Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

ISCRAM'09 Conference Proceeding
2009,  Gothenburg, Sweden    May 10 - 13, 2009    

Conference Chairs
Jonas Landgren, Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Bartel Van de Walle, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Program Chairs
Susanne Jul, Amaryllis Consulting, USA

Local Organizing Chairs
Urban Nulden, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Honorary Chair
Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

www.iscram.org : iscram2009@iscram.org

Conference Program [PDF]


ISCRAM'09 CONFERENCE PROCEEDING

Citation: Proceeding of the 6th International ISCRAM Conference – Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2009. J. Landgren and S. Jul, eds.
ISBN - 978-91-633-4715-3

Program committee : Session Chairs and Reviewers

List of Authors


Table of Contents: (Research Papers, Research in Progress & Practitioner Presentations)

TRACK: Human-Computer Interaction   

SESSION: Information Overload and Inclusivity
[PDF] Using Text Analysis for Information Overload in Pan Flu Planning and Response
Collins, Linn Marks. (1), Blake, Miriam. (2), Hoare, Geoffrey. (2), Mane, Ketan K. (1), Martinez, Mark L.B. (1), Pittman, Jack. (2), Powell, James E. (1), Roman, Jorge H. (1), Spearing, Shelly. (1), White, Rhonda. (2), Yao, Xiang. (1),
1: Florida Department of Health, United States of America; 2: Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America

[PDF] Sensemaking and Information Management in Humanitarian Disaster Response: Observations from the TRIPLEX Exercise
Muhren, Willem., Van de Walle, Bartel.
Tilburg University, The Netherlands

[PDF] Identifying and confirming information and system quality requirements for multi-agency disaster management
Bharosa, Nitesh., Zuurmond, Arre., Appelman, Jacco., van Zanten, Bart
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

SESSION: Interactive Map Technologies
[PDF] Early flood detection and mapping for humanitarian response
De Groeve, Tom., Riva, Patrick.
Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Italy

[PDF] 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

[PDF] 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

SESSION: HCI Design & Requirements

[PDF] User Acceptance of Community Emergency Alert Technology: A Case Study
Wu, Philip Fei, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

[PDF] Mega-Collaboration: The Inspiration and Development of an Interface for Large-Scale Disaster Response
Newlon, Christine M. (1), de Vreede, Gert-Jan. (2), MacDorman, Karl. (1), Patel, Himalaya. (1), Pfaff, Mark. (1),
1: Indiana University, United States of America; 2: University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States of America

[PDF] Designing for Firefighters—Building Empathy through Live Action Role-Playing
Denef, Sebastian. (1), Dyrks, Tobias. (1), Meyer, Daniel. (2), Penkert, Berthold. (2), Ramirez, Leonardo. (1,3)
1: Fraunhofer FIT, Germany; 2: Institut der Feuerwehr NRW, Germany; 3: Universität Siegen, Germany

SESSION: Crisis Communication

[PDF] CAP-ONES: An Emergency Notification System for all
Malizia, Alessio., Acuna, Pablo., Aedo, Ignacio., Diaz, Paloma., Onorati, Teresa.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

[PDF] Computer Supported Collaborative Training in Crisis Communication Management
Reuter, Christian., Muller, Claudia., Pipek, Volkmar.
University of Siegen, Germany

[PDF] Towards a Distributed Crisis Response Communication System
Bradler, Dirk., Aitenbichler, Erwin., Liebau, Nicolas., Schiller, Benjamin.
TU Darmstadt, Germany
TRACK: Humanitarian Actions and Operations

SESSION: Approaches to Information Management

[PDF] Building a humanitarian information system: the experience of the Dynamic COMPAS software
Sarrat, Olivier.
Groupe URD, France

[PDF] 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

[PDF] An optimization model for humanitarian relief volunteer management
Falasca, Mauro., Fetter, Gary., Zobel, Christopher.
Virginia Tech, United States of America

SESSION: IT for Crisis Management in Africa

[PDF]  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

[PDF] The Southern African Advanced Fire Information System
McFerren, Graeme Andrew., Frost, Philip.
Meraka Institute, South Africa

[PDF] AÏDA – Providing a framework for objective assessment of ICT for Disaster Risk Management in Africa
Kerle, Norman., ITC, The Netherlands

SESSION: Rapid Information Dissemination

[PDF] 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

[PDF] Geographically Visualizing Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) Information
Tomaszewski, Brian. (1), Czárán, Lóránt. (2)
1: Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: (UN-SPIDER), United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Germany

[PDF] Rapid Geo-Image Communications for Disaster Management
Skinnemoen, Harald. (1), Bjorgo, Einar. (2), Hall, Richard. (3)
1: AnsuR Technolgies AS, Norway; 2: Unosat/Unitar; 3: Kongsberg Satelite, Norway

SESSION: Modeling of Humanitarian Operation

[PDF] Learning from previous humanitarian operations, a Business Process Reengineering approach
Charles, Aurelie., Lauras, Matthieu.
Universite Toulouse - Mines Albi, France

[PDF] Using a Workflow Management System to Manage Emergency Plans
Sell, Christian. (1), Braun, Iris. (2)
1: SAP Research CEC Dresden, Germany; 2: Technical University of Dresden, Germany

[PDF] How Humanitarian Logistics Information Systems Can Improve Humanitarian Logistics: A View from the Field
Howden, Michael., Humanitarian Consultant, New Zealand

TRACK: Collaboration and Social Networking

SESSION: Decision-Making

[PDF] Group Decision-Making Method in the field of Coal Mine Safety Management Based on AHP with Clustering
Song, Yan., Hu, Yinghui.
Harbin Engineering University, Peoples Republic of China

[PDF] Crisis Decision Making Through a Shared Integrative Negotiation Mental Model
van Santen, Willem. (1), Jonker, Catholijn. (2), Wijngaards, Niek. (3)
1: Be Wind B.V., The Netherlands; 2: TU Delft, The Netherlands; 3: D-CIS lab, The Netherlands

[PDF] Towards hybrid rational-naturalistic decision support for Command & Control
Grant, Tim., Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands

SESSION: Designing for Collaboration

[PDF] 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, USA

[PDF] Information Sharing Using Live Video in Emergency Response Work
Bergstrand, Fredrik., Landgren, Jonas.
Viktoria Institute, Sweden

[PDF] Hastily Formed Networks for Disaster Response: Technical Heterogeneity and Virtual Pockets of Local Order
Sigholm, Johan. (1), Nadjm-Tehrani, Simin. (2), Törnqvist, Eva. (2)
1: Swedish National Defence College, Sweden; 2: Linköping University, Sweden

SESSION: People and Social Media

[PDF] An Online Social Network For Emergency Management
White, Connie., Hiltz, Starr Roxanne., Kushma, Jane., Plotnick, Linda., Turoff, Murray.
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

[PDF] Repairing Human Infrastructure in War Zones
Mark, Gloria Janet., Al-Ani, Ban., Semaan, Bryan.
University of California Irvine, USA

[PDF] Twitter Adoption and Use in Mass Convergence and Emergency Events
Hughes, Amanda Lee, Palen, Leysia.
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

SESSION: Lightweight Stakeholder Collaboration

[PDF] Disasters2.0: Application of Web2.0 technologies in emergency situations
Camarero, Julio., Iglesias, Carlos A., ETSIT UPM, Spain

[PDF] 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

[PDF] 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
TRACK: Standardization and Ontologies

SESSION: Architectures

[PDF] Towards an interoperable data model for forest fire reports
Hernández de Juan, María., Aedo, Ignacio., Diaz, Paloma., Diez, David., Montero, Susana.
Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain

[PDF] Exploring Development of Service-Oriented C2 Systems for Emergency Response
Ingmarsson, Magnus. (1), Eriksson, Henrik. (1), Hallberg, Niklas. (2)
1: Linköpings Universitet, Sweden; 2: FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency

[PDF] Reconsidering information management roles and capabilities in disaster response decision-making units
Bharosa, Nitesh., Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

SESSION: Interoperability

[PDF] Collaborative process design for Mediation Information System Engineering
Truptil, Sébastien., Benaben, Frederick., Pingaud, Herve.
Université de Toulouse - Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, France

[PDF] 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

[PDF] Information Management for Crisis Response in WORKPAD
Vetere, Guido. (1), Faraotti, Alessandro. (1), Poggi, Antonella. (2), Salvatore, Berardino. (1)
1: IBM, Italy; 2: University of Rome, "La Sapienza"
TRACK: Research Methods

SESSION: Analysis, Testing & Evaluation

[PDF] 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

[PDF] A Principled Method of Scenario Design for Testing Emergency Response Decision-Making
Drury, Jill L. (1), Klein, Gary L. (1), More, Loretta. (2), Pfaff, Mark. (3),
1: The MITRE Corporation, USA; 2: The Pennsylvania State University, USA; 3: Indiana University Indianapolis, USA

[PDF] Evaluating the Impact of Improvisation on the Incident Command System: A Modified Single Case Study using the DDD Simulator
Franco, Zeno. (1), Beutler, Larry E. (1), Blau, Kathy. (1), Holman, John. (1), Zumel, Nina. (2),
1: Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, USA; 2: Quimba Software, USA

SESSION: Ethnography and Field Reports

[PDF] 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, The Netherlands

[PDF] Socio-spatial implications of converging physical and digital infrastructures for crisis management: Ethnography of two service technician working environments of a power provider company
Müller, Claudia., Pipek, Volkmar.
University of Siegen, Germany

[PDF] Sharing Knowledge: How to Highlight Proven Experience in the Swedish Armed Forces
Pettersson, Ulrica., The Swedish Armed Forces Collage, Sweden
TRACK: Intelligent Systems

SESSION: Knowledge, Training and Smart Environments

[PDF] OpenKnowledge at work: exploring centralized and decentralized information gathering in emergency contexts
Marchese, Maurizio. (1), Besana, Paolo. (2), Rizzi, Veronica. (1), Trecarichi, Gaia. (1) ,Vaccari, Lorenzino. (1)
1: University of Trento, DISI, Italy; 2: University of Edinburgh, CISA, UK

[PDF] 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

[PDF] Crisis response simulation combining discrete-event and agent-based modeling
Gonzalez, Rafael A.
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

SESSION: Simulation and Resource Allocation

[PDF] Using Computer Simulation for Emergency Response: Lessons Learned from the FireGrid Project
Potter, Stephen., Wickler, Gerhard.
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

[PDF] Market Based Adaptive Resource Allocation for Distributed Rescue Teams
Airy, Guruprasad., Mullen, Tracy., Yen, John.
The Pennsylvania State University, USA

[PDF] DMT-EOC – A combined system for the Decision Support and Training of EOC Members
Engelmann, Hagen. (1), Fiedrich, Frank. (2)
1: Karlsruhe University, Germany; 2: The George Washington University, USA
TRACK: Open-Track

SESSION: Local Communities and Government Collaboration

[PDF] Action Research Supported Implementation of a Crisis Competence Centre
Harnesk, Dan., Lindström, John., Samuelsson, Sören.
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

SESSION: Information Processing in Environmental Crisis

[PDF] Approaches to visualisation of uncertainties to decision makers in an operational Decision Support System
Raskob, Wolfgang. (1), Gering, Florian. (2), Bertsch, Valentin. (3)
1: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany; 2: Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Germany; 3: EnBW, Germany

[PDF] Central response to large chemical accidents
Jensen, Jan Steen. (1), Pehrsson, Jan. (2)
1: Danish Emergency Management Agency, Denmark.
2: Prolog Development Center, Denmark

[PDF] Integrating Scenario-Based Reasoning into Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Comes, Tina. (1), Hiete, Michael. (1), Wijngaards, Niek. (2),
1: Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany; 2: Thales Research & Technology Netherlands

SESSION: Dependability and Vulnerability

[PDF] An Indicator Framework to Assess the Vulnerability of Industrial Sectors against Indirect Disaster Losses
Merz, Mirjam. (1,2), Hiete, Michael. (1),
1: University of Karlsruhe, Germany; 2: Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, Germany

[PDF] Dependability of IT Systems in Municipal Emergency Management
Weyns, Kim., Martin Höst.
Lund University, Sweden

[PDF] Capabilities of C2 Systems for Crisis Management in Local Communities
Hallberg, Niklas., Erland Jungert.
Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
SESSION: Computing Situation Awareness

SESSION: Computing Situation Awareness

[PDF] Computed Ontology-based Situation Awareness of Multi-User Observations
Fitrianie, Siska., Rothkrantz, Leon J.M.
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

[PDF] An Emergency Response Model Toward Situational Awareness Improvement
Sapateiro, Cláudio. (1), Antunes, Pedro. (2)
1: High School of Technology, Portugal; 2: University of Lisbon, Portugal

[PDF] Crowd control by multiple cameras
Rothkrantz, Leon J.M., Yang, Zhenke.
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands