Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction 8th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2023, Tokyo, Japan, December 4–6, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during December 4-6, 2023.

The 18 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Evacuation and Emergency Management; Situational Awareness; Social Media; Information Systems; Geographic Information System (GIS); and Healthcare.

.- Evacuation and Emergency Management.

.- Risk and Control Assurance Framework for Emergency Management Projects.

.- Digitalized Co-production of Emergency Response: Dispatch and on-site work by volunteer first responders.

.- Proposing a Simple Method of Creating Tsunami Evacuation Simulations: Aiming to Empower Residents for Feasible Measures.

.- Performance Evaluation of Flood Level Estimation Method using State-space Model with Time-series Monitoring Data.

.- Situational Awareness.

.- Snowed In and Cut Off: How a Norwegian Municipality Dealt with a Power Outage.

.- Situational Disabilities in Emergency Management – Validation of Realistic Scenarios for Training and Awareness-raising.

.- TeamAware: Profile-based Interoperability Framework for First Responders.

.- Social Media.

.- Archiving Social Media Discussions in Time and Space: A focus on refugees from Middle East and related war conflicts during Jan 2015 – Apr 2016.

.- Location Extraction in Disaster Tweets with a Model Trained on Past Data: Diverse Analysis.

.- Analysis of Japanese Tweets on the Russian Military Invasion of Ukraine Focusing on Frequently Used Words and Emotional Expressions.

.- Information Systems.

.- The Paradox Of Information Systems In Crisis: Walking The Tight Rope Between Rigidity & Flexibility.

.- Digital Supply Chain Roles in the Power Industry.

.- A Multi-modal Approach towards Public Alerting and Effective Communication in Disaster Scenarios: Implementation in the Indian Context.

.- Geographic Information System (GIS).

.- Identification of Undesignated Evacuation Sites Location by Mobile Spatial Statistics.

.- Derivation of Evacuation Routes to Avoid Narrow Road Adopting Physarum Solver.

.- Evaluation of Sentinel-1 GRD data with GEE for Floods mapping in Rubkona, South Sudan.

.- Healthcare.

.- A Novel Proof of Concept Forecasting Model for Pandemics – A Case Study in New Zealand.

.- Sensorized Maternal Health Interventions in Marginalized Communities: The Role of Surveillant Assemblages in Maintaining Compliance within Disaster-affected  Healthcare Systems.