Situated decision support for managing service level agreement negotiations

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vahidov, Rustam ^a   Neumann, Dirk ^b  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DECISION SUPPORTS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 51449116661     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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