Assessment of the gap and (non-)Internet users evolution based on population biology dynamics

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-37

  Neokosmidis, Ioannis ^a,b   Avaritsiotis, Nikolaos ^b   Ventoura, Zoe ^c   Varoutas, Dimitris ^b  

^a INCITES Consulting SARL ^*  (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial bee colony Divide Ecological evolution Forecasting Internet Policy Population dynamics Swarm optimization Users

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FORECASTING ABILITY; FUTURE TRENDS; INTERNET POLICY; INTERNET USERS; LITHUANIA; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODELS; PENETRATION LEVEL; POLICY MAKERS;

INTERNET;

EID: 85027956032     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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