ISCRAM

The Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) Community is an international community of researchers, practitioners and policy makers involved in or concerned about the design, development, deployment, use and evaluation of information systems for crisis response and management. The ISCRAM Community has been co-founded by Bartel Van de Walle (Tilburg University, the Netherlands), Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN Nuclear Research Center Belgium) and Murray Turoff (New Jersey Institute of Technology).

ISCRAM Conferences

ISCRAM conferences have been held annually since 2004 in Brussels (2004 [ISCRAM2004 and ISCRAM2005 Proceedings (Eds. B. Van de Walle and B. Carlé), Brussels, ISBN 90-7697108-0 and ISBN 90-7697109-9] ), Newark New Jersey (2006 [ISCRAM2006 Proceedings (Eds. B. Van de Walle and M. Turoff), Newark NJ, ISBN 90-9020601-9] ), Delft the Netherlands (2007 [ISCRAM2007 Proceedings (Eds. B. Van de Walle, P. Burghardt and C. Nieuwenhuis), Delft, the Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-5487-417-1] ) and Washington DC (2008 [ISCRAM2008 Proceedings (Eds. F. Fiedrich and B. Van de Walle), Washington DC, ISBN 978-0-615-20697-4] ). Program and/or conference chairs for these meetings were Bartel Van de Walle (2004-2008), Benny Carlé (2004-2005), Murray Turoff (2006), Paul Burghardt and Kees Nieuwenhuis (2007), Frank Fiedrich, Jack Harrald and Theresa Jefferson (2008). Since 2005, the conference alternates between Europe and the USA.

At the conference, the Mike Meleshkin best PhD student paper is awarded to the best paper written and presented by a PhD student. Past awardees are Jonas Landgren (Viktoria Institute, Sweden), Jiri Trnka (Linkoping University, Sweden), Manuel Llavador (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain), Valentin Bertsch (Karlsruhe University, Germany) and the PhD students in crisis informatics at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA).

ISCRAM-CHINA and Summer School

Since 2005, an annual conference is also held in China, at Harbin Engineering University, with Dr. Song Yan as conference chair. The 2008 meeting is held jointly with the GI4D meeting on August 4-6 2008 [ISCRAM-CHINA 2007 Proceedings (Eds. B. Van de Walle, X. Li and S.Zhang), Harbin, China, ISBN 978-7-81073-927-6 ] .

The Summer School for PhD students took place in the Netherlands at Tilburg University in June 2006 and 2007.

ISCRAM Journal

The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) is a new journal with the first issues scheduled for January 2009. co-Editors-in-Chief are Murray Jennex (San Diego State University) and Bartel Van de Walle (Tilburg University, the Netherlands).

The mission of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) is to provide an outlet for innovative research in the area of information systems for crisis response and management. Research is expected to be rigorous but can utilize any accepted methodology and may be qualitative or quantitative in nature. The journal will provide a comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for advancing the understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds. The goal of the journal is to publish high quality empirical and theoretical research covering all aspects of information systems for crisis response and management. Full-length research manuscripts, insightful research and practice notes, and case studies will be considered for publication.

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References

*cite journal |last=Van de Walle|first=Bartel|authorlink= |coauthors= Murray Turoff|year=2006 |month= |title=ISCRAM: growing a global R&D Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |journal=International Journal of Emergency Management |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=364-369 |doi= |url= http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ind/ijem/2006/00000003/00000004/art00008|accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last=Van de Walle|first=Bartel|authorlink= |coauthors= Murray Turoff|year=2007 |month= |title=Emergency Response Information Systems: emerging Trends and Technologies |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=28-32 |doi= 10.1145/1226736.1226760 |url= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1226736.1226760 |accessdate= |quote=
* [http://www.cmi.fi/files/peaceIT_4.pdf Peace IT! issue 2008/1, published by CMI Finland, had a report on ISCRAM2008]

External links

* [http://www.iscram.org ISCRAM Community web site]
* [http://www.igi-global.com/IJISCRAM ISCRAM journal website]
* [http://www.slideshare.net/ISCRAM/iscram-overview ISCRAM overview slideshow]
* [http://www.huminman.net/iscram Humanitarian Information Management on ISCRAM]
* [http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19826545.900.html New Scientist reports on social media research at the ISCRAM2008 conference]