Design of service systems under variability: Research issues

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kannan, P K ^a   Proença, João F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

SERVICE SYSTEMS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 51449123473     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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