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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Information
Systems for
Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM) 9(3)The contents of the
latest
issue of:
*International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response
and
Management (IJISCRAM)*
*An Official Publication of the ISCRAM Association
<http://www.iscram.org/category-membership/>*
Volume 9, Issue 3, July - September 2017
Indexed by: INSPEC
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Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1937-9390; EISSN: 1937-9420;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
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Editor-in-Chief: Víctor Amadeo Bañuls Silvera (Universidad Pablo
de
Olavide, Spain) and Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University,
USA)
*Note: The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis
Response
and Management (IJISCRAM) has an Open Access option, which allows
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content.
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based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.*
*GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE*
Special Issue on Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management in
the Mediterranean Countries
Ioannis M. Dokas (Civil Engineering Department, Democritus
University of
Thrace, Xanthi, Greece)
To obtain a copy of the Guest Editorial Preface, click on the link
below.
www.igi-global.com/pdf.aspx?tid=207710&ptid=158388&ctid=15&t=Special
Issue
on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in the
Mediterranean Countries
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*ARTICLE 1*
Dependability Levels on Autonomous Systems: The Case Study of a
Crisis
Management Robot
Angeliki Zacharaki (Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus
University
of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Ioannis Kostavelis (Department of
Production
and Management Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace,
Xanthi, Greece)
Professional robots should be endorsed with great autonomy
capabilities
when designed for release into the market. The need for autonomy
is further
reinforced when robots are meant to be used for crisis management
situations, where close collaboration with humans and trustworthy
operation
in hazardous environments is necessary. To this end, this article
quantifies the system's autonomy by measuring its dependability.
This is
achieved by defining a qualitative metric system regarding the
different
levels of dependability that autonomous systems should retain in
order to
operate in various crisis situations. It provides a detailed
analysis of
each level of dependability and proposes the minimum requirements
that
should be fulfilled in each level, thus realizing a ranking system
that
outlines the overall system's ability to operate autonomously. The
proposed
analysis is applied on a real robotic prototype developed for
crisis
situations and evaluates the system's autonomy capabilities by
qualitative
assessing the levels of dependability it retains.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/dependability-levels-on-autonomous-systems/207711
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207711
*ARTICLE 2*
Hybrid Unsupervised Modeling of Air Pollution Impact to
Cardiovascular and
Respiratory Diseases
Lazaros Iliadis (Civil Engineering Department, School of
Engineering,
Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Vardis-Dimitris
Anezakis
(Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture and Forest
Sciences,
Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece), Konstantinos
Demertzis
(Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Democritus
University
of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece), Georgios Mallinis (Department of
Forestry,
School of Agriculture and Forest Sciences, Democritus University
of Thrace,
Orestiada, Greece)
During the last few decades, climate change has increased air
pollutant
concentrations with a direct and serious effect on population
health in
urban areas. This research introduces a hybrid computational
intelligence
approach, employing unsupervised machine learning (UML), in an
effort to
model the impact of extreme air pollutants on cardiovascular and
respiratory diseases of citizens. The system is entitled Air
Pollution
Climate Change Cardiovascular and Respiratory (APCCCR) and it
combines the
fuzzy chi square test (FUCS) with the UML self organizing maps
algorithm. A
major innovation of the system is the determination of the direct
impact of
air pollution (or of the indirect impact of climate change) to the
health
of the people, in a comprehensive manner with the use of fuzzy
linguistics.
The system has been applied and tested thoroughly with
spatiotemporal data
for the Thessaloniki urban area for the period 2004-2013.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/hybrid-unsupervised-modeling-of-air-pollution-impact-to-cardiovascular-and-respiratory-diseases/207712
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207712
*ARTICLE 3*
Metrics for Ensuring Security and Privacy of Information Sharing
Platforms
for Improved City Resilience: A Review Approach
Jaziar Radianti (Centre for Integrated Emergency Management UiA,
Grimstad,
Norway), Terje Gjøsæter (Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo,
Norway)
City resilience is a pressing issue worldwide since the majority
of the
population resides in urban areas. When disaster strikes, the
consequences
will be more severe in the cities. To achieve resilience,
different
organizations, agencies and the public should share information
during a
disaster. ICT-based community engagement is used for strengthening
resilience. The authors propose a set of metrics for assessing the
security
and privacy of information sharing tools for resilience. They then
apply
the selected metrics to a selection of information sharing tools.
The
authors' main finding is that most of them are reasonably
well-protected,
but with less than private default settings. They discuss the
importance of
security and privacy for different important categories of users
of such
systems, to better understand how these aspects affect the
willingness to
share information. Security and privacy is of particular
importance for
whistle-blowers that may carry urgent information, while
volunteers and
active helpers are less affected by the level of security and
privacy.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/metrics-for-ensuring-security-and-privacy-of-information-sharing-platforms-for-improved-city-resilience/207713
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207713
*ARTICLE 4*
Serious Game Design for Flooding Triggered by Extreme Weather
Jaziar Radianti (Centre for Integrated Emergency Management
(CIEM),
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Mattias N. Tronslien
(University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Kristoffer Kalvik
Thomassen
(University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Max Emil Odd Moland
(Universitetet i Agder, Kristiansand, Norway), Christian Anker
Kulmus
(Kulmus 3D, Oslo, Norway)
Managing crises with limited resources through a serious game is
deemed as
one of the ways of training and can be regarded as an alternative
to a
table-top exercise. This article presents the so-called “Operasjon
Tyrsdal”
serious game, inspired by a real case of extreme weather that hit
the west
coast of Norway. This reference case is used to add realism to the
game.
The game is designed for a single player, while the mechanics are
framed in
such a way that the player will have limited resources, and
elevated event
pressure over time. Beside applying an iterative Scrum method with
seven
Sprint cycles, we combined the development work with desk research
and used
the involvement of testers, including crisis responders. The
resulting game
has expected features and behaviors, is game(ful), but allow the
player to
learn through an “After Action” report that logs all player's
decisions,
which is intended to trigger discussions.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/serious-game-design-for-flooding-triggered-by-extreme-weather/207714
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207714
*ARTICLE 5*
Towards a Grid for Characterizing and Evaluating Crisis Management
Serious
Games: A Survey of the Current State of Art
Ibtissem Daoudi (ENSI, Manouba, Tunisia), Raoudha Chebil (ENSI,
Manouba,
Tunisia), Erwan Tranvouez (Aix Marseille University, Marseille,
France),
Wided Lejouad Chaari (ENSI, Manouba, Tunisia), Bernard Espinasse
(Aix
Marseille University, Marseille, France)
Over the last few decades, interest has grown in the use of
serious games
(SG) and their assessment in almost every sector. A privileged
application
domain of SG is crisis management (CM) in which these tools
improve crisis
behavior and/or management in a safe environment while reducing
training
costs. However, it is difficult to characterize and evaluate such
specific
SG. This article proposes a comprehensive grid defining features
for
description, analysis and evaluation of Crisis Management Serious
Games
(CMSG). First of all, the authors introduce SG, CM as well as
evaluation
and assessment concepts, and discuss their particular challenges
by
highlighting the need of using assessment and evaluation
techniques to
support learning and/or training. Then, the authors present,
classify and
compare the most relevant techniques dedicated to address this
need by
encompassing the state of the art of learners' assessment and
evaluation
approaches used in CMSG. Finally, this article presents in detail
the
proposed grid and discusses the major findings and contributions.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/towards-a-grid-for-characterizing-and-evaluating-crisis-management-serious-games/207715
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207715
*ARTICLE 6*
A Framework to Improve the Disaster Response Through a
Knowledge-Based
Multi-Agent System
Claire Prudhomme (i3mainz, University of Applied Sciences, Mainz,
Germany),
Christophe Cruz (Laboratoire LE2I – UMR FRE 2005 – IC ARTS, Dijon,
France),
Ana Roxin (Laboratoire LE2I – UMR FRE 2005 – IC ARTS, Dijon,
France), Frank
Boochs (i3mainz, University of Applied Science, Mainz, Germany)
The disaster response still faces problems of collaboration due to
lack of
policies concerning the information exchange during the response.
Moreover,
plans are prepared to respond to a disaster, but drills to apply
them are
limited and do not allow to determine their efficiency and
conflicts with
other organizations. This paper presents a framework allowing for
different
organizations involving in the disaster response to assess their
collaboration through its simulation using an explicit
representation of
their knowledge. This framework is based on a multi-agent system
composed
of three generic agent models to represent the organizational
structure of
disaster response. The decision-making about response actions is
done
through task decomposition and repartition. It is based reasoning
on
ontologies which provides an explicit trace of the response plans
design
and their execution. Such framework aims at identifying
cooperation
problems and testing strategies of information exchange to support
the
preparation of disaster response.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/article/a-framework-to-improve-the-disaster-response-through-a-knowledge-based-multi-agent-system/207716
To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.
www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=207716
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
Mission of IJISCRAM:
The mission of the *International Journal of Information Systems
for Crisis
Response and Management (IJISCRAM)* is to provide an outlet for
innovative
research in the area of information systems for crisis response
and
management. Research is expected to be rigorous but can utilize
any
accepted methodology and may be qualitative or quantitative in
nature. The
journal will provide a comprehensive cross disciplinary forum for
advancing
the understanding of the organizational, technical, human, and
cognitive
issues associated with the use of information systems in
responding and
managing crises of all kinds. The goal of the journal is to
publish high
quality empirical and theoretical research covering all aspects of
information systems for crisis response and management.
Full-length
research manuscripts, insightful research and practice notes, and
case
studies will be considered for publication.
Indices of IJISCRAM:
- ACM Digital Library
- Bacon's Media Directory
- Cabell's Directories
- DBLP
- GetCited
- Google Scholar
- INSPEC
- JournalTOCs
- MediaFinder
- Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
- The Index of Information Systems Journals
- The Standard Periodical Directory
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Coverage of IJISCRAM:
This journal covers all aspects of the crisis management
information
systems discipline, from organizational or social issues to
technology
support to decision making and knowledge representation. High
quality
submissions are encouraged using any qualitative or quantitative
research
methodology, focusing on the design, development, implementation,
uses and
evaluation of such systems. Submissions are especially encouraged
covering
the following topics in this discipline:
- Case studies, research methods, and modeling approaches
- Collaborative and intelligent systems
- Command and control
- Communication technologies
- Crisis planning, training, exercising, and gaming
- Data fusion, representation, and visualization
- Decision making and judgment
- Disaster risk reduction, risk management, ad-hoc, and sensor
networks
- Early warning systems
- Emergency response systems
- Geographical information systems
- Globalization and development issues
- Healthcare and health information systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Humanitarian operations
- Information systems strategy
- Knowledge management and systems
- Systems interoperability information systems infrastructures
- Virtual teams and organizations
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript
submission
guidelines
www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-information-systems-crisis/1119
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