Risk/return management has not only evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprisesespecially in the financial services industry, but is in the times of the financial crisis crucial for thesurvival of a company. It demands powerful and at the same time flexible computational...

By optimizing its outsourcing strategy, a company faces the opportunity to lower the overall costsof its IT project portfolio. Without considering risk and diversification effects appropriately,companies make wrong decisions about how much of a project is reasonable to outsource. In thispaper,...

Risk management has evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprises especially in the financial services industry. Itis highly demanding in terms of business requirements and technical resources, making it an almost ideal application fordistributed computing concepts like e.g. grid...

This paperoperationalizes correctness for Web service compositions. It also proposes a requirementsframework for service-oriented modeling techniques so that correctness can beshown by verification and Web service compositions can be modeled intuitively.

The interdependence of technical and financial considerations poses a majorproblem for the development of appropriate decision support systems in businesspractice. In this paper, an application - with strategic importance for outsourcingproviders in information technology - is described...