Multi-agency operations: Cooperation during flooding

Multi-agency operations: cooperation during flooding.

This paper presents an investigation of command and control during Multi-Agency Operations; the purpose of this study was to elaborate on known themes associated with multi-agency emergency response, through a study of the successful combined military and civilian defence of Walham electricity substation from rising flood water in July 2007. This case study demonstrates that effective coordinat...

Establishing Fair Principles of Cooperation for Multinational and Inter-Agency Operations

Switch-Aided Flooding Operations in ATM Networks

In this paper, we propose a ooding method, called Switch-Aided Flooding (SAF), for use in ATM networks. SAF-based protocols take advantage of hardware-supported cell relay and cell duplication, characteristic of such networks, in order to reduce the time needed to disseminate changes in network topology and resource availability. SAF protocols use a spanning multipoint connection (SMC), which i...

Multi-agency partnerships in cybercrime reduction: Mapping the UK information assurance network cooperation space

Purpose – This paper maps out multi-agency partnerships in the UK information assurance (UKIA) network in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – The paper surveyed members of the UKIA community and achieved a 52 percent response rate (n=104). The paper used a multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique to map the multi-agency cooperation space and factor analysis and ordinary least squares regressi...

Long-term athlete development Canada: attempting system change and multi-agency cooperation.

This text provides a synopsis, as well as some greater detail, concerning the "Canadian Sport for Life" project Long-Term Athlete Development Canada (LTAD) initiated in 2004. The genesis of the project may be found in the Canadian Sport Policy released in 2002 by Sport Canada, the sport participation and performance agency within the Canadian Heritage Ministry of the Canadian Government. The pr...