Electronic markets and especially online auctions gain more and more importance and a plethora of market mechanisms is emerging on the Internet. The great variety of trading rules hinders agents easily switching between different marketplaces and, therefore, fragments the overall market - supply...

With electronic auctions gaining importance, economists have increasingly gotten interested in researching the impact of variations in auction protocols. However, the infinite number of possible auction configurations and the significance of details make this a hard and tedious task. Therefore...

In coordination theory, markets stand for flexibility and dynamics. Today’s implementations of electronic marketplaces, however, limit the flexibility in a sense that processes along the market transaction are rigid and the provided functions proprietary. In order to further foster flexibility...

Peer-to-peer markets going mobile spur spontaneity in trading considerably. Spontaneity, however, imposes severe informational requirements on the market participants. Informational requirements are twofold: Firstly, participants have to agree on a common vocabulary for that spontaneous market....

Many challenging applications are inherently dynamic. This is mainly due to the ever changing environment applications are subjected to in areas such as supply chains, logistics or business proecess support. Workflow technology is often applied to find solutions in these domains. It aims to...