RSFF’18: Robust Solutions for Fire Fighting
                         Preface
                   Gabriele Di Stefano1           Alfredo Navarra2
     1
         Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics -
                               University of L’Aquila - Italy
                             gabriele.distefano@univaq.it
 2
     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Perugia - Italy
                            alfredo.navarra@unipg.it



    Robust Solutions for Fire Fighting (RSFF) is an international workshop
intended to be a platform of exchange between researchers and practitioners
interested in emergency management, in particular bushfires. The workshop
welcomes participation of researchers from the area of algorithms and practi-
tioners both working on emergency management issues in order to meet and
exchanging ideas and sharing experiences. The workshop is organized within
the Work Package WP3 of the European Project GEOSAFE: Geospatial Based
Environment For Optimisation Systems Addressing Fire Emergencies (H2020-
MSCA-RISE n. 691161).
    The main focus of the workshop is robustness, seen as an approach to sim-
plifying and securing solutions with the aim of making processes less affected
by disruptions. Topics of interest for RSFF concern all aspects of Algorithmic
and Optimization Theory, Modeling, Programming, Experimental Analysis and
Simulation for Emergency Management.

    This volume contains papers accepted for presentation at RSFF’18, held
in L’Aquila, Italy in July 19-20, 2018, together with a few extended abstracts.
Two types of contributions were solicited: regular papers and short communica-
tions. The former consisted in full original papers, presenting novel results, not
appeared or submitted elsewhere, while the latter encompassed extended ab-
stracts of works to be published elsewhere in a complete form; papers reporting
on ongoing researches on which the authors wished to get feedback and possibly
intended to be included in future publications; overviews of PhD-theses, re-
search projects, and so on. All the submitted contributions have been reviewed
by at least two referees who judged them for originality, quality, correctness and
consistency with the topics of the conference. Based on the referees’ reports,
the Program Committee decided to accept a total of 11 submissions: 8 regular
papers and 3 short communications.
         The reviewing process was guided by the program committee consisting of:

         - Christian Artigues - LAAS-CNRS - FRANCE
         - Serafino Cicerone - University of L’Aquila - ITALY


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   - Marc Demange - RMIT - AUSTRALIA
   - Gabriele Di Stefano - University of L’Aquila - ITALY (co-Chair)

   - Leszek Gasieniec - University of Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM
   - Cecile Murat - Paris Dauphine University - FRANCE
   - Alfredo Navarra - University of Perugia - ITALY (co-Chair)

   - Petrica Pop Sitar - Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
   - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L’Aquila - ITALY

   The organizing committee was:
   - Serafino Cicerone - University of L’Aquila - ITALY

   - Mattia D’Emidio - University of L’Aquila - ITALY
   - Gabriele Di Stefano - University of L’Aquila - ITALY
   - Alfredo Navarra - University of Perugia - ITALY

   - Pierpaolo Vittorini - University of L’Aquila - ITALY
   We would like to thank the members of the Program and the Organizing
Committees for their excellent and qualified work. We gratefully acknowledge
sponsorship from the University of L’Aquila and its Department of Information
Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, and of course the European
Project GEOSAFE (H2020-MSCA-RISE n. 691161). Finally, we thank the
CEUR-WS.org for publishing these proceedings.




L’Aquila, July 2018

Gabriele Di Stefano and Alfredo Navarra.




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