Collaborative adhocracies and Mix-and-Match technologies in emergency management

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 45-49

  Mendonça, David ^a   Jefferson, Theresa ^b   Harrald, John ^b,c  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Engineering Management   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN SYSTEMS; IMPROVISATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 34147188560     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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