Details on how to submit track proposals including template.
Call for Track Proposals
The 2023 ISCRAM conference continues the long-running tradition of inviting proposals for tracks to be held during the conference. These can be based on tracks from previous ISCRAM conferences or they can be completely new tracks that address cutting-edge topics of interest to the ISCRAM community.
Tracks will be used to encourage and streamline the submission of papers, and to provide an underlying structure to the conference program. Track chairs will be responsible for promoting their tracks, soliciting paper submissions, and facilitating the reviewing process. We expect to use Easychair for the paper submission and review process. (NB: To be accepted as a track in ISCRAM, one or more of the track chairs should be an ISCRAM member, and track chairs are expected to attend the ISCRAM 2023 conference in Omaha and manage the track).
Important Dates
15 August – 13 September 2022 (Extended to 20 September 2022): Respond to Call for Old and NEW Track Proposals
23rd September 2022: Call for Core and WiP Paper Submissions
Notes about this year's call for track proposals
Continuing tracks from ISCRAM 2022: In order to leverage the quality of last year's program, while also welcoming new proposals, all other track chairs are warmly encouraged to resubmit for consideration again this year.
The list of existing tracks from ISCRAM 2022 that have been confirmed for ISCRAM 2023 are as follows:
- Track 01: Usability and Universal Design of ICT for Emergency Management
- Track 02: Visions for Future Crisis Management
- Track 03: Enhancing Protection of Critical Infrastructures
- Track 04: Technologies for First Responders
- Track 05: Disaster Public Health and Healthcare Informatics
- Track 06: Social Media for Crisis Management
- Track 07: Analytical Modeling and Simulation
- Track 08: Reimagining ethical, legal, and social issues in a COVID era
- Track 09: Command and Control Studies
- Track 10: Volunteers in Crisis Management/Emergency Response
- Track 11: Applications, Tools, and Components for Crisis Management
- Track 12: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science (GIS) for Crisis Management
- Track 13: Practitioner Engagement Track
- Track 14: Open Track
We are very pleased to welcome proposals for new or resubmitted tracks that will complement the above list of offerings. (PS: We are updating the list as we receive confirmation or proposals).
Traditional tracks: ISCRAM relies on highly experienced track chairs, with long histories of running successful tracks. It is our goal to honor the investment of those track chairs and to support historically successful tracks.
New tracks & new track chairs: We also strongly encourage innovation and forward thinking by inviting inclusion of new tracks. Even if you are new to the ISCRAM community, if you have an idea for a compelling track then you are strongly encouraged to apply: your proposal will be given full weight in the review of the track proposals. You can consider including an experienced track co-chair, but it is not required.
Interactive tracks: We encourage interactive track formats. Track chairs interested in an alternative presentation format should carefully describe how this format would be operationalized. For example, this may include small panels, round-table discussions, small code-a-thons, and problem-focused formats that include government and/or industry partners. Alternative formats must use traditional papers as the foundation for the track, but how the information from the papers is presented can be modified. The operational description must be convincing for the track review and approval process and clear enough that authors understand what to expect. The conference chairs will liaise with chairs of tracks with alternative formats to ensure appropriate time and space is allocated for delivery of the tracks.
Inclusion of industry: Over the history of ISCRAM, significant inclusion of local and international governmental bodies has informed our work. Large industry partners have had less represented in our publications and among our attendees. Tracks that specifically appeal to industry, include industry representation (e.g. as track co-chairs), or otherwise emphasize inter-disciplinary work that extends to industrial applications will be looked upon favorably.
Promoting diversity and early career track co-chairs: Historically, ISCRAM’s level of international representation and its commitment to inclusion, as well as its promotion of young researchers into key roles in the organization, has made it a vibrant community of scholars. We would like you as track chairs to continue to be intentional about the process of selecting co-chairs that provide gender balance and include advanced graduate students, post-docs, and individuals from under-represented nations. Having been given supervised co-chair experience, a number of such individuals have subsequently been promoted into key roles within ISCRAM.
Integrity of track content: Unless a track has a very small number of papers – not enough to reasonably fill at least one session – the track chair will be “in charge” of identifying session chairs to serve as the facilitators/time-keepers for each session at the conference. In the rare situations where a very small number of papers is received, these papers may be combined with other tracks or moved to the open track. We will inform and discuss such situations with the associated track chairs before the conference.
Broadening the ISCRAM community: We particularly encourage tracks that aim to engage individuals who have not previously participated in the ISCRAM community but who have interests and experience that are relevant to it.
Please choose a track topic that is expected to lead to a reasonable number of submissions.
To submit a track proposal here is what you should know.
- The past track chair of one of the listed track topics have been contacted and have confirmed their interests in serving again as track chairs, as listed above.
- If you are interested in organizing a track on a topic that has not been covered in the earlier conference and in the tracks listed above, we recommend that you contact the program co-chairs to inquire about the relevance of that topic to the conference. After receiving confirmation that your proposed topic is relevant to the ISCRAM 2023 conference, please fill out the track/special session template and submit it to iscram2023@gmail.com. We expect to utilize the easy chair for managing the submissions and evaluations of the papers in each track.
SUBMIT TRACK PROPOSAL