Open source technical support: A look at peer help-giving

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Singh, Vandana ^a   Twidale, Michael B ^a   Rathi, Dinesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIBRARY REFERENCES; ONLINE TECHNICAL SUPPORTS; PROBLEMATIC INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749616377     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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