The Pendulum Swings Back - Individual Acceptance of Re-centralized Application Platforms

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 33-41

  Fang, Yulin ^a   Neufeld, Derrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed Applications; Distributed Systems; Human Factors; User Issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249150657     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1161345.1161352     Document Type: Article

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