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ISCRAM 2012: Vancouver, Canada
- Léon J. M. Rothkrantz, Jozef Ristvej, Zeno Franco:
9th Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Vancouver, Canada, April 22-25, 2012. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada 2012, ISBN 978-0-86491-332-6
Preliminaries
- Brian D. Fisher, Richard Arias-Hernández:
Message from the conference chairs. ISCRAM 2012 - Léon J. M. Rothkrantz, Jozef Ristvej, Zeno Franco:
Message from the program chairs. ISCRAM 2012 - Léon J. M. Rothkrantz, Jozef Ristvej:
ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management.
Analytical Modeling and Simulation
- Xiaofeng Hu, Shifei Shen, Jiansong Wu:
Modeling of attacking and defending strategies in situations with intentional threats.
Analytical Modelling and Simulation
- Gaoussou Camara, Rim Djedidi, Sylvie Desprès, Moussa Lo:
Towards an ontology for an epidemiological monitoring system. - José Miguel Castillo, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff:
Monte Carlo and decision making support in crisis management. - Anna Gustafsson, Tobias Andersson Granberg:
Dynamic planning of fire and rescue services. - Benjamin Heuer, Jan Zibuschka, Heiko Roßnagel, Johannes Maucher:
Empirical analysis of passenger trajectories within an urban transport hub. - Alexander Kiselev, Sergey Bogatov:
Model PROLOG for countermeasures efficacy assessment and its calculation algorithm verification on the base of the Chazhma Bay accident data. - Nicholas Palmer, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann, Henri E. Bal:
RAVEN: Using smartphones for collaborative disaster data collection. - Alexei Sharpanskykh:
An agent-based approach for safety analysis of safety-critical organizations. - Selim Serhan Yildiz, Himmet Karaman:
Developing a physics-based model for post-earthquake ignitions. - Dimitris Zisiadis, Spyros Kopsidas, Vassilis Grizis, George Thanos, George Leventakis, Leandros Tassiulas:
STAR-TRANS Modeling Language (STML) modeling risk in the STAR-TRANS risk assessment framework for interconnected transportation systems. - Christopher W. Zobel, Stanley E. Griffis, Steven A. Melnyk, John R. MacDonald:
Characterizing disaster resistance and recoveryusing outlier detection.
Command and Control Studies
- Tim J. Grant, Ariën J. van der Wal:
A taxonomy of market mechanisms for information sharing in crisis response coalitions. - Stas Simon Krupenia, Cécilia Aguero, Kees C. H. M. Nieuwenhuis:
The value of different media types to support command and control situation awareness. - Richard McMaster, Chris Baber, Tom Duffy:
The role of artefacts in Police emergency response sensemaking. - Christian Neuhaus, Mario Hannappel, Daniela Giebel, Sabine Färfers:
Crisis management systems in Germany - A status report about the current functions and developments of private and public crisis managementsystems in Germany. - Willem Treurniet, Kim van Buul-Besseling, Jeroen Wolbers:
Collaboration awareness - A necessity in crisis response coordination. - Andrea Zielinski, Ulrich Bügel:
Multilingual analysis of twitter news in support of mass emergency events.
Early Warning and Expert Systems for Disaster Management
- Yasir Javed, Tony Norris, David Johnston:
Evaluating SAVER: Measuring shared and team situation awareness of emergency decision makers. - Matthias Lendholt, Martin Hammitzsch, Miguel Ángel Esbrí:
Interlinking national tsunami early warning systems towards ocean-wide system-of-systems networks. - Linda Plotnick, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Matthew Burns:
For whom the siren sounds: Public perceptions of outdoor warning sirens in northeast Alabama. - Felix Riedel, Fernando Chaves:
Workflows and decision tables for flexible early warning systems.
Education and Training
- Erich Heumüller, Sebastian Richter, Ulrike Lechner:
Towards a framework for command post exercises. - Simone De Kleermaeker, Loana Arentz:
Serious gaming intraining for crisis response. - Lisette de Koning, Kim van Buul-Besselink, Dianne A. Van Hemert, Mirjam Huis in 't Veld, Kees van Dongen, Rosie Paulissen:
MIRROR: Improving coordination in multidisciplinary crisis management teams. - Lachlan M. MacKinnon, Liz Bacon:
Developing realistic crisis management training. - Jozef Ristvej, Tomás Lovecek, Katarína Kampová:
ESEC portal as a tool for improvement of security focused studies.
Event-Driven Techniques and Methods for Crisis Management
- Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Sabine Carbonnel, Frédérick Bénaben, Hervé Pingaud:
Event-driven agility of crisis management collaborative processes. - Rita Kovordányi, Rudolf Schreiner, Jelle Pelfrene, Johan Jenvald, Henrik Eriksson, Amy Rankin, Magnus Morin:
Real-time support for exercise managers' situation assessment and decision making. - Robin Marterer, Matthias Moi, Rainer Koch:
An architecture for distributed, event-driven systems to collect and analyze data in emergency operations and training exercises. - Daniel Stein, Barbara Krausz, Jobst Löffler, Robin Marterer, Rolf Bardeli, Jochen Schwenninger, Bela Usabaev:
Enriching an intelligent resource management system with automatic event recognition. - Karolina A. Wojciechowska, Berend Vreugdenhil:
Integration of uncertainty into emergency procedures of water boards. - Bo Yu, Guoray Cai:
Coordination of emergency response operations via the event-based awareness mechanism.
Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Sérgio Freire, Christoph Aubrecht, Stephanie Wegscheider:
When the tsunami comes to town - Improving evacuation modeling by integrating high-resolution population exposure. - Charlotte Hellgren, Björn J. E. Johansson:
Reducing workload by navigational support in dynamic situations. - Tiago Badre Marino, Bruno Santos Do Nascimento, Marcos R. S. Borges:
GIS supporting data gathering and fast decision making in emergencies situations. - Susannah McClendon, Anthony C. Robinson:
Leveraging geospatially-oriented social media communications in disaster response.
Geographic Information Scienceic Information Science
- Lucy T. Gunawan, Siska Fitrianie, Willem-Paul Brinkman, Mark A. Neerincx:
Utilizing the potential of the affected population and prevalent mobile technology during disaster response: Propositions from a literature survey.
Healthcare Crisis Management Systems
- Anton Donner, Thomas Greiner-Mai, Christine Adler:
Challenge patient dispatching in mass casualty incidents. - Simon French, Naomi Chambers, Duncan Shaw, Alan Boyd, Russell King, Alison Whitehead:
A scoping study of R&D needs in emergency planning in UK healthcare systems. - Alison J. Hayes, Jessica Lancaster, Zeno Franco, Anne Kissack:
Disaster medical education & simulated crisis events: A translational approach. - Robert Lawatscheck, Stephan Düsterwald, Carsten Wirth, Torsten Schröder:
ALARM: A modular IT solution to support and evaluate mass casualty incident (MCI) management. - Oliver Schmitt, Tim A. Majchrzak:
Using document-based databases for medical information systems in unreliable environments.
Human Experiences in the Design of Crisis Response and Management Services and Systems
- Amro Al-Akkad, Andreas Zimmermann:
Survey: ICT-supported public participation in disasters. - Dennis Andersson, Amy Rankin:
Sharing mission experience in tactical organisations. - Holger Fischer, Florian Klompmaker:
Enriching disaster control management based on human-centered design. - Uwe Krüger, Fabian Wucholt, Clemens Beckstein:
Electronic checklist support for disaster response. - Stas Simon Krupenia, Cécilia Aguero:
Asset distribution with a multitouch table. - Jonas Lundberg, Rego Granlund, Annevi Fredäng:
Scenario play workshops - Co-design ofemergency response scenarios for information technology design in collaboration with emergency response personnel. - Jason R. C. Nurse, Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Rachel Craddock, Glyn Jones:
An initial usability evaluation of the secure situation awareness system. - Amy Rankin, Rita Kovordányi, Joris Field, Henrik Eriksson:
Instructor's tasks in crisis management training. - Nuwan Waidyanatha, Tharaka Wilfred, Kasun Perera, Manoj Silva, Brenda Burell:
Complexity and usability of voice-enabled alerting and situational reporting decoupled systems.
Humanitarian Challenges
- Gisli Rafn Olafsson:
Humanitarian response in the age of mass collaboration and networked intelligence. - Jennifer L. Chan, Robert Colombo, Altaf Musani:
Mapping libyan health facilities - A collaboration between crisis mappers and the world health organization.
Intelligent Systems
- Glenn I. Hawe, Duncan T. Wilson, Graham Coates, Roger S. Crouch:
STORMI: An agent-based simulation environment for evaluating responses to major incidents in the UK. - Van Tuan Le, Serge Stinckwich, Noury Bouraqadi, Arnaud Doniec:
Role-based dynamic coalitions of multi-tasked rescue robots. - Axel Schulz, Heiko Paulheim, Florian Probst:
Crisis information management in the Web 3.0 age. - Huizhang Shen, Jingwen Hu, Jidi Zhao, Jing Dong:
Ontology-based modeling of emergency incidents and crisis management. - Evan A. Sultanik, Clayton Fink:
Rapid geotagging and disambiguation of social media text via an indexed gazetteer. - Felix Wex, Guido Schryen, Dirk Neumann:
Operational emergency response under informational uncertainty: A fuzzy optimization model for scheduling and allocating rescue units.
Inter-Organizational Exercises and Operations
- L. T. Darryl Diptee, Scott McKenzie:
The systems thinking approach of beyond-line-of-sight command and control. - Benedikt Ley, Volkmar Pipek, Christian Reuter, Torben Wiedenhoefer:
Supporting inter-organizational situation assessment in crisis management. - Dick Ooms, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel:
Business not as usual: Civil-military interactionfrom an e-business perspective. - Jack Pagotto, Darrell O'Donnell:
Canada's multi-agency situational awareness system - Keeping it simple. - Carin Rencrantz, Niclas Karlsson, Rolf Olsson:
A concept for inter-organizational crisis management exercises. - Mirko Thorstensson:
Supporting observers in the field to perform model based data collection.
Open Track
- Art Botterell, Martin L. Griss:
A pragmatic approach to smart workspaces for crisis management. - Alexandre Ahmad, Olivier Balet, Jesse Himmelstein, Arjen Boin, Maaike Schaap, Paolo Brivio, Fabio Ganovelli, Enrico Gobbetti, Giovanni Pintore, Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière:
Interactive simulation technology for crisis management and training: The INDIGO project. - Hina Aman, Pourang Irani, Hai-Ning Liang:
A review of information communication technology applied on common tasks during times of emergency. - Hüseyin Can Ünen:
Developing a framework for a social vulnerability and consequence-based post-disaster behavior analysis methodology. - George H. Bressler, Murray E. Jennex, Eric G. Frost:
X24 Mexico: Stronger together. - Norman Groner, Charles Jennings:
Describing pipeline emergency response communications using situational awareness informational requirements and an informational flow analyses. - Sebastian Kurowski, Heiko Roßnagel, Jan Zibuschka, Wolf Engelbach:
A concept for interoperability of security systems in public transport. - Johannes Sautter, Sebastian Kurowski, Heiko Roßnagel, Wolf Engelbach, Jan Zibuschka:
Interoperability for information systems in public urban transport security: The SECUR-ED interoperability notation. - Jeannette N. Sutton:
When online is off: Public communications following the February 2011 Christchurch, NZ, earthquake. - Elena Tsiporkova, Nicolás González-Deleito, Tom Tourwé, Anna Hristoskova:
Ontology-driven multimodal interface design for an emergency response application.
Planning and Foresight
- Victor A. Bañuls, Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
Supporting collaborative scenario analysis through Cross-Impact. - José Hilario Canós-Cerdá, M. Carmen Penadés, Abel Gómez, Marcos R. S. Borges:
SAGA: An integrated architecture for the management of advanced emergency plans. - Jose J. Gonzalez, Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Bjørn Erik Munkvold, Frank Y. Li, Julie Dugdale:
Multidisciplinary challenges in an integrated emergency management approach. - Nick Hedley:
Capturing communities' perceptions of risk through the eyes of their citizens: Using mobile VGI networks to map tsunami risk awareness. - Kimmo Laakso:
On improving emergency preparedness and management with Delphi. - Tim A. Majchrzak, Oliver Schmitt:
Improving epidemiology research with patient registries based on advanced web technology. ISCRAM 2012 - Christoph Markmann, Heiko A. von der Gracht, Jonas Keller, Rixa Kroehl:
Collaborative foresight as a meansto face future risks - An innovative platform conception. - Eli Rohn, Gil Erez:
Fighting agro-terrorism in cyberspace: A framework for intention detection using overt electronic data sources. - Eelco Vriezekolk, Roel J. Wieringa, Sandro Etalle:
Design and initial validation ofthe Rastermethod for telecom service availability risk assessment. - Kim Weyns, Martin Höst:
Risk analysis for critical systems with reliability block diagrams. - Marian Zulean, Gabriela Prelipcean:
Risk perception, strategic planning and foresight methodologieswithin the romanian emergency system.
Poster Session
- Ummul Khair Israt Ara, Fang Chen:
Information security in crisis management system. - Beau Bouchard, Brian M. Tomaszewski:
Automated space aid program. - Jean-François Gagnon, Martin Rivest, François Couderc, Sébastien Tremblay:
Capturing the task model of experts in emergency response using SYnRGY. - Ehren Hill, Frank Hardisty:
CR-Site: An infrastructure siting tool for crisis response. - Katarína Zánická Holla, Ladislav Simak, Jozef Ristvej:
Systematic method of risk assessment in industrial processes. - Chao Huang, Shifei Shen, Quanyi Huang:
An approach based on environment attributes for representation of disaster cases. - Ali Khalili Araghi, Uwe Glässer, Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir, Brian D. Fisher, Piper J. Jackson:
Intelligent decision support for emergency responses. - Sébastien Tremblay, Peter Berggren, Martin Holmberg, Rego Granlund, Marie-Eve Jobidon, Paddy Turner:
A multiteam international simulation of joint operations in crisis response. - Jun Zhuang, John Coles, Peiqiu Guan, Fei He, Xiaojun Shan:
Strategic interactions in disaster preparedness and relief in the face of man-made and natural disasters.
Research Methods
- David Passenier, Jeroen Wolbers, Julia S. Mollee, Kees Boersma, Peter Groenewegen:
Formalization of crisis response coordination from a public inquiry report. - Gertraud Peinel, Thomas Rose, Alexander Wollert:
The myth of business process modelling for emergency management planning.
Serious Games for Crisis Management
- Joris Field, Arjan Lemmers, Amy Rankin, Magnus Morin:
Instructor tools for virtual training systems. - Heide K. Lukosch, Theo van Ruijven, Alexander Verbraeck:
The other city - Designing a serious game for crisis training in close protection. - Mario Rafael Ruíz Vargas, Paloma Díaz, Telmo Zarraonandia, Ignacio Aedo:
Safety villages: A computer game for raising children's awareness of risks.
Social Media and Collaborative Systems
- Murray E. Jennex:
Social media - Truly viable for crisis response? - Tom Duffy, Richard McMaster, Chris Baber, Robert J. Houghton:
Towards an ontology broker to improve cross-agency sharing in emergency response. - Jacqueline Floch, Michael Angermann, Edel Jennings, Mark Roddy:
Exploring cooperating smart spaces for efficient collaboration in disaster management. - Sergio Herranz, David Díez, Paloma Díaz, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
Exploring the design of technological platformsfor virtual communities of practice. - Peter A. Jongejan, Tim J. Grant:
Social media in command & control: An extended framework. - Andrea L. Kavanaugh, Steven D. Sheetz, Riham Hassan, Seungwon Yang, Hicham G. Elmongui, Edward A. Fox, Mohamed Magdy, Donald J. Shoemaker:
Between a rock and a cell phone: Communication and information technology use during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. - Ahmed Nagy, Jeannie A. Stamberger:
Crowd sentiment detection during disasters and crises. - Susanna Nilsson, Joel Brynielsson, Magdalena Granåsen, Charlotte Hellgren, Sinna Lindquist, Mikael Lundin, Maribel Narganes Quijano, Jiri Trnka:
Making use of new media for pan-European crisis communication. - Sung-Yueh Perng, Monika Büscher, Lisa Wood, Ragnhild Halvorsrud, Michael E. Stiso, Leonardo Ramirez, Amro Al-Akkad:
Peripheral response: Microblogging during the 22/7/2011 Norway attacks. - Christian Reuter, Volkmar Pipek, Torben Wiedenhoefer, Benedikt Ley:
Dealing with terminologies in collaborative systemsfor crisis management. - Lise Ann St. Denis, Amanda Lee Hughes, Leysia Palen:
Trial by fire: The deployment of trusted digital volunteers in the 2011 shadow lake fire. - Kate Starbird, Grace Muzny, Leysia Palen:
Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions. - Jeannette N. Sutton, Emma S. Spiro, Britta Johnson, Sean M. Fitzhugh, Mathew Greczek, Carter T. Butts:
Connected communications: Network structures of official communications in a technological disaster. - Teun Terpstra, Richard Stronkman, Arnout de Vries, Geerte L. Paradies:
Towards a realtime Twitter analysis during crises for operational crisis management. - Robert Thomson, Naoya Ito, Hinako Suda, Fangyu Lin, Yafei Liu, Ryo Hayasaka, Ryuzo Isochi, Zhou Wang:
Trusting tweets: The Fukushima disaster and information source credibility on Twitter. - Simon Tucker, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Neil Ireson, Alfonso Sosa, Grégoire Burel, Fabio Ciravegna:
Straight to the information I need: Assessing collational interfaces for emergency response.
Special Session Mixed Methods
- Syed Ahmed, Paul A. Biedrzycki, Shannon Opel, David A. Nelson, Marie G. Sandy, Zeno Franco:
Community engagement for translational disaster research: Fostering public, private & responder group partnerships. - Craig E. Kuziemsky, Tracey L. O'Sullivan, Wayne Corneil:
An upstream-downstream approach for disaster management information systems design. - Margunn Indreboe Alshaikh, Helena Puig Larrauri:
Building resilience through crisis mapping, community engagement and recovery planning in Sudan. - Niklas Hallberg, Helena Granlund, Jonas Hallberg, Rogier Woltjer:
Rationale for emergency management systems for local communities: A needs assessment. - Sigmund Kluckner, Johannes Sautter, Matthias Max, Wolf Engelbach, Tina Weber:
Impacting factors on human reactionsto alerts. - Sofie Pilemalm, Tobias Andersson Granberg, Rebecca Stenberg, Anders Axelsson:
Emergency response in rural areas. - Nathaniel Inglis Steinfeld:
Federal emergency and disaster requests for tribal lands.
Special Session Mixed Methods, Community/Practitioner Engaged Research & Translation for the Crisis Context
- Christine Adler, Lisa Jakob, Mirjam Haus, Lena Erfurt, Marion Krüsmann:
GABEK WinRelan® - A qualitative method for crisis research engaging crisis management personnel.
Track Decision Support Methods for Complex Crises
- Aygul Gabdulkhakova, Birgitta König-Ries, Dmitry A. Rizvanov:
Rational resource allocation in mass casualty incidents - Adaptivity and efficiency. - Tina Comes, Niek J. E. Wijngaards, Frank Schultmann:
Efficient scenario updating in emergency management. - Jill L. Drury, Amanda Anganes, Heather Byrne, Maria C. Casipe, Roger Dejean, Simone Hill, Tristan Lewis, Jesse Lucas, Eric McCann:
Badge-primed decision making. - Jill L. Drury, Gary L. Klein, Mark S. Pfaff, Steven O. Entezari:
Establishing collaborative option awareness during crisis management. - Stella Moehrle:
Generic self-learning decision support system for large-scale disasters. - Aladdin Shamoug, Radmila Juric, Shamimabi Paurobally:
Ontological reasoning as a tool for humanitarian decision making. - Kui Wang, José R. Martí, Ming Bai, Krishan D. Srivastava:
Optimal decision maker algorithm for disaster response management with I2Sim applications. - Steven C. Way, Yufei Yuan:
Towards a context-aware multi-party emergency coordination system framework. - Duncan T. Wilson, Glenn I. Hawe, Graham Coates, Roger S. Crouch:
Estimating the value of casualty health information to optimization-based decision support in response to major incidents.
Wireless Connectivity Management
- Dilek Ozceylan Aubrecht, Michael R. Bartolacci:
The impact and opportunities for wireless communications in chinese disaster planning and management. - Kamill Panitzek, Tobias Bönning, Immanuel Schweizer, Gero Seipel, Max Mühlhäuser:
Enhancing robustness of first responder communication in urban environments. - Volkmar Schau, Sebastian Scharf, Christian Erfurth, Stefan Hellfritzsch, Gerald Eichler, Wilhelm R. Rossak:
Simulation of wireless, self-organizingandagent-based dynamic communication scenarios.
Wireless Sensor Networks for Emergency Response
- Axel Bürkle, Florian Segor, Sven Müller, Igor Tchouchenkov, Matthias Kollmann:
Advantages of an integrated open framework for immediate emergency response.

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