Artificial intelligence applications in the telecommunications industry

Expert Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-291

  Qi, Jiayin ^a   Wu, Feng ^b   Li, Ling ^c   Shu, Huaying ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Enterprise information systems; Expert systems; Telecommunications industry

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 34548030432     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2007.00433.x     Document Type: Article

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