Modelling collaboration using complex networks

Information Sciences

Volumn 181, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3143-3161

  Durugbo, Christopher ^a   Hutabarat, Windo ^a   Tiwari, Ashutosh ^a   Alcock, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; COMPLEX NETWORK THEORY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION SHARING; ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR; ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE; WORK PATTERNS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 79952212421     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2011.03.020     Document Type: Article

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