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ISCRAM – Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Bartel Van de WalleFebruary 2008
ISCRAM2004 – 2008:
impressions from a journey …
With thanks to many many fellow-travellers and a few hard-core ISCRAM believers
Purpose of the ISCRAM Community
Promote research, development and deployment of information systems for crisis response and management
Promote and facilitate international cooperation between
scientific institutions, research institutes and universities with activities in the area of crisis response and management
scientists and the practitioners in this field
research in scientific institutions and universities and the technology and solution providers
Purpose of the ISCRAM Community
Help define programmes and projects and develop action plans, both national and international, for scientific and technological research in this area, and in collaboration with members of the ISCRAM Community
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Community website:
400 registered users December 2004
850 registered users December 2005
1200 registered users December 2006
1600 registered users December 2007
ISCRAM Community: http://www.iscram.org
New registrations in a given week: Jobst Loffler, Fraunhofer, Germany
Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire Univ., USA
Yannis Kalfoglou, Univ. Southampton, UK
Myra Haase, Missouri State, USA
Bedrich Smetana, Univ. Obrany, CZ
Brian Small, Adam Geitgey, Bill Pond, ESI911.com, USA
Sahil Virani, Univ. Mauritius, Mauritius
Wim van Setten, Sticht. Platform Mobile Messaging, NL
Ryan Bravo, Univ. Notre Dame, USA
Abhishek, DIMT, India
Anthony Cinelli, CTO A Reality Technologies, USA
Preston Yates, GIS coordinator, Flagler County, USA
Brian Sokoll, Abt Associates, USA
Markku Hakkinen, Finland
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Academic positions
Top 10 countries Sep-05 May-06Top 10 Membership 517 678
United States 219 311Netherlands 89 111Belgium 58 62UK 33 40Australia 32 40France 23 28Germany 23 31Italy 16 21Canada 13 16China 11 18
ISCRAM International Conferences:
Initiated in 2004, first meeting in Brussels
As of 2005, alternating between Europe and USA:
Brussels, Belgium 2005
Newark, New Jersey 2006
Delft, the Netherlands 2007
Washington DC 2008
to be decided 2009
San Diego, CA 2010
ISCRAM2004 – First Int’l Workshop, Brussels
co-chair Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN)
80 participants
Proceedings (with ISBN) on CD
Keynote Speakers
Murray Turoff Simon French Einar Bjorgo
First Opening by Paul Govaerts (general manager SCK-CEN)
Mike Melshkin Award for best PhD paper
2004 MM Award Winner: Jonas Landgren, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
ISCRAM2005 – 2nd Int’l Conference, Brussels
co-chair Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN)
120 participants
Proceedings (with ISBN) – printed Book
Keynote Speakers
Jack Harrald Dan Power
Paul CurrionLiz Carver
2005 MM Award Winner: Jiri Trnka, Linkoping Univ., Sweden
ISCRAM2006 – 3rd Int’l Conference, Newark
co-chair Murray Turoff (NJIT)
150 participants
Proceedings (with ISBN) – CD
Keynote Speakers
Gino Menchini Paul Currion
Peter Wood
PhD Symposium (David Mendonca)
2006 MM Award Winner: Manuel Llavador, TU Valencia, Spain
ISCRAM2007– 4th Int’l Conference, Delft
co-chairs Kees Nieuwenhuis and Paul Burghardt (Delft)
150 participants
Proceedings (with ISBN) – Book
ISCRAM2008– 5th Int’l Conference, GWU
co-chairs Frank Fiedrich and Jack Harrald
ISCRAM2008– 5th Int’l Conference, GWU
Doctoral Consortium: Jonas Landgren
Tapia, Andrea; Maitland, Carleen
Information Coordination between Heterogeneous Emergency and Relief Agencies
French, Simon (1); Bayley, Clare (1)
Social Networking, Web Collaboration and e Participation in Crisis and Risk Management
Schooley, Benjamin; Horan, Thomas
IT Governance for Inter-organizational Emergency Response
SALEH, Hussain Aziz; ALLAERT, Georges
Early Warning Systems
Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Muhren, Willem (1); de Silva, Chamindra (2); Currion, Paul
(3)
Information Systems for Humanitarian Operations
Meissner, Andreas (1); Geisler, Juergen (1);
Stiefelhagen, Rainer (2)
Smart Room Technology for Emergency Operation Centres and Mobile Command Posts
ISCRAM2008: 28 Special Sessions
Burgman, Aaron (1); Yost, Beth (1)
Visualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration
Malizia, Alessio (1); Klann, Markus (2); Chittaro, Luca (3);
Aedo-Cuevas, Ignacio (1); Levialdi, Stefano (4)
HCI for Emergencies
Bharosa, Nitesh; Cresswell, Anthony; Roa, Raghav; Lee, Jin
KyuAdaptive Information Architectures for Interagency Crisis Management
Wickler, Gerhard (1); Dokas, Ioannis (2); Engelmann, Hagen
(3); Fiedrich, Frank (4)Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management
Liebau, Nicolas Christopher (1); Steinmetz, Ralf (1); Bradler, Dirk (1);
Kangasharju, Jussi (2)
Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management
White, Connie Marie (1); Plotnick, Linda Small (1)
Trust in Emergency Planning and Response
Iannella, Renato (1); Giunchiglia, Fausto (2); Di Maio, Paola (3)
Ontologies for Crisis Management
Otto, Peter (1); Rich, Eliot (2)Applications of System Dynamics for Crisis Response and
Management
Mendonca, David Research Methods in ISCRAM
McGarry, Nina Healthcare
Turoff, MurrayReducing Information Proliferation and Overload in Emergency
Management
D'Arcy, John (1); Schuff, David (2)
IT Security
Johansson, Björn (1); Jenvald, Johan (2); Trnka, Jiri (1);
Woltjer, Rogier (1)Studies of Command and Control Systems
Bertsch, Valentin (1); Merz, Mirjam (1); Geldermann, Jutta
(2); Hiete, Michael (1)Impact of Disasters on Industry and Economic Effects
Mecella, Massimo (1); Ashish, Naveen (2); Krek, Alenka (3)
Process- and Geo-aware Systems for Crisis Management
Tomaszewski, Brian Michael Geographic Information Science
Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Ocker, Rosalie J.
Virtual Teams and Virtual Communities in Emergency Preparedness and Response
Becerra-Fernandez, Irma (1); Madey, Greg (2); Prietula,
Michael (3); Rodriguez, Domingo (4); Valerdi, Ricardo (5)
Virtual Systems for Emergency Management Simulation & Training
Burghardt, Paul (1); Jul, Susanne (3); Van de Ven,
Josine (2)
Creating Crises: Virtual Environments for crisis, disaster and emergency management
Rao, Ramesh (1); Balakrishnan, Manoj (1); Hubenko Baker,
Alexandra (1)
Technology Showcase – Communication Systems and Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Response
Morelli, Ralph; de Lanerolle, Trishan
Humanitarian and Crisis Information Systems: Reports from Academia, Business, and Government
Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Snoad, Nigel (2); Seppanen, Juha-Matti (3); Livanos Cattaui, Maria (4)
ICT FOR PEACE
ISCRAM PhD SUMMER SCHOOLS
originally joint initiative ISCRAM-TIEMS NL
about PhD Students
Lectures from international experts
Varied technical – social program
PhD Summer School 2006 Tilburg, NL
ISCRAM-CHINA INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS
Hosted by Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
For and by Chinese researchers in this area
With an increasing foreign participation
ISCRAM-CHINA Workshop 2006, Harbin, China
IN 2008:
ISCRAM-CHINA 2008, August 4-6 2008 at HEU (program chair: Song Yan). Joint event with GI4DM.
Information Systems and Geo-Information for Urban Crisis Management
Deadline abstracts: February 15
Special Sessions in IS Conferences
AMICS (2004 – 2008) and HICSS (2005-2008)
Special Issues in Journals
JITTA (IT Theory and Applications)
JHSEM (Homeland Security and Management)
GDN (Group Decision and Negotiation)
IJEM (Int’l J. Emergency Management)
Targeted Publications/Conferences/Journals
Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007
Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007
Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007
IN 2008:
Launch of the International Journal of ISCRAM
To become a quality academic journal
Academic rigor and practitioner relevance
Quarterly, first issue to be published in January 2009
EICs: Bartel Van de Walle and Murray Jennex (UCSD, USA)
4 AEs from USA, Europe, China and Africa
Editorial Board: global representation
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