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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 |
| Year |
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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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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Thomas Foulquier; Claude Caron |
| Title |
Towards a formalization of interorganizational trust networks 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 |
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ISCRAM 2010 |
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Networks (circuits); Social sciences computing; Crisis; Crisis management; Formalization; Inter-organizational trust; Sensemaking; Trust; Trust networks; Information systems |
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As the concept of trust has found its way into the crisis management literature, many questions remain to be addressed, among which that of its integration with information technology, and its relevance for improving collaboration in a crisis management environment. We propose in this paper that a sub category of social networks, interpersonal trust networks between organisations, may have a significant influence on the management of a crisis by organizations, and that their formalization by technology can help manage such networks and prepare for potential crises. Following a review of trust in the crisis management context, we link trust's organizing properties to crisis management case studies and present our rationale for formalizing trust networks in an information system. We consider the technological artifact produced before the crisis by formalizing interpersonal, interorganizational trust relationships will constitute an element for collective sensemaking by parties involved in the management of a crisis. |
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Geobusiness Group, Faculté d'Administration, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
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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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Special Session: Information Credibility, Trust, Privacy and Security in Information Systems for Emergency Management |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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1007 |
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Thomas Heverin; Lisl Zach |
| Title |
Microblogging for crisis communication: Examination of twitter use in response to a 2009 violent crisis in the Seattle-Tacoma, Washington area |
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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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Information systems; Computer-mediated communication; Crisis communications; Crisis informatics; Information shared; Information sharing; Microblogging; Police officers; Research efforts; Social networking (online) |
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This research-in-progress paper reports on the use of microblogging as a communication and information sharing resource during a recent violent crisis. The goal of the larger research effort is to investigate the role that microblogging plays in crisis communication during violent events. The shooting of four police officers and the subsequent 48-hour search for the suspect that took place in the Seattle-Tacoma area of Washington in late November 2009 is used as a case study. A stream of over 6,000 publically available messages on Twitter, a popular microblogging site, was collected and individual messages were categorized as information, opinion, technology, emotion, and action-related. The coding and statistical analyses of the messages suggest that citizens use microblogging as one method to organize and disseminate crisis-related information. Additional research is in progress to analyze the types of information transmitted, the sources of the information, and the temporal trends of information shared. |
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College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, United States |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
Editor |
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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Collaboration and Social Networking |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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578 |
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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 |
| 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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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 |
Tim J. Grant; Gijs Van Den Heuvel |
| Title |
Modelling the information sharing process in military coalitions: A work in progress |
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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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Commerce; Communication; Information systems; Security systems; Coalition; Information seeking; Information sharing; Process Modeling; Security regulations; Information analysis |
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Coalition partners must share information to work together. Models of information sharing assume that it is a linear, one-way process. As part of a larger project, we studied information sharing in military coalitions. Interviews of 47 officers in NATO R&D organizations showed that one piece of information was often traded for another. This is characteristic of an information market. Security regulations make information a scarce resource, although trust may allow the regulations to be waived. Our observations have consequences for the military Network Enabled Capabilities community in their desire to migrate to a “need to share” security principle. Failing to find a suitable process model in the literature, we outline requirements and identify two possible starting points for modelling the information sharing process in military coalitions. |
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Netherlands Defence Academy, Netherlands |
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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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Special Session: Studies of Command and Control Systems |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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548 |
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Tina Comes; Claudine Conrado; Michael Hiete; Michiel Kamermans; Gregor Pavlin; Niek Wijngaards |
| Title |
An intelligent decision support system for decision making under uncertainty in distributed reasoning frameworks |
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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 |
Abbreviated Journal |
ISCRAM 2010 |
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Automation; Civil defense; Decision making; Decision support systems; Disasters; Expert systems; Information systems; Intelligent systems; Multi agent systems; Risk management; Decision making under uncertainty; Distributed decision support systems; Distributed reasonings; Emergency management; Intelligent decision support systems; Multi-criteria decision analysis; Scenario-based; Theoretical framework; Information filtering |
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This paper presents an intelligent system facilitating better-informed decision making under severe uncertainty as found in emergency management. The construction of decision-relevant scenarios, being coherent and plausible descriptions of a situation and its future development, is used as a rationale for collecting, organizing, filtering and processing information for decision making. The development of scenarios is geared to assessing decision alternatives, thus avoiding time-consuming analysis and processing of irrelevant information. The scenarios are constructed in a distributed setting allowing for a flexible adaptation of reasoning (principles and processes) to the problem at hand and the information available. This approach ensures that each decision can be founded on a coherent set of scenarios, which was constructed using the best expertise available within a limited timeframe. Our theoretical framework is demonstrated in a distributed decision support system by orchestrating both automated systems and human experts into workflows tailored to each specific problem. |
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Institute for Industrial Production, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; D-CIS Lab / Thales Research and Technology, Netherlands |
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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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Intelligent Systems |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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406 |
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Tiziana Catarci; Massimiliano De Leoni; Andrea Marrella; Massimo Mecella; Manfred Bortenschlager; Renate Steinmann |
| Title |
The WORKPAD project experience: Improving the disaster response through process management and geo collaboration |
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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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Data integration; Disasters; Information systems; Management information systems; Mobile devices; Risk management; Development cycle; Disaster response; Emergency management; Emergency response; Process management; Process management systems; Project experiences; User centered designs; Emergency services |
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In complex emergency/disaster scenarios teams from various emergency-response organizations collaborate with each other to achieve a common goal. In these scenarios the use of smart mobile devices and applications can improve the collaboration dynamically. The lack of basic interaction principles can be dangerous as it could increase the level of disaster or can make the efforts ineffective. The paper focuses on the description of the main results of the project WORKPAD finished in December 2009. WORKPAD worked on a two-level architecture to support rescue operators during emergency management. The use of a user-centered design methodology during the entire development cycle has guaranteed that the architecture and the resulting system meet the end-user requirements. The feasibility of its use in real emergencies is also proven by a demonstration showcased in July with real operators. The paper includes the qualitative and quantitative showcase results and mentions some guidelines which can be useful for persons who want to develop emergency-management systems. |
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Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, SAPIENZA Universit , Rome, Italy; Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, 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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English |
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2411-3387 |
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Technologies and Tools |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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381 |
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Trishan R. De Lanerolle; William V. Anderson; Sam DeFabbia-Kane; Eli Fox-Epstein; Dimitar Gochev; Ralph A. Morelli |
| Title |
Development of a virtual dashboard for event coordination between multiple groups |
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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; Collabbit; Collaborative technologies; Communication tools; Disaster management; Open sources; Open source software |
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Collabbit is an open source web-based application that aims to increase emergency management efficiency through distributed asynchronous information sharing. The software is targeted to loosely coupled non-profit disaster relief agencies that coordinate response to and recovery from disasters. Disaster relief agencies create a common operating picture of an emergency incident through remotely posted incident updates. Individual users subscribe to topics of interest and receive near-instantaneous updates on those topics. Where information is lacking, users may access a topically organized contact registry. This report describes the development and deployment of the Collabbit project. |
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Trinity College, Hartford CT, United States; Case Commons, New York, NY, United States; Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, 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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2411-3387 |
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Technologies and Tools |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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436 |
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Tuomas Peltonen; Michael Ammann; Juhani Lahtinen; Kaj Vesterbacka |
| Title |
Operational experience with the Ketale web application |
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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; Nuclear reactor accidents; Data management system; Dose calculation; Emergency exercise; Operational aspects; Operational experience; Planning tools; User experience; WEB application; Information management |
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Ketale is a collaborative data management system to share, manage and view the results of dispersion and dose calculations and other information related to nuclear or radiation accidents. Ketale was used the first time in an exercise in December 2008. User feedback led to a redesign of the system during 2009. The redesigned version improved the overall performance of the system and introduced some new features like a planning tool for countermeasure recommendations. The present report outlines operational aspects and user experiences of the Ketale system. |
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Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland |
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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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Technologies and Tools |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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839 |
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Victor A. Bañuls; Murray Turoff; Joaquin Lopez |
| Title |
Clustering scenarios using cross-impact analysis |
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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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Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Computational infrastructure; Cross-impact analysis; Emergency preparedness; Graphical representations; Interpretive structural modeling; Operational issues; Scenario generation; Scenarios; Information systems |
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Scenarios are frequently used in Emergency Planning and Preparedness. These scenarios are developed based on the hypothesis of occurrence or not of significant events. This is a complex process because of the interrelations between events. This fact, along with the uncertainty about the occurrence or non-occurrence of the events, makes the scenario generation process a challenging issue for emergency managers. In this work a new step-by-step model for clustering scenarios via cross-impact is proposed. The authors. proposal adds tools for detecting critical events and graphical representation to the previous scenario-generation methods based on Cross-Impact Analysis. Moreover, it allows working with large sets of events without using great computational infrastructures. These contributions are expected to be useful for supporting the analysis of critical events and risk assessment tasks in Emergency Planning and Preparedness. Operational issues and practical implications of the model are discussed by means of an example. |
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Pablo de Olavide University, Spain; New Jersey Institute of Technology, 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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2411-3387 |
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Planning, Foresight and/or Risk Analysis |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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286 |
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Wendy A. Edwards; Awais Vaid; Ian S. Brooks |
| Title |
INDICATOR: An open-source cyberenvironment for biosurveillance |
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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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Information systems; Public health; Biosurveillance; Cyberenvironment; Disease surveillance; Event streams; Interactive workflow; Java; Open sources; Open-source; Open source software |
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In this paper, we discuss the architecture and implementation of INDICATOR, a free open source cyberenvironment for disease surveillance. Biosurveillance entails numerous tasks, including data acquisition and preparation, analysis, and reporting. These tasks can be modeled and executed as a workflow. Workflows encapsulate data, tools, and metadata. Cyberenvironments provide integrated, user-friendly sets of tools and services to marshal resources and help researchers analyze, visualize, and model their data. INDICATOR uses an Eclipse-based cyberenvironment that supports interactive workflow creation, connection to data and event streams, provenance tracking, and reuse of workflows and fragments to acquire, analyze, and visualize public health data. |
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Health Sciences Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, United States; Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, 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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Willem J. Muhren; Damir Durbic; Bartel A. Van De Walle |
| Title |
Exploring decision-relevant information pooling by humanitarian disaster response teams |
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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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Decision making; Decision support systems; Disaster prevention; Disasters; Information dissemination; Information management; Information systems; Information use; Crisis; Disaster response; Group Decision Making; Group support systems; Hidden profile; Information pooling; Emergency services |
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It is a well-known fact that a lack of information will lead to suboptimal decisions. But even when actors jointly have all the information they need to make a well-informed decision, they may fail to find a superior alternative. This hidden profile paradigm would cause misrepresentations of crisis situations and lead to ineffective response. In this research-in-progress paper, we present the first stage of our experimental study on group decision making in humanitarian disaster response, in which we want to find out how teams can be supported to share more information, make better sense, and ultimately avoid such misrepresentations of crisis situations. First results reveal that humanitarian disaster response teams are able to share significantly more information if they would make use of more advanced information and communication systems. However, none of the teams in the experimental setup managed to find the optimal decision. |
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Tilburg University, Netherlands |
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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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Humanitarian Challenges |
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7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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792 |
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Xiang Yao; Murray Turoff; Starr Roxanne Hiltz |
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A field trial of a collaborative online scenario creation system for emergency management |
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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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Civil defense; Design; Disasters; Information systems; Business continuity planning; Collaboration support; Collaborative systems; Emergency management; Emergency scenario; Evaluation methods; Knowledge structures; Scenarios; Risk management |
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In Emergency Management and Business Continuity Planning, scenarios are a widely used tool. Existing scenario creation systems allow distributed groups to create scenarios together but have limited collaboration support. This study developed and evaluated a solution to provide various types of collaboration support around a knowledge structure at the core of a collaborative scenario creation system called Collario. Following the Design Science paradigm, it evolved through four iterations into a working prototype. Several evaluation methods, including protocol analysis and field study, were employed to evaluate the design effects and obtain user feedback. The results of the first field trial are described in this paper. They indicate that the system is useful to support creation and discussion of emergency scenarios in virtual teams and to share knowledge and experiences among geographically distributed emergency professionals and researchers. It was also found that the system is not hard to learn and use. |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States |
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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
Editor |
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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Collaboration and Social Networking |
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Conference |
7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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no |
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1127 |
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| Author |
Yasir Javed; Tony Norris; David Johnston |
| Title |
Design approach to an emergency decision support system for mass evacuation |
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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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Decision support systems; Design; Information science; Information systems; Ontology; Volcanoes; Edss; Emergency; Emergency decision makings; Emergency decision support; Evacuation; Human system interface; Information needs; Volcanic eruptions; Artificial intelligence |
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This paper is directed primarily to investigating the information needs of emergency managers following recognition of a risk of volcanic eruption. These needs include type of information required during the collection, integration, synthesis, presentation, and sharing of information. This will identify and model the processes underpinning the design of an emergency decision support system (EDSS). Exploration of the information needs, flows, and processes involved in emergency decision making can improve the design of EDSS both in terms of their content and the all-important human-system interfaces that determine their usability.The information attributes and flows then lead to the development of a prototype system that can be evaluated to test and refine the concepts. |
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Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand; Joint Centre of Disaster Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Publisher |
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM |
Place of Publication |
Seattle, WA |
Editor |
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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Poster Session |
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Conference |
7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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no |
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622 |
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