[AISWorld] ToC and CfP IJISCRAM Vol 2 Issue 2

[MurphJen at aol.com]

The contents of the  latest issue of:

International  Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and 
Management  (IJISCRAM) 
Official Publication of  the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 2, Issue 2,  April-June 2010 
Published: Quarterly in  Print and Electronically 
ISSN: 1937-9390 EISSN: 1937-9420 
Published by IGI  Publishing, Hershey-New  York, USA 
www.igi-global.com/ijiscram 
Editors-in-Chief:   
Murray  E. Jennex,  San Diego State University,  USA;   
Bartel  Van de Walle, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 

PAPER  ONE 

A Normative Enterprise Architecture for Guiding End-to-End  Emergency 
Response Decision Support 

Michael Marich (Claremont Graduate University, USA) 
Benjamin Schooley (Claremont Graduate University, USA) 
Thomas A. Horan (Claremont Graduate University, USA) 

This article examines the underlying architecture guiding  the development 
and use of enterprise decision support systems that maintain the  delivery 
of time critical public services. A normative architecture, developed  from 
comparative cases involving San Mateo County and Mayo Clinic Emergency 
Medical  Services systems, provides a collection of characteristics meant to guide 
an  emergency response system toward a high level of performance and enable 
optimal  decision-making. At a national symposium, academics and 
practitioners involved  in promoting effective emergency response information systems 
provided  validation for the architecture and next steps for enhancing 
emergency response  information systems. Normative architecture characteristics 
and expert  perspectives from the symposium are integrated into a framework 
that offers an  enterprise approach for delivering time-critical emergency 
response services.  This article provides recommendations for navigating 
toward a more incremental  approach in developing enterprise-oriented emergency 
information services and  examines future trends involving the application of 
normative architectural  concepts to real-world emergency medical settings. 

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link  below. 
_http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44915_ 
(http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44915)   

PAPER TWO 

Lessons of Disaster  Recovery Learned for Information Systems Management in 
US Higher  Education 
Ruben Xing (Montclair State University,  USA) 
Zhongxian Wang (Montclair State University,  USA) 
James Yao (Montclair State University,  USA) 
Yanli Zhang (Montclair State University,  USA) 
Most U.S. universities planned and prepared their  disaster recovery (DR) 
and business continuity strategies for their Information  Systems after the 
September 11th attack on the United States.  The devastating hurricanes and 
the most recent catastrophic earthquakes caused  unprecedented damage for 
many campuses within a decade. Some of their plans  worked and some of them 
failed; however, with these lessons learned, Information  Systems Management 
for U.S. higher education must be  reexamined, re-planned and redesigned, 
including DR strategies and procedures.  It is equally important that the 
curriculum of Management Information Systems be  updated along with updated DR 
concerns for all educators in U.S.  universities. 
To obtain a copy of the  entire article, click on the link below. 
_http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44916_ 
(http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44916)   

PAPER THREE  
An Approach to Using  Ontologies for the Development of High Quality 
Disaster Recovery  Plans 
Lila Rao (The University of  the West Indies, Jamaica) 
Maurice McNaughton (  TheUniversity of the West Indies, Jamaica) 
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson  (Virginia Commonwealth  University, USA) 
Manley Haye (Jamaica Public  Service Company Limited, Jamaica) 
Disasters have the  potential to cripple a country and those countries that 
are particularly  susceptible to disasters must have effective disaster 
recovery plans (DRP) in  place to ensure that the country can return to 
normalcy as soon as possible  after the devastation. However, for the plan to be 
effective it must be of high  quality, which is often viewed as a 
multidimensional concept containing  essential factors for DRP, such as consistency, 
completeness, reliability and  feasibility. Therefore, any methodology for the 
development of DRP must take  these dimensions into account as their affect 
on quality is considerable. In  this regard, the authors describe a quality 
based methodology for the  development of DRP, including a methodology that 
makes use of ontologies  containing properties that are suited to the 
development of these high quality  plans. The applicability of the proposed 
methodology will be demonstrated  through a case study of an electric utility 
company in Jamaica. 
To obtain a copy of the  entire article, click on the link below. 
_http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44917_ 
(http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44917)   
PAPER  FOUR 
The Relationship between  IT Director Values and Extent of IT Disaster 
Recovery Planning in the Banking  Industry 
Jordan Shropshire  (Georgia Southern University,  USA) 
Christopher Kadlec  (Georgia Southern University,  USA) 
Information technology  plays a pivotal role in defining the success of 
organizations. Given its  importance, one might assume that modern 
organizations take steps to ensure the  recovery of IT services following disasters. 
Unfortunately, this is rarely the  case. To understand the variation in degree 
of IT disaster recovery planning,  this research focused on those 
responsible for managing IT resources and IT  directors. For the study, a survey was 
mailed to 337 financial service  institutions in the southeastern United 
States. Over 150 IT directors  completed self-assessments for measuring the 
extent to which their organization  engages in IT disaster recovery planning. In 
addition, they responded to a  number of questions regarding their 
work-related values, and over 63% of the  variance in degree of IT disaster recovery 
planning was explained by two  predictors: uncertainty avoidance and 
long-term orientation. Results show that  firms with IT professionals who prefer 
to avoid uncertainty and who have  long-term outlooks have more developed IT 
disaster recovery  plans. 
To obtain a copy of the  entire article, click on the link below. 
_http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44918_ 
(http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=44918)   
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For  full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the 
International  Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management 
(IJISCRAM) in your institution's  library.  This journal is also included in 
the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:  
www.infosci-journals.com.
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of  IJISCRAM: 

The mission of the International Journal of Information  Systems for Crisis 
Response and Management is to provide an outlet for  innovative research in 
the area of information systems for crisis response and  management. 
Research is expected to be rigorous but can utilize any accepted  methodology and 
may be qualitative or quantitative in nature. The journal will  provide a 
comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for advancing the understanding  of the 
organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with  the 
use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all  kinds. 
Coverage of  IJISCRAM: 

The journal will strive  to cover all aspects of the crisis management 
information systems discipline,  from organizational issues to technology 
support to decision support and  knowledge representation. High quality 
submissions are encouraged using any  qualitative or quantitative research 
methodology, focusing on the design,  development, implementation, use and evaluation 
of such systems. Submissions are  especially encouraged covering the 
following topics in this  discipline: 
Decision making and  judgment  
Command and control   
Virtual teams and  organizations  
Collaborative and  intelligent systems  
Human-Computer interaction   
Healthcare and health  information systems  
Case studies, research  methods, and modeling approaches  
Disaster risk reduction and  risk management ad-hoc and sensor networks  
Geographical information  systems  
Early warning systems   
Knowledge management and  systems  
Emergency response systems   
Data fusion,  representation, and visualization  
Systems interoperability  information systems infrastructures  
Communication technologies   
Crisis planning, training,  exercising, and gaming  
Globalization and  development issues  
Information systems  strategy  
Humanitarian operations   
Interested authors should  consult the journal's manuscript submission 
guidelines at  www.igi-global.com/ijiscram. 
All inquiries and submissions should be  sent to:
Editor-in-Chief: Murray E.  Jennex at  murphjen at aol.com
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