[Tccc] CFP IROS'10 Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN'10)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
IROS'10 Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue
INformation system (ROSIN'10)

October 2010, Tapei, Taiwan
Web site : http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/wikka.php?wakka=ROSIN10

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This full-day workshop will take place in October 2010 in Taipei (??)
Taiwan, during the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems (IROS'10).

Motivation and objectives

Intelligent rescue systems including ITC and robotics technology have
been proposed to mitigate disasters, especially in Japan after the 1995
Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Reports on urban emergency relief point out
that the most serious difficulty is the delay of communication of
reliable information between the authorities in charge, especially
district authorities, which are supposed to coordinate efforts in
real-time and make requests for support at the city level. In order to
do that, the infrastructure of information systems during disasters
plays an important role. Future rescue information systems may involve a
complex mixture of humans performing high level decision-making,
intelligent agents coordinating the response, sensors networks providing
real-time observations and robots undertaking physical tasks in
large-scale environments with the possibility of taking part in the
process of data collection. However, the considered environments are
prone to uncertainty, ambiguity and incompleteness given their dynamic
and evolving nature.

The aims of the workshop are:

- To present both state-of-the-art results and work in progress in the
area of distributed sensing in the context of robotic and sensor
networks integration,
- To foster multi-disciplinary collaborations between researchers
working on different topics: WSN (Wireless Sensors Network), robotic,
disaster management, etc ... thus forming a base for future collaboration.

This workshop will focus on the tight integration of sensors-robots and
information systems during the rescue process. Topics that are of
special interest include but are not limited to:

- Distributed information gathering with sensors and robots,
- Information systems for disaster management including Spatial Decision
Support Systems (SDDS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and
participatory GIS
- GIS-based approaches for controlling robots, Advanced data management
with mobile robots and sensors, GIS spatial representation for robotic
systems,
- Trust enhancement infrastructure for information gathering during a
disaster, Co-design of communication and control protocols for
robot-sensor interaction,
- Role of robots and sensors in disaster and emergency management
processes.

The primary audience of the proposed workshop is intended to be
researchers and practioners both from academia and industry with an
interest on integration robots, sensors and information systems in the
context of disaster or emergency management. In addition, researchers
and practitioners from related communities (disaster management, SDDS,
GIS) will find this workshop quite useful.

Submissions guidelines

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality,
relevance, significance, and clarity. At least two reviews for each
paper will be conducted. All workshop papers should be submitted
electronically in PDF format through the and should use the IEEE US
letter format. We are looking for submission of full research papers and
experiences reports (up to 6 pages) and work in progress submissions (up
to 4 pages).
Please create your account on Easychair website as soon as possible if
you intend to submit a paper:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosin10

Important dates

- Due date for full workshop papers submission: July 1st, 2010
- Final acceptance: July 23rd, 2010
- Camera-ready paper due: August 6th, 2010
- Workshop date: October, 2010 (full day workshop)

Organization committee

- Fumitoshi Matsuno, International Rescue System Institute, Japan
- Congduc Pham, LIUPPA, Université de Pau
- Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI), Viet Nam

C. Pham.

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