Services: A System's Perspective

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 146-157

  Tien, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision informatics; real time decision making; service system; services; system components; system integration; system of systems (SoS)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INTEGRATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

SERVICE SYSTEM; SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 41749123451     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2008.917075     Document Type: Article

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