Interdisciplinary workshop: Disaster management for resilience & public safety
The EnviroInfo 2018 is the 32nd edition of the long standing and established international and interdisciplinary conference series on leading environmental information and communication technologies.
Combining and shaping national and international activities in the field of applied informatics and environmental informatics in making the world a better place for living, the EnviroInfo conference series aims at presenting and discussing the latest state-of-the-art development on ICT and environmental related fields.
This year's EnviroInfo Conference features an interdisciplinary workshop divided into two sessions under the theme "Disaster management for resilience & public safety."
About the workshop
Traditionally, concepts of risk management and sustainability aim for prevention of disasters. But in some cases – for instance the consequences of climate change – the occurrence of some disasters cannot be avoided – for instance hurricanes, intense rain, flooding, heatwaves – and cause losses of property and human lives. In recent years, the concepts of vulnerability and resilience acknowledge that these disasters occur and even could repeat in shorter or longer intervals. Relevant societal actors have to provide appropriate means to respond to potential vulnerabilities and to show the ability to cope with disasters (resilience).
The challenge is not only the understanding of potential risks and the prevention of potentially occurring disasters, but also to be prepared for the occurrence of such disasters, to adopt to these and to mitigate the consequences (in particular those for the public). Governments, citizens and societies shall be enabled to recover from the impacts of disasters and to re-establish and re-erect infrastructures in a more resistant way (betterment). In order to achieve this goal, effective cooperation of authorities with the public is indispensable.
This workshop aims at reporting about state-of-the-art applications of ICT as well as newest developing trends in the field of disaster management (in the context of environmental protection and natural disasters) for all phases of the disaster cycle (preparedness, prevention, alert, response, mitigation) with special focus on resilience and public safety. Another important goal of this international interdisciplinary workshop is to bring experts from research, industry and education together to exchange ideas and proposals for a solution of urgent problems and needs.
The workshop will enable sharing of experiences and best practices and giving space of discussing problems, new ideas, concepts and research questions of disaster management for resilience and public safety.
Session 1: 6.9.2018 11:00-12:30
11:00 am
KATWARN – A microservice-based architcture for distributed, flexible and robust warning systems
Ulrich Meissen, Stefan Pfenningschmidt, Markus Hardt, Daniel Faust
11:25 am
Development and Application of Open Collaboration Framework for Disaster Mitigation
Eric Yen, Johannes Chiang
11:50 am
Conceptual scenario model for collaborative disaster response planning
Monika Friedemann, Benjamin Barth, Jordi Vendrell, Martin Mühlbauer, Thorsten Riedlinger
12:10 pm
Requirements engineering for and assessment of a VR-based training application for small and medium-sized disaster management agencies
Michael Klafft, Holger Ziekow
Session 2: 6.9.2018 13:30-15:00
1:30 pm
Use of VGI for enabling flood management in smaill drainage basins
Simon Burkard, Frank Fuchs-Kittowski, Ruben Müller, Bernd Pfützner
1:48 pm
Preliminary study on a Bavaria-wide coupled hydrological and hydromorphological model
Markus Reisenbücher, Tobias Liepert, Nguyen Dzung, Minh-Duc Bui, Peter Rutschmann
2:06 pm
Harmonizing Data Collection in an Ontology for a Risk Management Platform
Desiree Christiane Hilbring, Jürgen Moßgraber, Philipp Hertweck, Tobias Hellmund, Hylke van der Schaaf, Anastasios Karakostas, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Ilias Gialampoukidis, Stelios Andreadis, Stefanos Vrochidis, Ioannis Kompatsiaris
2:24 pm
beWARE: Enhancing Decision Support and Management Services in Extreme Weather Climate Events
Anastasios Karakostas, Stefanos Vrochidis, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Boris Kantsepolsky, Jürgen Moßgraber, Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Benjamin Mandler, Ari Karppinen, Michele Ferri, Iosif Vourvachis, Carmen Castro, Kim Lintrup
2:42 pm
Challenges in UNISDR SENDAI Framework National Implementations
Horst Kremers