Das netzwerkbasierte Angebot von Diensten in der IT verlagert sich vom bisher dominierenden Client-Server-Ansatz immer stärker in Richtung verteilter Systeme, welche durch Flexibilität, Skalierbarkeit und nicht zuletzt geringe Kosten eine attraktive Alternative zu wartungsintensiven und teuren...

Transportation and warehousing logistics are activities that require strong information systems and computer support. This requirement has grown with the advent of e-commerce. Companies such as FedEx and UPS now allow their customers to track and monitor the fulfilment of their requested...

Die vorliegende Dissertation präsentiert eine umfassende Analyse und Strukturierung des Marktes für netzbasierte Dienste. Basierend auf einer detaillierten Untersuchung des ASP-Angebotes und der ASP-Nachfrage in Europa werden geeignete Institutionen und Informationssubstitute für die...

The fundamental paradigm shift from traditional value chains to agile service value networks (SVN) implies new economic and organizational challenges. This work provides an auction-based coordination mechanism that enables the allocation and pricing of service compositions in SVNs. The mechanism...

The development of new Web services through the composition of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to realise business-to-business collaborations. Unfortunately, given that services are often developed in an ad hoc fashion using manifold technologies and standards,...

Research into privacy in web services based service-oriented environment gained attention in recent years. Business Transaction Level Data (TLD) privacy is important because in web services the interaction between the Service Provider and Service consumer is far more complicated than in the...

Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in International Journal of Information Management, published by and copyright Elsevier.

Data management for linked (or coupled) simulationmodels can be a challenging task when deploying togrid environments. In cases where the linked models conformto a standard interface for data input and output, generalpurposedata providers can be used to supply data to themodels from online...

This paper focuses on the challenges associated with composing and pricing web services. We present the results of an online experiment, where subjects were confronted with a variety of choices and decisions relating to web service markets and service composition. Our analysis shows that people...