Committees




			Committees Conference Committee Maria A. Santos, LNEC (Chair) Julie Dugdale and David Mendonça (Program Chairs) Track Chairs Early warning and alert systems: Ioannis M. Dokas; João L. Rego Planning and foresight: Murray Turoff; Victor A. Bañuls Education and training: Chris Hagar; Andrew Collins Analytical information systems: Christopher Zobel; Gary Fetter; Mauro Falasca Advanced research methods and unconventional results: Zeno Franco; Bas Lijnse Social media and collaborative systems: Starr Roxanne Hiltz; Paloma Dia; Linda Plotnick Interoperability and Standards: Chamindra de Silva; Tom de Groove; Renato Iannella Intelligent systems: Frank Fiedrich; Gerhard Wickler; Serge Stinckwich Geographic information science: Brian Tomaszewski; Massimo Mecella; Francisco Nobre Humanitarian challenges: Carleen Maitland; Bartel Van de Walle; Dewald van Niekerk Command and control studies: Björn JE Johansson; Peter Berggren User centered design process for emergency management information systems: Jens Pottebaum; Therese Friberg; Karsten Nebe Open track ( Mobile and sensor networks): Georges Allaert; Hussain Aziz Saleh, Simon French Scientific Committee Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal Pedro Antunes, University of Lisbon. Portugal Art Botterell, The Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley Disaster Management Initiative (DMI), USA Laura Caldeira, LNEC, Head of the Geotechnics Department, Portugal M. Paloma Diaz Perez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jill Drury, MITRE Corporation. USA José Orlando Gomes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tim Grant, Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands Erland Jungert, Linköping University, Sweden Carleen Maitland, Pennsylvania State University, USA José Manuel Mendes, Osiris - Risk Observatory, Center of Social Studies, Portugal Mark Pfaff, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Jiri Trnka, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden W.A. Wallace, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Gerhard Wickler, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lili Yang, Loughborough University, UK Programme Committee Victor Amadeo Bañuls Silvera, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain Antonio M. Baptista, Oregon Health & Science University , USA Peter Berggren, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Alan Boyd, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Andrew Elvin Collins, Northumbria University, United Kingdom Tom De Groeve, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy Chamindra De Silva, Sahana Disaster Management System, Sri Lanka M. Paloma Diaz Perez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jill Drury, MITRE Corporation. USA Ioannis Dokas, Cork Constraint Computation Center, Republic of Ireland Julie Dugdale, University of Grenoble, France Mauro Falasca, East Carolina University, USA Gary Fetter, Western Carolina University, USA Frank Fiedrich, University of Wuppertal, Germany Zeno Franco, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA Simon French, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Therese Friberg, University of Paderborn , Germany Chrsitine Hagar, Dominican University , USA Starr Roxanne Hiltz, New Jersey Institute of Technology USA Geoffrey Hoare, Florida Department of Health, USA Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, Australia Bjorn Johansson, FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden Bas Lijnse, Radboud University Nijmegen / Netherlands Defense Academy, The Netherlands Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy David Mendonça, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Karsten Nebe, University of Paderborn , Germany Francisco Nobre, ESRI Portugal Anabela Pacheco Oliveira, LNEC, Portugal Linda Plotnick, Jacksonville State University , USA Jens Pottebaum, University of Paderborn , Germany Joao Rego, Deltares, The Netherlands Hussain Aziz Saleh, Higher Commission for Scientific Research, Syrian Arab Republic Serge Stinckwich, IRD, Viet Nam Brian Tomaszewski, RIT, USA Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Bartel van de Walle, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Dewald van Niekerk , North West University Gerhard Wickler, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Chris Zobel, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Local Organising Committee Maria Alzira Santos, National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC Maria Luísa Sousa, National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC Eliane Teixeira Alves Portela, National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC Armanda Rodrigues, Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies, New Univ ersity of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, UNL-FCT João Canas, Águeda Firefighters Head Henrique Vicêncio, Autoridade Nacional de Protecção Civil, ANPC Teresa Fonseca, National Civil Engineering Laboratory, LNEC