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ISCRAM 2014: University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
- Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Linda Plotnick, Mark Pfaf, Patrick C. Shih:
11th Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, May 18-21, 2014. ISCRAM Association 2014, ISBN 978-0-692-21194-6 - ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - Book of Papers.
Analytic Modeling and Simulation
- Kpotissan Adjetey-Bahun, Babiga Birregah, Eric Châtelet, Jean-Luc Planchet, Edgar Laurens-Fonseca:
A simulation-based approach to quantifying resilience indicators in a mass transportation system. - Michael R. Bartolacci, Christoph Aubrecht, Dilek Ozceylan Aubrecht:
A portable base station optimization model for wireless infrastructure deployment in disaster planning and management. - Josey Chacko, Loren Paul Rees, Christopher W. Zobel:
Improving resource allocation for disaster operations management in a multi-hazard context. - Janine Hellriegel, Michael Klafft:
A tool for the simulation of alert message propagation in the general population. - Theresa I. Jefferson, John R. Harrald:
Estimating the impacts associated with the detonation of an improvised nuclear device. - Abdullah Konak:
Improving network connectivity in emergency ad hoc wireless networks. - Thomas Münzberg, Marcus Wiens, Frank Schultmann:
A strategy evaluation framework based on dynamic vulnerability assessments. - Yixing Shan, Lili Yang, Roy Kalawsky:
Exploring the prescriptive modeling of fire situation assessment. - Shengcheng Yuan, Yi Liu, Gangqiao Wang, Hongshen Sun, Hui Zhang:
A dynamic-data-driven driving variability modeling and simulation for emergency evacuation. - Ahmed T. Elsergany, Amy L. Griffin, Paul Tranter, Sameer Alam:
Descriptive and Geographical Analysis of Flood Disaster Evacuation Modelling.
Command and Control Studies
- Linda Katrine Andresen, Erik G. Nilsson:
Finding the best devices for emergency responders in Norway - an empirical study. - Peter Berggren, Björn J. E. Johansson, Nicoletta Baroutsi, Isabelle Turcotte, Sébastien Tremblay:
Assessing team focused behaviors in emergency response teams using the shared priorities measure. - Kees Boersma, Julie Ferguson, Peter Groenewegen, Jeroen Wolbers:
Beyond the myth of control: Toward network switching in disaster management. - Avelino Ferreira Gomes Filho, André L. A. Sobral, Claudio A. Passos, Diana Arce, Gustavo A. Bianco, Júlio C. Rodrigues, José Orlando Gomes, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho:
C2 Center dealing with the unexpected: Resilience and brittleness during FIFA confederation cup. - Milica Stojmenovic, Gitte Lindgaard:
Probing PROBE: A field study of an advanced decision support prototype for managing chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosives (CBRNE) events. - Willem Treurniet, Rozemarijn Logtenberg, Peter Groenewegen:
Governance of occasional multi-sector networks.
Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research
- Tristan Endsley, Yu Wu, James A. Reep:
The source of the story: Evaluating the credibility of crisis information sources. - Craig E. Kuziemsky, Ahsan Hadi, Tracey L. O'Sullivan, Daniel E. Lane, Wayne Corneil:
An ontology for contextual information system design. - Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Stuart N. Wrigley, Neil Ireson, Uta Wehn, Fabio Ciravegna:
Citizens' observatories for situation awareness in flooding. - Ulrich Meissen, Markus Hardt, Agnès Voisard:
Towards a general system design for community-centered crisis and emergency warning systems. - Torbjørg Træland Meum:
An action design research approach to developing emergency management systems. - Marco Romano, Teresa Onorati, Paloma Díaz, Ignacio Aedo:
Improving emergency response: Citizens performing actions. - Andrea H. Tapia, Nicolas J. LaLone, Elizabeth MacDonald, Reid Priedhorsky, Michelle Hall:
Crowdsourcing rare events: Using curiosity to draw participants into science and early warning systems.
Decision Support Systems
- Marie Bartels:
Communicating probability: A challenge for decision support systems. - Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Sébastien Truptil, Frédérick Bénaben:
Agility of crisis response: Gathering and analyzing data through an event-driven platform. - Loïc Bidoux, Jean-Paul Pignon, Frédérick Bénaben:
A model driven system to support optimal collaborative processes design in crisis management. - Ana C. Calderon, Joanne Hinds, Peter Johnson:
IntCris: A tool for enhanced communication and collective decision-making during crises. - Tina Comes, Bartel A. Van de Walle:
Measuring disaster resilience: The impact of hurricane sandy on critical infrastructure systems. - Rita Kovordányi, Jelle Pelfrene, Henrik Eriksson:
Supporting Instructors' Decision Making in Simulator-Based Training for Crisis Management. - Louise K. Comfort, Brian A. Chalfant, Jee Eun Song, Mengyao Chen, Brian Colella:
Managing information processes in disaster events: The impact of superstorm sandy on business organizations. - Kelli de Faria Cordeiro, Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Marcos R. S. Borges:
Adaptive integration of information supporting decision making: A case on humanitarian logistic. - Stella Moehrle:
On the assessment of disaster management strategies. - Ángel Ruiz-Zafra, Ana-Gabriela Núñez, M. Carmen Penadés, José H. Canós, Marcos R. S. Borges:
SUCRE: Supporting users, controllers and responders in emergencies. - Zhou Sen, Bartel A. Van de Walle:
How intellectual capital reduces stress on organizational decision-making performance: The mediating roles of task complexity and time pressure. - Zhenyu Yu, Chuanfeng Han, Yefeng Ma:
Emergency decision making: A dynamic approach.
Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management
- Jose Vargas Florez, Anthony Charles, Matthieu Lauras, Lionel Dupont:
Designing realistic scenarios for disaster management quantitative models. - Henning Gösling, Jutta Geldermann:
Methodological tool kit for humanitarian logistics.
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response
- Gabriel Bartl, Lars Gerhold, Matthias Wählisch:
Towards a theoretical framework of acceptance for surveillance systems at airports. - Monika Büscher, Catherine Easton, Maike Kuhnert, Christian Wietfeld, Matts Ahlsén, Jens Pottebaum, J. Bernard van Veelen:
Cloud ethics for disaster response. - Catherine Easton:
The digital divide, inclusion and access for disabled people in IT supported emergency response systems: A UK and EU-based analysis. - Caroline Rizza, Ângela Guimarães Pereira:
Building a resilient community through social network: Ethical considerations about the 2011 Genoa floods. - Keri K. Stephens, Jessica L. Ford:
Banning mobile devices: Workplace policies that selectively exclude can shape crisis communication. - Andrea H. Tapia, Nicolas J. LaLone, Hyun-Woo Kim:
Run amok: Group crowd participation in identifying the bomb and bomber from the Boston marathon bombing. - Hayley Watson, Lemi Baruh, Rachel L. Finn, Salvatore Scifo:
Citizen (in)security?: Social media, citizen journalism and crisis response.
Geographic Information Science
- Christoph Aubrecht, Klaus Steinnocher, Hermann Huber:
DynaPop - Population distribution dynamics as basis for social impact evaluation in crisis management. - Justine I. Blanford, Jase Bernhardt, Alexander Savelyev, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Andrew M. Carleton, David W. Titley, Alan M. MacEachren:
Tweeting and tornadoes. - Sérgio Freire, Daniele Ehrlich, Stefano Ferri:
Assessing temporal changes in global population exposure and impacts from earthquakes. - Flávio E. A. Horita, Maria Clara Fava, Eduardo M. Mendiondo, Jairo Rotava, Vladimir C. B. de Souza, Jo Ueyama, João Porto de Albuquerque:
AGORA-GeoDash: A geosensor dashboard for real-time flood risk monitoring. - Ulrich Meissen, Frank Fuchs-Kittowski:
Towards a reference architecture of crowdsourcing integration in early warning systems. - Marius J. Paulikas, Andrew Curtis, Thomas Veldman:
Spatial video street-scale damage assessment of the Washington, Illinois Tornado of 2013.
Humanitarian Information Systems
- Zahra Ashktorab, Christopher Brown, Manojit Nandi, Aron Culotta:
Tweedr: Mining twitter to inform disaster response. - Dick Ooms, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel:
If every nail looks different, you need different hammers: Modeling civil-military interaction. - Jens Pottebaum, Robin Marterer, Steffen Schneider:
Taxonomy of IT support for training emergency response & management. - Robert Soden, Nama Budhathoki, Leysia Palen:
Resilience-building and the crisis informatics agenda: Lessons learned from open cities Kathmandu.
Intelligent Systems
- Fiona McNeill, Andriana Gkaniatsou, Alan Bundy:
Dynamic data sharing for facilitating communication during emergency responses. - Jaziar Radianti, Julie Dugdale, Jose J. Gonzalez, Ole-Christoffer Granmo:
Smartphone sensing platform for emergency management. - Krispijn Scholte, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz:
Personal warning system for vessels under bad weather conditions.
Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
- Erik A. M. Borglund, Lena-Maria Öberg:
Creation of an exercise scenario: A collaborative design effort. - José Hilario Canós-Cerdá, Juan Sánchez Díaz, Vicent Orts, M. Carmen Penadés, Abel Gómez, Marcos R. S. Borges:
Turning emergency plans into executable artifacts. - Tiago Cruz de França, Diogo Nolasco, Rafael Lage Tavares, José Orlando Gomes, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho:
A critical insight of the pope's visit to Brazil for the world youth day: Resilience or fragility? - Magiswary Dorasamy, Murali Raman, Maniam Kaliannan:
Evaluating CEMAS in simulated environment to support disaster management challenges. - Simon French, Nikolaos Agryris:
Nuclear emergency management: Driven by precedent or international guidance? - Steven R. Haynes, Mark J. Jermusyk, Frank E. Ritter:
Utility-theoretic training for mass casualty incidents. - Li Heng, Chen Tao:
Multiple attributes decision making method on social stability in nuclear accident scenario. - Leire Labaka, Josune Hernantes, Tina Comes, Jose Mari Sarriegi:
Defining policies to improve critical infrastructure resilience. - Yuanyuan Li, Wenguo Weng, Tao Chen, Hongyong Yuan:
A Chinese earthquake database for casualty modelling. - Yiewi Li., Yu Guo, Naoya Ito:
An exploration of a social-cognitive framework for improving the human-centric risk communication. - Murali Raman, Magiswary Dorasamy, Saravanan Muthaiyah, Maniam Kaliannan:
Web-based community disaster management and awareness system (CEMAS) in Malaysia. - Johannes Sautter, Janina Hofer, Sven Wirth, Wolf Engelbach, Matthias Max, Tanel Tenso, Holger Bracker:
Local-specific resource planning for mass casualty incidents. - Frank Schätter, Sascha Meng, Marcus Wiens, Frank Schultmann:
A multi-stage scenario construction approach for critical infrastructure protection. - Svend-Jonas Schelhorn, Benjamin Herfort, Richard Leiner, Alexander Zipf, João Porto de Albuquerque:
Identifying elements at risk from OpenStreetMap: The case of flooding. - Sardar Muhammad Sulaman, Taimor Abbas, Krzysztof Wnuk, Martin Höst:
Hazard analysis of collision avoidance system using STPA. - Sara Tena, Ignacio Aedo, David Díez, Paloma Díaz:
TIPExtop: An exploratory design tool for emergency planning. - Murray Turoff, Victor A. Bañuls, Linda Plotnick, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
Development of a dynamic scenario model for the interaction of critical infrastructures. - Simone Wurster, Ulrich Meissen:
Towards an economic assessment approach for early warning systems: Improving cost-avoidance calculations with regard to private households. - Marian Zulean, Gabriela Prelipcean:
Emergency preparedness in the European union.
Practitioner Cases and Practitioner-Centered Research
- Amro Al-Akkad, Christian Raffelsberger:
How do i get this app? A discourse on distributing mobile applications despite disrupted infrastructure. - Murray Turoff:
Emergency management education and ISCRAM. - Nicklaus A. Giacobe, Pamela J. Soule:
Social media for the emergency manager in disaster planning and response. - Edward J. Glantz:
Community crisis management lessons from Philadelphia's 1793 epidemic. - Sigmund Kluckner, Katrin Ellice Heintze, Willi Wendt:
Designing for the user: Tailoring a simulation software interface to the needs of crisis managers. - Matthias Max, Sigmund Kluckner, Susann Jentzsch:
Trainings for crisis information systems in civil protection: A German perspective. - Kayvan Yousefi Mojir, Sofie Pilemalm:
Emerging communities of collaboration: Co-location in emergency response systems in the 'Safety house' in Sweden. - James Fielding Smith, Teo A. Babun Jr.:
The port resiliency program (PReP): Upgrading Latin American and Caribbean ports.
Serious Games for Crisis Management
- Daniel Link, Kenny Meesters, Bernd Hellingrath, Bartel A. Van de Walle:
Reference task-based design of crisis management games. - Soraia Felicio, Viviane S. R. Silva, André Dargains, Paulo Roberto Azevedo Souza, Felippe Sampaio, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho, José Orlando Gomes, Marcos R. S. Borges:
Stop disasters game experiment with elementary school students in Rio de Janeiro: Building safety culture. - Anja van der Hulst, Rudy Boonekamp, Marc van den Homberg:
Field-testing a comprehensive approach simulation model. - Telmo Zarraonandia, Victor A. Bañuls, Ignacio Aedo, Paloma Díaz, Murray Turoff:
A scenario-based virtual environment for supporting emergency training.
Social Media in Crisis Response and Management
- Amro Al-Akkad, Christian Raffelsberger, Alexander Boden, Leonardo Ramirez, Andreas Zimmermann:
Tweeting 'when online is off'? Opportunistically creating mobile ad-hoc networks in response to disrupted infrastructure. - Jesse M. Blum, Genovefa Kefalidou, Robert J. Houghton, Martin Flintham, Unna Arunachalam, Murray Goulden:
Majority report: Citizen empowerment through collaborative sensemaking. - Cornelia Caragea, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Sam Stehle, Kishore Neppalli, Andrea H. Tapia:
Mapping moods: Geo-mapped sentiment analysis during hurricane sandy. - Sherri L. Condon, Jason R. Robinson:
Communication media use in emergency response management. - Dharma Dailey, Kate Starbird:
Visible skepticism: Community vetting after Hurricane Irene. - Shideh Dashti, Leysia Palen, Mehdi P. Heris, Kenneth M. Anderson, T. Jennings Anderson, Scott Anderson:
Supporting disaster reconnaissance with social media data: A design-oriented case study of the 2013 Colorado floods. - Adam Flizikowski, Witold Holubowicz, Anna Stachowicz, Laura Hokkanen, Taina A. Kurki, Niina Päivinen, Thomas Delavallade:
Social media in crisis management - The iSAR+ project survey. - Benjamin Herfort, João Porto de Albuquerque, Svend-Jonas Schelhorn, Alexander Zipf:
Does the spatiotemporal distribution of tweets match the spatiotemporal distribution of flood phenomena? A study about the River Elbe Flood in June 2013. - Amanda Lee Hughes:
Participatory design for the social media needs of emergency public information officers. - Muhammad Imran, Carlos Castillo, Jesse Lucas, Patrick Meier, Jakob Rogstadius:
Coordinating human and machine intelligence to classify microblog communications in crises. - Kenneth Joseph, Peter M. Landwehr, Kathleen M. Carley:
An approach to selecting keywords to track on twitter during a disaster. - Yefeng Ma, Hui Zhang, Yi Liu, Yi Liu:
Development of a joint official microblog platform to improve interactive communication with the public under a centralized system. - Aibek Musaev, De Wang, Calton Pu:
LITMUS: Landslide detection by integrating multiple sources. - Christopher E. Oxendine, Emily Schnebele, Guido Cervone, Nigel Waters:
Fusing non-authoritative data to improve situational awareness in emergencies. - Hemant Purohit, Shreyansh P. Bhatt, Andrew J. Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth, John M. Flach:
With whom to coordinate, why and how in ad-hoc social media communities during crisis response. - Yongzhong Sha, Jinsong Yan, Guoray Cai:
Detecting public sentiment over PM2.5 pollution hazards through analysis of Chinese microblog. - Gayane Shalunts, Gerhard Backfried, Prinz Prinz:
Sentiment analysis of German social media data for natural disasters. - Patrick C. Shih, Kyungsik Han, John M. Carroll:
Community incident chatter: Informing local incidents by aggregating local news and social media content. - Lise Ann St. Denis, Leysia Palen, Kenneth M. Anderson:
Mastering social media: An analysis of Jefferson County's communications during the 2013 Colorado floods. - Keri K. Stephens, Jessica L. Ford, Ashley Barrett, Michael J. Mahometa:
Alert networks of ICTs and sources in campus emergencies. - Jeannette N. Sutton, Emma S. Spiro, Sean M. Fitzhugh, Britta Johnson, C. Ben Gibson, Carter T. Butts:
Terse message amplification in the Boston bombing response. - Annemijn F. van Gorp:
Integration of volunteer and technical communities into the humanitarian aid sector: Barriers to collaboration. - Hayley Watson, Rachel L. Finn:
Social media and the 2013 UK heat wave: Opportunities and challenges for future events. - Hiroko Wilensky:
Twitter as a navigator for stranded commuters during the great east Japan earthquake. - Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Jane A. Kushma, Linda Plotnick:
Use of Social Media by U.S. Public Sector Emergency Managers: Barriers and Wish Lists. - Amro Al-Akkad, Christian Raffelsberger, Alexander Boden, Leonardo Ramirez, Andreas Zimmermann:
Tweeting 'When Online is Off'? Opportunistically Creating Mobile Ad-hoc Networks in Response to Disrupted Infrastructure.
Visual Analytics for Crisis Management
- Oleg Aulov, Adam Price, Milton Halem:
AsonMaps: A platform for aggregation visualization and analysis of disaster related human sensor network observations. - Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Suvodeep Mazumdar, Fabio Ciravegna:
Visual design recommendations for situation awareness in social media.

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