Purpose: Active product life cycle management contributes to supply chain optimization. However, in nowadays industry the high number of variants and backward loops complicate tracing the entire product lifecycle in an ERP system. Consequently, product lifecycle and corresponding...

Purpose: Our research shows that considering well suited NoSQL databases is beneficial for logistics tasks. For answering tasks we rely on the widespread methods of Data Mining. We stress that using relational databases as basis for Data Mining tools cannot cope with the growing amount of data...

This chapter will analyse the EU Trade Secret Directive from a technological informed legal perspective. It will investigate the possibilities and scope of protection that it offers for knowledge based activities and business models. The chapter opens by restating the basic yet important fact...

The agri-food sector is an endless source of expansion for nourishing a vast population, but there is a considerable need to develop high-standard procedures through intelligent and innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data. This paper addresses the research...