The wealth dynamics of insurance companies strongly depends on the success of their investment strategies, but also on liquidity shocks which occur during unfavorable years, when indemnities to be paid to the clients exceed collected premia. An investment strategy that does not take liquidity...

The paper examines the structural and organisational problems of social insurancesystems in Brazil and the Argentine in order to illuminate current debates about pension‘reform’. Much of the present discussion depicts social insurance ‘crisis’ as a modernphenomenon. Similarly,...

Traditional theories of the origins of the welfare state have emphasized the financial weakness of Britain’s largest provider of mutual insurance in the late 19th century, the friendly societies. These theories share common implications with contemporary theories of institutional change...

Expert-driven business process management is an establishedmeans for improving efficiency of organizational knowledge work.Implicit procedural knowledge in the organization is made explicit bydening processes. This approach is not applicable to individual knowledgework due to its high complexity...

Knowledge compilation is a common technique for propositionallogic knowledge bases. A given knowledge base is transformedinto a normal form, for which queries can be answered efficiently. Thisprecompilation step is expensive, but it only has to be performed once.We apply this technique to...

Vorliegender Beitrag stellt ein Vorgehensmodell für ein "Knowledge Process Redesign" (KPR) vor, das von der strategischen Wissensplanung bis zur organisatorischen und informationstechnischen Umsetzung reicht.

Die simultanen Entwicklungsprozesse und die fortschreitende Virtualisierung der weltweiten Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeiten erfordern nicht nur neue Methoden und Prozesse sowie einen ständigen Informationsaustausch zwischen den verschiedenen Instanzen, sondern bewirken auch ein...

Since the 1950s our modern society has been in a stage of transformation. The grounds of economic action have been changed due to radical technological transformation in microelectronics, biotechnology, and the development of new manufacturing as well as socio-cultural changes. (...)