On leveraging policy-based management for maximizing business profit

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 25-39

  Aib, Issam ^a   Boutaba, Raouf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Policy analysis; Policy optimization; Policy refinement; Policy based management

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SCHEDULING;

LEVERAGING POLICY; POLICY OPTIMIZATION; POLICY REFINEMENT; POLICY-BASED MANAGEMENT; SERVICE PROVIDER;

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

EID: 43249114188     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2007.021104     Document Type: Article

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