Role transfer problems and algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1442-1450

  Zhu, Haibin ^a   Zhou, MengChu ^b,c  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emergency management; Information systems; Organization; Role; Role transfer

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; GROUP MEMBERS; OBJECT MODELS; ORGANIZATION; ROLE; ROLE ASSIGNMENTS; ROLE SPECIFICATIONS; ROLE TRANSFER; ROLE TRANSFERS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 56449100071     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.2003965     Document Type: Article

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