Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries : Second International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2015, Tunis, Tunisia, October 28-30, 2015, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the second international conference on Information systems for crisis response and management in mediterranean countries, iscram‐med 2015, held in tunis, tunisia, in october 2015. The objectives of the iscram‐med conference are to provide an outstanding opportunity and an International forum for local and international researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to Address and discuss new trends and challenges with respect to information systems for crisis Response and disaster management. The 14 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected From 41 submissions. they are organized in topical sections on social computing, modeling& Nbsp;and Simulation, information and knowledge management, engineering of emergency management Systems, and decision support systems and collaboration. . Edited By Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud, Carole Adam, Chihab Hanachi. Front Matter....Pages I-XIX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Semantic Visualization of Twitter Usage in Emergency and Crisis Situations....Pages 3-14 A Comparative Study of Microblogs Features Effectiveness for the Identification of Prominent Microblog Users During Unexpected Disaster....Pages 15-26 Recognizing Information Spreaders in Terrorist Networks: 26/11 Attack Case Study....Pages 27-38 Towards an Intelligent Application of Large Scale Community Detection to Support Collaboration During Emergency Management....Pages 39-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Modelling the Tactical Behaviour of the Australian Population in a Bushfire....Pages 53-64 Modelling PM10 Crisis Peaks Using Multi-agent Based Simulation: Application to Annaba City, North-East Algeria....Pages 65-72 Multiple Regression and Artificial Neural Network for the Prediction of Crop Pest Risks....Pages 73-84 Improving Players’ Assessment in Crisis Management Serious Games: The SIMFOR Project....Pages 85-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 Assessing Distributed Situation Awareness in Socio-Technical Systems with RiskSOAP....Pages 103-115 A SKOS Radiation Safety Thesaurus for People Living in Contaminated Territories....Pages 116-123 Towards a Generic Semantic Model for the Representation of Accident Scenarios in the Field of Transport....Pages 124-131 Dynamic and Context Aware Reporting of Observations from the Field for Situation Assessment in Crisis Situation: An Integrated System for Information-Gathering and Sense-Making....Pages 132-139 Front Matter....Pages 141-141 Extending AUML for Interaction Protocols Specifying in the Context of Adaptive Coordination of Crisis Management Processes....Pages 143-154 A Tool for Assessing Quality of Rescue Plans by Combining Visualizations of Different Business Process Perspectives....Pages 155-166 Ethical Framework for a Disaster Management Decision Support System Which Harvests Social Media Data on a Large Scale....Pages 167-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Towards a Support to Stakeholders’ Collaboration During a Loire River Major Flooding....Pages 183-193 On the Literature Divergences of the Humanitarian Supply Chain....Pages 194-204 A Position Paper on Improving Preparedness and Response of Health Services in Major Crises....Pages 205-216 Back Matter....Pages 217-217 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAMĺlmed 2015, held in Tunis, Tunisia, in October 2015. The objectives of the ISCRAMĺlmed conference are to provide an outstanding opportunity and an international forum for local and international researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address and discuss new trends and challenges with respect to information systems for crisis response and disaster management. The 14 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on social computing, modeling and simulation, information and knowledge management, engineering of emergency management systems, and decision support systems and collaboration.