Airport time slots are currently awarded by historic use, with only small number reserved for new entrants. This hampers competition, promotes inefficient slot utilisation, and contributes to congestion. This column revisits the idea of carefully auctioning time slots at congested airports in...

Course assignment is a very widespread problem in education and beyond. Typically, students have preferences for bundles of course seats or course schedules over the week, but courses have limited capacity. This is an interesting and frequent application of distributed scheduling, where payments...

Europe's clean energy transition is imperative to combat climate change and represents an economic opportunity to become independent of fossil fuels. As such, the energy transition has become one of the most important, but also one of the most challenging economic and societal projects today....

Germany was the first country in Europe that auctioned off spectrum in the valuable 700 MHz band for mobile telecommunication usage. The German regulator decided to auction off this spectrum together with spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz legacy bands. With only the three incumbent operators...

In vielen Bereichen der Wirtschaftsinformatik spielt die Erstellung konzeptueller Modelle unter Verwendung grafischer Modellierungssprachen eine wichtige Rolle. Entsprechend wichtig ist eine fundierte Grundausbildung, die sich an den benötigten Modellierungskompetenzen orientiert und daher...

[Introduction ...] The remainder of this study is structured as follows: Section two provides the theoretical background and defines EO, the research objects, and research perspectives. In section three, we report on the procedures of our scientometric analysis. Results are presented in section...

Es handelt sich um modifizierte Version des Arbeitsberichts 4/2012. Modifiziert wurde insbesondere Kapitel 4. Inhaltsverzeichnis: 1) Zwei Trends und ihre Bedeutung S.1 ; 2) IT-Anbieter als Objekte der Forschung S.2 ; 3) Neue Anwendungskontexte als Objekte der Forschung S.5 ; 4) Strukturelle...

With this study, we want to take a first step in this direction and try to develop a basic understanding of the capabilities for digital innovations (henceforth: digital innovation capabilities (DIC)) from a digital technology perspective. Such a perspective argues that digital innovations are...