ISCRAM2009
6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and 
Management
May 10-13 2009
Göteborg, Sweden

ISCRAM2009: CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 20, 2008

The template is available at www.iscram.org



An important factor for the success of the former ISCRAM conferences has 
been the active involvement of community members to suggest and organize 
special sessions for the conference. For ISCRAM 2009, we will provide for the 
first time a selection of tracks that cover core ISCRAM themes and topics that 
we intend to be recurring over a number of future conferences. In this way, we 
want to create a stronger foundation for the ISCRAM conferences with 
recurring well-defined themes.

The following 9 tracks have been defined for ISCRAM2009:

1. Humanitarian Actions and Operations ( Click here to download the Special 
Session Call in PDF format (147KB) 
2. Collaboration and Social Networking ( Click here to download the Special 
Session Call in PDF format (163KB) 
3. Human-Computer Interaction ( Click here to download the Special Session 
Call in PDF format (140KB) 
4. Geo-Information Support ( Click here to download the Special Session Call in 
PDF format (174KB) 
5. Intelligent Systems ( Click here to download the Special Session Call in PDF 
format (220KB) 
6. Standardization and Ontologies ( Click here to download the Special Session 
Call in PDF format (142KB) 
7. Research methods ( Click here to download the Special Session Call in PDF 
format (133KB) 
8. Technologies, Tools and Demos ( Click here to download the Special Session 
Call in PDF format (151KB) 
9. Open-track ( Click here to download the Special Session Call in PDF format 
(104KB) 

Each track now invites Special Sessions that in connection to its specific 
theme cover any type of 'crisis issue' such as:

- crisis management and all its different phases (preparedness, mitigation, 
response, recovery);
- Individual, team, group, organizational perspectives;
- Grass-roots and citizen actions or involvement;
- Private-public partnerships, inter-organizational collaboration or coordination, 
virtual organizations;
- Business continuity, risk management, governance.

Any Special Session proposal should be linked to only one of the above tracks.

All Special Session proposals must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2009 
formatting guidelines. The description for a special session should be written in 
the form of a 'Call for Papers' for the session. The Template to be used for this 
is available on www.iscram.org (Special Session Template) or can be 
downloaded here (277KB).


All Special Session proposals must be submitted through the ISCRAM2009 paper 
submission system at the ISCRAM2009 submission site 

In case the Special Session is accepted, the (co-)chairs will take responsability 
in managing their session. This includes organizing the review process, for 
which further instructions will be given. We will make use of the accepted 
sessions to structure the Call for Papers that will be sent out on September 25, 
2008.

Please direct questions concerning track-specific or call related issues to the 
corresponding co-chair of the specific track. All other questions should be 
made to [log in to unmask] 

Important Dates:

September 20, 2008: Special session submission deadline
September 25, 2008:	 Notification of acceptance of special sessions
September 25, 2008: Call for Papers
January 11, 2009:	Paper submission deadline
February 16, 2009:	Notification of (conditional) acceptance
March 1, 2009:	 Final paper submission deadline
March 9, 2009:	 Final author notification 
March 22, 2009: Early Registration deadline
May 10-13, 2009: ISCRAM2009 conference