2016 International Symposium on Independent Computing (ISIC'16)

As the famous slogan “Connecting People” indicates, a lot of the developments in novel technologies intensify the relationship between people without necessarily enhance technologies that are close to the nature of human beings. Recent paradigms, such as Cloud Computing that advances network infrastructure for data storage and resource sharing, or the Internet of Things that investigates the intelligence and awareness of objects involved in the network, provide such examples. With the help of advanced computational network paradigms, people tend to make themselves available online, which often manifests their willingness of placing almost everything (e.g., data, private information) on the Internet. This leads to the increasing dependency on more and more complex computer networking paradigms and associated techniques. Although considerable benefits are envisioned, issues concerning the survivability of humans in such environment, especially is emergency scenarios, remains a challenging issue.