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GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Web 2.0 Geospatial Visual Analytics for Improved Urban Flooding Situational Awareness and Assessment
Situational awareness of urban flooding during storm events is important for disaster and emergency management. However, no general purpose tools yet exist for rendering rainfall ...
Alejandro Rodríguez, David Hill, Jim Myers,...
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Extreme work teams: using SWAT teams as a model for coordinating distributed robots
We present a field study of police SWAT teams for the purpose of enabling grounded design of a system to coordinate distributed field robots. The mission-oriented, spatially distr...
Hank Jones, Pamela J. Hinds
IWPC
1996
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to Software Understanding
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
EJIS
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Toward an 'IT Conflict-Resistance Theory': action research during IT pre-implementation
Most empirical research on users' resistance toward Information Technology (IT) has been conducted after implementation of IT in organisations. Little research has been done ...
Regis Meissonier, Emmanuel Houzé
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Layered message semantics using social commitments
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...