CFP ISCRAMMED Conference

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
ISCRAM-Med 2014:
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
in Mediterranean countries=20

http://irit.fr/ISCRAMMED2014
Conference Dates:  Oct 15-17 2014
Toulouse France

OBJECTIVE AND TOPICS
The aim of ISCRAM-Med is to bring together researchers and practitioners =
working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response
and Management. The conference will focus on Mediterranean crises but rem=
ains open to crises in other areas and theoretical works.=20
Topics include but are not limited to:=20


-=09Analytical Modelling and Simulation
-=09Social Media Observation
-=09Crisis Ontology,
-=09Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research
-=09Command and Control Studies
-=09Decision Support Systems
-=09Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management
-=09Information System Interoperability and Inter-organizational issues
=09
-=09Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response
-=09Geographic Information Science
-=09Humanitarian Information Systems
-=09Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
-=09Practitioner Cases and Practitioner-Centred Research
-=09Serious Games for Crisis Management
-=09Visual Analytics for Crisis Management


CONTRIBUTIONS

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 structure=
d and well written. ISCRAM2014 invites two categories of papers:=20
=E2=80=A2=09Research papers presenting valid, original, relevant cutting =
edge research that will be reviewed to the highest academic standards.Rev=
iewing will pay additional attention to the application of the related sc=
ientific literature and theory, to the use of an appropriate research met=
hodology, and to technical, mathematical and statistical correctness.=20
=E2=80=A2=09Demo papers presenting new developments in emergency manageme=
nt and policy making, discussing approaches, methods, tools, (best) pract=
ices and standards. These papers should focus on practical issues and con=
cerns and raise challenges for future research, and will be reviewed to t=
he highest practice-oriented standards.=20

All papers (10-14 pages, LNCS format) should be written in English and su=
bmitted electronically in PDF format through the conference system=20
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Discrammed2014
Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the =
program committee. Accepted papers will be published in=20
the conference proceedings, to appear in the Springer series =E2=80=9CLec=
ture Notes in Business Information Processing=E2=80=9D (LNBIP).

IMPORTANT DATES
-=09April  30, 2014: =09Due date for papers submission
-=09May 30, 2014: =09Final acceptance
-=09June 30, 2014: =09Camera-ready paper due
-=09Conference: =0915th to the 17th October 2014.=20

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
=E2=80=A2=09Chihab Hanachi (general chair)
=E2=80=A2=09Frederic Benaben (program chair)
=E2=80=A2=09Fran=C3=A7ois Charoy (program co-chair)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=E2=80=A2=09Andrea Omicini,Universita di Bologna, Italy=20
=E2=80=A2=09Narjes Bellamine, University of Tunis, Tunisia=20
=E2=80=A2=09Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales, Australia
=E2=80=A2=09Hamid Mcheick, University Qu=C3=A9bec at Chicoutimi, Canada
=E2=80=A2=09Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technolo=
gy, Norway=20
=E2=80=A2=09Pedro Antunes, University of Lisboa, Portugal
=E2=80=A2=09Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, USA
=E2=80=A2=09Ricardo Rabelo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil=20=

=E2=80=A2=09Matthieu Lauras, Ecole des Mines d'Albi, France=20
=E2=80=A2=09Emilia Balas, Aurel Vlaicu Univ. of Arad, Romania
=E2=80=A2=09Carlos Castillo , Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar=20=

=E2=80=A2=09Lotfi Bouzguenda, University of Sfax, Tunisia=20
=E2=80=A2=09Julie Dugdale, Universit=C3=A8 Pierre Mend=C3=A8s France, Fra=
nce=20
=E2=80=A2=09Ling Tang,Beijing University of Chemical technology, China=20=

=E2=80=A2=09Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Marocco=20
=E2=80=A2=09Laurent Franck, Telecom Bretagne, France=20
=E2=80=A2=09Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar=20
=E2=80=A2=09Francis Rousseaux, University of Reims, France
=E2=80=A2=09Rui Jorge Tramontin Jr., Santa Catarina State University, Bra=
sil
=E2=80=A2=09Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
=E2=80=A2=09Sevnem Dugzun, Turkey, Middle Est Techical University, Ankara=
, Turkey=20
=E2=80=A2=09Shady Elbassuoni, American University of Beirut, Lebanon=20
=E2=80=A2=09Nouali-Taboudjemat Nadia, Algiers=20
=E2=80=A2=09Silvia Ciotti, Eurocrime, Italy=20
=E2=80=A2=09Yiannis Verginadis, National Technical University of Athens, =
Greece=20

Contact information: [email protected]

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