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Thomas Bernoulli; Gerald Glanzer; Thomas Wiebflecker; Ulrich Walder |
| Title |
Infrastructurless indoor positioning system for first responders |
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Conference Article |
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2010 |
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ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Disaster prevention; Disasters; Information systems; Risk management; Underground structures; Units of measurement; Disaster management; Emergency management; Global Navigation Satellite Systems; Indoor positioning; Indoor positioning systems; Inertial measurement unit; Inertial navigations; Position estimates; Human resource management |
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To overview the site of operation in case of an emergency is crucial for effective emergency management. This is a difficult task, in particular within large buildings or underground structures. Information about the whereabouts of the staff is a key element of effective disaster management. This paper presents an indoor positioning system which is able to track and locate people within buildings independent of any infrastructure (global navigation satellite system, WLAN installations, etc.). The system is based on inertial measurement units computing the track of its wearer and a component verifying this position estimates using floor plans of the building. This novel approach allows robust tracking and locating of action forces within buildings and underground structures. |
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Graz University of Technology, Austria |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Geo-Information Support |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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314 |
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Martin Frassl; Michael Lichtenstern; Mohammed Khider; Michael Angermann |
| Title |
Developing a system for information management in disaster relief – Methodology and requirements |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2010 |
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Disasters; Information management; Information systems; Assessment; Civil protection; Disaster management; Requirements; Situation awareness; Disaster prevention |
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This paper discusses our ongoing work on a system for collecting, managing and distributing relevant information in disaster relief operations. It describes the background and conditions under which the system is being developed and employed. We present our methodology, the requirements and current functionality of the system and the lessons learned in exercises and training, involving a large number of international disaster management experts. We found that the viability of this kind of tool is determined by three main factors, namely reliability, usability and frugality. The system has gone through many prototype iterations and has matured towards becoming operational in a specific type of mission, i.e. assessment missions for large scale natural and man-made disasters. This paper aims at making a wider audience of disaster management experts aware of that system and the support it may provide to their work. Other researchers and developers may find our experience useful for creating systems in similar domains. |
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Geo-Information Support |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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509 |
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Rego Granlund; Helena Granlund; Nilda Dahlbäck; Björn J.E. Johansson |
| Title |
The effect of a geographical information system on communication in professional emergency response organizations |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2010 |
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Emergency services; Information systems; Societies and institutions; Command and control; Communication analysis; Communication pattern; Controlled experiment; Different distributions; Emergency response; Geographical positions; Micro-world simulations; Geographic information systems |
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This paper describes the basic communication analysis performed in a research project with an ambition to investigate the impact of geographical information system (GIS) on crisis management organizations. The goal is to compare the communication between command and control teams that have access to a GIS with geographical position information (GPS) capability in its command post with teams that only have access to paper maps. The method used is controlled experiments using the C3Fire micro-world. A total of 108 professionals, forming 18 teams, participated in the study. The participating professionals were members of Swedish municipal crisis management organizations. The result shows that the communication pattern connected to giving orders have a different distribution depending on if the teams used GIS or paper maps. The result also shows that the communication volume is reduced if the teams use GIS. |
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Linköpings universitet, Sweden; Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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544 |
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Shubham Gupta; Craig A. Knoblock |
| Title |
Building geospatial mashups to visualize information for crisis management |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2010 |
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Data integration; Decision making; Disaster prevention; Information systems; Visualization; Crisis management; Data-sources; Disaster management; Effective solution; Geo-spatial; Integrated approach; Mash-up; Mashups; Data visualization |
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In time-sensitive environments such as disaster management, decision-making often requires rapidly gathering the information from diverse data sources and then visualizing the collected information to understand it. Thus, it is critical to reduce the overhead in data integration and visualization for efficient decision-making. Geospatial mashups can be an effective solution in such environments by providing an integrated approach to extract, integrate and view diverse information. Currently, mashup building tools exist for creating mashups, but none of them deal with the issue of data visualization. An improper visualization of the data could result in users wasting precious time to understand the data. In this paper, we introduce a programming-by-demonstration approach to data visualization in geospatial mashups that allows the users to customize the data visualization. |
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Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, United States |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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555 |
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Suradej Intagorn; Anon Plangprasopchok; Kristina Lerman |
| Title |
Harvesting geospatial knowledge from social metadata |
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Conference Article |
| Year |
2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Information systems; Ontology; Flickr; Geo ontologies; Geo-spatial; Geo-tagging; Social annotations; Social webs; Metadata |
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Up-to-date geospatial information can help crisis management community to coordinate its response. In addition to data that is created and curated by experts, there is an abundance of user-generated, user-curated data on Social Web sites such as Flickr, Delicious, and Google Earth, that can be used to harvest knowledge to solve real-world problems. User-generated, or social, metadata can be used to learn concepts and relations between them that can improve information discovery, and data integration and management. We describe a method that aggregates social metadata created by thousands of users of the social photo-sharing site Flickr to learn geospatial concepts and relations. Our method leverages geotagged data to represent and reason about places. We evaluate learned geospatial relations by comparing them to a reference ontology provided by GeoNames.org. We show that our approach achieves good performance and also learns useful information that does not appear in the reference ontology. |
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USC, Information Sciences Institute, United States |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Geo-Information Support |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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616 |
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Tim A. Majchrzak; Oliver Noack; Herbert Kuchen; Philipp Neuhaus; Frank Ückert |
| Title |
Towards a decision support system for the allocation of traumatized patients |
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Conference Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Artificial intelligence; Information systems; Business rules; Crisis management; Development project; IT system; Patient dispatching; Related works; Traumatized patients; Decision support systems |
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We present a decision support system for the allocation of traumatized patients. The assignment of patients to vehicles and hospitals is a task that requires detailed up-to-date information but has to be carried out quickly. We pro-pose to support medical staff with an IT system. We especially encourage such a system to be used in cases of mass incidents as it is very problematic – yet essential – To provide all injured with adequate healthcare as fast as possible. Our proposal is a system based on business rules. In this paper we describe the development project's background as well as the system's requirements and some details of its implementation. Moreover, we explain an exemplary scenario to show strengths of our approach. Besides discussing related work, we draw an overview of future tasks. |
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Department of Information Systems, University of Muenster, Germany; Department of Medical Informatics, University Hospital Muenster, Germany |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Geo-Information Support |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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738 |
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| Author |
Jose M. Nadal-Serrano |
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Towards very simple, yet effective on-the-go incident response preplanning: Using publicly-available GIS to improve firefighters' traditional approach |
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Conference Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Fire extinguishers; Geographic information systems; Information systems; Back-up systems; Critical systems; Emergency response; Firefighter; First responders; Pre-planning; Response time (computer systems) |
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Incident response preplanning has an increasing importance in today's Fire Brigades incident response. This paper presents some concepts that could be easily applied, supplying the firefighters with a simple, yet reliable tool that can be configured to include data available at the time of resource activation. This early information and the route map to the incident can be of big help for firefighters if presented in a convenient way. Offline (paper) backup solutions and the need for APIs that may be used to exploit geographic data are also discussed. Finally, a proof of concept setup is developed using GoogleMaps[TM] for the case of the City of Madrid, Spain. |
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Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Spain |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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803 |
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Anthony C. Robinson; Robert E. Roth; Alan M. MacEachren |
| Title |
Challenges for map symbol standardization in crisis management |
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Conference Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Disasters; Information systems; Interoperability; Map symbols; Mapping; National security; Risk management; Security systems; Crisis management; Department of Homeland Security; Emergency management; Emergency situation; Geo-spatial informations; Home land security; Key Issues; Symbology; Standardization |
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A wide range of local, regional, and federal authorities will generate maps to help respond to and recover from a disaster. It is essential that map users in an emergency situation can readily understand what they are seeing on these maps. Standardizing map symbology is one mechanism for ensuring that geospatial information is interpretable during an emergency situation, but creating an effective map symbol standard is a complex and evolving task. Here we present preliminary results from research into the application of the ANSI 415-2006 INCITS Homeland Security Map Symbol Standard, a point symbol standard intended to support emergency management mapping for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This standard has so far not been widely adopted across the full range of DHS missions, and we elaborate on key issues and challenges that should be accounted for when developing future map symbol standards for crisis management. |
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Department of Geography, GeoVISTA Center, Pennsylvania State University, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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English |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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882 |
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Benjamin Schooley; Brian Hilton; Yoonmi Lee; Rondalynne McClintock; Samuel-Ojo Olusola; Thomas Horan |
| Title |
CrashHelp: A GIS tool for managing emergency medical responses to motor vehicle crashes |
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Conference Article |
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2010 |
Publication |
ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Geographic information systems; Information systems; Iterative methods; Vehicles; Emergency medical response; Ems; Mash-up; Motor vehicle crashes; Tcis; Emergency services |
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This paper presents the research, design, and development of a comprehensive trauma information system inclusive of 911dispatch, Emergency Medical Services, and hospital trauma information. A proof-of-concept GIS based information system was designed and developed for use by trauma and emergency medical practitioners. Methods used include end-user focus group discussions, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and an iterative system development process. A framework from prior research was utilized; a framework that considers the visualization of emergency medical events across an end-to-end continuum of patient care. Analyses performed provided a multi-layered understanding of the practical and theoretical implications of using an end-to-end information schema for emergency response and trauma health systems. |
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School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
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S. French, B. Tomaszewski, C. Zobel |
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English |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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