Any complex technological system can be decomposed into a number of subsystems and associated components, some of which are core to system function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such “core-periphery” structures evolve and become embedded in a firm's innovation...

Die Herausforderung, Entscheidungsträger mit "den richtigen Informationen zum richtigen Zeitpunkt in der richtigen Form" zu versorgen, legt nahe, die effiziente und effektive Verarbeitung der Berichtsinformationen aus den Perspektiven der Prozess- und Serviceorientierung zu betrachten. Damit...

The discovery of contextually relevant web services is crucial to business organisations. Pragmatics (in terms of communication acts) and semiotics (the understanding of signs), intersect at an important point in relation to textual entities. The intersection of pragmatics and semiotics provides...

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.