Emergency response information system interoperability: Development of chemical incident response data model

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 200-230

  Chen, Rui ^a   Sharman, Raj ^a   Chakravarti, Nirupama ^b   Raghav Rao, H ^a   Upadhyaya, Shambhu J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Data model; Emergency response; Interoperability; Standards; XML

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CIVIL DEFENSE; DATA STRUCTURES; INTEROPERABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS; SUPPLY CHAINS; XML;

ACTIVITY THEORY; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY; INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 58349109582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00153     Document Type: Article

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