Most research projects that start to implement the so called “Internetof Things” typically use smart products and mobile devices within brick-andmortarsupermarkets for consumer-product communication at the point-of-sale.But outside the supermarket specific information collected about the...

Internet-based information sharing among different partners of the valuechain enables collaborative business. Beyond, applying ambient technologiesprovides new opportunities for gathering information ubiquitously fromvarious sources including physical objects, e.g. the movement of goods orcars,...

This chapter reviews core concepts of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. Ithighlights the management of resources, such as bandwidth, storage,information, files, and processor cycles based on P2P networks. A modeldifferentiating P2P infrastructures, P2P applications, and P2P communitiesis...

We introduce a novel set of social network analysis based algorithms for mining the Web, blogs, and online forums to identify trends and find the people launching these new trends. These algorithms have been implemented in Condor, a software system for predictive search and analysis of the Web...

Several empirical studies examine the consumer acceptance of mass-customized (MC) media. Although these findings overall suggest promising prospects for mass-customized media, entrepreneurial experience still contrasts these prospects with missing market take off. This paper sheds light on this...

This paper describes first results of an ongoing research effort using real time data collected by social badges to correlate temporal changes in social interaction patterns with performance of individual actors and groups. Towards that goal we analyzed social interaction among a team of...