A short history of ISCRAM...

1. ISCRAM – Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Bartel Van de Walle February 2008

2. ISCRAM2004 – 2008: impressions from a journey … With thanks to many many fellow-travellers and a few hard-core ISCRAM believers

5. Applied Research Fundamental Research Empirical Research Controled Reality Capture Analyse Dedicated Exercise Analyse Capture Capture Experiment Analyse Controlled experiment Analyse Calculate Theory Model Capture Analyse Prototype Simulate Capture Analyse

13. Keynote Speakers Murray Turoff Simon French Einar Bjorgo

14. First Opening by Paul Govaerts (general manager SCK-CEN)

17. Mike Melshkin Award for best PhD paper

18. 2004 MM Award Winner: Jonas Landgren, Viktoria Institute, Sweden

21. Keynote Speakers Jack Harrald Dan Power Paul Currion Liz Carver

24. 2005 MM Award Winner: Jiri Trnka, Linkoping Univ., Sweden

28. Keynote Speakers Gino Menchini Paul Currion Peter Wood

29. PhD Symposium (David Mendonca)

31. 2006 MM Award Winner: Manuel Llavador, TU Valencia, Spain

36. ISCRAM2008: 28 Special Sessions Tapia, Andrea; Maitland, Carleen Information Coordination between Heterogeneous Emergency and Relief Agencies French, Simon (1); Bayley, Clare (1) Social Networking, Web Collaboration and e Participation in Crisis and Risk Management Schooley, Benjamin; Horan, Thomas IT Governance for Inter-organizational Emergency Response SALEH, Hussain Aziz; ALLAERT, Georges Early Warning Systems Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Muhren, Willem (1); de Silva, Chamindra (2); Currion, Paul (3) Information Systems for Humanitarian Operations Meissner, Andreas (1); Geisler, Juergen (1); Stiefelhagen, Rainer (2) Smart Room Technology for Emergency Operation Centres and Mobile Command Posts

37. Burgman, Aaron (1); Yost, Beth (1) Visualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration Malizia, Alessio (1); Klann, Markus (2); Chittaro, Luca (3); Aedo-Cuevas, Ignacio (1); Levialdi, Stefano (4) HCI for Emergencies Bharosa, Nitesh; Cresswell, Anthony; Roa, Raghav; Lee, Jin Kyu Adaptive Information Architectures for Interagency Crisis Management Wickler, Gerhard (1); Dokas, Ioannis (2); Engelmann, Hagen (3); Fiedrich, Frank (4) Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management

38. Liebau, Nicolas Christopher (1); Steinmetz, Ralf (1); Bradler, Dirk (1); Kangasharju, Jussi (2) Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management White, Connie Marie (1); Plotnick, Linda Small (1) Trust in Emergency Planning and Response Iannella, Renato (1); Giunchiglia, Fausto (2); Di Maio, Paola (3) Ontologies for Crisis Management Otto, Peter (1); Rich, Eliot (2) Applications of System Dynamics for Crisis Response and Management Mendonca, David Research Methods in ISCRAM McGarry, Nina Healthcare

39. Turoff, Murray Reducing Information Proliferation and Overload in Emergency Management D'Arcy, John (1); Schuff, David (2) IT Security Johansson, Björn (1); Jenvald, Johan (2); Trnka, Jiri (1); Woltjer, Rogier (1) Studies of Command and Control Systems Bertsch, Valentin (1); Merz, Mirjam (1); Geldermann, Jutta (2); Hiete, Michael (1) Impact of Disasters on Industry and Economic Effects Mecella, Massimo (1); Ashish, Naveen (2); Krek, Alenka (3) Process- and Geo-aware Systems for Crisis Management Tomaszewski, Brian Michael Geographic Information Science

40. Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Ocker, Rosalie J. Virtual Teams and Virtual Communities in Emergency Preparedness and Response Becerra-Fernandez, Irma (1); Madey, Greg (2); Prietula, Michael (3); Rodriguez, Domingo (4); Valerdi, Ricardo (5) Virtual Systems for Emergency Management Simulation & Training Burghardt, Paul (1); Jul, Susanne (3); Van de Ven, Josine (2) Creating Crises: Virtual Environments for crisis, disaster and emergency management Rao, Ramesh (1); Balakrishnan, Manoj (1); Hubenko Baker, Alexandra (1) Technology Showcase – Communication Systems and Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Response Morelli, Ralph; de Lanerolle, Trishan Humanitarian and Crisis Information Systems: Reports from Academia, Business, and Government Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Snoad, Nigel (2); Seppanen, Juha-Matti (3); Livanos Cattaui, Maria (4) ICT FOR PEACE

42. PhD Summer School 2006 Tilburg, NL

48. ISCRAM-CHINA Workshop 2006, Harbin, China

54. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

55. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

56. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

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