[agents] ISCRAM-Med 2014: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean countries

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
ISCRAM-Med 2014:
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
in Mediterranean countries
http://irit.fr/ISCRAMMED2014
Conference Dates:  Oct 15-17 2014
Toulouse France

Proceedings will be published in *Lecture Notes in Business
Information Processing* (by Springer).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
-    Chihab Hanachi (general chair)
-    Frederic Benaben (program chair)
-    François Charoy (program co-chair)

OBJECTIVE AND TOPICS
The aim of ISCRAM-Med is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working in the area
of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management and
especially on Mediterranean crisis.
Indeed, many crises have occurred in recent years around the
Mediterranean Sea. For instance,
we can mention political crisis such as Arabic Spring (Tunisia, Libya,
Egypt, ...), economic crisis in Spain and Greece,
earthquake in Italy, fires in France and Spain, riots in French
suburbs or even the explosion
of chemical plant AZF in Toulouse. Some of them even had a domino effect
on others.

Also, the shared history between the Mediterranean countries and
common geo-political issues led to solidarity
among peoples and cross-country military interventions. This
observation demonstrates the importance of considering
some of these crises in this region at a Mediterranean level rather
than as isolated phenomena.

Topics include but are not limited to:
-    Analytical Modelling and Simulation
-    Social Media Observation
-    Crisis Ontology
-    Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research
-    Command and Control Studies
-    Decision Support Systems
-    Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management
-    Information System Interoperability and Inter-organizational issues
-    Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response
-    Geographic Information Science
-    Humanitarian Information Systems
-    Intelligent Systems
-    Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
-    Practitioner Cases and Practitioner-Centered Research
-    Serious Games for Crisis Management
-    Visual Analytics for Crisis Management

CONTRIBUTIONS
All paper submissions must make a new and significant contribution to
the body of knowledge on information systems for emergency management,
support their contribution with valid arguments, and be clearly
structured and well written. ISCRAM-Med 2014 invites two categories of
papers:

-    Research papers presenting valid, original, relevant cutting edge
research that will be reviewed to the highest academic standards.
Reviewing will pay additional attention to the application of the
related scientific literature and theory, to the use of an appropriate
research methodology, and to technical, mathematical and statistical
correctness.
-    Demo papers presenting new developments in emergency management and
policy making, discussing approaches, methods, tools, (best) practices
and standards. These papers should focus on practical issues and
concerns and raise challenges for future research, and will be reviewed
to the highest practice-oriented standards.

All papers (up to 12 pages LNCS style) should be written in English and
submitted electronically in PDF format through the easychair conference
system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscrammed2014

Every submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the
program committee.

IMPORTANT DATES
-    April  30, 2014:   Due date for papers submission
-    May 30, 2014:     	Final acceptance
-    June 30, 2014:     Camera-ready paper due
-    Conference:     	15th to the 17th October 2014.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Andrea Omicini,Universita di Bologna, Italy
- Narjes Bellamine, University of Tunis, Tunisia
- Ghassan Beydoun, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Hamid Mcheick, University Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada
- Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- Pedro Antunes, University of Lisboa, Portugal
- Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, USA
- Ricardo Rabelo, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Matthieu Lauras, Ecolde des Mines d'Albi, France
- Carlos Castillo , Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
- Lotfi Bouzguenda, University of Sfax, Tunisia
- Julie Dugdale, Universitè Pierre Mendès France, France
- Ling Tang,Beijing University of Chemical technology, China
- Mohammed Erradi, ENSIAS, Rabat, Marocco
- Laurent Franck, Telecom Bretagne, France
- Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
- Francis Rousseaux, University of Reims, France
- Rui Jorge Tramontin Jr., Santa Catarina State University, Brasil
- Sevnem Dugzun, Turkey, Middle Est Techical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Shady Elbassuoni, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Nouali-Taboudjemat Nadia, Algiers
- Silvia Ciotti, Eurocrime, Italy
- Yiannis Verginadis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece


ISCRAM-Med 2014:
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
in Mediterranean countries