Title :
Information and distribution systems in the retail industry
Author_Institution :
COV Dev. AB, Karlstad, Sweden
Abstract :
Information and distribution systems make valuable contributions in improving the retail industry. Multimedia technologies and broadband networks pave the way for new generations of information and distribution systems. Characteristics of the store and consumer environments together with the driving forces in the retail industry put great demands upon the systems. Middleware has a key role in fulfilling the demands
Keywords :
broadband networks; electronic data interchange; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; point of sale systems; retail data processing; broad band networks; consumer environments; distribution systems; information systems; middleware; multimedia technologies; retail industry; Broadband communication; Data handling; Electronics industry; Europe; Intelligent networks; Manufacturing industries; Marketing and sales; Multimedia systems; Personnel; Service oriented architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Cheju Island
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7125-4
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1995.524991
