ISCRAM2008 Proceeding Papers Click on the paper title to download the paper. MONDAY, MAY 5 2008
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SESSION 1 – TRACK 1 Track: Technology Showcase – Communication Systems and Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Response Chairs: Ramesh Rao (UC San Diego), Manoj Balakrishnan (UC San Diego) and Alexandra Hubenko Baker (UC San Diego)
| | | | Implementing CAP and EDXL standards to Enhance Web-Based Crisis Management ( Powerpoint ) Ian Carpenter Faulkner Technologies, Australia |
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| | | Emergency messaging to general public via public wireless networks L-F Pau1 and P Simonsen2 1Rotterdam School of Management, Netherlands, The; 2Accenture Denmark AS, Denmark |
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| | | DTT Technology for Rural Communities Alerting Susanna Spinsante, Giorgio Rascioni, Ennio Gambi and Damiano Falcone Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy |
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| | | Multicast voice performance within a public safety cell Aamir Mahmood, Konstantinos Koufos and Krisztina Cziner TKK, Finland |
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SESSION 1 – TRACK 2 Track: Social Networking, Web Collaboration and e Participation in Crisis and Risk Managements Chairs: Simon French (Manchester Business School), Clare Bayley (Manchester Business School)
| | | | United We Respond: One Community, One Voice Connie Marie White, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America |
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| | | Community Response Grid (CRG) for a University Campus: Design Requirements and Implications Philip Fei Wu, Yan Qu, Jenny Preece, Ken Fleischmann, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Jaeger and Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, United States of America |
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| | | Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting Sarah Vieweg, Leysia Palen, Sophia B. Liu, Amanda Hughes and Jeannette Sutton University of Colorado, United States of America |
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| | | Use of web-based group decision support for crisis management Nan Zhang, Clare Bayley and Simon French Manchester Business School, United Kingdom |
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SESSION 1 – TRACK 3 Track: Virtual Systems for Emergency Management Simulation & Training Chairs: Irma Becerra-Fernandez (Florida International University), Ricardo Valerdi (MIT), Michael Prietula (Emory University), Domingo Rodríguez (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez) and Greg Madey (University of Notre Dame)
| | | | Agent-based Simulations of Mass Egress after Improvised Explosive Device Attacks Douglas A. Samuelson1, Matthew Parker2, Austin Zimmerman3, Loren Miller3, Stephen Guerin4, Joshua Thorp4 and Owen Densmore4 1Serco; 2ANSER; 3Homeland Security Institute; 4Redfish Group |
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| | | A Prototype Virtual Emergency Operations Center using a Collaborative Virtual Environment Timothy Everett Wright and Gregory Madey University of Notre Dame, United States of America |
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| | | Virtual Environments for Developing Strategies for Interdicting Terrorists Carrying Dirty Bombs Wu, Min-Hao Matt; Liu, Annie Hsin-Wen; Chandy, K. Mani California Institute of Technology, United States of America |
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| | | Emergency Management Task Characteristics, Knowledge Sharing and Integration and Task Performance: Research Agenda and Challenges Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Weidong Xia, Arvind Gud and Jose Rocha Florida International University, United States of America |
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SESSION 1 – TRACK 4 Track: Methods for Mitigating Information Overload Chairs: Murray Turoff (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Stacey Arnesen (National Library of Medicine)
| | | | Automatic Extraction of Abbreviation for Emergency Management Websites Min Song and Peishih Chang New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America |
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| | | Reducing Information Overload in Emergencies by Detecting Themes in Web Content Jorge H. Roman, Linn Marks Collins, Ketan K. Mane, Mark L. B. Martinez, Carolyn E. Dunford and James E. Powell. Jr. Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America |
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| | | Identifying and Routing Emergency Response Dialogue Segments Niels Netten and Maarten van Someren University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, The |
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| | | Evaluation of crisis management operations using Reconstruction and Exploration Dennis Andersson, Sofie Pilemalm and Niklas Hallberg Swedish Defense Research Agency, Sweden |
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SESSION 2 – TRACK 1 Track: Technology Showcase – Communication Systems and Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Responses Chairs: Ramesh Rao (UC San Diego), Manoj Balakrishnan (UC San Diego) and Alexandra Hubenko Baker (UC San Diego)
| | | | WIISARD: Wireless Internet Information System for medicAl Response to Disasters ( Powerpoint ) Buono, Colleen J; Chan, Theodore C; Griswold, William G; Huang, Ricky; Liu, Fang; Killeen, James; Palmer, Doug University of California San Diego, United States of America |
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| | | WebEOC Resource Manager® A Collaborative Framework: Developing Standard Resource Management Processes for Disaster Relief ( Powerpoint ) DuVal, Jerome. A. Emergency Services Integrators (ESi), United States of America |
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| | | The Heartbeat Beacon McGee, Steven James SAW Concepts LLC, United States of America |
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| | | Open Infrastructure for a Nationwide Emergency Services Network Mark Gaynor1, Alan Pearce2 and Scott Bradner3 1Boston University, United States of America; 2Information Age Economics; 3Harvard University |
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SESSION 2 – TRACK 2 Track: Virtual Teams and Virtual Communities in Emergency Preparedness and Response Chairs: Starr Roxanne Hiltz (New Jersey Institute of Technology) and Rosalie J. Ocker (Pennsylvania State University)
| | | | In Search of the Bigger Picture: The Emergent Role of On-Line Photo Sharing in Times of Disaster Liu, Sophia B.; Palen, Leysia; Sutton, Jeannette; Hughes, Amanda L.; Vieweg, Sarah E. University of Colorado, United States of America |
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| | | Leadership in Partially Distributed Emergency Response Software Development Teams Linda Plotnick1, Starr Roxanne Hiltz1, Rosalie Ocker2 and Mary Beth Rosson2 1New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2Pennsylvania State University |
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| | | Exploring Service-Oriented C2 Support for Emergency Response for Local Communities Sofie Elisabet Pilemalm and Niklas Hallberg Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden |
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| | | When and how (not) to trust IT? Supporting virtual emergency teamwork Monika Buscher1, Margit Kristensen2 and Preben Holst Mogensen2 1Lancaster University, United Kingdom; 2Aarhus University, Denmark |
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SESSION 2 – TRACK 3 Track: Ontologies for Crisis Management Chairs: Renato Iannella (NICTA), Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento) and Paola Di Maio (Mae Fah Luang University)
| | | | Modeling Ontologies for Distributed and Networked Centric Operations Paola Di Maio MFU.ac.th, Thailand |
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| | | A Metamodel and its Ontology to Guide Crisis Characterization and its Collaborative Management Frédérick Bénaben1, Chihab Hanachi2, Matthieu Lauras1, Pierre Couget3 and Vincent Chapurlat4 1Ecole des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, France; 2Université de Toulouse, France; 3Préfecture du Tarn, France; 4Ecole des Mines d'Alès, France; benaben |
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| | | Emergency Alerts for all: an ontology based approach to improve accessibility in emergency alerting systems Alessio Malizia, Francisco Astorga-Paliza, Teresa Onorati, Paloma Diaz and Ignacio Aedo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain |
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| | | Representing and Managing ‘Narrative’ Terrorism Information Gian Piero Zarri University Paris4/Sorbonne, France |
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SESSION 2 – TRACK 4 Track: Process- and Geo-aware Systems for Crisis Management Chairs: Massimo Mecella (Univ. Roma LA SAPIENZA), Naveen Ashish (University of California at Irvine) and Alenka Krek (HafenCity University Hamburg)
| | | | A Geo-based Application for the Management of Mobile Agents during Crisis Situations Ruggero Russo1, Andrea Capata1, Andrea Marrella1, Manfred Bortenschlager2 and Harald Rieser2 1Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy; 2Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Salzburg, Austria |
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| | | Interaction models to support peer coordination in crisis management Maurizio Marchese1, Lorenzino Vaccari1, Gaia Trecarichi1, Nardine Osman2 and Fiona McNeill2 1DISI, University of Trento, Italy; 2University of Edinburgh, UK |
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| | | Adaptive Process Coordination through Mobile File Sharing: A crisis management case study analysis Michele Angelaccio and Daniele Pizziconi University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy |
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| | | Case study:Design and use of a Multi-Disciplinary Crisis Information Management Decision Support System for Belgian government Xavier Criel FPC nv, Belgium |
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TUESDAY, MAY 6 2008
SESSION 4 – TRACK 1 Track: Information Systems for Humanitarian Operations Chairs: Bartel Van de Walle (Tilburg University), Ralph Morelli (Trinity College), Willem Muhren (Tilburg University), Chamindra de Silva (Lanka Software Foundation), Paul Currion (Consultant humanitarian.info) and Trishan de Lanerolle (Trinity College)
| | | | Creating an Academic Community to build Humanitarian FOSS: A Progress Report Trishan de Lanerolle1, Ralph Morelli1, Norman Danner2, Danny Krizanc2, Gary Parker3 and Ozgur Izmirli3 1Trinity College, Hartford CT, United States of America; 2Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, United States of America; 3Connecticut College, United States of America |
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| | | Supply Chain Management Software for Humanitarian Operations: Review and Assessment of current Tools Alexander Felix Blecken1 and Bernd Hellingrath1,2 1University of Paderborn, Germany; 2Fraunhofer-Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Germany |
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| | | Human Services Data Standards: Current Progress and Future Vision in Crisis Response Nancy Shank1, Brian Sokol2, Michelle Hayes3 and Cristina Vetrano4 1University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, United States of America; 2Abt Associates, Inc., United States of America; 3The Cloudburst Group, United States of America; 4American Red Cross |
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SESSION 5 – TRACK 1 Track: Demo Session and Poster Session Demo Chair: Susanne Jul (InSTEDD) Poster Chair: Theresa Jefferson (The George Washington University)
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SESSION 6 – TRACK 2 Track: Information Coordination between Heterogeneous Emergency and Relief Agencies Chairs: Andrea H. Tapia (Penn State University) and Carleen Maitland (Penn State University)
| | | | Understanding IT Governance within the San Mateo County Emergency Medical Service Agency Michael Marich, Benjamin Schooley and Thomas Horan Claremont Graduate University, United States of America |
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| | | Dynamic Emergency Response Management for Large Scale Decision Making in Extreme Events Murray Turoff, Connie White, Linda Plotnick and Roxanne Hiltz NJIT, United States of America |
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| | | Building global bridges: Coordination bodies for improved information sharing among humanitarian relief agencies David Saab, Edgar Maldonado, Louis-Marie Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Razvan Orendovici, Carleen Maitland and Andrea Tapia Penn State University, United States of America |
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| | | A Wireless Mesh Infrastructure Deployment with Application to Emergency Scenarios Raheleh B. Dilmaghani and Ramesh R. Rao UCSD, United States of America |
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SESSION 6 – TRACK 3 Track: Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management Chairs: Gerhard Wickler (University of Edinburgh), Frank Fiedrich (The George Washington University), Hagen Engelmann (Karlsruhe University), Ioannis M Dokas (University College Cork, Cork, Ireland) and Julie Dugdale (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble)
| | | | Model-Based Query Systems for Emergency Response Stephen Potter and Gerhard Wickler AIAI, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
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| | | Combining Technical and Human-Centered Strategies for Decision Support in Command and Control Ola Leifler Linköpings Universitet, Sweden |
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| | | Web-Service Network for Disaster Management Alexander Smirnov, Nikolay Shilov, Tatiana Levashova and Alexey Kashevnik St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation |
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| | | Towards an Intelligent System for Risk Prevention and Emergency Management Fahem Kebair and Frédéric Serin Le Havre University, France |
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 2008
SESSION 7 – TRACK 1 Track: Adaptive Information Architectures for Interagency Crisis Management Chairs: Nitesh Bharosa (Delft University of Technology), Anthony Cresswell (University at Albany) and Raghav Rao (University at Buffalo)
| | | | Improving Situational Ontologies to Support Adaptive Crisis Management Knowledge Architecture Gary Berg-Cross EM&I, United States of America |
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| | | Cross-layer Overlay Synchronization in Sparse MANETs Thomas Plagemann, Katrine Skjelsvik, Matija Puzar, Ovidiu Drugan, Vera Goebel and Ellen Munthe-Kaas University of Oslo |
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| | | Adaptive Information Orchestration: Architecture Principles improving Information Quality Nitesh Bharosa and Marijn Janssen Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The |
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| | | Rich Feeds for RESCUE Barry Demchak and Ingolf Krueger University of California, San Diego, United States of America |
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SESSION 7 – TRACK 2 Track: Impact of Disasters on Industry and Economic Effects Chairs: Valentin Bertsch (University of Karlsruhe), Mirjam Merz (University of Karlsruhe), Jutta Geldermann ( University of Göttingen) and Michael Hiete (University of Karlsruhe)
| | | | Dynamic Networks: Modeling Change in Environments Exposed to Risk Louise K. Comfort, Milos Hauskrecht and Jeen Shang Lin University of Pittsburgh |
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| | | A Framework for integrating GIS and Systems Simulation to analyze Operational Continuity of the Petroleum Supply Chain Sarp Yeletaysi, Frank Fiedrich and John R. Harrald Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, The George Washington University, United States of America |
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| | | A Decision Support Framework to Assess Supply Chain Resilience Mauro Falasca, Christopher Zobel and Deborah Cook Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, United States of America |
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| | | Economic Impacts of Kobe Earthquake: A Quantitative Evaluation after 13 Years Toshihisa Toyoda Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan |
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SESSION 7 – TRACK 3 Track: HCI for Emergencies Chairs: Markus Klann (Fraunhofer FIT), Alessio Malizia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Luca Chittaro ( University of Udine) and Ignacio Aedo Cuevas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
| | | | Emergency Information Synthesis and Awareness Using E-SOS Linn Marks Collins, James E. Powell. Jr., Carolyn E. Dunford, Ketan K. Mane and Mark L. B. Martinez Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America |
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| | | Backchannels on the Front Lines:Emergent Uses of Social Media in the 2007 Southern California Wildfires Jeannette Sutton1, Leysia Palen1 and Irina Shklovski2 1University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; 2University of California, Irvine, USA |
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| | | Comparing Media in Emergency Planning Gregorio Convertino, Helena M. Mentis, Prajakta Bhambare, Caitlin Ferro, John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson Penn State University, United States of America |
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| | | Distributed Mobile Teams: Effects of Connectivity and Map Orientation on Teamwork Guido te Brake, Rick van der Kleij and Miranda Cornelissen TNO Defence, Security and Safety |
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SESSION 7 – TRACK 4 Track: Visualization and Smart Room Technology for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration Chairs: Aaron Burgman (The MITRE Corporation), Beth Yost (The MITRE Corporation) and Andreas Meissner (Fraunhofer IITB)
| | | | Real-Time Organigraphs for Collaboration Awareness Chris van Aart1 and Stijn Oomes2 1Sogeti The Netherlands; 2Delft University of Technology Delft |
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| | | Taming Multiple Chat Room Collaboration: Real-Time Visual Cues to Social Networks and Emerging Threads Lindsley G. Boiney, Bradley Goodman, Robert Gaimari, Jeffrey Zarrella, Christoher Berube and Janet Hitzeman MITRE Corporation, United States of America |
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| | | Emergency Management Systems to Accommodate Ships in Distress Nenad Mladineo1, Zvonko Grzetic2 and Snjezana Knezic1 1University of Split, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Croatia (Hrvatska); 2Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia |
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| | | Digital Map Table with Fovea-Tablett®: Smart Furniture for Emergency Operation Centers Thomas Bader1, Andreas Meissner2 and Rolf Tscherney3 1Universität Karlsruhe, Germany; 2Fraunhofer IITB, Germany; 3Berufsfeuerwehr (Fire Brigade) Leverkusen |
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SESSION 8 – TRACK 1 Track: Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management Chairs: Ralf Steinmetz (Technical University of Darmstadt), Nicolas C. Liebau (Technical University of Darmstadt), Dirk Bradler (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Jussi Kangasharju (University of Helsinki)
| | | | Opportunistic networking overlays for ICT services in crisis management Raffaele Bruno, Marco Conti and Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy |
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| | | WIPER: An Emergency Response System Pawling, Alec; Schoenharl, Tim; Yan, Ping; Madey, Greg University of Notre Dame, United States of America |
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| | | Passive Disaster Reporting Through Mobile Social Networking Technology Noah Goodman and Ron Langhelm Booz Allen Hamilton, United States of America |
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SESSION 8 – TRACK 2 Track: Geographic Information Science Chairs: Brian Tomaszewski (Penn State University), Chaoqing Yu (China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research), Etien L. Koua (United Nations Development Programme) and Alan M. MacEachren (Penn State University)
| | | | OGC® Sensor Web Enablement: Overview and And High Level Architecture Mike Botts1, George Percivall2, Carl Reed2, John Davidson3 and Sam A. Bacharach2 1University of Alabama in Huntsville; 2Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.; 3Image Matters LLC |
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| | | Life-Saver: Flood Emergency Simulator André Sabino, Rui Nóbrega, Armanda Rodrigues and Nuno Correia IMG DI - CITI/FCT, New University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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| | | Toward Developing an Expert GIS for Damage Evaluation after an Earthquake (Case study: Tehran) Seyed Hossein Chavoshi1, Mahmoud Reza Delavar1, Mahdieh Soleimani2 and Motahareh Chavoshi2 1University of Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of); 2Technical Institute of Mapping and Surveying Eng., National Geographical Organization of Iran |
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SESSION 8 – TRACK 3 Track: Studies of Command and Control Systems Chairs: Björn Johansson (Combitech AB), Johan Jenvald (VSL Research Labs), Jiri Trnka (Linköping University) and Rogier Woltjer (Linköping University)
| | | | Information flow and teamwork in Incident Control Centers Christine Owen, Jan Douglas and Greg Hickey University of Tasmania, Bushfire Co-operative Research Centre |
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| | | A Checklist for Comparing Emergency Management Information Systems Grant, Tim Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands |
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| | | Network Centric Operations in Crisis Management Josine van de Ven1, Richelle van Rijk1, Peter Essens1 and Erik Frinking2 1TNO Defence, Security and Safety, The Netherlands; 2The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Netherlands |
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