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Next BRIM Workshop: Digital-twins for building resilience into risk management – modelling requirements (20 Nov 2019)
November 20th, 2019
@Loughborough
Aims of the workshop
A workshop event bringing together experts from industry and academia to identify the role of DT in disaster management and to help understand the modelling requirements for recognizing operational digital twins.
Objectives and outputs
- A shared understanding of the role/value of digital-twins
- Identify key stakeholders and establishing modelling requirements for creating operational digital twins
- Outline next steps to realise operational digital twins
Participation
Please register here. This event is free of charge to all registered participants and includes lunch and refreshments.
We are looking for attendees to get involved in discussions and activities throughout the day. We are also looking for presentations from those working in the areas of digital twins and resilience/risk management. Due to the time constraints, please send a message to d.joannou@lboro.ac.uk with the outline of the presentation, where a selection of presentations will be made.
Next BRIM Workshop: Climate change, resilience and the Re(insurance) industry
OldLibrary, Lloyd’s, London, EC3M 7HA
20 Aug 2019
Damage caused by flood events is expected to rise in the coming decades driven by increased land use pressures and climate change impacts. Strategies developed to increase flood resilience are sought across the world to reduce the impact of current and future flood events. Within this context, the Re(insurance) industry plays a key role in securing property flood resilience by for example, promoting the availability and affordability of household insurance for eligible homes.
Following a successful workshop on “Property Flood Resilience and the Insurance Sector”, we would like to run a follow up session looking at the links between climate change, resilience and the Re(insurance) industry. This workshop focuses on identifying successful strategies driven by or linked to the Re(insurance) sector that have successfully increased flood resilience. We are particularly interested to hear about strategies looking at (i) building back better homes after a flood, (ii) promoting a change of attitude, (iii) enhancing flood risk communication, (iv) developing data standards for flood models and (v) pricing models that take into account flood resistance measures.
The morning session will include a set of presentations by subject matter experts follow by a networking session.
To register please click here
Next BRIM Workshop: Digital-twins for building resilience into risk management (4 June 2019)
Tuesday 4th June, 2019
@ Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Aims of the workshop
This event aims to bring together experts from academia and industry to identify the role of DT in disaster management and to help understand the potential benefits and challenges of their application.
Objectives and outputs
- A shared understanding of the role/value of digital-twins in the disaster management context
- Identify key stakeholders and planning next steps for developing digital twins
- A list of related topics (directly or indirectly) related to digital twins
Participation
We are looking for attendees to get involved in discussions and activities throughout the day. We are also looking for presentations from those working in the areas of digital twins and resilience/risk management. Due to the time constraints, please send a message to d.joannou@lboro.ac.uk with the outline of the presentation, where a selection of presentations will be made.
Cost & Registration
Please register here. This event is free of charge to all registered participants and includes lunch and refreshments.
Call for papers: International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities
Seattle, Washington, USA
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
The 1st International workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities is soliciting papers for its first workshop. The workshop is focused on contributions at the interface of urban and computer science, building intelligent and resilient cities, modeling urban design by considering sensor technology, edge computing, visualization, modeling and simulation, advanced data analytics. The workshop organizers invite submissions discussing novel theoretical and applied research consistent with the ARIC and ACM focus.
Topics of Interest Include:
- Analytics to integrate heterogenous spatio-temporal data for prediction, detection of anomalies and unusual patterns
- Real-time analytics of dynamic and distributed data
- Edge and distributed computing to mine information from ubiquitous data about cyber-physical systems
- Theoretical and practical applications of Internet of Things in urban settings
- Visualizing urban areas and optimal locations of sensors for urban resilience
- Using augmented reality, simulations and 3D-geovisualization for urban planning and to enhance stakeholder experience through collective intelligence
- Case studies of successful deployment of smart and resilient cities
- Policies and theoretical framework needed for successful deployment of intelligent and resilient cities
- Existing state-of-the-art and future directions to integrating social and cyber-physical systems to achieve both smart and resilient cities
Workshop Organizers
Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Olufemi A. Omitaomu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shima Mohebbi, University of Oklahoma
Guangtao Fu, University of Exeter
Paper Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018
The Third BRIM funding call is OPEN NOW!
The third call for feasibility studies of BRIM is now open until 31st July, 2018. Please find more details and the application forms by following the link below.
Next BRIM Workshop: A Reference Architecture for a Resilient UK Water Supply System (2 May 2018)
Wednesday 2nd May, 2018 – 09:30 to 16:00
@ Loughborough University, LE11 3TU
Aims of the workshop
A workshop event will bring together a range of stakeholders from academia and industry to actively explore the benefits of adopting a reference architecture of the UK water infrastructure.
Background
The variability of the UK’s weather and climate, and the occurrence of extreme weather events (e.g. draughts and floods) present long-term challenges in meeting water demands. There is an apparent need to develop a resilient water supply to meet all demand from both social demand and environmental aspects. Water supply systems have traditionally been designed to cope with the worst drought that has previously occurred. Drivers, which push for a change in planning efforts, come from; a growing population; a growing economy; climate change; uncertainty; environmental regulation and abstraction.
Here, resilience is in terms of current water resource availability and knowledge sharing between companies on future reliability of water resource options and potential alternatives. This lack of knowledge sharing between companies, neighboring or otherwise, against which levels of service can be compared and improved, is critical to the sustainability of future water supply. An integrated approach to water resources management plan (WRMP) by water companies as a collective, or at least a selection of companies who see the largest threats, would see potential benefits. This is also true of drought measures that can be included in an integrated WRMP and considers the likelihood of increased drought frequency and severity in a time of increased uncertainty.
Participation
We are looking for attendees to get involved in discussions and activities throughout the day. We are also looking for presentations from those working in the areas of water resource management, resilience engineering, systems modelling or similar and related topics. Due to the time constraints, please send a message to d.joannou@lboro.ac.uk with the outline of the presentation, where a selection of presentations will be made.
Workshop Outputs
1. A shared understanding of the role of a reference architecture in the water supply system context
2. Identifying key stakeholders and planning the next steps for developing a reference architecture
3. A list of related topics (directly or indirectly) related to this research area
Cost & Registration
This event is free of charge to all registered participants and includes lunch and refreshments. Please send an email to d.joannou@lboro.ac.uk to register your interest for the event.
Call for participants to the UK-China joint workshop on “Water-Wise Cities and Smart Water Systems”
Xi’an, China 11th – 13th September 2018
Under the Researcher Links scheme offered within the British Council’s Newton Fund, we will be holding a workshop on “Water-Wise Cities and Smart Water Systems” in Xi’an, China on 11th – 13th September 2018. The workshop is being coordinated by Professor Guangtao Fu (Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter, UK) and Professor Xiaochang Wang (Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China). We have invited four leading researchers, who will give a keynote and act as mentors for early career researchers:
- Professor David Butler FREng, Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter,
- Dr Ivan Stoianov, Imperial College London,
- Professor Nanqi Ren, Academician, Harbin Institute of Technology, and
- Professor Qiang He, Chongqing University.
We are now inviting Early Career Researchers from the UK to apply to attend this workshop. All expenses related to travel, accommodation and meals will be covered by the Newton Researcher Links programme. The application form should be sent to Dr Fanlin Meng () for UK participants before the deadline of 15th May 2018.
Next BRIM Workshop: Property Flood Resilience and the Insurance Sector (6 Mar 2018)
Led by Dr. Monica Rivas Casado (Cranfield University, Co-I of the BRIM project), a workshop will be held on 6 Mar 2018 on Property Flood Resilience and the Insurance Sector (link below). A range of insurance companies or companies working with/for the insurance sector will be approached to join the BRIM network and attend the one day workshop. A set of presentations by subject matter experts will be delivered during the morning session, followed by discussions in the afternoon.
https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/events/events-2018/property-flood-resilience-and-the-insurance-sector
Workshop Invitation: Intersections Between Resilience and Risk 5th December 2017
We are calling for participants to a workshop organised by Prof. Roy Kalawsky (Loughborough University, Co-I of the BRIM project) on Intersections Between Resilience and Risk. Please come to the workshop and participate if you are interested in the topic (register here). The workshop programme can be found by following the link below.
BRIM funding calls are OPEN NOW!
The second calls for feasibility studies of BRIM are now open until 30 November, 2017. Please find more details and the application forms by following the link below.