Multi-agency operations: cooperation during flooding.

Learning by Exploration and Cooperation in Dynamic Agencies

The building of cooperative multi-agent systems is an issue of growing importance in the field of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. We introduce a type of agency, called dynamic agency, that overcomes the critical problem of having agents that have both several specific operation functions, and one uniform cooperation ability. A dynamic agency is also suited to give flexibility with respect ...

Organizing for the Big One - A Review of Case Studies on Multi - Agency D isa s- ter Response and a Research Agenda

Disaster response operations exceed the capacities of each single organization and thus require cooperation by at least two, often up to some hundred agencies who do seldom interact in their daily operations. The result is a complex problem of cognition, coordination, command and control. This paper presents a review of empirical studies on multi-agency coordination in disaster response operati...

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...

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

Comparative study on inter-organizational cooperation in disaster situations and impact on humanitarian aid operations

Given the increased numbers of disasters and humanitarian crises which occur in the face of diminishing global resources, the contemporary disaster management and humanitarian fields face greater challenges to optimize cooperation and coordination processes among actors as well as in ensuring and increasing humanitarian aid delivery performance. This research, by using two case studies, will co...