The document provides information about the ISCRAM 2015 conference held in Kristiansand, Norway, detailing the city's demographics, travel options, and key venues. It outlines the conference program, which includes keynotes, workshops, parallel sessions, and poster presentations focusing on crisis and disaster management topics. Additionally, it lists hotel accommodations, conference chairs, and contact information for inquiries.

2. VENUE

4. KRISTIANSAND
• Norway’s fifth largest city
• Population of about 85,000 inhabitants
• Avg max temp in mid May is 16 °C (61 °F)

5. How to get there? By Air
Oslo, NOR ↔ Kristiansand, NOR
Amsterdam, NLD ↔ Kristiansand, NOR
Copenhagen, DNK ↔ Kristiansand, NOR
…and other major European hubs

6. How to get there?
By Train
Oslo, NOR ↔ Kristiansand, NOR
Stavanger, NOR ↔ Kristiansand, NOR

7. For more Information on Venue and Travel, please see:
http://iscram2015.uia.no/?page_id=934

8. HOSTS

9.  Interdisciplinary research center at the University of
Agder
 Aim: design, develop and evaluate technology to
strengthen crises and disaster management.
 More than 20 researchers with backgrounds in Artificial
Intelligence, Security, Decision Support, Information
Management, and Social Sciences
Director: Prof. Ole-Christoffer Granmo,
Co-Directors: Associate Prof. Tina Comes and Prof.
Bjørn Erik Munkvold – your ISCRAM2015 Conference
Chairs
 Cooperates with public authorities, NGOs and industry
in Norway and abroad.
 Website: http://ciem.uia.no/
 The University of Agder (UiA) is situated on the southern
tip of Norway and is located on two campuses, in
Kristiansand and Grimstad.
 It has 11 000 students and 1 100 faculty and staff
members. It is one of the youngest universities in Norway,
but its history dates back to 1839.
 It offers 14 PhD specializations, 33 master’s programs and
44 bachelor’s programs. Shorter study programs, as well as
lifelong learning courses, are also available.
 Website: http://www.uia.no/

10. HOTELS

11. Hotel Norge Kristiansand
Address: Dronningensgate 5, 4666 Kristiansand
Website: Hotel Norge
Yess! Hotel
Address: Tordenskjoldsgate 12, Kristiansand
Website: Yess Hotel
Budget Hotel Kristiansand
Address: Vestre Strandgate 49, Kristiansand, 4612, Norge
Website: Budget Hotel
Clarion Ernst Hotel
Address: Rådhusgt. 2, 4664 Kristiansand
Website: Clarion Ernst Hotel
Comfort Hotel Kristiansand
Address: Skippergata 7-9, 4611 Kristiansand
Website: comfort hotel
Official Conference Hotels

12. PROGRAM

13. Time
SUNDAY
May 24
MONDAY
May 25
TUESDAY
May 26
WEDNESDAY
May 27
WEDNESDAY
May 27
09:00 - 10:00
Valérie
November
Hans-Jochen
Scholl
Lars Peter Nissen
10:00 – 11:00
Workshops,
Tutorials, PhD
Colloquium
Plenary Long
Papers
Plenary Long Papers
Plenary Long
Papers Workshops
COFFEE
11:30 – 13:00
Workshops,
Tutorials, PhD
Colloquium
Parallel Sessions
Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Workshops
LUNCH Networking Lunch EU Projects
13:45 – 14:30
Workshops,
Tutorials, PhD
Colloquium
Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3
EU Panel with
Project Officers
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions Workshops
COFFEE
16:30 – 18:00 PhD Poster Session Parallel Sessions
ISCRAM General
Assembly
Demo and Poster Session
Social Evening Beer Evening
Welcome
Reception
Conference Dinner Farewell & Closing

14. First Program will be available beginning of
April on our website
• Program for Tutorials and Workshops for Sunday, May 24th
• Agenda for EU Symposium on Wednesday, May 27th

15. FORMATS

16. KEYNOTES
Our Keynote speakers will provide insights on current practices and future trends in crisis and disaster
management, ranging from risk visualization and communication, to governance and decision making in
large scale disasters.
Plenary Long Paper Sessions
This year, we will invite the speakers of the six best submitted Long Papers to present their work in
plenary. We hope that this will foster exchange across the standard tracks, and disciplinary boundaries -
and look forward to truly inspiring presentations
Parallel Sessions & Poster Sessions
The papers presented were selected from a pool of more than 300 submitted papers – a record this
year! We will assemble parallel and poster sessions to foster discussion and showcase the state of the
art.
Workshops & Tutorials
The ISCRAM2015 workshops and tutorials provide a means to in depth discuss or hands-on explore
emerging topics, such as standardization and interoperability, the role of eHealth in disasters, or ethical
and legal issues.

17. TUTORIALS

18. TUTORIALS
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Network Theory in Emergency Management
(Half Day Workshop)
Tim Grant, Retired But Active Researchers (R-BAR)
Kees Boersma, VU University Amsterdam
Jeroen Wolbers, VU University Amsterdam
Visual Analytics with Social Media for Crisis Management
(Full Day Workshop)
Dr Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield

19. WEEKDAY TUTORIALS
Collaborative Problem Solving via the Delphi Method
(Half Day Workshop)
Dr Murray Turoff, NJIT
Qualitative Research Methods for Crisis Informatics: Thinking Out Loud,”Semi-structured Interviews,
and Focus Groups
(Half Day Workshop)
Dr Starr Roxanne Hiltz, NJIT
Dr. Andrea Tapia, Pennsylvania State University

20. WORKSHOPS

21. WORKSHOPS
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Ethical, Legal, and Social Narratives in IT Design for Disaster Response
(Full Day Workshop)
Katrina Petersen: Corresponding Chair, Centre for Mobilities research, Lancaster University
Monika Büscher, Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University
Catherine Easton, Lancaster University
Michael Liegl, Lancaster University
Hayley Watson, Trilateral Research & Consulting, London, UK
Zeno Franco, Medical College of Wisconsin

22. WORKSHOPS
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Geospatial ICT Support for Crisis Management and Response
(4 hours workshop)
Dr. Thomas Usländer, Fraunhofer IOSB, Head of Department Information Management and Production Control (ILT)
Dr. Ingo Simonis, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Director of Interoperability Programs and Science
Semantics and Analytics for Emergency Response (SAFE)
(Full Day Workshop)
Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden
Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Carsten Kessler, Hunter College–CUNY, USA
Suvodeep Mazumdar, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

23. CONTACTS

24. CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Tina Comes (CIEM, UiA)
Bjorn Erik Munkvold (CIEM, UiA)
Local Arrangements
Målfrid Tangedal, Unni Holbrook (CIEM, UiA)
Dissemination Chair
Tonje Sti (CIEM UiA)
Social Media Chair
Apoorva Chauhan (Utah State University)
Industry Relations and Sponsoring
José Gonzalez (CIEM, UiA)
Ole-Christoffer Granmo (CIEM, UiA)
Nadia Noori (Lasalle, Barcelona)
General requests
iscram2015@iscram.org
Call for tracks
iscram2015.tracks@iscram.org
Papers (for potential authors)
iscram2015.papers@iscram.org

25. Panels Chair
Jose Gonzalez (CIEM, UiA)
Victor Banuls (Universidad Pablo Olavide and CIEM UiA)
Tutorials Chair
Vitaveska Lanfranchi (K-Now)
Hayley Watson (Trilateral Research)
Tim Clark (Milcord)
Ole-Christoffer Granmo (UiA)
Posters Chair
Christian Webersik (CIEM, UIA)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Julie Dugdale (University of Grenoble and CIEM, UiA)
Chris Zobel (Virginia Tech)
Scientific Program Chair
Leysia Palen (University of Boulder, Colorado, and CIEM, UiA)
Papers Co-Chairs
Monika Buscher (University of Lancaster)
Leysia Palen (University of Boulder, Colorado)
Amanada Hughes (Utah State University)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Jose Gonzalez (CIEM, UiA)
Jan Håvard Skjetne (SINTEF, Norway)
Demos Chair
Vitaveska Lanfranchi (K-Now)
Hayley Watson (Trilateral Research)
Tim Clark (Milcord)
Ole-Christoffer Granmo (CIEM, UiA)

26. ISCRAM SOCIAL MEDIA

27. https://twitter.com/iscram2015
https://www.facebook.com/iscram2015
https://plus.google.com/iscram2015
https://www.youtube.com/iscram2015
https://www.slideshare.net/iscram2015

28. PARTNERS