ISCRAM2009

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Sunday 10th to Wednesday 13th of May, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Conference and Program Chairs: Jonas Landgren, Bartel Van de Walle & Susanne Jul
Local organizing chair: Urban Nulden

ISCRAM 2009 is organized by University of Gothenburg & the Viktoria Institute
in collaboration with FOI, Lindkpings University and Lindholmen Science Park.

Conference Venue: University of Gothenburg: School of Business Economics and Law

 



SUNDAY 10th: PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS

Location: IT-University, Forskningsgngen 6, Lindholmen


09:00 - 16:30 PhD-Colloquium

Colloquium Committe: David Mendonca, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Julie Dugdale, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

12:00 - 14:00 Utilizing Crisis Management Exercises as research instrument

Organizer: Dr. Joeri van Laere, University of Skovde, Sweden

14:00 - 16:00 Workshop on Social Media for crisis response

Coodinators: Susanne Jul & Jonas Landgren

16:30 - 17:30 Student Poster Session

Organizer: Willem Muhren, Tilburg University


Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response Workshop

Organizer: Markus Klann & Jobst Lffler


Sahana Open Source Workshop

Organizer: Bartel Van de Walle & Ingo Simonis


19:00 - (until late) Belgian Beer Evening and informal get-together

Location: Scandic Hotel Rubinen Avenyn




MONDAY 11th: CONFERENCE DAY 1

Location: University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics & Law, Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg

08:45 Plenary

Opening of the 2009 ISCRAM Conference

Keynote presentation: Lars Hedstrm

Room: Malmstensalen


10:00 COFFEE BREAK


10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Human-Computer Interaction

Information Overload and Inclusivity


156

Using Text Analysis for Information Overload in Pan Flu Planning and Response

Collins, Linn Marks Blake, Miriam
Hoare, Geoffrey
Mane, Ketan K. Martinez, Mark L.B.
Pittman, Jack
Powell, James E.
Roman, Jorge H.
Spearing, Shelly
White, Rhonda
Yao, Xiang

Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America;

Florida Department of Health, United States of America

219

Sensemaking and Information Management in Humanitarian Disaster Response: Observations from the TRIPLEX Exercise

Muhren, Willem
Van de Walle, Bartel

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

246

Identifying and confirming information and system quality requirements for multi-agency disaster management

Bharosa, Nitesh
Appelman, Jacco
van Zanten, Bart Zuurmond, Arre

Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands



Humanitarian Actions and Operations

Approaches to Information Management


117

Building a humanitarian information system: the experience of the Dynamic COMPAS software

Sarrat, Olivier

Groupe URD, France

194

Information Management and Technology Issues Addressed by Humanitarian Relief Coordination Bodies

Maitland, Carleen F.

Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Louis-Marie

Tapia, Andrea H.


Penn State University, United States of America

227

An optimization model for humanitarian relief volunteer management

Falasca, Mauro
Fetter, Gary
Zobel, Christopher

Virginia Tech, United States of America


Open Track

Local Communities and Government Collaboration


Argos Consortium Presentation

Leo Shou-Jensen

PDC

141

Action Research Supported Implementation of a Crisis Competence Centre

Harnesk, Dan
Lindstrm, John
Samuelsson, Sren

Lule University of Technology, Sweden


Standardization and Ontologies

Architectures


208

Towards an interoperable data model for forest fire reports

Hernndez de Juan, Mara
Aedo, Ignacio
Diaz, Paloma
Diez, David
Montero, Susana

Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain

225

Exploring Development of Service-Oriented C2 Systems for Emergency Response

Ingmarsson, Magnus
Eriksson, Henrik
Hallberg, Niklas

Linkpings universitet, Sweden;

FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency

244

Reconsidering information management roles and capabilities in disaster response decision-making units

Bharosa, Nitesh

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The


12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

Location: ISCRAM2009 Lunch Venue


14:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Human-Computer Interaction

Interactive Map Technologies


200

Early flood detection and mapping for humanitarian response

De Groeve, Tom
Riva, Patrick

Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy

223

Spatiotemporal Mashups: A Survey of Current Tools to Inform Next Generation Crisis Support

Liu, Sophia
Palen, Leysia

ConnectivIT Lab, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States of America

242

An Indoor Positioning System for Improved Action Force Command and Disaster Management

Walder, Ulrich Bernoulli, Thomas
Glanzer, Gerald
Schuetz, Ruediger
Wiessflecker, Thomas

Graz University of Technology, Austria


Humanitarian Actions and Operations

IT for Crisis Management in Africa


192

IT Infrastructure Enabling Open Access for Flood Risk Preparedness in South Africa

van Zyl, Terence Lesley
Cwele, Bheki Agrippa
Moodley, Deshendran
Parbhoo, Chetna
Shabangu, Petrus Sipho
Umuhoza, Denise

The Meraka Institute, South Africa

203

The Southern African Advanced Fire Information System

McFerren, Graeme Andrew
Frost, Philip

Meraka Institute, South Africa

250

ADA Providing a framework for objective assessment of ICT for Disaster Risk Management in Africa

Kerle, Norman

ITC, Netherlands, The


Standardization and Ontologies

Interoperability


153

Collaborative process design for Mediation Information System Engineering

Truptil, Sbastien
Benaben, Frederick
Pingaud, Herve

Universit de Toulouse - Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, France

155

Using Architectures for Semantic Interoperability to Create Journal Clubs for Emergency Response

Powell, James E
Collins, Linn Marks
Martinez, Mark L. B.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America

206

Information Management for Crisis Response in WORKPAD

Vetere, Guido
Faraotti, Alessandro
Poggi, Antonella
Salvatore, Berardino

IBM, Italy;

University of Rome, "La Sapienza"


Practitioners Workshop 

Part 1- Introduction


15:30 COFFEE BREAK


16:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Human-Computer Interaction

HCI Design & Requirements


154

User Acceptance of Community Emergency Alert Technology: A Case Study

Wu, Philip Fei

University of Maryland, United States of America

204

Mega-Collaboration: The Inspiration and Development of an Interface for Large-Scale Disaster Response

Newlon, Christine M.
de Vreede, Gert-Jan
MacDorman, Karl
Patel, Himalaya
Pfaff, Mark

Indiana University, United States of America;

University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States of America

218

Designing for FirefightersBuilding Empathy through Live Action Role-Playing

Denef, Sebastian
Dyrks, Tobias
Meyer, Daniel
Penkert, Berthold
Ramirez, Leonardo

Fraunhofer FIT, Germany;

Universitt Siegen, Germany;

Institut der Feuerwehr NRW, Germany


Humanitarian Actions and Operations

Rapid Information Dissemination


139

Towards an IP-Based Alert Message Delivery System

Soini, Jari Olavi
Jaakkola, Hannu
Lepp_niemi, Jari
Rantanen, Petri
Saari, Mika
Sillberg, Pekka

Tampere university of technology, Finland

152

Geographically Visualizing Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) Information

Tomaszewski, Brian
Czrn, Lrnt

Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America;

Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Germany

164

Rapid Geo-Image Communications for Disaster Management

Skinnemoen, Harald
Bjorgo, Einar
Hall, Richard

AnsuR Technolgies AS, Norway;
Unosat/Unitar;
Kongsberg Satelite


Research Methods

Research Methods


133

GDIA: a Cognitive Task Analysis Protocol to Capture the Information Requirements of Emergency First Responders

Rahubadde Kankanamge, Raj Prasanna
King, Malcolm
Yang, Lili

Loughborough University, United Kingdom

172

A Principled Method of Scenario Design for Testing Emergency Response Decision-Making

Drury, Jill L.
Klein, Gary L.
More, Loretta
Pfaff, Mark

The MITRE Corporation, USA
Indiana University Indianapolis; USA
The Pennsylvania State Universit; USA

217

Evaluating the Impact of Improvisation on the Incident Command System: A Modified Single Case Study using the DDD Simulator

Franco, Zeno
Beutler, Larry E.
Blau, Kathy
Holman, John
Zumel, Nina

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology;
Quimba Software


Practitioners Workshop 

Part 2


19:00 CITY OF GOTHENBURG WELCOME RECEPTION

Location: To be announced



TUESDAY 12th: CONFERENCE DAY 2

08:45 Plenary


Announcements


Keynote presentation: Prof Martha Grabowski


Room: Malmstensalen



09:15 Practitioners Workshop 

Part 3 


10:00 COFFE BREAK


10:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Collaboration and Social Networking

Decision-Making


135

Group Decision-Making Method in the field of Coal Mine Safety Management Based on AHP with Clustering

Song, Yan
Hu, Yinghui

Harbin Engineering University, China, Peoples Republic of

215

Crisis Decision Making Through a Shared Integrative Negotiation Mental Model

van Santen, Willem Jonker, Catholijn
Wijngaards, Niek

Be Wind B.V., Netherlands, The,;
TU Delft, Netherlands;
D-CIS lab, Netherlands

248

Towards hybrid rational-naturalistic decision support for Command & Control

Grant, Tim

Netherlands Defence Academy, Netherlands, The


Human-Computer Interaction

Crisis Communication


167

CAP-ONES: An Emergency Notification System for all

Malizia, Alessio

Acuna, Pablo

Aedo, Ignacio

Diaz, Paloma

Onorati, Teresa

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

213

Computer Supported Collaborative Training in Crisis Communication Management

Reuter, Christian
Muller, Claudia
Pipek, Volkmar

University of Siegen, Germany

235

Towards a Distributed Crisis Response Communication System

Bradler, Dirk

Aitenbichler, Erwin

Liebau, Nicolas

Schiller, Benjamin


TU Darmstadt, Germany


Open Track

Computing Situation Awareness


173

Computed Ontology-based Situation Awareness of Multi-User Observations

Fitrianie, Siska

Rothkrantz, Leon J.M.


Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The;
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The

198

An Emergency Response Model Toward Situational Awareness Improvement

Sapateiro, Cludio
Antunes, Pedro

High School of Technology, Portugal;
University of Lisbon, Portugal

201

Crowd control by multiple cameras

Rothkrantz, Leon J.M
Yang, Zhenke

TUDelft, Netherlands, The


Practitioners Workshop 

Part 4- Summing Up


12:30 14.30 LUNCH BUFFET with HANDS-ON DEMO SESSION and POSTERS


14:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Collaboration and Social Networking

Designing for Collaboration


170

Designing Collario for Continuous Reviewing and Practicing of Emergency Plans to Ensure Complex System Safety

Yao, Xiang

Chumer, Michael

Turoff, Murray


New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America

195

Information Sharing Using Live Video in Emergency Response Work

Bergstrand, Fredrik
Landgren, Jonas

Viktoria Institute, Sweden

228

Technical and Cultural Heterogeneity in Hastily Formed Networks for Disaster Response

Sigholm, Johan

Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin

Trnqvist, Eva


Dept. of Technology and Social Change, Linkping University, Sweden;
Dept. of Military Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Sweden;
Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linkping University, Sweden


Intelligent Systems

Knowledge, Training and Smart Environments


175

OpenKnowledge at work: exploring centralized and decentralized information gathering in emergency contexts

Marchese, Maurizio

Besana, Paolo

Rizzi, Veronica

Trecarichi, Gaia

Vaccari, Lorenzino

University of Trento, DISI, Italy;
University of Edinburgh, CISA, UK

177

Self-Organizing Resource Network for Traffic Accident Response

Levashova, Tatiana

Kashevnik, Alexey

Krizhanovsky, Andrew

Shilov, Nikolay

Smirnov, Alexander


St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

181

Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling

Gonzalez, Rafael A.

Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The


Research Methods

Ethnography and Field Reports


116

Red, white and blue with a little bit of green: an ethnographic study into the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of Amsterdam.

Boersma, Kees

Groenewegen, Peter

Wagenaar, Pieter


VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, The

234

Socio-spatial implications of converging physical and digital infrastructures for crisis management: Ethnography of two service technician working environments of a power provider company

Mller, Claudia
Pipek, Volkmar

University of Siegen, Germany

187

Sharing Knowledge: How to Highlight Proven Experience in the Swedish Armed Forces

Pettersson, Ulrica

The Swedish Armed Forces Collage, Sweden


16:00 COFFEE BREAK


16:30 17:30 ISCRAM ASSOCIATION MEETING

Location: Malmstensalen


18:00 BOAT TRANSPORT TO CONFERENCE DINNER

Departure point: to be announced



WEDNESDAY 13th CONFERENCE DAY 3

08:45 PLENARY

Announcements

Keynote presentation: Katrin Verclas

Room: Malmstensalen


10:00 COFFEE BREAK


10:30  PARALLEL SESSIONS


Collaboration and Social Networking

People and Social Media


163

An Online Social Network For Emergency Management

White, Connie

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne

Kushma, Jane

Plotnick, Linda

Turoff, Murray


New Jersey Institute of Technology; United States of America

171

Repairing Human Infrastructure in War Zones

Mark, Gloria Janet

Al-Ani, Ban

Semaan, Bryan


University of California Irvine, United States of America

211

Twitter Adoption and Use in Mass Convergence and Emergency Events

Hughes, Amanda Lee

Palen, Leysia


University of Colorado at Boulder, United States of America


Humanitarian Actions and Operations

Modeling of Humanitarian Operation


142

Learning from previous humanitarian operations, a Business Process Reengineering approach

Charles, Aurelie

Lauras, Matthieu


Universite Toulouse - Mines Albi, France

165

Using a Workflow Management System to Manage Emergency Plans

Sell, Christian

Braun, Iris


SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany;
Technical University of Dresden, Germany

241

How Information Systems Can Improve Humanitarian Logistics: A View from the Field

Howden, Michael

Humanitarian Consultant, New Zealand


Open Track

Dependability and Vulnerability


131

An Indicator Framework to Assess the Vulnerability of Industrial Sectors against Indirect Disaster Losses

Merz, Mirjam

Hiete, Michael


University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Center for Disaster Management and Risk reduction Technology

132

Dependability of IT Systems in Municipal Emergency Management

Weyns, Kim
Martin Hst

Lund University, Sweden

178

Capabilities of C2 Systems for Crisis Management in Local Communities

Hallberg, Niklas
Erland Jungert

Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden


12:30 13.45 LUNCH


14:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS


Collaboration and Social Networking

Lightweight Stakeholder Collaboration


130

Disasters2.0: Application of Web2.0 technologies in emergency situations

Camarero, Julio

Iglesias, Carlos A.


ETSIT UPM, Spain

144

Web based macroseismic survey: fast information exchange and elaboration of seismic intensity effects in Italy.

De Rubeis, Valerio

Sbarra, Paola

Tosi, Patrizia


Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

233

Expectation of Connectedness and Cell Phone Use in Crisis

Sheetz, Steven D.

Byoung Joon, Kim

Kavanaugh, Andrea

Quek, Fancis


Virginia Tech, United States of America


Intelligent Systems

Simulation and Resource Allocation


191

Using Computer Simulation for Emergency Response: Lessons Learned from the FireGrid Project

Potter, Stephen
Wickler, Gerhard

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

207

Market Based Adaptive Resource Allocation for Distributed Rescue Teams

Airy, Guruprasad

Mullen, Tracy

Yen, John


The Pennsylvania State University, United States of America

249

DMT-EOC A combined system for the Decision Support and Training of EOC Members

Engelmann, Hagen
Fiedrich, Frank

1: Karlsruhe University, Germany;

2: The George Washington University, United States


Open Track

Information Processing in Environmental Crisis


159

Approaches to visualisation of uncertainties to decision makers in an operational Decision Support System

Raskob, Wolfgang

Gering, Florian

Bertsch, Valentin


Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Bundesamt fr Strahlenschutz
EnBW

176

Central response to large chemical accidents

Jensen, Jan Steen

Pehrsson, Jan


Danish Emergency Management Agency, Denmark.
Prolog Development Center, Denmark

210

Integrating Scenario-Based Reasoning into Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Comes, Tina

Hiete, Michael

Wijngaards, Niek


Universitt Karlsruhe (TH), Germany;

Thales Research & Technology Netherlands


15:30 16:30 CONFERENCE CLOSING

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