Abstract | ||
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The highly competitive communications markets of the future should encompass mechanisms for enabling users to find and associate with the most appropriate retailers, i.e. those offering at a certain time period adequate quality services in a cost efficient manner. This paper presents such mechanisms. Our starting point is the definition of a business case, through which the role of the best candidate-retailer selection problem is explained. In the sequel, the problem is analysed and the identified sub-problems are concisely defined, mathematically formulated and solved. The identified components of the best candidate-retailer selection problem involve the evaluation of the quality of a retailer offer and the reduction of the set of candidate retailers by exploiting learning from experience notions. In the final sections, results are provided and concluding remarks are made. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2002 | 10.1016/S0140-3664(01)00393-0 | Computer Communications |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Retailer,Service architecture,Telecommunications information networking architecture,0–1 Linear programming,Learning from experience | Business case,Telecommunications,Computer science,Operations research,Computer network,Service-oriented architecture,Cost efficiency | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
25 | 7 | 0140-3664 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.38 | 15 |
Authors | ||
5 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Malamati D. Louta | 1 | 131 | 17.84 |
Panagiotis Demestichas | 2 | 736 | 142.82 |
Evangelia Tzifa | 3 | 12 | 2.94 |
Evangelos Loutas | 4 | 21 | 4.30 |
Miltiades E. Anagnostou | 5 | 324 | 50.25 |