High Performance Computations for Decision Support in Critical Situations: Introduction to the Third Workshop on Urgent Computing

AbstractThis paper is the preface to the Third Workshop on Urgent Computing.The Urgent Computing workshops have been traditionally embedded in frame of International Conference of Computational Science (ICCS) since 2012. They are aimed to develop a dialogue on the present and future ofresearch and applications associated with the large-scale computations for decision support in critical situations. The key workshop topics in 2014 are: methods and principles of urgent computing, middleware, platforms and infrastructures, simulation-based decision support for complex systems control, interactive visualization and virtual reality for decision support in emergency situations, domain-area applications to emergency situations, including natural and man-made disasters, e.g.transportation problems, epidemics, criminal acts, etc