Collaborative adhocracies and Mix-and-Match technologies in emergency management

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-16-2007

Abstract

Emergency management system in an organization is intended to make human systems and the built environment more resistant to the impacts of extreme events or large-scale emergencies. Emergency response activities require improvisation, which is a combined cognitive and behavioral activity that must be accomplished serially under time constraint. The environment, required to provide information and communication technology (ICT) based support for improvisation should facilitate emergence operability, which is a structured approach to real-time mixing and matching of diverse ICTs to support individuals and organizations in performing response activities. Work flow models in software engineering can specify a schedule of activities from design of an ICT-based system to support response activities to its implementation. Work flow models that can undertake some phases of technological mixing and matching can be used to support response personnel in emergency response activities.

Identifier

34147188560 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Communications of the ACM

e-ISSN

15577317

ISSN

00010782

First Page

45

Last Page

49

Issue

3

Volume

50

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