ISCRAM 06
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
Submission Details
May 14, 2006: Workshops, PhD Colloquium (Sunday 10AM-4PM)
May 15-17, 2006: Conference (Monday to Wednesday)
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark NJ (USA)
Program Chair: Murray Turoff, turoff@njit.edu
Conference Chair: Bartel Van de Walle, bartel@uvt.nl
Conference Theme: An author may submit any paper dealing with Information Systems in any phase, intersection of phases, and/or integration of phases of the Emergency Management and Preparedness lifecycle:
Planning, Training, Mitigation, Detection, Alerting, Response, Recovery, and Assessment
Keynoters:
Commissioner Gino P. Menchini: Chief Information Officer (CIO) of New York City
Paul Currion, http://www.currion.net, Information Management for Humanitarian Operations
Important Dates
All Papers of all types due no later than (earlier is better): January 12, 2006
Latest notification to authors of review and decision: March 3, 2006
Final print ready copy by: March 17, 2006
Early registration December 1st 2005 to March 17th 2006
Full Paper word limit is 5000 words; Research in Progress or Practitioner Case Studies 2500 words; Overall acceptance on above limited to around 75 papers; Prior acceptance rates for papers have been 45-55%; Workshop position papers or PhD Colloquium submissions: 1000-2500 words; Conference attendance limit is around 200
See http://ISCRAM.ORG for prior proceedings of the past two annual meetings, forum on related subjects, links to other details about the meetings and related events. Becoming a member of the ISCRAM community is free. There will also be other news posted there about this meeting.
Any type of paper submitted must be sent or copied to ISCRAM06@njit.edu
If the paper does not fit into one of the workshops or sessions above, it will still be reviewed and if accepted will be put into a session created for it and related papers, or assigned to an existing session if appropriate.
If your paper does clearly fit into one of the sessions above it should also be sent to the chair or co-chairs for the special session. For questions on the appropriateness of a possible paper send an abstract as soon as possible to ISCRAM06@njit.edu or to the chair of the special session that you wish to submit to.
Other Relevant Information
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
Please follow the following word template for preparing papers submissions and the final paper. (Click here to download word file paper template).
All papers are submitted in word and should not be submitted in pdf. Papers will ultimately appear on a CD for those attending the meeting, on the ISCRAM website, and for a paper proceedings for libraries. Currently we have commitments from about five journals seeking extended versions of good papers accepted from this meeting.
If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact the session chair, co-chair, or the conference program chair. The following are useful links:
ISCRAM Call for Papers
Special Sessions, and PhD Colloquium:
List of Abstracts
List of Complete Descriptions
Complete Submission Details
Local Details:
(hotels, local transportation,
sight seeing, conference fees, sponsorship
and/or exhibiting etc.)
ISCRAM Registration in December via
ISCRAM Community Home http://iscram.org