This last month has been a busy one for I-REACT. We completed the first half of the project, and presented our technology for the first time ever. But we haven’t stop there. This month we also organised two workshops: one in Boston, USA, and the other one in Incheon, South Korea.
In them, we were able to gather selected groups of professionals to discuss how modern technologies can be integrated in the fight against disasters, and the different solutions we are developing. Just so you do not miss anything, here is our brief summary of the two workshops:
I-TENDER
The I-TENDER workshop focused on how public safety services can benefit from the use of technology to respond against disasters. Claudio Rossi presented a Keynote on I-REACT project, while the other 9 presentations presented papers on how to use data analysis to filter relevant information on a disaster situation; how positioning techniques can improve the response and safety of rescue parties and emergency responders; and how technology helps in the deployment of public-safety and emergency networks.
#MachineLearning to filter tweets during a #Disaster situation, #wearable technology to help first responders… Together with #UAV #IoT, all this technology seemed science-fiction a while ago, but our partners organised the I-TENDER workshop to explain how it is becoming real! pic.twitter.com/GJf4tr8nXz
— I-REACT (@IREACT_EU) December 12, 2017
The workshop took part in Incheon, South Korea, on December 12 and was hosted within the ACM CoNext Conference. A list of all the papers presented at the workshop can be found here, and more information on the workshop can be consulted here.
DSEM
The Data Science for Emergency Management (DSEM) was centered on the role of Big Data and Data Science in the natural hazard management area.
Thanks to @ChaToX for its inspiring keynote @IREACT_EU workshops for #DataScience for #Emergency #Management @ieeebigdata. Looking forward to have you @IsmbOnweb talking about @bigcrisisdata. #multidisciplinary #cocreation #usersfirst pic.twitter.com/tvb7ZZdZ4k
— Fabrizio Dominici (@fabrydominici) December 11, 2017
The keynote speaker, Prof. Carlos Castillo, presented an overview about the current state of the art on the Big Crisis Data topic and provided interesting insights on a better exploitation of crowdsourcing solutions. The DSEM workshop featured papers on novel and innovative solutions for emergency management: social media and unstructured data, crowdsourcing and user feedback, forecasting models, decision support systems, and resource allocation and crowd control during emergencies.
The workshop was held on December 11, 2017 in Boston, USA, co-located with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. A list of all the papers presented at the workshop can be found here, and more information on the workshop can be consulted here.
Very interesting presentation of @fed29 of @IsmbOnweb @PoliTOnews on a #language #agnostic to analyze #socialmedia #data. A complementary approach with respect @ArhatKandor for @IREACT_EU? pic.twitter.com/EhEPv3aFme
— Fabrizio Dominici (@fabrydominici) December 11, 2017
We close this 2017 with a lot of activity,but we are not stopping here. This 2018 we are organizing a workshop within the ISCRAM 2018, the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The workshop will be in May, but the deadline for submitting your paper is on January 15, so send it now!
