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<div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
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<div>15th International
Conference on Information
Systems for Crisis Response</div>
<div>and Management (ISCRAM
2018)</div>
<div>May 20-23, 2018, Rochester,
NY, USA</div>
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<div>Track: Geospatial
Technologies and Geographic
Information Science for Crisis
Management (GIS)</div>
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<div>Deadline for paper
submissions: January 21, 2018</div>
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<div>* Track Description</div>
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<div>With disasters and disaster
management being an
“inherently spatial” problem,
geospatial information and
technologies have been widely
employed for supporting
disaster and crisis
management. This includes SDSS
and GIS architectures, VGI,
spatial databases,
spatial-temporal methods, as
well as geovisual analytics
technologies, which have a
great potential to build risk
map, estimate damaged areas,
define evacuation routes, and
plan resource distribution.
Collaborative platforms like
OSM have been also employed to
support disaster management
(e.g., near real-time
mapping). Nevertheless, all
these geospatial big data pose
new challenges for not only
geospatial data visualization,
but also data modeling and
analysis; existing
technologies, methodologies,
and approaches now have to
deal with data shared in
various formats, different
velocities, and uncertainties.
Furthermore, new issues have
been also emerging in urban
computing and smart cities for
making communities more
resilient against disasters.
In line with this year’s
conference theme, the GIS
Track particularly welcomes
submissions addressing aspects
of geovisualization in
disaster risk and crisis
research. This includes SDSS,
near-real-time mapping,
situational awareness, VGI,
spatio-temporal modeling,
urban computing, and other
related aspects. We seek
conceptual, theoretical,
technological, methodological,
empirical contributions, as
well as research papers
employing different
methodologies, e.g.,
design-oriented research, case</div>
<div>Studies, and action
research. Solid student
contributions are welcome. </div>
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<div>Track topics are therefore
focused on but not limited to
the following list.</div>
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<div> 1. Geospatial data
analytics for crisis
management</div>
<div> 2. Location-based
services for crisis management</div>
<div> 3. Location-based
technologies for crisis
management</div>
<div> 4. Geospatial ontology
for crisis management</div>
<div> 5. Geospatial big data
in the context of disaster and
crisis management </div>
<div> 6. Geospatial linked
data for crisis management</div>
<div> 7. Urban computing and
geospatial aspects of smart
cities for crisis
management</div>
<div> 8. Spatial Decision
Support Systems for crisis
management</div>
<div> 9. Remote sensing for
crisis management</div>
<div> 10. Geospatial
intelligence for crisis
management</div>
<div> 11. Spatial data
management for crisis
management</div>
<div> 12. Spatial data
infrastructure for crisis
management</div>
<div> 13. Geovisual analytics
for crisis management</div>
<div> 14. Spatial-temporal
modeling in disaster and
crisis context</div>
<div> 15. Crisis mapping and
geovisualization</div>
<div> 16. Crowdsourcing and
VGI in the context disaster
and crisis management</div>
<div> 17. Spatial analysis of
OpenStreetMap (OSM) data for
crisis management</div>
<div> 18. Spatial analysis of
social media messages in the
context of crisis
management</div>
<div> 19. Interoperability
aspects regarding
disaster-related geodata</div>
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<div>* Important Dates</div>
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style="font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;text-decoration:line-through;font-style:normal;background:rgb(255,255,255)">Submission of Completed Research papers (CoRe): December 3, 2017</span></s><span
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style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal;text-transform:none;text-decoration:line-through;font-style:normal;background:rgb(255,255,255)">Acceptances or otherwise of Completed Research papers (CoRe): January 7, 2018</span></s><span
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<div>Acceptances or otherwise of
Work in Progress (WiPe)
papers, demos and posters:
February 18, 2018.</div>
<div>Camera Ready Paper: March
4, 2018.</div>
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<div>* Paper submission
guidelines</div>
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<div>* Track Chairs</div>
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<div>Prof. Dr. João Porto de
Albuquerque (primary contact)</div>
<div>University of Warwick,
United Kingdom</div>
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<div>Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf</div>
<div>University of Heidelberg,
Germany</div>
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<div>Dr. Flávio E. A. Horita</div>
<div>University of São Paulo,
Brazil</div>
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