CALL FOR PAPERS ISCRAM-MED 2016
3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
October, 26-28, 2016

============================== =========================
Paper Submission deadline: May 29th, 2016

http://dei.inf.uc3m.es/ iscrammed2016/
============================== =========================

The Third International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (ISCRAM-med 2016), is an ISCRAM event organized in Mediterranean countries, alternating between the north and the south of the Mediterranean Sea. The previous ISCRAM-med conferences were successfully held in Toulouse, France (October, 15-17, 2014) and in Tunis, Tunisia (October, 28-30, 2015). The next ISCRAM-med 2016 will be held in Madrid (Leganés), Spain (October, 26-28, 2016).

The ISCRAM-med Conference aims to provide an outstanding opportunity and an international forum for local and international researchers, practitioners and policy makers to address and discuss new trends and challenges in the area of Information Systems and Technologies for Crisis Response and Management. Attendees are invited to present and discuss their experiences, their recent research results, best practices, case studies, and also tool demonstrations related to social, technical and practical aspects of all information and communication systems used or to be used in all phases of management of emergencies, disasters and crises.

A special focus on Mediterranean related experiences will be appreciated. Many crises have occurred in recent years around the Mediterranean Sea. Also, the shared history between the Mediterranean countries and common geo-political issues led to solidarity among people and cross-country interventions. This observation proves the importance of considering some of these crises in this region at a Mediterranean level rather than as isolated phenomena. It becomes appropriate now to exchange and share information and knowledge about the course and management of these crises and also to get the point of view of stakeholders, practitioners and policy makers.

ISCRAM-med 2016 will include a high quality scientific program, invited speakers, posters and demonstration’s sessions.

As with the previous ISCRAM-med, accepted papers will be published in the Springer series “Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing” (LNBIP).Publication in the proceedings is subject to the registration of at least one author of the paper.

============================== =========================
Important Dates for authors:

Abstract deadline (recommended): May 22th, 2016
Full and short papers and demos submission deadline: May 29th, 2016
Authors’ notification: July 1st, 2016
Camera-ready paper: July 10th, 2016

============================== =========================

Conference Topics

Contributions could be about one or several topics of the following list

Information Systems for CDM (Crisis and Disaster Management) and their Engineering
* Decision Support Systems
* Social Media
* Collaborative Systems
* Geographic Information Science and Technology (GIS&T) for Crisis Response and Management
* Healthcare Crisis Management Systems
* Early Warning Systems for CDM
* Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management
* Information System Interoperability and Inter-organizational issues
* Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response
* Humanitarian Information Systems
* Design and development Methods

CDM Data, Information and knowledge Management
* Cooperative Information Gathering and Situation Awareness
* Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies
* Big Data
* Knowledge Discovery
* Social Computing
* Social Network Analysis

Information Infrastructures and their uses for CDM
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* Web Information Systems
* Grid Computing and Cloud Computing
* Internet of Things
* Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Reflective Practice
* Practitioner Cases
* Practitioner-Centered Research
* Citizen participation
* Education and Training
* Inter-Organizational Exercises and Operations
* Humanitarian actions and Challenges
* Adaptive and self-organization of the crisis management teams
* Human Experiences in the Design of Crisis Response and Management Services and Systems
* Decision Support Methods for Complex Crises
* Migration Crisis Management

Intelligent Systems
* CDM Modeling and Simulation
* Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
* MultiAgent systems
* Visual Analytics for Crisis Management
* Serious Games for CDM
* Search & Rescue Robotics


Application Domains
* Natural disasters
* Health
* Terrorism
* Political crises
* Social crises
* Migration crises

============================== =========================
Organization

Conference Co-Chairs
* Paloma Diaz, DEI Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (pdp@inf.uc3m.es)
* NarjËs Bellamine Ben Saoud, Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (ENSI) & RIADI Laboratory, Tunisia (narjes_bellamine@yahoo.fr)
* Chihab Hanachi, University Toulouse 1, IRIT Laboratory, France(Chihab.Hanachi@univ- tlse1.fr)
* Julie Dugdale, University Grenoble-Alps, France & LIG, France (julie.dugdale@imag.fr)


Program Co-Chairs
* Giuliana Vitiello, Salerno University, Italy (gvitiello@unisa.it)
* Ignacio Aedo, DEI Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (aedo@ia.uc3m.es)