Dear All,

The following call for papers for the Intelligent Systems Track at 
ISCRAM 2011 may be of interest to those of you involved in agent based 
models applied to crisis management.

Please feel free to forward the call to people or groups who may be 
interested.

Kind regards,
Julie Dugdale
MAGMA-LIG, Grenoble, France.

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ISCRAM2011
 From early-warning systems to preparedness and training
8th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis
Response and Management
May 8-11, 2011 LNEC Congress Centre Lisbon, Portugal
http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/
TRACK: Intelligent Systems
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Introduction of the track

The aim of this track is to bring together sessions for researchers
and practitioners working on state-of-the-art crisis information
systems that exhibit some degree of intelligent behaviour. Providing
adequate information management and decision support during
a crisis situation makes exacting demands on the information systems
employed. 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 and complex
task. Intelligent systems provide a way of managing this complexity.
Such systems may be deployed to help emergency responders to maintain
their preparedness, to manage the crisis or to implement the recovery.
During the highly uncertain, high-tempo, high-stake situation usually
constituted by an emergency response environment, intelligent systems
help to reduce the cognitive workload of personnel, and they help to
manage the emergency in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Intelligent systems will display some ability to reason, perceive,
learn or act intelligently in their environments; and they may have
proactive, reactive, autonomous and/or social aspects. Techniques from
Artificial Intelligence and a sound understanding of cognitive science
may be employed to develop such robust and adaptable information
management and decision support systems.

Sessions in this track will welcome contributions to the theory,
methodology and practice of developing and evaluating intelligent
systems in the context of crisis response and management. The track
will result in the continued forging of a community interested in
intelligent systems in this context.

Track topics
- Cognitive systems
- Intelligent agents and agent based 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
- Rescue robotics


Track co-chairs
- Frank Fiedrich (corresponding chair), Public Safety and Emergency
Management, Dept. of Safety Engineering, Wuppertal University, Germany
- Gerhard Wickler, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute,
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Serge Stinckwich, IRD - UMMISCO, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Types of Submissions

ISCRAM 2011 is soliciting three types of submission:

- Full research papers, which will be double-blind peer-reviewed. It
is intended that these will report completed work which can be
assessed to the highest academic standards. Such papers should be no
more than 10 pages with figures&  tables (~5000 words)
- Work in progress papers, which will be subjected to a light peer
review to ensure clarity, relevance and significance. Such papers
should be no more than 5 pages with figures&  tables (~2500 words)
- Practitioner papers, which will be subjected to a light peer review
to ensure clarity, relevance and significance and should be no more
than 5 pages with figures&  tables (~2500 words)

Note that the type of the paper will be indicated in the conference
proceedings, along with a description of the reviewing process.

Paper Submission Process and Deadlines

Submitted papers must conform to the ISCRAM guidelines for submission,
available athttp://iscram2011.lnec.pt/.

Schedule of Important Dates


- 15 November 2010 - Submission of full research papers
- 15 December 2010 - Submission of work-in-progress papers and
practitioner papers

- Mid January 2011 - Notification of acceptance for full research papers
- End January 2011 - Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress
and practitioner papers

- 15 January 2011 - Submission of proposals for demonstrations
- 01 February 2011 - Submission of applications for Doctoral Colloquium
- End February 2011 - Submission of revised, camera-ready full
research papers; notification of acceptance for Doctoral Colloquium
and demonstrations
- 18 March 2011 - Deadline for early registration

About ISCRAM:

The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide network 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 (which
alternates between US and European locations), the ISCRAM Community
gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in
this growing area during an interactive and stimulating three-day
program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer
School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for
ISCRAM research in China. Full information on ISCRAM can be found at
http://www.iscram.org/

Submissions must be made online athttp://www.conftool.com/iscram2011
by 15 November 2010 (for full research papers) or 15 December 2010
(for work in progress and discussion papers.).

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