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With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of Socialnetworks and Cloud computing, users are starting to explore newways to interact with, and exploit these developing paradigms.Social networks are used to reflect real world relationships thatallow users to share information and form connections...

The cloud computing paradigm gives rise to Web service marketplaces where complex services areprovided by several modular vendors. Recently more and more intermediaries are pushing onto themarket, thereby driving competition. Offering innovative business models which are capable ofattracting...

The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalableservice provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service(SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. Theon-demand provisioning of services gains more and moreinfluence. For offering enriched services that are capableof performing...

Cloud Computing is a topic that has gained momentum in the last years. Current studies show that anincreasing number of companies is evaluating the promised advantages and considering making use ofcloud services. In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of cloud computing and its importance...

As an emerging technology and business paradigm, Cloud Computing embeds fairlylarge amount of unexplored fields, from technological definition to business models.While the market of Cloud Computing is expected to expand in the near future, fewstudies of the actual market acceptance of the Cloud...

Die Frage nach Eigenfertigung oder Fremdbezug von IT-Servicedienstleistungen isthäufiger Bestandteil unternehmerischer Entscheidungen. Neben bekannten Outsourcingvariantenwie z. B. Application-Service-Provisioning, steht neuerdings eine weitereAlternative zur Verfügung: Cloud-Computing. In dem...

Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...

Funketiketten oder -chips und Kundenkartensind zwei prominente Beispiele für Anwendungen,die den Verbraucherschutz in einer digitalenWelt auf den Plan rufen. Ihr wesentlicher Berührungspunktliegt im häufi g nicht ausreichendenDatenschutz.Die Vorteile von RFID1 und Kundenkartenaus...