The role of agreements in IT management software

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3549 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 36-58

  Molina Jimenez, Carlos ^a   Pruyne, Jim ^b   Van Moorsel, Aad ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; COMPUTING MODEL; IT MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE; RUNTIME ADAPTATION; SERVICE PROVIDER; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; STANDARD BODIES; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 60349123500     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11556169_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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