In the current conditions of a volatile economic environment, the ability to use an intelligent way the information that allows agricultural companies to cope with the challenges that they are facing regarding the current economic environment, represents the solution to strengthen their position...

In the current conditions of a volatile economic environment, the ability to use an intelligent way the information that allows agricultural companies to cope with the challenges that they are facing regarding the current economic environment, represents the solution to strengthen their position...

“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words among IS and innovation researchers. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lever the enormous potential of the “collective brain” to broaden the scope of “open R&D”. Thus, Communities for...

Tangible User Interfaces are of increasing interest in research and are beginning to showtheir potential for practical applications. Due to the differences from Virtual Reality systemsand traditional WIMP interaction via monitor, mouse and keyboard, established designknowledge from these areas...

The main objective of this report is to describe a decision-support system for dynamic retailpricing and promotion planning. Our weekly demand model incorporates price, referenceprice effects, seasonality, article availability information, features and discounts. Building onprevious research, we...

Die Aneignung und Einbettung von Computersystemen in den Nutzungskontext stellt einen zentralen, nichtsdestotrotz von der bisherigen Forschung ungenügend adressierten Aspekt der Softwarenutzung dar. Es muss dabei klar sein, dass Aneignung ein kollektiver und kreativer Prozess gesehen werden...

Der Bereich der Workflow-Management-Systeme [...] wird in jüngerer Zeit in verschiedenen Bereichen der Informatik genauer erforscht. Ziel der Bemühungen ist es, die besonderen Anforderungen, die WFMS an Rechner- und Programmsysteme stellen, zu ermitteln und zu befriedigen. [...]

This paper is an annual publication issued by the Microeconomic Analysis service of the National Bank of Belgium. The Flemish maritime ports (Antwerp, Ghent, Oostende, Zeebrugge), the Autonomous Port of Liège and the port of Brussels play a major role in their respective regional economies and...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped almost 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010. This event had a significant economic impact (which compounded the recession effect) on the surrounding regions particularly those with a large marine industry...