Special Issue "Emergency Management, Communications and the Internet"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Erol Gelenbe
Intelligent Systems and Networks Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Website: http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/gelenbe/
E-Mail: e.gelenbe@imperial.ac.uk
Interests: Emergency Management, Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Distributed Real-Time Decisions, Agent Based Simulation, Evacuation Systems

Guest Editor
Dr. Avgoustinos Filippopoulitis
Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
E-Mail: afil@imperial.ac.uk

Guest Editor
Dr. Gokce Gorbil
Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
E-Mail: g.gorbil@imperial.ac.uk

Guest Editor
Dr. Fang-Jing Wu
Intelligent Systems Centre, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637553, Singapore
E-Mail: f.wu@ntu.edu.sg

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue is focused on topics encompassing the new research area on Emergency Management and Communications.

It addresses the complex networked and distributed systems that are designed to provide an optimum response and outcome in the presence of potentially dangerous emergencies, such as natural disasters, industrial or environmental catastrophic events, or terrorist attacks. In such contexts a combination of sensing, communication and distributed decision making are needed to be able to guide evacuees, allocate emergency resources and services, direct first responders, preserve life, improve health and limit damage to the physical and natural infrastructure.

Erol Gelenbe, Avgoustinos Filippopoulitis, Gokce Gorbil and Fang-Jing Wu
Guest Editors

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• Sensors for Emergency Management and their Evaluation
• Network Architectures for Emergency Management
• Definition and Evaluation of Network QoS in Emergency Management
• Evaluating Sensor Performance in and for Emergencies
• The Effect of Interconnected Infrastructures in Emergencies
• Complex System Modeling and Networks of Networks for Emergency Analysis and Optimisation
• The use of Self-Organisation in Emergency Management System Design
• System Architectures for Emergency Management
• Integrated Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Emergency Management Systems
• Distributed Decision Algorithms for Emergencies, and their Performance
• The Internet of Things for Emergency Management
• Emergency Management Simulators for Planning and Training
• System Test-Beds and Demonstrators
• Emerging Standards