Disasters occur when hazards - both natural as well as man-made - and their corresponding risks can no longer be properly contained, leading to serious detrimental consequences in terms of loss of life, financial repercussions or devastation to infrastructure and the environment. In recent years, the rising number of disasters occurring all over the world, even affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent, have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various kinds of disasters. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an especially hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, and it still impacts our lives today and will continue to do so for some time in the future. From the perspective of today, the world-wide spread and the multitude of resulting different (local and global) implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the importance to consider the dynamic evolvement of a disaster, which is exactly what the DOD-series has been focused on in the past and will also be focused on in its edition in 2024. 

Moreover, DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to new and emerging threats due to the ever growing integration as well as increasing coupling between the cyber- and physical domain. Such new and emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which – so far – have been the prime examples for targets of novel attacks and their consequences, which can arise from both the cyber- as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges pertaining to disaster risk, disaster management organizations and first responders.

We call for (extended) abstracts and/or papers dealing with all aspects related to the dynamics of disasters, and – in particular – encourage submissions dealing with hybrid threats to be presented at DOD 2024. We would also like to highlight that we encourage submissions addressing challenges relating to the interdisciplinary character of disaster response and disaster management.

We will organize a call for extended versions of papers presented at DOD 2024 to be included in dedicated post-proceedings of DOD 2024 published by Springer, similar to previous editions of the DOD-series:

• for DOD 2015: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437071;
• for DOD 2017: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319974415;
• for DOD 2019: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649722;
• for DOD 2021: Operations Research Forum virtual issue.

We are also delighted to point you to the DOD 2024 homepage [DOD2024] containing the newest information about DOD 2024. We are grateful and honored to announce plenary talks given by Distinguished Professor Panos Pardalos (Steering Committee Chair of DOD, University of Florida) on Dynamics of Disasters and Professor Georg Pflug (University of Vienna, IIASA) on Dependence Models for Multi-Hazard-Events at DOD 2024! On the DOD 2024 homepage, you will also find information on our planned social events as well as on the venue in Vienna, Austria.

[DOD2024] https://dod2024.sba-research.org/

We are very much looking forward to hosting DOD 2024, which will be co-located with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024, ARES Conference » Vienna, Austria (ares-conference.eu)) and welcoming you to Vienna!

Topics of interest: All aspects related to the dynamics of disasters, including (but not limited to):

• Optimization
• Computing
• Mathematical and statistical modeling
• Data analytics
• Emergency and disaster management
• Hybrid threats as new and emerging hazards to society

Committees

Program Committee

• Irène Abi-Zeid | Université Laval, Canada
• Fuad Aleskerov | Higher School of Economics, Russia
• Ashwin Arulselvan | University of Strathclyde, UK
• Vladimir Boginski | University of Central Florida, USA
• Sergiy Butenko | Texas A&M University, USA
• Edward Byers | IIASA, Austria
• Marco Carvalho | Florida Institute of Technology, USA
• Altannar Chinchuluun | National University of Mongolia, Mongolia
• Monica Cojocaru | University of Guelph, Canada
• Patrizia Daniele | Università di Catania, Italy
• Mario Guarracino | ICAR-CNR, Italy
• Jimmy Huang | York University, Canada
• Joo-Young Jung | International Christian University, Japan
• Athanasia Karakitsiou | International Hellenic University, Greece
• Stavros Katsios | Ionian University, Greece
• Evangelos Kranakis | Carleton University, Canada
• Lina Mallozzi | Università degli studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
• Evangelos Mitsakis | Hellenic Institute of Transport – CERTH, Grecce
• Anna Nagurney | University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Oleg Prokopyev | University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Stefan Rass | Linz Institute of Technology, Austria
• Steffen Rebennack | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Nickolas Sapidis | University of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Xing Tan | Lakehead University, Canada
• Chrysafis Vogiatzis | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Tina Wakolbinger | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
• Jose Walteros | University at Buffalo, USA
• Francesco Zirilli | Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Workshop Chairs

• Dimitris Simos, General Chair, SBA Research, Austria
• Bernhard Garn, PC co-Chair, SBA Research, Austria
• Stefan Pickl, PC co-Chair, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
• Panos Pardalos, Steering Committee Chair of DOD, University of Florida, USA
• Ilias S. Kotsireas, Publicity co-Chair, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
• Izem Chaloupka, Publicity co-Chair, SBA Research, Austria

Venue

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 

Submission Guidelines

The post-proceedings of DOD 2024 will be published under the book series Springer Optimization and Its Applications. The submissions should be prepared according to the guidelines given (SOIA latex templates) here: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/campaigns/latex-author-support

Contact

Please direct all questions concerning submissions or DOD 2024 in general to: dod2024@sba-research.org