Since the Software Engineering Institute has launched the Capability Maturity Model almost twentyyears ago, hundreds of maturity models have been proposed by researchers and practitioners acrossmultiple application domains. With process orientation being a central paradigm of...

Parallel programming of MIMD machines with distributed memory is typically based on standardmessage passing libraries such as MPI [1], which leads to platform independent and efficientsoftware. However, the programming level is rather low, and the development of a parallel applicationcan be a...

In practice the ability to find the right Web service decides between a functionality being implemented anew and at least the possibility of executing it via a service. This report evaluates existing public portals for Web service discovery with respect to their characteristics and their...

The core purpose of strategic information planning (SIP) lies in identifying future directions forinvestments in information technology, information systems and information supply that willassist an organisation to realise its business goals. SIP is a critical challenge and major concernto both...

This paper reports on the development and application of an instrument to evaluate the overall IT fitness of medium sized enterprises. The instrument was designed in 1997 as part of an applied research project with the close co-operation of scientists and consultants, as well as various market...

Despite their theoretical efficiency in selling shares to the public, auctions are not thepreferred mechanisms of issuers in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Chemmanur and Liu(2006) [WP] and Sherman (2005) [JFE 78, 615-649] provide a rational explanation for this“IPO auction puzzle”. They...