Role-playing exercises to strengthen the resilience of command and control systems

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 250, Issue , 2006, Pages 71-78

  Woltjer, Rogier ^a   Trnka, Jiri ^a   Lundberg, Jonas ^a   Johansson, Björn ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Command and control; Complex socio technical systems; Emergency management; Resilience; Role playing exercise; Training

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; RISK ANALYSIS;

COMPLEX SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; ROLE-PLAYING EXERCISE;

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548011943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1274892.1274904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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