[Esip-disasters] Call for Papers: Special Issue on “Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness”

Robert Downs rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu
Mon Apr 24 10:53:01 EDT 2017


FYI

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


*Special Issue on “Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and
Preparedness” in the Journal Information Systems Frontiers
<http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+systems/journal/10796>,
Springer*


*INTRODUCTION*

Emergency events in recent times, which include natural disasters such as
earthquakes, cyclones, floods, fire, epidemics, as well as man-made
disasters such as terror attacks, riots, socio-political movements, and so
on, are a recurring feature of our world. In such scenarios, the
Information Systems (IS) community can play a vital role in providing
methodologies and systems for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing
situational information in real-time, to assist in emergency relief
operations as well as in emergency preparedness, such as cyclone and
tsunami warning systems, surveillance systems etc.

In today’s world, Online Social Media (OSM), such as Twitter, Facebook and
WhatsApp, are important sources of real-time information related to
emergency events. Effective exploitation of the content posted on OSM
requires effective real-time information processing methods. The objective
of this special issue is to report latest research examining the
multifarious aspects of effective information extraction and exploitation
from social media, for emergency relief as well as emergency preparedness.
The special issue aims to bring together diverse research communities --
such as Information Retrieval, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Natural
Language Processing, Computational Social Science, Human Computer
Interaction, and so on -- who can potentially contribute towards building
Information Systems for utilizing social media for emergency relief and
preparedness.


*TOPICS*

The special issue solicits the submission of high-quality research papers
related to the theme, which include (but are not limited to):

* Retrieval and extraction of situational and actionable information from
noisy OSM content
* Applications of data mining, NLP and machine learning on OSM content
related to emergency events, including text and image content
* Aggregating information from multiple OSM and online / offline resources
* Addressing the code-mixed and informal vocabulary of OSM content
* Detection of events and emerging themes
* Real-time management and summarization of dynamic content streams
* Detection of rumors, and identification of trustworthy sources and
information
* Geo-tagging and geo-localization of content and sources
* Social network models for information diffusion in emergency situations
* Identifying disaster-prone or accident-prone regions and infrastructures
* Crowdsourcing systems for emergency preparedness and disaster relief
* Mining interactions among emergency preparedness and relief groups
* Information Systems for visualization of emergency related information


High quality research papers that have neither been published previously
nor are under consideration currently for publication in any other journal
or conference are invited. Survey papers of superior quality are also
invited.

Extended versions of previously published papers are also welcome, but the
submissions must contain at least 40% new material which may include
expanding the methodology and/or some more extensive test results on new
datasets. Adding more background and related work is very welcome, but does
not count towards the intended 40% new material.


*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*

Paper submissions must conform to the format guidelines of Information
Systems Frontiers, available at:
*http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal*
<http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal>.

Submissions should be at most 30 double-spaced pages using 11-point font
size, including all references.



*IMPORTANT DATES*

* Submission deadline: *July 1, 2017*
* Notification of first round reviews: October 1, 2017
* Revised Manuscripts due: December 1, 2017
* Second Round Notification (if necessary): February 1, 2018
* Final Version Due: March 1, 2018
* Final Acceptance Notification: April 1, 2018


*SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS*

* Marie-Francine Moens, KU Leuven, Belgium (
*marie-francine.moens at cs.kuleuven.be* <marie-francine.moens at cs.kuleuven.be>)
* Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland (
*gareth.jones at computing.dcu.ie* <gareth.jones at computing.dcu.ie>)
* Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute (*mimran at hbku.edu.qa*
<mimran at hbku.edu.qa>)
* Saptarshi Ghosh, IIT Kharagpur, India (*saptarshi at cse.iitkgp.ernet.in*
<saptarshi at cse.iitkgp.ernet.in>)
* Kripabandhu Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India (*kripa.ghosh at gmail.com*
<kripa.ghosh at gmail.com>)
* Debasis Ganguly, IBM Research Labs, Dublin, Ireland (*debforit at gmail.com*
<debforit at gmail.com>)
* Tanmoy Chakraborty, University of Maryland, College Park, USA (
*tanchak at umiacs.umd.edu* <tanchak at umiacs.umd.edu>)



Thanks,

Bob Downs

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
E-mail: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu
Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
ORCID: 0000-0002-8595-5134
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