This special issue was born from a Workshop organized by the e-Business & e-Government Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management (BAM), held on the 3rd-4th May at Brunel University Business School in London. The central theme of the workshop was on the relationship between...

Die Frage, welche Leistungen eine Unternehmung selbst erbringen und welche Leistungen sie von anderen Wirtschaftseinheiten beziehen soll, ist eine der klassischen Problemstellungen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Sie ist heute im Rahmen des Lean Management-Konzeptes insbesondere in der...

In this paper the issue of bidding strategy learning in electronicmarkets is addressed. The primary aim is to identify machine learningtechniques which are best suited to learn bidding behaviourin electronic markets. The developed methodologies are appliedwithin a structured market engineering...