Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note to Reader -- Preface: Assessing Digital Society -- Digital expertise: the impact of technical progress -- From creative destruction to digital disruption -- Coincidence with historical events -- Expansion of...

The use of online services such as social networking sites or search engines is generally governed by one or more usage policies, such as terms of service, end-user license agreements, and privacy policies. To facilitate effective dissemination of policy information, structured policy data...

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...

In coordination theory, markets stand for flexibility and dynamics. Today’s implementations of electronic marketplaces, however, limit the flexibility in a sense that processes along the market transaction are rigid and the provided functions proprietary. In order to further foster flexibility...