Bartel Van de Walle

Bartel Van de Walle is an associate professor at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and a visiting professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) and Harbin Engineering University (China). He received his PhD in applied mathematics and computer science from Ghent University (Belgium). His research focuses on decision support systems, high reliability organizations, and humanitarian information systems. Dr. Van de Walle has founded the international ISCRAM Community (http://www.iscram.org) and has organized sessions, tracks, international workshops, conferences, and a PhD Summer School in this area in Europe, US, and China. He was a recipient of a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Van de Walle is a senior editor for the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications (JITTA) and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He has published more than eighty papers in proceedings of international conferences and journals (among which DSS, EJOR, JMIS, and Communications of the ACM). Van de Walle has served as an expert reviewer and consultant for the American, Belgian and Dutch National Science Foundations, the European Commission, and the UN (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs).

Publications

Serious Gaming for User Centered Innovation and Adoption of Disaster Response Information Systems
Serious Gaming for User Centered Innovation and Adoption of Disaster Response Information Systems
Kenny Meesters, Bartel Van de Walle. © 2015. 16 pages.
Global profusion of information technology has spawned a large and varied number of tools and systems to aid disaster responders in managing disaster-related information. To...
The Fifth International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Washington DC, May 4-7 2008
The Fifth International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Washington DC, May 4-7 2008
Frank Fiedrich, Bartel Van de Walle. © 2009. 5 pages.
Early last May, more than 200 people gathered in Washington DC for the fifth annual meeting of the ISCRAM R&D community – with ISCRAM short for Information Systems for Crisis...
ISCRAM-CHINA 2008 Meeting Report
ISCRAM-CHINA 2008 Meeting Report
Song Yan, Bartel Van de Walle. © 2009. 3 pages.
For the third time since 2006, the ISCRAMCHINA conference took place in Harbin, one of the ten largest cities in China and capital of China’s Northeast province of Heilongjiang...