ISCRAM Overview

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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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

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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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