Research Commentary: An Agenda for Information Technology Research in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environments

Information Systems Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 327-341

  March, Salvatore ^a   Hevner, Alan ^a   Ram, Sudha ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems; Intelligent Agents; Interoperability; Mobile Computing; NetCentric Computing

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; NET-CENTRIC COMPUTING; RESEARCH STRATEGY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034557691     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.11.4.327.11873     Document Type: Article

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