Cloud Computing is a topic that has gained momentum in the last years. Current studies show that anincreasing number of companies is evaluating the promised advantages and considering making use ofcloud services. In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of cloud computing and its importance...

Expert-driven business process management is an establishedmeans for improving efficiency of organizational knowledge work.Implicit procedural knowledge in the organization is made explicit bydening processes. This approach is not applicable to individual knowledgework due to its high complexity...

With the Multimedia Metadata Ontology (M3O), we havedeveloped a sophisticated model for representing among others the annotation,decomposition, and provenance of multimedia metadata. Thegoal of the M3O is to integrate the existing metadata standards andmetadata formats rather than replacing...

The novel mobile application csxPOI (short for: collabora-tive, semantic, and context-aware points-of-interest) enables its usersto collaboratively create, share, and modify semantic points of interest(POI). Semantic POIs describe geographic places with explicit semanticproperties of a...