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ISCRAM 2011: Lisbon, Portugal
- Maria A. Santos, Luísa Sousa, Eliane Portela:
8th Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Lisbon, Portugal, May, 2011. LNEC, Lisbon, Portugal 2011, ISBN 978-9-72492-247-8
Advanced Research Methods and Unconventional Results
- Jonathan L. Barr, Annie M. Boek Peddicord, Russ Burtner, Heidi A. Mahy:
Current domain challenges in the emergency response community. - Erman Coskun, Dilek Ozceylan Aubrecht:
Complexity in emergency management and disaster response information systems (EMDRIS). - Rego Granlund, Helena Granlund:
GPS impact on performance, response time and communication - A review of three studies. - Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Linda Plotnick, Rosalie J. Ocker:
Learning about Emergency Management Information Systems through Partially Distributed Team projects. - Leire Labaka, Josune Hernantes, Ana Laugé, Jose María Sarriegi:
Three units of analysis for Crisis Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection. - Jyoti Laxmi Mishra, David K. Allen, Alan D. Pearman:
Activity Theory as a methodological and analytical framework for information practices in Emergency Management. - Theo van Ruijven:
Serious games as experiments for emergency management research: A review. - Steven C. Way:
Information requirements for context-aware multi-agency real-time coordination during crisis response.
Analytical Information Systems
- Hüseyin Can Ünen, Muhammed Sahin, Amr S. Elnashai:
Assessment of interdependent lifeline networks performance in earthquake disaster management. - Cornelia Caragea, Nathan J. McNeese, Anuj R. Jaiswal, Greg Traylor, Hyun-Woo Kim, Prasenjit Mitra, Dinghao Wu, Andrea H. Tapia, C. Lee Giles, Bernard J. Jansen, John Yen:
Classifying text messages for the haiti earthquake. - Gary M. Fetter, Mauro Falasca:
Establishing the need for decision support in disaster debris disposal. - Therese Friberg, Stephan Prödel, Rainer Koch:
Information quality criteria and their importance for experts in crisis situations. - Yasir Javed, Tony Norris, David Johnston:
Ontology-based inference to enhance team situation awareness in emergency management. - George Leventakis, Athanasios Sfetsos, Vasileios Gkrizis, Nikolas Athanasiadis, Stefan Tönjes, Spyros Kopsidas, Nikolaos Moustakidis, Spyros Andronopoulos, Antonis Ramfos, Dimitris Zisiadis, Nikitas V. Nikitakos:
A Security Risk Analysis Framework for interconnected transportation systems. - Yikun Liu, Sung Pil Moon, Mark S. Pfaff, Jill L. Drury, Gary L. Klein:
Collaborative option awareness for emergency response decision making. - Jens Pottebaum, Alexander Artikis, Robin Marterer, Georgios Paliouras, Rainer Koch:
Event definition for the application of event processing to intelligent resource management. - Samiha El Hamali, Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, Omar Nouali:
Knowledge extraction by Internet monitoring to enhance crisis management. - Anuradha Venkateswaran, Katrina Simon-Agolory, Kera Z. Watkins:
Risk analysis for Greene County and Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: Simulation of riverine flooding using HAZUS-MH. - Christopher W. Zobel:
Representing the multi-dimensional nature of disaster resilience.
Command and Control Studies
- Jane Barnett, William Wong, David Westley, Rick Adderley, Michelle Smith:
Startle points: A proposed framework for identifying situational cues, and developing realistic emergency training scenarios. - Menelaos Bakopoulos, Sofia Tsekeridou, Eri Giannaka, Zheng-Hua Tan, Ramjee Prasad:
Command & control: Information merging, selective visualization and decision support for emergency handling. - Fredrik Bergstrand:
Sensemaking in command centre contexts. - Art Botterell, Martin L. Griss:
Toward the next generation of emergency operations systems. - Tim J. Grant:
Combining information sharing and seeking in networked coalitions. - Jonas Landgren:
Critical aspects of early-phase response work and its consequences for digital event-log systems. - Bas Lijnse, Jan Martin Jansen, Ruud Nanne, Rinus Plasmeijer:
Capturing the Netherlands Coast Guard's SAR workflow with iTasks. - Jonas Lundberg, Mikael Asplund:
Communication problems in crisis response. - Robin E. Mays, Mark Zachry, Alper Ekrem Murat, Mark P. Haselkorn:
Aligning border security workflow and decision making with supporting information and communication systems. - Jan Rudinsky, Ebba Thora Hvannberg:
Consolidating requirements analysis models for a crisis management training simulator. - Milica Stojmenovic, Cathy Dudek, Patrick Noonan, Bruce Tsuji, Devjani Sen, Gitte Lindgaard:
Identifying user requirements for a CBRNE management system: A comparison of data analysis methods.
Conference Keynote
- Marcos R. S. Borges, Kelli de Faria Cordeiro, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Tiago Brade Marino:
Linked open data and the design of information infrastructure for emergency management systems. - Michael K. Lindell:
Evacuation modelling: Algorithms, assumptions, and data.
Early Warning and Alert Systems
- Henrik Artman, Joel Brynielsson, Björn J. E. Johansson, Jiri Trnka:
Dialogical emergency management and strategic awareness in emergency communication. - Simone De Kleermaeker, Annette Zijderveld, Bart Thonus:
Training for crisis response with serious games based on early warning systems. - Matti Haataja, Markku T. Häkkinen, Helen T. Sullivan:
Understanding user acceptance of mobile alerting systems. - Alicia Cabañas Ibañez, Dirk Schwanenberg, Luis Garrote De Marcos, Miguel Francés Mahamud, Javier Arbaizar González:
An example of Flood Forecasting and Decision-Support System for water management in Spain. - Michael Klafft, Ulrich Meissen:
Assessing the economic value of early warning systems. - Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch:
Generic information logistics for early warning systems. - Paola Pagliara, Angela Corina, Alessandro Burastero, Paolo Campanella, Luca Ferraris, Marina Morando, Nicola Rebora, Cosimo Versace:
Dewetra, coping with emergencies. - Heiko Roßnagel, Jan Zibuschka, Olaf Junker:
On the effectiveness of mobile service notification for passenger egress during large public events. - João A. Santos, Sara Rodrigues, D. R. Neves, Ana Vieira, Conceição Juana Fortes, Maria Teresa Reis, André Simões, Eduardo Brito de Azevedo:
MOIA: An integrated decision support tool for port management. - Teun Terpstra, Hanneke Vreugdenhil:
Filling in the blanks: Constructing effective flood warning messages using the Flood Warning Communicator (FWC). - Ana Rosa Trancoso, José Delgado Domingos, Maria João Telhado, João Corte-Real:
Early warning system for meteorological risk in Lisbon municipality: Description and quality evaluation. - Daniel Twigt, João Lima Rego, Deborah Tyrrell, Tineke Troost:
Water quality forecasting systems: Advanced warning of harmful events and dissemination of public alerts.
Education and Training
- Lisette de Koning, Lottie Kuijt-Evers, Nicolet C. M. Theunissen, Richelle Van Rijk, Mirjam Huis in 't Veld:
Multidisciplinary cooperation in crisis management teams: A tool to improve team situation awareness.
Geographic Information Science
- Nuno Afonso, M. Luísa Sousa:
Seismic scenario simulations using a GIS Web Service. - Nuala M. Cowan:
A geospatial data management framework for humanitarian response. - Elif Demir, Tahsin Yomraliolu, Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu:
Using Geo-Information Technologies to increase the effectiveness of fire brigade services in Turkey. - Sérgio Freire, Christoph Aubrecht:
Assessing spatio-temporal population exposure to tsunami hazard in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. - Kenneth S. Pelman, Anthony C. Robinson:
An interactive mapping application for rapid evacuation planning. - Volkmar Schau, Christian Erfurth, Gerald Eichler, Steffen Späthe, Wilhelm R. Rossak:
Geolocated communication support in rescue management. - André Simões, Armanda Rodrigues, Patricia Pires, Luís Sá:
Evaluating emergency scenarios using historic data: Flood management.
Humanitarian Challenges
- Jörn Franke, Adam Widera, François Charoy, Bernd Hellingrath, Cédric Ulmer:
Reference process models and systems for inter-organizational ad-hoc coordination - Supply chain management in humanitarian operations. - Bernd Hellingrath, Adam Widera:
Survey on major challenges in humanitarian logistics. - Esther Sangiamkul, Jos van Hillegersberg:
Research directions in information systems for humanitarian logistics. - Olivier Sarrat, Véronique De Geoffroy:
Sigmah free software for humanitarian project management. - Andrea H. Tapia, Kartikeya Bajpai, Bernard J. Jansen, John Yen:
Seeking the trustworthy tweet: Can microblogged data fit the information needs of disaster response and humanitarian relief organizations. - Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Carleen F. Maitland, Andrea H. Tapia, Kartikeya Bajpai:
Humanitarian organizational collaboration: Information technologies as necessary but not sufficient. - Rebecca Walton, Robin E. Mays, Mark P. Haselkorn:
Defining fast: Factors affecting the experience of speed in humanitarian logistics.
Intelligent Systems
- Graham Coates, Glenn I. Hawe, Duncan T. Wilson, Roger S. Crouch:
Adaptive co-ordinated emergency response to rapidly evolving large-scale unprecedented events (REScUE). - Glenn I. Hawe, Graham Coates, Duncan T. Wilson, Roger S. Crouch:
Design decisions in the development of an agent-based simulation for large-scale emergency response. - Stefan Möllmann, David Braun, Hagen Engelmann, Wolfgang Raskob:
Key performance indicator based calculations as a decision support for the tactical level. - Markus Quaritsch, Robert Kuschnig, Hermann Hellwagner, Bernhard Rinner:
Fast aerial image acquisition and mosaicking for emergency response operations by collaborative UAVs. - Felix Wex, Guido Schryen, Dirk Neumann:
Intelligent decision support for centralized coordination during Emergency Response. - Gerhard Wickler, Stephen Potter, Austin Tate, Jeffrey T. Hansberger:
The virtual collaboration environment: New media for crisis response.
Interoperability and Standards
- Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu, Elif Demir, Serpil Ates:
Designing a harmonized geo-data model for Disaster Management. - Anne-Marie Barthe, Matthieu Lauras, Frédérick Bénaben:
Improving the design of interoperable platform through a structured case study description approach: Application to a nuclear crisis. - Antony Galton, Michael F. Worboys:
An ontology of information for emergency management. - Beibei Hu, Jan Hidders, Marc De Lignie, Philipp Cimiano:
A rule-based system for contextualized information delivery. - Theo Dirk Meijler, Frank Nietzold:
Light-weight model-based realization of a B2B protocol and a SOA integration engine. - Aladdin Shamoug, Radmila Juric:
Addressing interoperability through the semantic of Information Highway in managing responses in Humanitarian Crises. - Shuyan Xie, Markus Helfert:
Towards an information architecture oriented framework for emergency response system. - Ka-Ping Yee, Dieterich Lawson, Dominic König, Dale Zak:
The tablecast data publishing protocol.
Mobile and Sensor Networks
- Christine Adler, Marion Krüsmann, Thomas Greiner-Mai, Anton Donner, Javier Mulero Chaves, Angels Via Estrem:
IT-supported management of mass casualty incidents: The e-triage project. - Elizabeth Avery Gomez, Michael R. Bartolacci:
Crisis management and mobile devices: Extending the usage of sensor networks within an integrated system framework. - Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella, Alessandro Russo:
Collaboration on-the-field: Suggestions and beyond. - Kamill Panitzek, Immanuel Schweizer, Dirk Bradler, Max Mühlhäuser:
City mesh - Resilient first responder communication.
Planning and Foresight
- Gaston C. Armour, Hero Tameling:
Collaborative relationships are key to community resilience and emergency preparedness. - Christoph Aubrecht, Sérgio Freire, Josef Fröhlich, Beatrice Rath, Klaus Steinnocher:
Integrating the concepts of foresight and prediction for improved disaster risk management. - Ignacio Aedo, Paloma Díaz, Victor A. Bañuls, José Hilario Canós-Cerdá, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
Information technologies for emergency planning and training. - Robert Bell, Elizabeth Avery Gomez:
Business continuity for small business owners: Do the tools fit their need? - Gonçalo Caiado, Rosário Macário, Carlos Sousa Oliveira:
A new paradigm in urban road network seismic vulnerability: From a link-by-link structural approach to an integrated functional assessment. - José Miguel Castillo:
An agent-based approach to envision the future. - Diana Alejandra Contreras Alejo, Thomas Blaschke, Stefan Kienberger, Peter Zeil:
Spatial vulnerability indicators: Measuring recovery processes after earthquakes. - Alvaro Pemartin De La Calle, Murray Turoff:
Three hundred decisions a day: A case study of local crisis management. - Magiswary Dorasamy, Murali Raman:
Information systems to support disaster planning and response: Problem diagnosis and research gap analysis. - M. Carmen Penadés, Marcos R. S. Borges, José Hilario Canós-Cerdá, Adriana S. Vivacqua:
A product line approach to the development of advanced emergency plans. - Peter Serwylo, Paul Arbon, Grace Rumantir:
Predicting patient presentation rates at mass gatherings using machine learning. - Murray Turoff, Victor A. Bañuls:
Major extensions to Cross-Impact Analysis. - Marcus W. Vogt, Kieth Hales, Dieter Hertweck:
Optimizing ICT portfolios in emergency management: A modular alignment approach. - Eelco Vriezekolk, Roel J. Wieringa, Sandro Etalle:
A new method to assess telecom service availability risks. - Kera Z. Watkins, Katrina Simon-Agolory, Anuradha Venkateswaran, Deok Hee Nam:
Get a plan! Automatically generating disaster preparedness plans using WILBER.
Social Media and Collaborative Systems
- Kartikeya Bajpai, Anuj R. Jaiswal:
A framework for analyzing collective action events on Twitter. - Genevieve Dube, Chelsea Kramer, François Vachon, Sébastien Tremblay:
Measuring the impact of a collaborative planning support system on crisis management. - Melissa M. Kelley, Bindu Tharian, Kimberley I. Shoaf:
Delivering health messages using traditional and new media: Communication preferences of california residents during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak. - Faisal B. Luqman, Martin L. Griss:
Leveraging mobile context for effective collaboration and task management. - Christian Reuter, Alexandra Marx, Volkmar Pipek:
Social software as an infrastructure for crisis management-A case study about current practice and potential usage. - Heiko Roßnagel, Jan Zibuschka:
Using mobile social media for emergency management - A design science approach. - André Sabino, Armanda Rodrigues:
Understanding the role of cooperation in emergency plan construction. - Torben Wiedenhöfer, Christian Reuter, Benedikt Ley, Volkmar Pipek:
Inter-organizational crisis management infrastructures for electrical power breakdowns.
User Centred Design Process for EMIS
- Amro Al-Akkad, Andreas Zimmermann:
User study: Involving civilians by smart phones during emergency situations. - Aygul Gabdulkhakova, Birgitta König-Ries, Mareike Mähler, Yeliz Yildirim-Krannig, Fabian Wucholt:
Identifying and supporting information needs in mass casualty incidents - An interdisciplinary approach. - Gesine Hofinger, Robert Zinke, Laura Künzer:
Psychological requirements for crisis and emergency decision-support systems for public transport control centers. - Raj Prasanna, Lili Yang, Malcolm King:
Evaluation of a software prototype for supporting fire emergency response. - Ahmed Seffah, Jean-Pierre Cahier, Aurélien Bénel:
Thinking global acting local: A human-centric pattern to designing information-intensive services for global crisis management. - Fabian Wucholt, Yeliz Yildirim-Krannig, Mareike Mähler, Uwe Krüger, Clemens Beckstein:
Cultural analysis and formal standardised language-A mass casualty incident perspective.

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