Workshops

The objective of this workshop is to discuss the importance and trends of ontologies use and their role on precise conceptual modeling, providing a clear and unambiguous interpretation of the heterogeneous information associated to crisis and emergency management and response. As is the case for all socio-technical systems, the contribution of ontologies and conceptual modeling to the understanding, modeling and designing of information systems in this area is crucial. Proper and effective crisis response and management requires widespread information, understanding of situations and effective means for communication and policy enforcement, shared by both human and artificial agents (including managers, designers and participants of the system). 

We are planning a full-day workshop to serve as a meeting-point for researchers from all disciplines interested on ontologies, conceptual modeling and terminological artifacts applied to crisis and emergency information systems (CEIS).

 Introduction to the workshop

Crises and emergencies are events that may have a heavy impact on environment, infrastructures and, most of all, on humans and communities. As a consequence, the information systems that we build to better react to and manage such events have to take into consideration environmental, technological, human and social aspects that may be affected by them.

Given the complexity and heterogeneity of the application domain of crisis and emergency information systems, it is extremely important that the latter rely on rigorous and well founded models, adopting a socio-technical perspective.

The objective of this workshop is to discuss the importance and trends of ontologies use and their role on precise conceptual modeling, providing a clear and unambiguous interpretation of the heterogeneous information associated to crisis and emergency management and response.

As is the case for all socio-technical systems, the contribution of ontologies and conceptual modeling to the understanding, modeling and designing of information systems in this area is crucial. Proper and effective crisis response and management requires widespread information, understanding of situations and effective means for communication and policy enforcement, shared by both human and artificial agents (including managers, designers and participants of the system).

We are planning a full-day workshop to serve as a meeting-point for researchers from all disciplines interested on ontologies, conceptual modeling and terminological artifacts applied to crisis and emergency information systems (CEIS).

Submissions

We invite submissions in the form of research and position papers, related to the workshop topics listed below. Papers should be formatted in the same way as ISCRAM short papers. See standard ISCRAM short paper template for details.

Submissions deadlines: April 3rd 2016

Workshop topics

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

• Resilience modeling

• Ontological analysis of the crisis and emergency domain

• Vocabularies, ontologies and ontology design patterns for modeling, managing, sharing and analyzing emergency information

• Practical issues and real cases on using ontologies for CEIS

• Semantic annotation of resources

• Ontology and vocabularies in the support of CEIS interoperability, including applications of linked data

• Collaborative tools and services for citizens, organizations, communities, exploiting semantic technologies

• Foundational ontologies supporting domain ontologies and conceptual modeling for CEIS

• Socio-technical aspects representation in domain and foundational ontologies

• Modeling of emergency norms, regulations and/or practices

• Ontologies effectiveness and evaluation in the emergency domain.

Workshop Organizers

• Chiara Bassetti (LOA, ISTC/CNR, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Maria Luiza M. Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Renata Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)
• Roberta Ferrario (LOA, ISTC/CNR, Italy) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

If you have any questions about the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers!