CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis
Response and Management (ISCRAM2009)
Gothenburg, Sweden
May 10-13, 2009
http://www.iscram.org
With more than 30 DAYS left until the paper submission deadline, we
would like to inform that the submission system is now open. This also
means that there is plenty of time in order to finalize your valuable
and exciting contribution. We are all looking forward to see you at
ISCRAM 2009 in Gothenburg Sweden.
TRACK: Intelligent Systems
Introduction of the track
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In recent years the international community has responded to an
increasing number of diverse emergency and crisis situations. Providing
adequate information management and decision making support makes
exacting demands on the design of computer systems. Acquiring,
filtering, organizing, representing, reasoning with and distributing
relevant information to the right stakeholders at the right time and in
the right format is a challenging task. Intelligent systems provide a
way of managing this complexity reducing the cognitive workload of
personnel and helping to manage the emergency in the most efficient and
effective way possible. The goal is to enhance the emergency management
capacity of the international community by finding intelligent
technological solutions to support crucial areas such as
decision-making, information management and coordination. Techniques
from artificial intelligence and a sound understanding of cognitive
science may be employed to develop robust and adaptable information
management and decision support systems.
Intelligent systems can reason, perceive, learn and act intelligently
and have pro-active, reactive, autonomous and / or social components.
Intelligent systems need to be proactive by taking the initiative and
trying to achieve their explicit goals, they need to be reactive to
quickly adapt to changes in the environment, and they need to be social
by communicating with other intelligent systems including teams of
people, robots, sensors, actuators and web-services in an ad-hoc
fashion. Autonomous components may perform mundane tasks on behalf of
their users without the need for constant human intervention. Such
intelligent systems have the potential to ease the cognitive load on
crisis managers in the high-tempo, high-stake situations that emergency
response environments usually constitute.
Suggested topics (non-exhaustive list):
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- Intelligent agents and agent based systems
- Cognitive systems
- Distributed problem solving
- Intelligent web based applications
- Intelligent user interfaces
- Socio-cognitive modelling
- Agent models of social behaviour
- Agent based social simulation as a decision making tool
- Adaptive and self organizing systems
- Machine learning
- Knowledge representation, discovery and reasoning
- Planning and scheduling
- Group decision making
- Social intelligence
- Intelligent training systems
- Automatic negotiation of trust
- Simulation
- Knowledge based systems
Track co-chairs
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Frank Fiedrich
Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
The George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA
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Gerhard Wickler
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
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Julie Dugdale
MAGMA – LIG. Multi-agent systems group
Grenoble Informatics Laboratory
Grenoble, France
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Type of contribution
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- Academic contribution: we invite researchers from academia or research
labs to present their research or research-in-progress papers.
Prospective presenters submit a regular research (or
research-in-progress) paper.
- Practitioner contribution: we invite practitioners to present their
practice or experiences in information systems development, use or
needs. Prospective presenters submit a short practitioner paper or a
Powerpoint presentation along with an abstract.
Important Notice
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- All submissions must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2009
formatting guidelines. Templates and instructions are published on
www.iscram.org.
- All submissions must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2009 conference
paper submission web page at www.conftool.com/iscram2009. Instructions
for the ConfTool system can be found on www.iscram.org.
- All papers and presentations will go through a double-blind review
process, leading to a decision of (conditional) acceptance or rejection.
- Accepted papers will be included in the ISCRAM 2009 program and
published inthe official proceedings if and only if
(1) the paper is formatted according to the instructions,
(2) the authors sign the copyright transfer form and
(3) one of the authors registers for the conference and pays the
registration
fee before the cut-off date for early registration. Authors who have
multiple
papers accepted can only register for and present one paper at the
conference;
co-authors need to register separately.
Important ISCRAM 2009 Dates
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** Submission deadline: January 11, 2009 **
* Notification of conditional accept: February 16, 2009
* Final submission revised paper: March 1, 2009
* Final author notification: March 9, 2009
* Early registration deadline: March 22, 2009
* Conference: May 10-13 2009
PDF Version of this Call
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http://www.iscram.org/ISCRAM2009/tracks/Intelligent%20Systems%20Track.pdf
About ISCRAM
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The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of researchers, scholars,
teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or
actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis
Response and Management. At its annual international conference
alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to
present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing
area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM
Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students
andISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All
information on ISCRAM can be found at http://www.iscram.org
This year the conference will be held from 10-13 May at the Göteborg
University located in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference will be hosted
by the Viktoria Institute and the IT-university of Gothenburg. All
details on this conference will be made available via the ISCRAM website
mentioned above.
-- Frank Fiedrich
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Dr. Frank Fiedrich, Ph.D.
Assistant Prof. of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
The George Washington University
1776 G Street, NW, Suite 101
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: +1 (202) 994 2379
Fax: +1 (202) 994 0245
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Web: http://www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/People/fiedrich.htm
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