Social networks perspective of firefighters' adaptive behaviour and coordination among them

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, GreenCom 2010, 2010 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, CPSCom 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 819-824

  Abbasi, Alireza ^a,c   Hossain, Liaquat ^a   Hamra, Jafar ^a,c   Owen, Christine ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c BUSHFIRE AND NATURAL HAZARDS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coordination; Disaster management; Incident management team; Participants adaptive behaviour; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM; PARTICIPANTS ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79953115946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GreenCom-CPSCom.2010.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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