ISCRAM 2014 - 2014 Conference Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean countries

ISCRAM med 2014 Conference
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
in Mediterranean countries
15th to the 17th October 2014, Toulouse, France.
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The aim of ISCRAM-med is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management and especially on Mediterranean crisis.
Many crises have occurred in recent years around the Mediterranean Sea. For instance, we can mention political crisis such as Arabic Spring (Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, ...), economic crisis in Spain and Greece, earthquake in Italy, fires in France and Spain, riots in French suburbs or even the explosion of chemical plant AZF in Toulouse. Some of them even had a domino effect on others.
Also, the shared history between the Mediterranean countries and common geo-political issues led to solidarity among peoples and cross-country military interventions. This observation demonstrates the importance of considering some of these crisis in this region at a Mediterranean level rather than as isolated phenomena.
If researchers working on crisis that occurred in these countries have made work, often limited to a country or to a class of crisis, it becomes appropriate now to exchange and share information and knowledge about the course and management of these crisis and also to have the point of view of stakeholders, practitioners and policy makers.
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Conference topics
Topics include but are not limited to
Analytical Modelling and Simulation
Social Media Observation
Crisis Ontology,
Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research
Command and Control Studies
Decision Support Systems
Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management
Information System Interoperability and Inter-organizational issues
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response
Geographic Information Science
Humanitarian Information Systems
Intelligent Systems
Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
Practitioner Cases and Practitioner- Centered Research
Serious Games for Crisis Management
Visual Analytics for Crisis Management
Submission
All paper submissions must make a new and significant contribution to the body of knowledge on information systems for emergency management, support their contribution with valid arguments, and be clearly structured and well written. ISCRAM2014 invites two categories of papers:
- Research papers presenting valid, original, relevant cutting edge research that will be reviewed to the highest academic standards. Reviewing will pay additional attention to the application of the related scientific literature and theory, to the use of an appropriate research methodology, and to technical, mathematical and statistical correctness.
- Demo papers presenting new developments in emergency management and policy making, discussing approaches, methods, tools, (best) practices and standards. These papers should focus on practical issues and concerns and raise challenges for future research, and will be reviewed to the highest practice-oriented standards.
All papers (up to 12 pages, LNCS format) should be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format through the conference system http://iscram-med14.sciencesconf.org/. Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee. An ISBN number for the proceedings will be available and the papers available as arxiv proceedings and indexed by DBLP.
Important Dates
April 30, 2014: Due date for papers submission
May 30, 2014: Final acceptance
June 30, 2014: Camera-ready paper due
Conference: 15th to the 17th October 2014.
Conference organizers
Chihab Hanachi (general chair) http://www.irit.fr/~Chihab.Hanachi
Frederick Benaben (program chair)
François Charoy (program co-chair)
Program committee
Andrea Omicini,Universita di Bologna, Italy
Narjes Bellamine, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales, Australia
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Pedro Antunes, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Ricardo Rabelo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Matthieu Lauras, Ecolde des Mines d'Albi, France
Carlos Castillo , Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Lotfi Bouzguenda, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Julie Dugdale, Université Pierre Mendès France, France
Ling Tang,Beijing University of Chemical technology, China
Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Marocco
Laurent Franck, Telecom Bretagne, France
Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Francis Rousseaux, University of Reims, France
Sevnem Dugzun, Turkey, Middle Est Techical University, Ankara, Turkey
Shady Elbassuoni, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Nouali-Taboudjemat Nadia, Algiers
Silvia Ciotti, Eurocrime, Italy
Yiannis Verginadis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Local organization
Sebastien Truptil
Elyes Lamine
Stéphanie Combettes
Eric Andonoff
Benoit Gaudou
Thanh Le
Sameh Triki
Contact
Please contact Chihab HANACHI (Chihab.Hanach.univ-tlse1.fr) for further enquiries about the conference.