An empirical Lotka-Volterra system for competition dynamics in the telecommunication sector of Sri Lanka

International Journal of Business Information Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 482-497

  Wijeratne, A W ^a,b   Karunaratne, J A ^c   Wang, Chuncheng ^a   Wei, Junjie ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SABARAGAMUWA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA   (Sri Lanka)

^c HARBIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Logistic population growth equation; Lotka Volterra formulation; Strategic variables; Telecommunication

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949115093     PISSN: 17460972     EISSN: 17460980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2008.018599     Document Type: Article

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