Information flows in hierarchical networks and the capability of organizations to successfully respond to failures, crises, and disasters

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 363, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-150

  Helbing, Dirk ^a,b   Ammoser, Hendrik ^a   Kühnert, Christian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Decentralized control; Failure and attack tolerance; Hierarchical networks; Information flows; Redundancies; Robustness; Social organizations; Space filling structures

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISASTERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; REDUNDANCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FAILURE AND ATTACK TOLERANCE; HIERARCHICAL NETWORKS; INFORMATION FLOWS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS; SPACE-FILLING STRUCTURES;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 33645165346     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.055     Document Type: Article

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