This book brings together contributions of a distinguished panel of regulators as well as lawyers and economists from both academia and industry to present their insights on the digital convergence phenomenon in the telecommunications industry. The contributions cover a great deal of the...

Der verstärkte Wettbewerbsdruck zwingt Unternehmen dazu, alle Aktivitäten ihrer Wertschöpfungskette hinsichtlich realisierbarer Kostensenkungspotentiale und möglicher Leistungsverbesserungen zu überprüfen. In diesem Kontext gewinnt der Beschaffungsbereich aufgrund der - durch Konzepte wie...

This paper presents a framework for Service Level Management indynamic, heterogeneous environments for service composition. Compositions areselected based upon previously observed performance and the associated riskderived from such observations. The architecture of a framework is introduced...

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 notions of collaborative information seeking (CIS) and socialsearch have extended the classical model of information seekingand retrieval. In its core, CIS and social search acknowledge theexistence of multiple users and study their implicit and explicitinteractions across various...

With the advent of digital convergence, incumbent telephone and cable companies have begun to offer their services, such as voice telephony, Internet and TV in so-called triple play packages. While carefully recognizing the technological, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line...

Cost cap tariffs are pay-per-use tariffs for which costs cannot exceed a predefined cost limit. They were recently introduced to telecommunications markets, but were previously also applied in the insurance industry as deductibles or in the rental industry as day rates. This paper develops and...

At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Graduate School InformationManagement and Market Engineering (IME) which is financed by the GermanResearch Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), offers an interdisciplinarydoctoral program on the economic, technological and legal...

Unternehmensportale sind in der Lage heterogene und verteilte Unternehmenssystemeund –daten zusammenzuführen, um so Prozessabläufe zu unterstützen odersogar zu automatisieren. Die Portaltechnologie birgt somit große Potentiale in Bezugauf Produktivitäts- und Effizienzsteigerungen. Der...