CallForPapers–ISCRAM2017–ALBI,FRANCE–21-24May2017

Organized by Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux on behalf of ISCRAM association.

TRACK:ProtectionModelsforComplexCriticalInfrastructures–SupportingFlexibilityandAgilityinModelingSystemicDisasterRisk

14thInternationalConferenceonINFORMATIONSYSTEMSFORCRISISRESPONSEANDMANAGEMENT

“AGILITYISCOMING”

Workshops and Doctoral Symposium May 21th, 2017 Conference May 22nd-24th, 2017

ALBI (FRANCE) Ecole des Mines d’Albi-Carmaux

CallForPapers–ISCRAM2017–ALBI,FRANCE–21-24May2017

Organized by Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux on behalf of ISCRAM association.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRACK The governance of systemic risks requires a holistic view of the interconnections of society, government, industry and also scientific community. The interdependencies, especially in context of Critical Infrastructures, become a state of complexity which leads to a lack of methodologies in identification, assessment and handling of systemic threats. This track addresses new models to describe the complexity of disaster risk reduction decision making in Critical Infrastructures. It shall provide new methodologies to identify and assess systemic threats in order to improve detection possibilities and transfer the insight into end-user decision support systems for preventive strategies and measures. From that angle, this track positions itself in improving decision support systems to achieve the right balance of disaster resilience on the one hand and daily operating work. Therefore, contributions are highly welcome which focus on critical infrastructure modeling and analysis, decision support systems, strategic planning of business continuity management and disaster risk reduction as well as new approaches of dynamic, flexible decision change management. This track invites both theoretical and applied research papers discussing topics relevant to new models and concepts to improve decision support in complex and uncertain world. In honor of this vear’s conference theme “AGILITY IS COMING”, submission which address the flexibility and agility in modelling systemic disaster risk are highly welcome. TRACK TOPICS Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Integrated decision analysis frameworks associated with prevention, preparation, response, or recovery - Modeling of complex critical infrastructures for risk and disaster management - Intelligent capacity planning for systemic risks - Operations analysis of information flows and decisions - Dual use strategies of disaster reduction resources - New approaches of dynamic decision change management in complex critical infrastructures

AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS RECRUITEMENT Authors Besides the track announcement via ISCRAM homepage and member network, the Chair and Co-Chairs will announce the track in their research networks on national and international level. A short pre-questionnaire showed a highly interest in this track in the EU research projects « SmartResilience » and « Harmonise ». Reviewers In this track a network of three universities (four workgroups) will support the review process:

- University of Wuppertal, School of Mechanical Engineering and Safety Engineering, Department Public Safety and Emergency Management (Frank Fiedrich + Team)

- KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technologies (IKET) (Wolfgang Raskob + Team) + Institute for Industrial Production (Marcus Wiens + Team)

- VirginiaTech, Business Information Technology, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Christopher Zobel + Team)

CallForPapers–ISCRAM2017–ALBI,FRANCE–21-24May2017

Organized by Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux on behalf of ISCRAM association.

TRACK CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR Florian Brauner (Track Chair) studied Rescue Engineering with focus on Civil Protection. He is doing his research in the field of socio-technical studies on security measures and their influences on risk and disaster management systems. The objective of the research is to integrate and assess the various effects of security measures on technical, societal and economical level for decision making. Using the example of man-made disasters such as terrorist attacks, his research deals with holistic resilience approaches for urban critical infrastructures, e.g. Transportation networks, power supply systems and communications networks. Florian Brauner is ISCRAM member and presented papers at the ISCRAM 2015 & 2016 in the field of process modelling & multi-agent-simulations for critical infrastructure protection, as well as vulnerability analysis based on multi-attribute-value-theory and information flows analysis in crisis situations. Last year, he was reviewer in the «Analytical Modeling and Simulation track». He currently works as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wuppertal and as security expert for Critical Infrastructure providers. Frank Fiedrich (Co-Chair) is a founding board member of the ISCRAM association. He was program chair and conference organizer of ISCRAM 2008 in Washington, DC and is program committee member since 2005. In 2014, he became honor member of the ISCRAM Association for his engagement in the community. He is professor of Public Safety and Emergency Management at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Safety Engineering at University of Wuppertal. Prior to this position he worked as Assistant Professor at the George Washington University’s (Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, Washington/DC). His research interest include catastrophic event planning with emphasis on societal aspects, use of artificial intelligence and development of comprehensive decision support systems for large-scale emergencies as well as the design and the evaluation of IT-based training systems. He focuses on all aspects of disaster management, including the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), models for catastrophic event planning, resource management, and inter-organizational decision making. Christopher Zobel (Co-Chair) is an ISCRAM member who is currently serving on its Board. He has been the Track chair of the Analytical Modeling and Simulation track at ISCRAM since 2011, he collaborated with Tina Comes on offering the Humanitarian Relief Logistics track at ISCRAM 2013, and he was one of the editors for the 2010 ISCRAM Proceedings, along with Simon French and Brian Tomaszewski. He previously was also the program chair (and conference chair) for the 2012 meeting of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute (160 attendees). He is a Professor of Business Information Technology at Virginia Tech and his research on disaster operations management modeling and simulation has been published in a number of different academic journals, including Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, and the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Wolfgang Raskob (Co-Chair) is an ISCRAM member since long and has organised the ISCRAM 2013 in Baden-Baden. Since 2004, he is the head of the Accident Consequence Group at the Institute of Nuclear and Energy Technologies of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has worked for many years on in the area of critical infrastructure protection and the management of large-scale crisis situations by developing methods and tools to support the decision making process for operational use in the national emergency centres of European countries since about 1990. Since 2012 the research on critical infrastructures is part of the “Portfolio Security” project initiated by the German Helmholtz Association. The focus here is the development of agent based modelling systems (ABM) to analyse interdependencies of critical infrastructure, to simulate countermeasures for the crisis management teams. The work on ABM is accompanied by the development of multi-criteria approaches and case based reasoning methods to improve the capabilities of the agent.

CallForPapers–ISCRAM2017–ALBI,FRANCE–21-24May2017

Organized by Ecole des Mines Albi-Carmaux on behalf of ISCRAM association.

Florian Brauner* brauner@uni-wuppertal.de University of Wuppertal

Frank Fiedrich fiedrich@uni-wuppertal.de University of Wuppertal

Christopher Zobel czobel@vt.edu VirginiaTech

Wolfgang Raskob wolfgang.raskob@kit.edu Karlsruher Institute of Technology

*Corresponding Chair