How helpdesk agents help clients

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Steehouder, Michaël ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELP DESK;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; WORD PROCESSING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 51149109333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2007.4464071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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