A Framework for ICT-Supported Coordination in Crisis Response

Crisis response efforts often require coordinating a previously unknown adhocracy of agencies under time pressure. While current technologies that support coordination are successful for well-defined static process descriptions, they may fall short in the face of more complex and unpredictable scenarios, such as a crisis or emergency. Using...

Discovery Services in Information Rich Environments

Technology availability has significantly encouraged information sharing in organizational coordination processes distributed over various (geographically) locations. However, the huge amount of available information, the heterogeneous nature of the information resources, and the information seekers dynamically changing information needs make it...