A systematic approach to improve communication for emergency response

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Dilmaghani, Raheleh B ^a   Rao, Ramesh R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIRST RESPONDERS; HIERARCHICAL PETRI NETS; INFORMATION SHARING; NETWORK ORIENTED; ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS; OVERALL MODELS; REAL-TIME EXCHANGES; RELIABLE COMMUNICATIONS; SUB BLOCKS; TOP-DOWN APPROACHES;

COMMUNICATION; DRILLS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; PETRI NETS;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE;

EID: 63349092498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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