[AISWorld] IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in the Management of Disasters (DSS 2.0 in Paris, France) (Dr. Karen Neville)

[Cathal Doyle]

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IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop on Enabling Effective Decision-Making in
the Management of Disasters (DSS 2.0): http://bit.ly/1eZlFAG

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DESCRIPTION ===========

Volatile events such as public health disasters bring the prospect of rapid
contagion and the threat of disastrous impacts for Europe. Vulnerabilities
and cascading effects can result in significant injuries, illness and loss
of life. Damage to health infrastructure, demand for medical attention,
displacement and major outbreaks all place a strain on health services.
Preparedness, response and recovery capabilities of health services will
directly impact society's ability to 'bounce back' to become more resilient
to such devastating shocks. Health emergency management (EM) however, is a
complex process.

Comprehensive EM is based on four distinct processes: (1) mitigation:
reducing the consequences of an emergency, (2) preparedness: equipping
responders, decision-makers and the public with the tools and mechanisms to
minimise losses, (3) response: actions to prevent further health suffering,
and (4) recovery: returning to normal. Given the importance of health
services in crisis situations, the consequences of these agencies being
unprepared could be particularly dramatic in terms of casualties, panic
etc. The development of decision support tools to improve their
preparedness, response and recovery is of utmost importance.

This DSS 2.0 (http://dss20conference.wordpress.com) workshop will
investigate how to improve preparedness and decision-making response by
health services involved in large scale and/or cross border emergencies by
discussing decision support tools/processes including scenarios,
technology, operating procedures, training programs, logistics tools,
lessons-learned applicable to the Emergency Management domain. Short
discussion papers/abstracts are welcomed from academic and practitioner
experts in Emergency/Crisis Management - Decision-Making which address the
above.

LIST OF TOPICS ============

1.     Common decision-making processes for interoperability of medical and
security services in a disaster at a local, regional and cross border
response.

2.     Decision support tools for threat analysis with relevant reference
evaluating scenarios.

3.     Decision-making processes/ methods for preparedness - prioritizing
needed scenarios, creating the required standard operating procedures,
identifying the necessary coordination of decision-making between
stakeholders, identifying the required resources and the necessary training.

4.     Decision-making tools for validating each component and the
preparedness as a whole.

5.     Decision support tool-set for intelligence and analysis of
gathering, with the ability to alert decision-makers to the occurrence of
an unusual biological event (weak signal detection), predict the evolution
of the scenario, create the operational picture and share filtered
information with all of the relevant stakeholders.

6.     Logistic models for assessing the needed stockpiles of necessary
equipment, medications, vaccinations and personal protective equipment,
their positioning and restocking (resource management).

7.     What-if tools for the creation of surge capacity in the event of a
major crisis.

8.     Decision-making coordination mechanisms for healthcare services,
security agencies operating nationally and with international organisations.

9.     The methodologies needed for training and creating the required
knowledge and DM skills for responding in emergency situations.

10.  Post crisis evaluation DS tools, with processes for identifying
lessons learned, documenting them and implementation of the necessary
changes for future emergencies.

11.  An evaluation of current Incident Management tools used by decision
makers and first responders.

12.  Intelligent decision support mechanisms to enhance critical decisions
in disaster management situations.

IMPORTANT DATES ================

12/05/2014: Deadline for workshop Abstract submissions

16/05/2014: Notification to authors of accepted Abstracts

02/06/2014: IFIP WG 8.3 and SIGDSS Workshop

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES =====================

Authors are required to submit an abstract (600 words) of their proposed
presentation to KarenNeville at ucc.ie by the 12th of May.

An extended version of the Best paper selected from the workshop will be
published in a special issue of the Int. Journal of Information and
Decision Sciences. CFP of the special issue can be reached at:
http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2516http://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/cfp.php?id=2516

WORKSHOP CHAIR ===============

Dr Karen Neville, Centre for Security Management Research, BIS, University
College Cork, Ireland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ===================

Professor Sven Carlson, Lund University, Sweden

Dr. Andrew Pope, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland

Professor Liaquat Hossain, Sydney University, Australia

Dr. Simon Woodworth, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland

Dr. Nora McCarthy, ASSERT Centre, University College Cork, Ireland

Dr. William Hynes, Future Analytics Consultancy (FAC), Dublin, Ireland

Stephen Purcell, Future Analytics Consultancy (FAC), Dublin, Ireland

Cathal Doyle, BIS, University College Cork, Ireland
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