CFP ISCRAM 2006 Special Session

[Peter Otto potto nycap.rr.com]

Posted by ""Peter Otto"" <potto@nycap.rr.com>
Call for Papers *** ISCRAM 2006 / Special Session *** System Dynamics for Emergency Response and Crisis Management

Important Dates:

- Paper Submissions: January 12, 2006
- Review Notifications: March 3, 2006
- Final Camera-ready paper: March 17, 2006
- Conference: May 14 - 17, 2006, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA,

Consistent with the ISCRAM (International Community on Information Systems for crisis response and management) conference theme to recognize the role and function of information systems for the continuous parallel ""Lifecycle of Emergency Preparedness and Response""; we issue a call for papers with a focus on applying system dynamics to gain insights into the underlying dynamics in emergency response and crisis management.

One challenge in investigating emergency preparedness and response is to not only understand the feedback effects and the potential performance of the complex situations that Emergency Response systems interact with, but also to obtain structural models from the people who are in the domain. As such, we are looking for research that helps us to better understand the relationships among factors shown to be important in crisis decision making (e.g., stress, information overload and decision quality).

We welcome submissions of full papers (about 5,000 words) with specific topics but not limited to, for example:

- What are the characteristics of organizational crisis and how can information systems be used in emergency response and crisis management?
- What is the leverage of different crisis management policies?
- What is the effect of information overload and stress on decision-making during a crisis situation?
- What factors, internal as well as external, may determine emergency response and crisis recovery and how are these factors interrelated?

Papers should not have been published previously in a proceedings or journal, nor be under review elsewhere, but may be submitted elsewhere after the ISCRAM 2006 conference. Paper submissions must indicate the special session to which they are targeted and be emailed to iscram06@njit.edu

For instructions on submitting and formatting conference papers please go to http://www.iscram.org

If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact the session chair, Peter Otto, by e-mail: peteotto@gmail.com Posted by ""Peter Otto"" <potto@nycap.rr.com> posting date Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:59:49 -0400