Modeling the information completeness of object tracking systems

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 268-282

  Bardaki, Cleopatra ^a   Kourouthanassis, Panos ^b   Pramatari, Katerina ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytical modeling; Information completeness; Information quality assessment; Object tracking system; RFID

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; ANALYTICAL MODELING; DEPLOYMENT COSTS; INFORMATION COMPLETENESS; INFORMATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT; INSPECTED OBJECT; OBJECT TRACKING; OBJECT TRACKING SYSTEM; REAL TIME TRACKING; SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TRACKING SYSTEM;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REAL TIME SYSTEMS; VISIBILITY;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 80052544178     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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