Delivering services by building and running virtual organisations

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-152

  Nguyen, Duong ^b   Thompson, Simon G ^b   Patel, Jigar ^d   Teacy, Luke T W ^d   Jennings, Nick R ^d   Luck, Michael ^d   Dang, V ^a   Chalmers, Stuart ^a   Oren, Nir ^a   Norman, Timothy J ^a   Preece, Alun ^a   Gray, Peter M D ^a   Shercliff, Gareth ^c   Stockreisser, Patrick J ^c   Shao, Jianhua ^c   Gray, W Alex ^c   Fiddian, Nick J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH TELECOM   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOBILE COMPUTING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; USER INTERFACES;

SERVICE PROVIDER; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

EID: 33646819301     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10550-006-0029-6     Document Type: Article

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