International Conference on Resilient Systems: emergenCITY on the Organizing Committee

From August 28 to 30, more than 150 scientists will come together for the International Conference on Resilient Systems (ICRS) at the CREATE Tower in Singapore. The ICRS is one of the leading interdisciplinary conferences in the field of resilient systems research. For the first time, it is also being co-organized by emergenCITY representatives.

“It is a great appreciation of our work, and it will increase our visibility enormously,” says Max Mühlhäuser, deputy coordinator at emergenCITY and Professor of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt. In addition to the LOEWE center emergenCITY, the organizers include renowned institutes such as ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) and the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering (Netherlands). The host is the Singapore-ETH Center (Singapore). The ICRS is held at a different location each year.

As representatives for emergenCITY and TU Darmstadt, Vahid Jamali, Professor of Resilient Communication Systems, John Friesen, research associate at the Institute of Fluid Systems and Ladan Khaloopour, research associate at the Institute of Telecommunications are part of the scientific and organizing committee.

What makes the ICRS special is that different fields of research will be examined and scientists from a wide range of specialist areas will present and discuss their findings. Topics include the resilience of infrastructures, social and community, health, Cyber-Physical systems, food systems, disaster resilience and digitalization.

Focus on emergenCITY program areas

In a meeting with the organizers before the official start of the conference, Max Mühlhäuser will talk about emergenCITY and focus on the four program areas of city and society, cyber-physical systems, communication and information, which are closely interlinked.

“Our aim is to provide information and communication technology for resilient systems and infrastructures that are not only smart, but also resilient themselves.”

In a poster presentation during the conference, Max Mühlhäuser will also present research findings from his department on the automatic analysis of people flows, which enables better planning of escape routes, for example. His department is researching four-dimensional city models in which such processes can also be visualized interactively.

Scientific presentations also by emergenCITY representatives

In addition to Mahshid Khazaeiathar and Jonathan Sattler, also emergenCITY employees, co-organizer Ladan Khaloopour will present her research results under the title “Modular Resilient Framework for Distributed Monitoring in SmartCities”. She has investigated the resilience of a monitoring network with sensors, access points, cloud processors and a control center. In order to increase the resilience of the network, she broke it down into various subsystems based on their functionalities. This means that the failure of a subsystem is less severe than the failure of the entire network.

In addition to the scientific exchange in lectures, discussions and poster presentations, the program also includes a joint excursion.

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