The rapid development of e-commerce has led to a swiftly increasing number of competing providers in electronic markets, which maintain their own, individual data describing the offered items. Recommender systems are popular and powerful tools relying on this data to guide users to their...

Aktuell diskutierte Standards und Technologien (bspw. im Bereich Web Services) werden die IT-gestützte Kommunikation zwischen Unternehmen stark verändern. Die Standardisierungsentscheidung geht jedoch mit dem Risiko einher, einen Standard einzu-führen, den andere Unternehmen danach nicht...

In our competitive world, companies need to adapt their processesquickly in order to react, for instance, to changing customerdemands. Process models, as means to support processmanagement, are nowadays often created and adapted in a timeconsuming,widely used manual manner. Semantic...