14:30   Opening session

Welcome - Professor Fernando Santana, Dean FCT/UNL; Professor Steiger Garção, President of CTS-UNINOVA and DEE; Professor António Urgueira, President of DEMI                                                                                                 

·      Emergency Management Research Collaboration - Professor Pamela McCauley Bush - University of Central Florida

15:00   Isabel L. Nunes – Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the Faculdade Ciências e Tecnologia of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa; member of CTS/UNINOVA research group

·      Emergency management. Overview and example of application of a fuzzy methodology

15:20   Pamela McCauley Bush – Associate Professor of the Department of Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida; Director of the department’s Ergonomics Laboratory

·      A Human Centered Methodology for the Development of a Fuzzy Model to Assess Mobile Communication Devices in High Consequence Emergency Management

15:40   Soumia Ichoua - Associate Professor of Operations Research in Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

·      Towards the Design and Operations of Effective Humanitarian Supply Chains

16:00   Sylvia Thomas - Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at University of South Florida

·      Existing and developing sensors for emergency management

16:20   Elizabeth Avery Gomez – Senior University Lecturer in the Information Systems Department of the College of Computing Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology                                                    

·      Towards a Data Fission Framework: Optimizing Information Access for the Field Expert using Constrained Technologies

16:40   Discussion and Conclusions