The long tail phenomenon has been heavily discussed in recent years. What has been neglected so far is its striking relevance for electronic services. Whereas consumers expectations about information goods are often vague and transient, their requirements are pronounced and specific when it...

The fundamental paradigm shift from traditional value chains to agile service value networks (SVN) implies new economic and organizational challenges. This work provides an auction-based coordination mechanism that enables the allocation and pricing of service compositions in SVNs. The mechanism...

An increasing number of electric vehicles (EV) will have an impact on required capacity of transmission and distribution grids. For target grid planning, it is essential to identify local impact in terms of infrastructure overloads. We study the impact of EV charging loads on the Swiss...

Continuously growing and changing multinational companies oftentimes struggle with feterogeneous degrees of standardization. Especially in case of redesigning business processes that have been historically grown over decades, the capability of handling semi-structures process is central....

The fundamental paradigm shift from traditional value chains to agile service value networks (SVN) implies new economic and organizational challenges. This work provides an auction-based coordination mechanism that enables the allocation and pricing of service compositions in SVNs. The mechanism...

The provisioning of complex services requires tight collaborationbetween diverse service providers and their customers harmonizing supply anddemand chains to a highly flexible, dynamic and decentralized service value network.Peers in such a network autonomously delegate (sub-)tasks which...