Supporting reasoning and communication for intelligence officers

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations

Volumn 8, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 15-36

  Atzenbeck, Claus ^a   Hicks, David L ^b   Memon, Nasrullah ^c  

^a GERMAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Awareness; Collaboration; Communication; Emergent structure; Intelligence analysis; Knowledge representation; Reasoning; Spatial structure; Time representation; Versioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

AWARENESS; COLLABORATION; EMERGENT STRUCTURE; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; REASONING; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TIME REPRESENTATION; VERSIONING;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649702769     PISSN: 14709503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2011.037159     Document Type: Article

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