Blacksburg, Virginia USA
May 23rd- 26th, 2021
18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Call for Papers
The 2021 ISCRAM conference invites three types of paper submissions:
CoRe papers are longer in length and describe completed research studies. WiP papers are shorter and meant to describe smaller, more focused research findings or research that is still in progress. Both of these paper types undergo a rigorous peer-review process and will be archived in the ISCRAM digital library.
While practitioners are also invited to submit a CoRe or WiP paper, we recognize that an academic review process is often not appropriate for practitioner contributions. These authors may instead submit a 500-3,000 word Practitioner paper. We particularly encourage submissions describing real-world experiences and case studies of interest to the ISCRAM conference. Practitioner submissions will be reviewed according to relevance and ability to contribute to discussions rather than by standard academic criteria. Accepted Practitioner submissions will also be included as extended abstracts in the conference proceedings.
All submissions will be done through EasyChair
Please use the following templates for all submissions:
All articles must be submitted to one of the tracks below. Once submitted, articles will be distributed for evaluation among the pool of reviewers according to their domain of expertise and the topics addressed by the paper. Accepted papers will be organized in sessions at the conference that will be distributed among the tracks.
Papers related to the conference theme, "Embracing the Interdisciplinary Nature of Crisis Management", are particularly welcome.
Paper Tracks
Track 1 - AI and Intelligent Systems for Crises and Risks
Chairs: Antonio De Nicola, Hedi Karray, Nada Matta, Hemant Purohit, Fiona McNeill
Track 2 - Analytical Modeling and Simulation
Chairs: Josey Chacko, Andrew Arnette, Duygu Pamukcu, Christopher Zobel
Track 3 - Command & Control Studies
Chairs: Björn JE Johansson, Peter Berggren
Track 4 - Cross-Border & Transboundary Resilience
Chairs: Marcus Wiens, Anouck Adrot, Eric Borglund, Frank Fiedrich, Sofie Pilemalm, Eric Rigaud
Track 5 - Data and Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges
Chairs: Kees Boersma, Anouck Adrot, Jaziar Radianti, Ioannis Dokas
Track 6 - Disaster Public Health & Healthcare Informatics in the Pandemic
Chairs: Nicolas LaLone, Zeno Franco, Deepak Khazanchi, Julie Dugdale, Reem Abbas, Njoki Mwarumba, Dave Parry
Track 7 - Enhancing Protection of Critical Infrastructures
Chairs: Sandra König, Stefan Rass, Stefan Schauer
Track 8 - Enhancing Resilient Response in Inter-organizational Contexts
Chairs: Niklas Hallberg, Björn JE Johansson, Magdalena Granåsen
Track 9 - Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Chairs: Katrina Petersen, Monika Buscher, Lixiong Chen
Track 10 - Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS)
Chairs: João Porto de Albuquerque, Alexander Zipf, Flávio E. A. Horita, Michael Erskine
Track 11 - Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis
Chairs: Victor A. Bañuls, Milad Baghersad, Christopher Kwaramba
Track 12 - Social Media for Disaster Response and Resilience
Chairs: Amanda Lee Hughes, Doina Caragea, Muhammad Imran, Linda Plotnick, Christian Reuter
Track 13 - Technologies for First Responders
Chairs: Evangelos Sdongos, Angelos Amditis, Eleftherios Ouzounoglou, Petros Daras, Anastasios Dimou
Track 14 - Tool Talks
Chairs: Bas Lijnse, Jürgen Moßgraber, Anastasios Karakostas
Track 15 - Usability and Universal Design of ICT for Emergency Management
Chairs: Terje Gjøsæter, Jaziar Radianti, Weiqin Chen, Erion Elmasllari
Track 16 - Visions for Future Crisis Management
Chairs: Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, Aurelie Montarnal, Rob Grace
Track 17 - Other
Chairs: Anouck Adrot, Rob Grace, Kathleen Moore
Important Dates
Submission deadline for CoRe papers: December 6, 2020
Notification of decision for CoRe papers: January 17, 2021
Submission deadline for WiP and Practitioner papers: January 31, 2021
Notification of decision for WiP and Practitioner papers: February 28, 2021
