Hans Jochen Scholl          University of Washington, U.S.A.
• Tullio Joseph Tanzi          Telecom Paris/ Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
• A Min Tjoa        TU Wien, Austria
• Denis Trcek       University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Osamu Uchida  Tokai University, Japan
• Keisuke Utsu     Tokai University, Japan
• Dimiter Velev   University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria
• Kayoko Yamamoto            The University of Electro-Communications,  Japan
• Plamena Zlateva                Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Publicity Charis:

• Plamena Zlateva IFIP WG 5.15 Vice-chair, Bulgaria
• Osamu Uchida, Tokai University, Japan
• Benny Benyamin Nasution, Pliteknik Negeri Medan, Indonesia

Steering Committee:

• Diane Whitehouse, The Castlegate Consultancy, U.K.
• Erich Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria
• Jose J. Gonzalez, University of Agder, Norway
• A Min Tjoa, TU Wien, Austria
• Igor Grebennik, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine

Local Organizing Committee:

• Kayoko Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Masaki Nagata, Shizuoka University, Japan
• Keisuke Utsu, Tokai University, Japan
• Jiahong Wang, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Bhed B. Bista, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Katsumasa Ohori, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
• Kanayo Ogura, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan