[AISWorld] Fwd: Invitation to submit to the Social Media Studies Track for ISCRAM 2016

[Joao Porto]

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From: Amanda Hughes <amanda.hughes at usu.edu>
Date: 2015-10-21 14:55 GMT-02:00
Subject: Invitation to submit to the Social Media Studies Track for ISCRAM
2016
To:
Cc: "mimran at qf.org.qa" <mimran at qf.org.qa>


*13th Annual Conference*

*for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management*



*Rio de Janeiro, Brazil*

*May 22- 25 2016*



We welcome your submissions to the Social Media Studies Track for ISCRAM
2016: http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/social-media-studies.html  We are
contacting you because you have either submitted to this track in the past
or you have expressed interest in the track (Please let us know if you
would like to be removed from this list). The aim of this track is to
highlight current research on how the use of Social Media can help in
crisis management and response. We invite papers that provide rich
description and/or evaluation of the design and/ or actual use of Social
Media for collaboration and/or widespread participation in any phase of
crisis management, from initial planning and preparedness, through
detection, response, and recovery phases.


*Important Dates*

Long papers, panels, workshops: *Friday, November 20th, 2015*

Short papers, posters, demonstrations, doctoral consortium: *Friday,
January 29th, 2016*



*(IMPORTANT: These are hard deadlines that will not be extended)*



*ISCRAM2016 PAPER SUBMISSIONS*

ISCRAM2016 invites two categories of papers:

     *Long papers with a target acceptance rate of 35 % presenting
completed work including a description of methods, results and validation
(4,000-6,000 words)

     *Short papers presenting work in earlier stages, outlining concepts
and discussing first results (2,000-3,500 words)



You are also invited to choose the review process:

     *Research papers will be reviewed according to scientific standards

     *Insight Papers are reviewed with respect to practical relevance and
applicability



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 ISCRAM2016
proceedings will clearly identify the type of submission and reviewing
process chosen.



*TO SUBMIT A PAPER*

1. Authors must submit papers electronically through the conference
system. *https://www.conftool.com/iscram2016/
<https://www.conftool.com/iscram2016/>*

2. All papers must use the ISCRAM paper template and follow the ISCRAM
house style. The template is available on the Conference homepage.

   *PAPER TEMPLATES*

           Template for Long Papers
<http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/images/Paper_Templates/ISCRAM2016_Conference_LongPaperTemplate.doc>

           Template for Short Papers
<http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/images/Paper_Templates/ISCRAM2016_Conference_ShortPaperTemplate_39840927.doc>

           Template for Poster presentation
<http://www.iscram2016.nce.ufrj.br/images/Paper_Templates/A1_PosterTemplate.pptx>



*Important Dates for ISCRAM 2016 Authors*

20 November 2015              Long Papers, panels and workshops due

15 January 2016                   Long Papers & Panel Proposals Acceptance
notification

29 January 2016                   Short Papers, posters, demonstrations,
doctoral consortium

15 February 2016                 Short Papers, posters, demonstrations,
doctoral consortium Acceptance Notification

                                                Camera-ready copies of Long
Papers

26 February 2016                 Camera-ready Short Papers deadline



Submission of the camera-ready version on Feb 26th is a commitment to
sending at least one author per paper to the conference. If authors are on
multiple papers, the number of registrations in total must meet or exceed
the number of papers per collective author group.



If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact
the Social Media Studies Track Chairs:

Amanda Hughes - amanda.hughes at usu.edu

Imran Muhammad - mimran at qf.org.qa
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