Das netzwerkbasierte Angebot von Diensten in der IT verlagert sich vom bisher dominierenden Client-Server-Ansatz immer stärker in Richtung verteilter Systeme, welche durch Flexibilität, Skalierbarkeit und nicht zuletzt geringe Kosten eine attraktive Alternative zu wartungsintensiven und teuren...

...Kaum haben die Unternehmen den Wandelzu Blended Learning verinnerlicht, beginntdie Ära des Workplace Learning 2.0.Bei den neueren Ausprägungen des arbeitsintegriertenLernens kommen gewichtigeformelle Weiterbildungen wieberufsbegleitendes Online-Fernstudiumebenso wenig vor wie langwierige...

In the wake of Web 2.0 applications, nearly every branch is influenced by this new understanding ofthe Web. The Banking industry is facing a phenomenon called Peer to Peer Banking, where customerstend to know exactly who gets their invested money. They want to know the people behind thecredit...

This deliverable describes the work done in task 3.1, “Middleware analysis: Analysis ofcurrent middleware used in peer-to-peer and grid implementations for enhancement bycatallactic mechanisms” from work package 3, “Middleware Implementation”. Thedocument is divided in four parts: The...

The number of scientific journals and thereby the number of published articles grew with an enormousrate in the last century (e.g. Price 1986; Henderson 2002). In the second half of the 20th century thesystem seemed to abut against its boundaries, because in relation to research budgets, library...