Our fascination with new technologies is based on the assumption that more powerful
automation will overcome human limitations and make our systems' faster, better …

Generalizing the concepts of joint activity developed by Clark (1996), we describe key
aspects of team coordination. Joint activity depends on interpredictability of the participants' …

The first volume in the Ashgate Studies in Resilience Engineering series deals with
important issues such as measurements and models, the use of procedures to ensure …

The objective of this paper is to analyse some of the conceptual and methodological
contributions that complexity theory can make to the study of socio-technical cooperative …

Alarge body of research provides strong evidence that hospi-tals are loud environments with
noise levels far exceeding those recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). 1 …

The article presents a methodological framework for the design of formative evacuation
plans for complex socio-technical systems in crisis. The framework adopts the Complex …

In this paper we present the way we modelled and simulated a metro system in the case of a
tunnel fire, and discuss the ways this simulation may support the search for efficient rescue …

This paper presents an agent-based approach used to design a Transportation Regulation
Support System (TRSS), that reports the network activity in real-time and thus assists the bus …

Résumé L'objectif de cette communication est, à la lumière des apports du courant de la
cognition et de l'action située, de jeter les bases d'une réévaluation critique des démarches …

In this paper, we describe the coordinative anomaly response processes of functionally
distinct teams who encountered a space shuttle anomaly at the beginning of a shuttle …