Current practices in field force automation: Decision support and information management for the field force

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Trentham, Gwen ^a   Scholl, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD OPERATIONS; IN-FIELD;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FLOOD CONTROL; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 51449100430     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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