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Workshop
Process Description
There will be a chance for review and online discussion of the position papers
by the members of a workshop prior to the meeting. Following the face-to-face
workshop, a volunteer subgroup will develop a report based upon the final views
generated at the workshop. This report will be published on the ISCRAM
website and a journal outlet will be sought. Final position papers by individual
participants will be published on the ISCRAM website (with permission of the
individual authors) after the workshops along with the collaborative report of
the participants in the workshop. A summary will be presented during the
main ISCRAM meeting by the workshop chair.
Emergency
Management Information Systems: Future Needs and Requirements (back to top)
Chair: Paul Burghardt; paul.burghardt@decis.nl
Research Manager at Delft Consortium on Intelligent Systems, Netherlands
The purpose of this workshop is to establish a common vision on future requirements
on information systems for crisis response and management. Practitioners
are invited to submit a position paper based on their experience in real
world crisis situations. Researchers are encouraged to draw conclusions
from their academic work in terms of future needs and requirements.
Beyond any doubt, recent crises have shown that systems for crisis response
and management are in need of significant improvements. It is often
pointed out that the communication and information systems were not prepared
to deal with such unanticipated situations. This workshop aims to make
use of the expertise of the ISCRAM community to articulate the priority requirements
that should be placed on the information systems of the future. Both
practitioners and researchers are invited to submit a short position paper in
which they make use of their particular experience and expertise.
The workshop is intended to complement the specials sessions by offering
an opportunity for discussion crosscutting all special concerns. Specific
position papers may for example be concerned with requirements on information
systems with regard to:
- Estimating the scale of upcoming
crises and response it necessitates
- Establishing the window of opportunity
for a timely response
- Enabling communications between
multiple layers and disciplines
- Coordinating actions of multiple
communities/stakeholders
- Workflow Management for Incident
Command Systems
- Enabling knowledge management
and reach-back processes
- Involvement of civilians (Public
Warning, Information and Engagement)
- Enhancing the ease of use and
trustworthiness of supporting applications
- Improvement of the interoperability
of systems through standardization
- Extending personalized support
of field workers
By means of a Delphi-like process the participants will be encouraged
to arrive at a common vision on priority requirements that will be
presented in the general ISCRAM conference. A publication will
follow acknowledging the contributions to the workshop. Note
that the workshop is primarily concerned with the actual requirements. There
is also a Special session on Multi-Disciplinary requirements Capture
for Emergency Information Systems that focuses on the research
and engineering methods by which requirements are captured.
Future
Communication Requirements for Emergency Response (back to top)
Co-Chairs: Alexandra Hubenko Baker, ahubenko@ucsd.edu
B. S. Manoj, bsmanoj@ucsd.edu
UCSD CalIT2, University of California at San Diego
www.itr-rescue.org and www.responsphere.org
Workshop Review Committee:
Prof. Ramesh Rao, University of California, San Diego, USA
Prof. Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine, USA
Prof. Bhaskar Rao, University of California San Diego, USA
Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California Irvine, USA
Prof. Carter Butts, University of California Irvine, USA
The focus theme of this workshop is the future communication requirements
for emergency response. This workshop provides a forum for researchers
and practitioners to present their experiences and expectations from the
existing and future communications systems, respectively. The position
papers presented by the authors will be used for drafting a white paper at
the end of the workshop, which will form an important document for providing
guidance to the policy makers.
Authors are invited to submit position papers (three to five pages single
spaced) in related areas that will be reviewed by the review committee and
accepted for presentation at the workshop. Research areas of particular
interest are (a) social communication issues on before, during, and after
a crisis, (b) communication network issues during and after a crisis, and
(c) the influence of (a) on (b). Monitoring the communication pattern
can help developing an early warning system about impending crisis. We
invite researchers, practitioners, students, and academicians to submit their
high quality position papers to this workshop. Each accepted position
paper must be presented at the workshop and a final white paper will be brought
out from the workshop. Position papers on the topics including but
not limited to the following topics are invited to be submitted to this workshop.
- Future requirements of communication
systems for emergency response
- Role of the government and policy
makers
- Role of the emergency response
agencies
- Human communication behavior
modeling in emergency situations
- Identification of human behavior
patterns for early detection of network emergencies
- Group communication challenges
in inter-response agency communications
- Technological challenges in
inter-response agency communication
- Effect on human communication
during crises on communication networks
- Emergency networking
- Use of IT in emergency communication
- Ad hoc wireless networking
- Wireless mesh networking
- Extreme networking for ground
zero communication
- Heterogeneous wireless networks
for emergency response
- Location detection, traffic
prediction, and their impact on communication infrastructure
- Reliability and fault tolerance
of communication infrastructure
- Manageability of cellular infrastructure
on the aftermath of large scale disasters
- Design of wireless networks
for emergency handling
- Fault tolerance and recovery
in wireless systems
- Intelligent wireless messaging
system for aiding crises handling
- Automated crises management
systems for next generation wireless networks
- Studies on the impact of crises
or emergency situations to wireless network crises
- Data gathering, analysis, and
utilization of information to aid crises mitigation in next
generation wireless networks
- Design of distributed wireless
network control centers for aiding emergency situation handling
- Simulation test-bed and related
studies for crises mitigation
- Experimental results on solutions
for wireless network centric crises mitigation
- Human communication behavior
modeling to prevent impending wireless network emergencies
- Protocol design for implicit
emergency response in next generation wireless networks
Authors should submit an electronic version of the position paper
in word format. Authors must identify that they are submitting
papers for the workshop titled “Future
Communication Requirements for Emergency Response”. All
submissions will undergo a thorough review by the review committee. Each
accepted position papers must be presented at the workshop and a
final white paper will be brought out from the workshop.
Providing
Assurance by Auditing Emergency Preparedness: Role of the Auditor (back to top)
Audit Workshop Review Committee:
Chair: Murray Turoff, turoff@njit.edu
Michael Chumer, chumer@njit.edu
Robb Klashner, klashner@njit.edu
Information Systems Department
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Co-Chair: Michael Alles, alles@business.rutgers.edu
Alexander Kogan, kogan@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Miklos Vasarhelyi miklosv@andromeda.rurgters.edu
Donald Warren, jdonwarren@rbs.rutgers.edu
Accounting and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School
Rutgers University
Trony Clifton: CPA, CISA, CFSA, trony@mandem.com,
Educational Chair, NJ Chapter Information Systems Audit, and Control Association
B. Elisabeth Rossen, brossen@fau.edu,
Executive Forensic Accounting Program, Florida Atlantic University
This workshop is based upon the following published paper:
Turoff, M., M. Chumer, R. Hiltz, R. Klashner, M. Alles, M. Vasarhelyi, and A.
Kogan, “Assuring
Homeland Security: Continuous Monitoring, Control & Assurance of Emergency
Preparedness,” Journal
of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 6:3, 2004,
1-24. http://jitta.org A
copy may be obtained from turoff@njit.edu.
The recent controversy over the inadequacy of governments and systems to
deal with Cyclone’s
Katerina and Rita despite years of preparation illustrate that EP systems
may not always work as expected. Establishing a reliable and credible
state of emergency preparedness (EP) requires an audit capability that provides
decision makers and first responders with assurance as to the actual capabilities
of an EP system. “EP
Trust” is
a set of controls and criteria that auditors can use to measure the degree
of EP of organizations of all types: commercial, governmental at the federal,
state, and local levels, medical and care facilities, volunteer organizations,
and non profits. The audit of EP systems is a clear gap in Homeland
Security and an essential element in ensuring that the lessons learned from
9/11 and Hurricane Katerina have a permanent impact on preparations for future
emergencies. The development of the measures and controls that would
comprise EP Trust requires a highly interdisciplinary process, with the necessary
involvement of professionals in EP, the audit profession, the IT community,
experts, including academics, from management science, operations research,
accounting and organizational behavior, as well as first responders and others
on the front line of EP.
The objective of this workshop is to come up with a road map on what is necessary
to proceed to making this type of auditing a reality. Underlying this
goal is the observation that some of the same implications that exist under
the Sarbanes Oxley Act for the design of controls over financial reporting
are also necessary for Emergency Preparedness Information Systems in terms
of the monitoring of real time decision process within the organization.
For the workshop we are requesting participants to submit a 3-5 single spaced
working position paper on their views of the proposal for an EP Trust capability
and how it can be brought to realization. Our objective is to achieve
a true interdisciplinary mix of 20-30 participants. The position papers
will be due at the same time other papers are due for ISCRAM. Those
papers accepted will be placed on a bulletin board at NJIT for review and
comment by the workshop participants. As a result of this and the actual
workshop on the Sunday of the 14th of May at NJIT, a subcommittee
will be chosen to compile a report on the conclusions arrived at by the participants
that will ultimately be published on the ISCRAM website, along with the final
versions of the working papers and a follow on journal publication. A
summary of what occurred will also be presented at the ISCRAM meeting during
the next three days.
Forecasting,
Risk Assessment, and Decision Support Systems for Large Scale Evacuations (back to top)
Chair: Rene Windhouwer, rene@windhouwer.demon.nl
Co-Chair: Bartel Van de Walle, bartel@uvt.nl
Tsunamis, floods, hurricanes are natural disasters that have one thing in
common. A reliable forecast creates a certain warning time that can
be used for a large scale evacuation to prevent or reduce the number of casualties. The
main objective of the workshop is to answer the question how we can use decision
support systems to improve the emergency management in general and evacuation
management more specific, so that we can use the warning time optimally. The
workshop tries to close the gap between policy makers, scientist, and practitioners. Searches
for the needs and requirements that have to be met, obstructions that have
to be overcome and what could be done to improve the current gap between
planning and execution in the area of large scale evacuations.
There will be a chance for review and online discussion of the position papers
by the members of a workshop prior to the meeting. Following the face-to-face
workshop, a volunteer subgroup will develop a report based upon the final
views generated at the workshop. This report will be published on the
ISCRAM website and a journal outlet will be sought. Final position
papers by individual participants will be published on the ISCRAM website
(with permission of the individual authors) after the workshops along with
the collaborative report of the participants in the workshop. A summary
will be presented during the main ISCRAM meeting by the workshop chair.
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