ISCRAM
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ISCRAM is an acronym for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management and is used to represent an international community of researchers, practitioners and policy makers involved in or concerned about the design, development, deployment, use and evaluation of information systems for crisis response and management. ISCRAM has been founded by Bartel Van de Walle (Tilburg University, the Netherlands), who with Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN Nuclear Research Center Belgium) organized ISCRAM2004, where another co-founder Murray Turoff (New Jersey Institute of Technology) was a keynote speaker.
[edit] ISCRAM Conferences
ISCRAM conferences have been held annually since 2004 in Brussels (2004 and 2005), Newark New Jersey (2006), Delft the Netherlands (2007) and Washington DC (2008). Program and/or conference chairs for these meetings were Bartel Van de Walle (2004-2008), Benny Carlé (2004-2005), Murray Turoff (2006), Paul Burghardt and Kees Nieuwenhuis (2007), Frank Fiedrich, Jack Harrald and Theresa Jefferson (2008). Since 2005, the conference alternates between Europe and the USA.
At the conference, the Mike Meleshkin best PhD student paper is awarded to the best paper written and presented by a PhD student. Past awardees are Jonas Landgren (Viktoria Institute, Sweden), Jiri Trnka (Linkoping University, Sweden), Manuel Llavador (Valencia Polytechnic University, Spain), Valentin Bertsch (Karlsruhe University, Germany) and the PhD students in crisis informatics at the University of Colorado in Boulder (USA).
[edit] ISCRAM-CHINA and Summer School
Since 2005, an annual conference is also held in China, at Harbin Engineering University, with Song Yan as conference chair. The 2008 meeting is held jointly with the GI4D meeting on August 4-6 2008.
The Summer School for PhD students took place in the Netherlands at Tilburg University in June 2006 and 2007.
References:
ISCRAM website: [1]
