This is one of few books in the market dealing with offshoring of professional services, the dynamic phenomenon of high relevance in the global economy. The unique feature of the book is merging economic and business approaches to offshoring of professional services, so called offshoring of...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white-collar jobs, has become one of the major developments in the operations of multinational corporations (MNCs). However, a specific theoretical approach to this phenomenon has not been...

Benutzermodelle sind ein wichtiger Schritt auf dem Weg zu einer sinnhaften Vollautomation der Informationsverarbeitung. Indem sie dafür sorgen, dass sich Computer und Mensch gut verstehen, erhöhen sie die Akzeptanz von Anwendungssystemen. Darüber hinaus helfen sie, Informationen im Internet...

Autonomous agents are widely applied to automate interactions in robotics,e.g. for selling and purchasing goods on eBay, and in financial markets, e.g. in theform of quote machines and algorithmic traders. Current research investigates efficienteconomic mechanisms that fully automate the...