Internet technologies are widely recognized for their promise as enablers of collaborative computing both within and among organizations. The presence of heterogeneous systems based on different technological platforms in organizations makes the implementation of network collaboration very...

Die redundante, inkonsistente und unvollständige Bereitstellung von Daten beeinträchtigt die Ausführung von Geschäftsprozessen, und damit den Geschäftserfolg. Gleichzeitig erfordern sich ändernde unternehmensinterne und -externe Rahmenbedingungen eine flexible Bereitstellung von Daten im...

In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to identify all of the direct and...

The decision support applications available on today market use to combine the decision analysis of historical databased on On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) products or spreadsheet pivot tables with some new reporting facilities as alerts or key performance indicators available in portal...

Information available online has exploded over the last 20 years. However this lead to the phenomenon known as information overload, making it harder and harder for organisations and individuals to find information that is really relevant to them. We previously have proposed a solution to this...

Prior research has suggested that for widespread adoption to occur, dominant designs are necessary in order to stabilize and diffuse the innovation across organizations. This study explores the possibility of alternative designs, or stable and tenacious forms of implementation, at the presence...

This report surveys literature and research in the field of distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) and provides an overview of computer architectures particularly suited to such research. It concentrates on work to date that has involved the construction of testbeds and development tools for...