Aims and Scope
United Nation (UN) has defined a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all related to global challenges. Research on these multi-disciplinary and multi-sector challenges are of significant value and importance. The 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Management (AIDM-2025) is dedicated to the critical infrastructures, secure societies and sustainability challenges and in particular, to the dissemination of completed or works in progress that are original contributions and related to the emerging computational and collaborative technologies for the purpose of managing natural and man-made disasters and technological accidents. There are various advanced and emerging computational paradigms that could be applied as a means to mitigate and prepare for, respond to and recover from continuously growing occurrences of such disasters. Stakeholders in disaster management settings often find the effective and efficient utilization of supporting technologies quite a challenging process but very frequently a critical computational inclusion to the intelligence that it is required in the decision-making for protecting lives, organizations, property, environment and critical infrastructures. AIDM-2025 aims to prompt relevant discussion and highlight issues related to the stakeholders’ needs and the available technologies, which could be applied to support the operation and functioning during the aforementioned stages.

AIDM-2025 will highlight both technical and less technical challenges. Softer issues are less technical and relate to various stakeholders’ perspectives including technology acceptance, civil protection, fire and rescue services, ambulance and health services, humanitarian bodies and, technical infrastructure managers and administrators. AIDM-2025 aims also to discuss technical issues and specifically, advanced ICTs which could further stakeholders’ operations. Thus, advances of applicable technologies including data science, data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used to capture, store and analyze data from smart spaces need to be discussed. The scope of AIDM-2025 is to demonstrate the increased applicability and impact of computational intelligence in satisfying the disaster’s management domain challenging requirements. Finally, AIDM-2010 aims to provide a forum for original discussion and prompt future directions in the emerging area.

Topics:
Papers should be focused on past, current and emerging methods and/or use of technologies with a particular focus to the computational intelligence in the decision-making required for managing disasters.

The main topic areas include, but are not limited to:
o Critical reviews on disaster management stages: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery
o Computational decision, risk assessment and management, business continuity and recovery
o Threat detection, prevention, monitoring, management and recovery (including network recovery)
o Needs analysis, contingency planning, policies, public awareness, training, resilience
o Risk identification, monitoring and assessment, safety, disturbance, pandemics, sustainable livelihood
o Security, trust, service reliability, identity management and privacy
o Ad-hoc networks, (sensor) network topologies & dynamics, network graphs, social networking analysis
o Artificial intelligence (AI), self-adaptive agents evolutionary computing, multi-objective optimization
o Machine and deep learning, data/IoT analysis, mining, visual computing, visual analytics
o Critical infrastructures, early warning and alerting systems, remote sensing, wireless communications, geographical information systems, satellite imagery, fault tolerance
o System architecture, languages, components, protocols, programs, portals, applications, dashboards
o Future Concepts and Frameworks in various disaster management settings

Organizing Committee

Workshop Co-chairs:
Eleana Asimakopoulou, Independent Scientist, Greece
eleana.asimakopoulou at googlemail.com

Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
nik.bessis at edgehill.ac.uk

Workshop Programme Committee Members:
Kevin Curran, Ulster University, UK
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy
Christian C Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy
Stavros Kolios, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Sunitha Kuppuswamy, Anna University Chennai, India
Vaios Lappas, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Francesco Palmieri, University of Salerno, Italy
Gianluca A Rizzo, Hesso Network (Valai), Switzerland
Stelios Sotiriadis, Birbeck College (University of London), UK
Sergio Toral Marn, University of Seville, Spain
Marcello Trovatti, Edge Hill University, UK

Submission
Paper Format
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier.

Paper Length
Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages including all figures, tables and references.

Paper Submission
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates). The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

Publication
All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line.

Proceedings
The ANT-2025 proceedings will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. All accepted submissions including AIDM workshop papers will be included in the proceedings of the conference. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a full paid registration by at least one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings.