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...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 19 - 24 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2006
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