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ISCRAM 2016: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Andrea H. Tapia, Pedro Antunes, Victor A. Bañuls, Kathleen A. Moore, João Porto de Albuquerque:
13th Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, May 22-25, 2016. ISCRAM Association 2016, ISBN 978-84-608-7984-8 - Introduction.
Analytical Modeling and Simulation
- Tongshen Zheng, Shunjiang Ni, Shifei Shen, Yan Wang, Yang Tai:
Numerical Study of Radioactive Pollutants Dispersion in Radioactive "Dirty Bomb" Events. - Haitao Sun, Zhiru Wang, Guofeng Su, Jianguo Chen:
Topological Structure Vulnerability Assessment of Shanghai Urban Metro Networks. - Daniel Iland, Elizabeth M. Belding:
Dynamic, Data-Driven Optimization of Solar Powered Charging Kiosks for Crisis Response. - Yi Xiong, Weiping Si, Xia Wu:
Analysis of Emergency Response for Accident of Oil and Gas Pipeline Based on Stochastic Petri Net. - Victor A. Bañuls, Cristina López-Vargas, Fernando Tejedor Panchón, Murray Turoff, Miguel Ramirez de la Huerga:
Validating Cross-Impact Analysis in Project Risk Management. - Mark Parent, Jean-François Gagnon, Tiago H. Falk, Sébastien Tremblay:
Modeling the Operator Functional State for Emergency Response Management. - Takuya Oki, Toshihiro Osaragi:
Wide-area Evacuation Difficulty in Densely-built Wooden Residential Areas. - Michael Bartolacci, Stanko Dimitrov:
A Network Interdiction Perspective for Providing Emergency Communications: An Analysis for Promoting Resiliency Subject to Resource Constraints and Security Concerns.
Command and Control Studies
- Jenny Marklund, Cecilia Hull Wiklund:
Learning from C2 Situations in the Field - Identifying Lessons from a Major Forest Fire in Sweden. - Christian Uhr, Björn J. E. Johansson, Jonas Landgren, Martin Holmberg, Fredrik Bynander, Samuel Koelega, Jiri Trnka:
Once upon a time in Västmanland - the power of narratives or how the "truth" unfolds. - Valerie November, Laurence Creton-Cazanave:
Inquiry in control rooms - an analysis through the lenses of space, time and practices. - Peter Berggren, Björn J. E. Johansson, Ellen Ekström:
Resilience through training - assessing cognition in teams. - Andreas Lotter, Konrad Barth, Florian Brauner, Florian Steyer, Ompe Aimé Mudimu, Alex Lechleuthner:
Measurement of information flows in rescue exercises in the aftermath of the collapse of a building. - Bruno S. Nascimento, Adriana S. Vivacqua, Marcos R. S. Borges:
A Conceptual Architecture to handle the influx of information in Emergency Situations. - Nicoletta Baroutsi:
Observing Sensemaking in C2: Performance Assessments in Multi-Organizational Crisis Response. - Jonas Rybing, Johan Larsson, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Erik Prytz:
Preliminary Validation Results of DigEmergo for Surge Capacity Management. - Fabio Ciravegna, Suvodeep Mazumdar, Neil Ireson, Peter Cudd:
Seeing through the Eyes of the Citizens during Emergencies.
Community Engagement and Practitioner Studies
- Hossein Baharmand, Kees Boersma, Kenny Meesters, Femke Mulder, Jeroen Wolbers:
A multidisciplinary perspective on supporting community disaster resilience in Nepal. - Zeno Franco, Katinka Hooyer, Rizwana Rizia, A. B. M. Kowser Patwary, Mathew Armstrong, Bryan C. Semaan, Craig E. Kuziemsky, Bob Curry, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed:
Dryhootch Quick Reaction Force: Collaborative Information Design to Prevent Crisis in Military Veterans. - Flávio E. A. Horita, João Porto de Albuquerque, Victor Marchezini, Eduardo M. Mendiondo:
A qualitative analysis of the early warning decision-making process in disaster management. - Liz Bacon, Lachlan M. MacKinnon, Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis, David Kananda:
Design of an Immersive Online Crisis Preparation Learning Environment. - Daniel Auferbauer, Roman Ganhör, Hilda Tellioglu, Jasmin Pielorz:
Crowdtasking: Field Study on a Crowdsourcing Alternative. - Denis Havlik, Jasmin Pielorz, Adam Widera:
Interaction with citizens experiments: from context-aware alerting to crowdtasking. - Tobias Andersson Granberg, Niklas Danielsson, Anna Fredriksson, Johan Nordström, Sofie Pilemalm, Richard Tjernstrom, Kayvan Yosefi Mojir:
Using Semi-professionals in Emergency Response. - Arjen Schmidt, Jeroen Wolbers, Kees Boersma, Julie Ferguson, Peter Groenewegen:
Are you Ready2Help? Dilemmas in organizing citizen response to disaster.
Emerging Topics
- Danilo Freitas, Marcos R. S. Borges, Adriana S. Vivacqua, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho:
Communication Channels among the various roles during Crisis Response. - Shane Errol Halse, Andrea H. Tapia, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Cornelia Caragea:
An Emotional Step Towards Automated Trust Detection in Crisis Social Media. - Bjørn Erik Munkvold:
Diffusing Crisis Management Solutions through Living Labs: Opportunities and Challenges. - Linda Plotnick, Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lili Yang, Victor A. Bañuls:
Curriculum Guidelines for Master's Level Programs in Information Systems for Emergency Management. - Zoltán Balogh, Emil Gatial, Ladislav Hluchý:
Poll Sourcing for Crisis Response. - Vladimir A. Oleshchuk:
A Novel Framework for Security Enforcement in Networks for Disaster and Crisis Management.
Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
- Monika Büscher, Sarah Becklake, Catherine Easton, Xaroula Kerasidou, Rachel Oliphant, Katrina Petersen, Lina Jasmontaite, Olivier Paterour:
ELSI Guidelines for Networked Collaboration and Information Exchange in PPDR and Risk Governance. - Catherine Easton:
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: The EU Data Protection Regulation, Privacy by Design and Certification. - John Sabou, Simeon Videlov:
An Analysis on the Role of Trust in Digital Humanitarian Actor Networks. - Amirah M. Majid, Emma S. Spiro:
Crisis in a Foreign Language: Emergency Services and Limited English Populations. - Katrina Petersen, Rachel Oliphant, Monika Büscher:
Experimenting with the Ethical Impact Assessment as a Grounding Socio-Technical Practice. - Ajay Kumar, Simeon Vidolov:
Humanitarian Effectiveness: Reconsidering the Ethics of Community Engagement and the Role of Technology. - Johanna Sefyrin, Sofie Pilemalm:
"It's More Important to be Fast than to be Informed" - Gender, Age, Disability and Ethnicity in Relation to IT in the Swedish Rescue Services. - Lisa Anne Wood:
A Mobilities Approach to Understanding Emergency Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Maintaining Organizational Identity and Belonging in Paramedic Work.
Geospatial Data and Geographical Information Science
- Raul Eduardo Simoni Castanhari, Roberto dos Santos Rocha, Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, João Porto de Albuquerque:
A Software Architecture to Integrate Sensor Data and Volunteered Geographic Information for Flood Risk Management. - Brian M. Tomaszewski, David Schwartz, Jörg Szarzynski:
Crisis Response Serious Spatial Thinking Games: Spatial Think Aloud Study Results. - Toshihiro Osaragi:
Estimation of Transient Occupants on Weekdays and Weekends for Risk Exposure Analysis. - Carolin Klonner, Sabrina Marx, Tomás Usón, Bernhard Höfle:
Risk Awareness Maps of Urban Flooding via OSM Field Papers- Case Study Santiago de Chile. - Johannes Anhorn, Benjamin Herfort, João Porto de Albuquerque:
Crowdsourced Validation and Updating of Dynamic Features in OpenStreetMap - An analysis of Shelter Mapping after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake. - Sérgio Freire, Aneta J. Florczyk, Martino Pesaresi:
New Multi-temporal Global Population Grids - Application to Volcanism. - Mehrdad Negahban, Reza Nourjou:
Internet of Things for Next-Generation Public Safety Mobile Communications. - Peng Du, Jianguo Chen, Zhanhui Sun:
Resource Management System for Crisis Response & Management. - Marcin Przybyszewski, Anna Stachowicz, Tomasz Olejniczak, Michal Choras, Jan Zych:
Application "Pomoc" - Emergency Calls with Geo-location. - Amélie Grangeat, Floriane Brill, Stephane Raclot, Emmanuel Lapebie:
Mapping of Areas Presenting Specific Risks to Firefighters due to Buried Technical Networks. - Benjamin Herfort, Melanie Eckle, João Porto de Albuquerque:
Being Specific about Geographic Information Crowdsourcing: A Typology and Analysis of the Missing Maps Project in South Kivu.
Human Centered Design and Evaluation
- Nicolas J. LaLone, Andrea H. Tapia:
Three Lessons from Aurorasaurus about Public Facing Information System Design. - Erik G. Nilsson, Ketil Stølen:
The FLUIDE Framework for Specifying Emergency Response User Interfaces Employed to a Search and Rescue Case. - Lauren Thévin, Julie Dugdale, Olivier Boissier, Catherine Garbay:
Evaluating Plans and Human Response Using a Normative Multi-Agent System.
Intelligent Decision Support in the Networked Society
- Tina Comes, Anouck Adrot:
Power as Driver of Inter-Organizational Information Sharing in Crises. - Laura Laguna Salvadó, Matthieu Lauras, Tina Comes, Mathieu Grenade:
A Study on the Sub-Regionalization of Humanitarian Supply Chain: the IFRC Case. - Melanie Eckle, João Porto de Albuquerque, Benjamin Herfort, Alexander Zipf, Richard Leiner, Rüdiger Wolff, Clemens Jacobs:
Leveraging OpenStreetMap to Support Flood Risk Management in Municipalities: A Prototype Decision Support System. - Audrey Fertier, Aurélie Montarnal, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Sébastien Truptil, Frédérick Bénaben:
Adoption of Big Data in Crisis Management. - Nadia Saad Noori, Jeroen Wolbers, Kees Boersma, Xavier Vilasís-Cardona:
A Dynamic Perspective of Emerging Coordination Clusters in Crisis Response Networks. - Christian Flachberger, Eduard Gringinger:
Decision Support for Networked Crisis & Disaster Management - A Comparison with the Air Traffic Management Domain. - Laura Laguna Salvadó, Matthieu Lauras, Tina Comes:
Towards a Monitoring System for American IFRC Logistics Network. - Mohd Khairul Azmi Hassan, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger:
Communication and Tracking Ontology Development for Civilians Earthquake Disaster Assistance. - Yasir Javed:
Sensors-based Crisis Response and Management for Mass Gatherings: A Case of Hajj. - Maude Arru, Brice Mayag, Elsa Negre:
Early-Warning System Perception: a Study on Fire Safety.
Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
- Roberto Ferreira Júnior, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho, Salman Nazir, José Orlando Gomes, Gilbert Jacob Huber:
Assessment Team Decision-Making: One Way to Assess the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Based on Observation. - Yiting Zheng, Jianguo Chen, Wenjie Tang, Jiaxiang Xu:
Research on Target Diversity and Risk Analysis Model of Terrorist Attack. - Alexandre Ahmad, Olivier Balet, Arjen Boin, Julien Castet, Maureen Donnelley, Fabio Ganovelli, George Kokkinis, Giovanni Pintore:
Assessing the Security of Buildings: A Virtual Studio Solution. - Ana-Gabriela Núñez, M. Carmen Penadés, José H. Canós:
QuEP: Building a Continuous Improvement of Emergency Plans Management. - Elisa Canzani:
Modeling Dynamics of Disruptive Events for Impact Analysis in Networked Critical Infrastructures. - Lutiane Queiroz de Almeida, Torsten Welle, Jörn Birkmann:
A Methodological Proposal to Disaster Risk Indicators in Brazil. - Mihoko Sakurai, Jose J. Gonzalez, Richard T. Watson, Jiro Kokuryo:
A Capital Model for Disaster Resilience. - João Porto de Albuquerque, Cidália Costa Fonte, J.-P. de Almeida, Alberto Cardoso:
How Volunteered Geographic Information can be Integrated Into Emergency Management Practice? First Lessons Learned from an Urban Fire Simulation in the City of Coimbra. - Jorge Vargas, Jonatán Rojas, Alejandra Inga, Wilder Mantilla, Hulber Añasco, Melanie Fatsia Basurto, Ricardo Campos, Jonathan Sánchez, Paula Inés Checa:
Towards Reliable Recurrent Disaster Forecasting Methods: Peruvian Earthquake Case. - Marian Zulean, Gabriela Prelipcean, Costinel Anuta:
Retrospective Analysis of the EU Resilience to a Large-Scale Migration. - Simone Wurster, Frank Fiedrich, Michael Klafft, Andreas Bohn:
Sudden Cardiac Arrest and the Role of Crowd Tasking Apps for Risk Mitigation. - Christophe Viavattene, Sally Priest, Owen Damon, Dennis Parker, Paula Micou, Ly Sophie:
INDRA Model: For A Better Assessment of Coastal Events Disruptions. - Oscar Durán, Edward Ruiz, Catalina Esquivel:
Towards a Monitoring and Follow Up System for the Costa Rican Risk Management System. - Yang Gao:
Risk Zoning of the Urban Shelter in Earthquake.
Poster Session
- Josiane Rodrigues Eugênio, Lutiane Queiroz de Almeida, Vinnícius Vale Dionízio França:
Disaster risk indicators in Brazil: a case study in Rio Grande do Norte State. - Avi Parush, Adva Springer, Ruth Livkind, Shani Laendler, Tal Solomon, Alex Nicola, Ksenia Kaganer:
Simulator and Game-based Multi-level Training of Cognitive Skills and EMS Teamwork in Multi-casualty Incident Management. - Jane Ciambele S. da Silva, Alyson Matheus de Carvalho Souza, Ademir Bezerra Silva Júnior, Ricardo José Matos de Carvalho, Pitágoras José Bindé, Liam Bannon, Paulo Victor R. de Carvalho:
A community ergonomics framework for the development of early warning systems. - Boni Su, Hong Huang, Zhiqiang Wang, Nan Zhang, Wei Zhu, Xinfeng Wei:
Urban pluvial flood risk assessment based on scenario simulation. - Xia Wu, Yi Xiong:
Computer-based scheme-making system of emergency maintenance for failure of oil and gas pipeline. - Christophe Viavattene, Simon McCarthy, Michelle Ferri, Martina Monego, Maurizio Mazzoleni:
Evaluation of emergency protocols using agent-based approach. - Tommi J. Tapanainen, Olivier Lisein:
IT manager leadership during crisis situations: Lessons from real-life crisis management in IT functions during natural disasters. - Suvodeep Mazumdar, Neil Ireson, Fabio Ciravegna:
Decision Graphs: Managing Decisions for Emergencies. - Michael Klafft:
Effect of Daytime on the Efficiency of Population Alerts via Short Messages and E-Mails. - Sidgley Camargo de Andrade, João Porto de Albuquerque, Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem:
Improving the credibility of unreliable information through static images and data mining: an experimental study to identify floods. - Emil Gatial, Zoltán Balogh, Ladislav Hluchý:
Data Interoperability Approach during Major Accidents. - Gilbert J. Huber, Angela Weber Righi, José Orlando Gomes, Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho, Caio Lemos, Kézia Emydgio:
Firefighting emergency response exercise - an analysis of standardization and resilience. - Yang Ishigaki, Yutaka Matsuno, Koichi Bando, Kenji Tanaka:
A Prototype Development of Assurance Cases Tool and Experiments on SNS Discussion of Radiation Disaster. - Steve Peterson:
More Research Needed on the Concurrent Usage of Information Systems during Emergencies. - Werner Leyh, Maria Clara Fava, Narumi Abe, Camilo Restrepo Estrada, Flávio E. A. Horita, Eduardo Mario Mendiondo, João Porto de Albuquerque:
SDI-Node to interlink Information, essential for Disaster Preparedness and Management, with other Linked Open Data.
Social Media Studies
- T. Jennings Anderson, Marina Kogan, Melissa Bica, Leysia Palen, Kenneth M. Anderson, Rebecca Morss, Julie Demuth, Heather Lazrus, Olga Wilhelmi:
Far Far Away in Far Rockaway: Responses to Risks and Impacts during Hurricane Sandy through First-Person Social Media Narratives. - Venkata Kishore Neppalli, Murilo Cerqueira Medeiros, Cornelia Caragea, Doina Caragea, Andrea H. Tapia, Shane E. Halse:
Retweetability Analysis and Prediction during Hurricane Sandy. - Apoorva Chauhan, Amanda Lee Hughes:
Online Mentioning Behavior during Hurricane Sandy: References, Recommendations, and Rebroadcasts. - Elodie S. Fichet, John J. Robinson, Dharma Dailey, Kate Starbird:
Eyes on the Ground: Emerging Practices in Periscope Use during Crisis Events. - Yuhong Li, Christopher W. Zobel:
Small Businesses and Social Media Usage in the 2013 Colorado Floods. - Pragna Debnath, Saniul Haque, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Siuli Roy:
Post-disaster Situational Analysis from WhatsApp Group Chats of Emergency Response Providers. - Antonin Segault, Federico Tajariol, Yang Ishigaki, Ioan Roxin:
#geiger 2: Developing Guidelines for Radiation Measurements Sharing on Social Media. - Shannon Daly, James A. Thom:
Mining and Classifying Image Posts on Social Media to Analyse Fires. - Muhammad Imran, Prasenjit Mitra, Jaideep Srivastava:
Cross-Language Domain Adaptation for Classifying Crisis-Related Short Messages. - Cornelia Caragea, Adrian Silvescu, Andrea H. Tapia:
Identifying Informative Messages in Disasters using Convolutional Neural Networks. - Emma Potter:
Balancing conflicting operational and communications priorities: social media use in an emergency management organization. - Louis Ngamassi, Thiagarajan Ramakrishnan, Shahedur Rahman:
Examining the Role of Social Media in Disaster Management from an Attribution Theory Perspective. - Briony J. Gray:
Social Media and Disasters: A New Conceptual Framework. - Daniel Link, Bernd Hellingrath, Jie Ling:
A Human-is-the-Loop Approach for Semi-Automated Content Moderation. - Jidi Zhao, Linlin Wang:
Research on Public Opinion Propagation in Micro-Blogging Based on Epidemic Models. - Shane Errol Halse, Andrea H. Tapia, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Cornelia Caragea:
Tweet Factors Influencing Trust and Usefulness During Both Man-Made and Natural Disasters.

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