A nature-inspired decentralized trust model to reduce information unreliability in complex disaster relief operations

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-58

  Kostoulas, Dionysios ^a   Aldunate, Roberto ^a,b   Pena Mora, Feniosky ^a,b   Lakhera, Sanyogita ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Information trustworthiness; Natural analogies

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EXTREME EVENTS; INFORMATION TRUSTWORTHINESS; NATURAL ANALOGIES;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 39449090815     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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