The First International Workshop on
Information Technologies for the Maritime Sector - 2012 (ITEMS’12)

(To be held in conjunction with DASFAA: Database Systems for Advanced Applications, 2012)
Busan, Korea, April 15, 2012


SCOPE:

According to the International Maritime Organization more than 90% of the global trade,
whether it is oil and gas, bulk or containerized cargo, is carried by sea. To this volume leisure, passenger and military shipping must be added to account for the traffic. The stakeholders in the maritime industry are numerous. Information TEchnology for the Maritime Sector (ITEMS) is an international workshop that aims at creating a forum for researchers and professionals to present and discuss the latest research results and developments of information technologies for the maritime sector. The workshop's scope includes all important aspects of information technology, including simulation of maritime systems (vessels interactions, trajectories, domains); acquisition, processing, and management of maritime data; robotic aspects of port management; web technologies for various aspects of maritime operations; artificial intelligence, decision support systems and data analytics for various maritime partners.

ITEMS will be held in conjunction with DASFAA, which is an annual international
database conference, located in the Asia-Pacific region, which showcases state-of-the-art R & D activities in database systems and their applications. DASFAA provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers, practitioners and users from academia, business and industry.

Please visit: http://www.maritimestudies.nus.edu.sg/ITEMS2012/ITEMS2012.html
for more details.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We solicit papers that address all important aspects of information
technologies for the maritime industry. Topics of interest include
but are not limited to:

* Navigation and Surveillance Systems such as Electronic Chart
Display and Information System (ECDIS), Long Range Identification
and Tracking (LRIT), and Automatic Identification Systems (ASI)
* Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Radio-Frequency Identification
(RFDI) for asset tracking and infrastructure maintenance
* Management of maritime information
* Data mining and maritime data analytics
* Decision Support Systems for maritime operations
* Ship movement and traffic simulation
* Geo-nautical information systems
* Maritime standards and security
* Robotics and port management
* Ship design methods & tools
* Artificial Intelligence
* Shipping networks
* Maritime logistics
* Web technologies


IMPORTANT DATES

December 09, 2011 Submission of Papers
January 09, 2012 Final acceptance notifications
January 15, 2012 All camera-ready copies Due
April 15, 2012 Half day workshop.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled
electronically. Submissions should not be under-review by other
conferences/journals. All proposals should be submitted in electronic
format using the EasyChair System.

Accepted papers will be published by Springer as proceedings in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All submitted papers should
be Springer LNCS camera-ready format. The style files are available
from Springer LNCS site.

All submissions files should be in PDF formats. The number of pages
should not exceed 10 pages. Any paper more than 10 pages will be rejected.
Questions about the submission process should be directed to the workshop
co-chairs at: cmsbsm@nus.edu.sg.com.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Stéphane Bressan, Bonghee Hong, Baljeet Malhotra


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alex Aravind, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, csalex@unbc.ca
Omar Boucelma, Aix-Marseille University, France, omar.boucelma@lsis.org
Elena Camossi, JRC, ISPRA, Italy, elena.camossi@jrc.ec.europa.eu
Che Sau Chang, National University of Singapore, eleccs@nus.edu.sg
Li Cheng, A*STAR, Singapore, chengli@bii.a-star.edu.sg
Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy Research Institute, France, christophe.claramunt@ecole-navale.fr
Isabel F. Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, ifc@cs.uic.edu
Hari Krishna Garg, National University of Singapore, eleghk@nus.edu.sg
Mark Goh, National University of Singapore, bizgohkh@nus.edu.sg
Panos Kalnis, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, panos.kalnis@kaust.edu.sa
Ryszard J. Katulski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, rjkat@eti.pg.gda.pl
Joonho Kwon, Pusan National University, South Korea, jhkwon@pusan.ac.kr
Robert Laurini, INSA-Lyon, France, robert.laurini@insa-lyon.fr
Yuxi Li, UESTC, China, yuxili@gmail.com
Anirban Mondal, IIITD, India, anirban@iiitd.ac.in
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada, nikolaidis@ualberta.ca
Sherif Sakr, NICTA, Australia, ssakr@cse.unsw.edu.au
Reza Sherkat, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, rsherkat@cs.hku.hk
Jacek Stefanski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, jstef@eti.pg.gda.pl
Ha-Joo Song, Pukyong National University, South Korea, hajoosong@pknu.ac.kr
Woei Wan Tan, National University of Singapore, wwtan@nus.edu.sg
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece, ytheodoridis@gmail.com
Agnès Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany, agnes.voisard@fu-berlin.de
Osamu Yoshie, Waseda University, Japan, yoshie@waseda.jp
Tingshao Zhu, GUCAS, China, tszhu@gucas.ac.cn