[AISWorld] Please Post this CFP for the ISCRAM 2014 conference to be held in Pennsylvania, USA in May 2014

Sat Jul 27 17:29:24 EDT 2013

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

*CONFERENCE THEME: Empowering Citizens and Communities through Information
Systems for Crisis Response and Management*

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*Conference Dates:  May 18-21 2014*

*Penn State University**, USA***

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Each year, ISCRAM brings together top researchers and practitioners working
in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The
conference provides an excellent opportunity to exchange information and
knowledge on new research and discuss best practices.

We invite you to submit papers for the following tracks:

Analytical Modeling and Simulation

Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research

Command and Control Studies

Decision Support Systems

Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response

Geographic Information Science

Humanitarian Information Systems

Intelligent Systems

Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis

Practitioner Cases and Practitioner- Centered Research

Serious Games for Crisis Management

Social Media in Crisis Response and Management

Visual Analytics for Crisis Management

(See individual track calls at
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*Contributions*

ISCRAM2014 invites two categories of papers. All paper submissions must be
relevant to ISCRAM, make a new and significant contribution to the body of
knowledge on information systems for emergency management, support their
contribution with valid arguments, and be clearly structured and well
written.

●       *Research papers *presenting valid, original, relevant cutting edge
research that will be reviewed to the highest academic standards. Reviewing
will pay additional attention to the application of the related scientific
literature and theory, to the use of an appropriate research methodology,
and to technical, mathematical and statistical correctness. This will be
complemented by a review from a member of the Scientific Committee (SC).**

●       *Insights from the Practice of Emergency Management*
*papers*presenting new developments in emergency management and policy
making,
discussing approaches, methods, tools, (best) practices and standards.
These papers should focus on practical issues and concerns and raise
challenges for future research, and will be reviewed to the highest
practice-oriented standards.**

According to the completeness of work, authors can choose to submit their
work as

●       *Full papers *presenting completed work. Such papers should be no
more than 10 pages including figures & tables (~5000 words).**

●       *Short papers* presenting work in progress and novel approaches
that are being developed. Such papers should be no more than 5 pages with
figures & tables (~2500 words).**

For each type of paper, submissions are welcome from academics,
researchers, practitioners, technical or other experts, policy makers, or
other professionals in the emergency management domain. The proceedings
will identify the type of submission and reviewing process chosen.

*Other forms of contributions*: Separate calls are or will be made for
workshops (online: http
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panels, posters, demonstrations, and the doctoral consortium. All calls
will be published on iscram
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org <http://iscram2014.org/>.**

TO SUBMIT A PAPER:

1.     Read through the track calls on the conference website
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/5 <http://iscram2014.ist.psu.edu/node/5> and select the track which is
closest to the topic of your paper.  If you cannot decide if your paper
“fits” in a specific track, message the corresponding track chair with your
title and a draft abstract, for his or her advice. Or, message the program
and conference chairs at iscram
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2.     Authors must submit papers electronically through the conference
system. The link to the submission system will be available on the website
in August.)

3.     All papers must use the ISCRAM paper template and follow the ISCRAM
house style. The template will be available through the conference system
and on the conference homepage.

*Important dates*

●       Call for papers/website live - July 2013

●       Deadline for panel proposals – Nov. 15th (decision by December 15)

●       Deadline for full papers – Nov. 15th (decision by Jan. 6th)

●       Deadline for shorter submissions (work-in-progress papers, poster
proposals) - Jan. 13th (decision by Feb. 10)

●       FINAL camera-ready full papers – Feb. 7

●       FINAL camera-ready short papers – Feb. 24

●       Final decisions made by program and scientific committee, and
authors notified by March 15.

●       At least one author must be registered for the conference and
payment must be received by April 1 so work on the schedule and proceedings
can begin.

*ISCRAM 2014*

Contact: iscram <iscram2014 at iscram.org>2014@
<iscram2014 at iscram.org>iscram<iscram2014 at iscram.org>
. <iscram2014 at iscram.org>org <iscram2014 at iscram.org>

Conference Chair: Andrea Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University

Program Chair: Starr Roxanne Hiltz, NJIT

-- 
Linda Plotnick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computer Information Systems
Jacksonville State University
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