Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries : First International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2014, Toulouse, France, October 15-17, 2014, Proceedings

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2014. The aim of ISCRAM-med was to gather researchers and practitioners working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, with a special but not limited focus on Mediterranean crises. These include political crises, economic crises, natural hazards, and fatal industrial incidents. The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on supply chain and distribution; modeling and training; human interactions in the crisis field; coordination and agility; and social aspects in crisis management. Front Matter....Pages - A Location-Allocation Model for More Consistent Humanitarian Supply Chains....Pages 1-12 Towards Large-Scale Cloud-Based Emergency Management Simulation “SimGenis Revisited”....Pages 13-20 Approaches to Optimize Local Evacuation Maps for Helping Evacuation in Case of Tsunami....Pages 21-31 EDIT: A Methodology for the Treatment of Non-authoritative Data in the Reconstruction of Disaster Scenarios....Pages 32-45 Towards a Decision Support System for Security Analysis....Pages 46-56 Crisis Mobility of Pedestrians: From Survey to Modelling, Lessons from Lebanon and Argentina....Pages 57-70 Supporting Debriefing with Sensor Data: A Reflective Approach to Crisis Training....Pages 71-84 Citizen Participation and Social Technologies: Exploring the Perspective of Emergency Organizations....Pages 85-97 Access Control Privileges Management for Risk Areas....Pages 98-111 A Formal Modeling Approach for Emergency Crisis Response in Health during Catastrophic Situation....Pages 112-119 Collaborative Re-orderings in Humanitarian Aid Networks....Pages 120-134 Towards Better Coordination of Rescue Teams in Crisis Situations: A Promising ACO Algorithm....Pages 135-142 A Multi-agent Organizational Model for a Snow Storm Crisis Management....Pages 143-156 Agility of Crisis Response: From Adaptation to Forecast: Application to a French Road Crisis Management Use Case....Pages 157-164 The Dewetra Platform: A Multi-perspective Architecture for Risk Management during Emergencies....Pages 165-177 Decision Support for Disaster Risk Management: Integrating Vulnerabilities into Early-Warning Systems....Pages 178-191 Integration of Emotion in Evacuation Simulation....Pages 192-205 Emotional Agent Model for Simulating and Studying the Impact of Emotions on the Behaviors of Civilians during Emergency Situations....Pages 206-217 Emergency Situation Awareness: Twitter Case Studies....Pages 218-231 Back Matter....Pages -