The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions withsignificant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-IDtechnologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used...

Particle Swarm Optimization is a population based search strategy based on the idea of the simulation of bird flocks. In this paper we will introduce an application of the PSO to a management problem. The simulated stochastic 2-product-warehouse with the parameters order amount and safety stock...

Als Antwort auf den zunehmenden Einzug der IuK-Technologie in die Medienbrancheist eine Vielzahl neuer Geschäftsmodelle entstanden, die von einem ergänzendenInhalteangebot für klassische Print- und Rundfunkprodukte über Anbietermit originär für das Internet erstellten Inhalten bis zu neuen...

Peer-to-peer systems are highly distributed and self-organizing communication networks.They get on without a central server as much as possible. This paper proposesto organize the trading of securities - like it is being done up until now at the stock exchange- on a peer-to-peer basis. In this...

Currently, Semantic Web approaches play an important role in the discussion of knowledgemanagement. Metadata, which contains formal machine-readable information about contents,is added to resources in order to enable machines to access resources which are otherwiseonly understandable to human...

Due to the widespread appearance of filesharing systemslike Napster, the peer-to-peer concept has recentlybecome well known. So far, these file-sharing systemshave been used for the exchange of digital goods. Werecommend a concept, based on that of the file-sharingsystem, for a decentralized...