Decision Making in Very Large Networks.

The article focuses on decision making by large networks. The author describes a hastily-formed network (HFN), which is set up in emergency situations such as natural disasters. The example that is used in the article is the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) organizational structure...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 19 - 24
Main Authors: Denning, Peter J., Hayes-Roth, Rick
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Nov2006
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          Hayes-Roth, Rick
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          director, Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA
          professor, Information Sciences, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
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        Organizational behavior
        Emergency management
        Problem solving
        Management
        Decision making
        Computer networks
        United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
        Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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          Organizational behavior
          Emergency management
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          Decision making
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          Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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