Call for papers
Submitting your paper through EDAS
Following the conference theme of "Lessons learned from Japan's 2011 earthquake and other natural disasters around the world," the technical papers and invited/tutorial tracks will cover not only disaster-related topics but also open to a wide range of topics:
Disaster-related Topics and General Topics in HT:
| Area # | Title | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Information Services | Big Data Data Mining Social Media/SNS Alarm Distribution, etc. |
| 2 | Communication Infrastructures | NW Damage/Recovery Disaster-Tolerance Role/applications of Communication in Disaster, etc. |
| 3 | Electricity and Energy Infrastructures | Electrical Grid Power Plant Batteries Renewable Energy, etc. |
| 4 | Sensors and their Applications | Remote Monitoring Sensor Data Aggregation Location Services, etc. |
| 5 | Robotics and its Applications | Rescue Robot Life Support Robot Robots for Unmanned Inspection, etc. |
| 6 | Health and Medical Technology | Telemedicine Welfare for Elderly People, etc. |
| 7 | Educational Technology | E-Learning Educational System with Data Mining, etc. |
| 8 | Other Disaster-related topics which are not covered by the above | |
| 9 | Other Humanitarian Challenges and Approaches | |
Paper submission guidelines
Please see Author Guidelines for details.
- All submissions should be written in English with a standard length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures. Please use standard IEEE conference templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found here.
- Only PDF files are accepted for a paper review. Your submitted PDF file and registered EDAS account of a paper must list the same author(s), title and abstract (minor wording differences in the abstract are allowed). Papers in which the PDF and EDAS account do not match the author(s), title, and/or abstract will be withdrawn by the Technical Program Committee.
- Some of the papers will be invited to a poster session as determined by the program committee.
- R10-HTC2013 requires that each accepted paper be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived.
- Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Important dates
- April 7 2013: Deadline of paper submission
- May 8 2013: Notification of paper acceptance
- June 30 2013: Deadline for early registration
- June 30 2013: Camera Ready Paper Submission
- Aug. 26-29 2013: Conference