In Unternehmen hat sich der Einsatz von rechenintensiver Informationstechnologie (IT) bereits für den Geschäftsbetrieb als unverzichtbar erwiesen, um Geschäftsprozesse besser auszurichten und neue Geschäftslösungen mit größerer Flexibilität und Geschwindigkeit bereitzustellen. Dieser...

Integrating environmental considerations into supply-chain management has become one of the major concerns to the industry and researchers. However, supply chains still have to deal with the challenges of effectiveness and cost efficiency. RFID is one of the contemporary technologies which have...

Online storage service providers such as Amazon S3 grant a way for companies, particularly startups, to avoid spending resources on maintaining their own in-house storage infrastructure and thereby allowing them to focus on their core business activities. These providers however follow a fixed,...

Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together two or more interdependent groups of customers, have recently risen to economic and business prominence in many industries. This paper first lays out a simple micro-founded framework which aims to organize academic and managerial thinking about...

Key Management is a critical security service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It is an essential cryptographic primitive upon which other security primitives are built. The most critical security requirements in WSNs include authentication and confidentiality. These security requirements can...

This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the first workshop on Monitoring, Adaptation and Beyond (MONA+ 2008), which was held on December 13, 2008 in Madrid, Spain. MONA+ has been collocated with the ServiceWave 2008 conference.