[Introduction ...] The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 covers background material on IS courses in general and the one at Münster in particular. Section 3 describes the design of our course in detail, while Section 4 provides a discussion of the approach both from a...

[Introduction ...] The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 covers background material on IS courses in general and the one at Münster in particular. Section 3 describes the design of our course in detail, while Section 4 provides a discussion of the approach both from a...

Durch die Covid-19-Pandemie und die entsprechenden "Lock-Downs" wurde der digitale Lehrbetrieb an Hochschulen weiter in den Vordergrund gerückt. Die in den vergangenen Jahren und Jahrzehnten gesammelten Erfahrungen im E‑Learning und Blended Learning-Bereich sind zwar hilfreich, für die jetzt...

Trading data as a commodity is increasingly popular. To get a better understanding of emerging data marketplaces, we have conducted two surveys to systematically gather and evaluate their characteristics. This paper is a continuation of a survey we conducted in 2012; it describes our findings from a...

Data is becoming more and more of a commodity, so that it is not surprising that data has reached the status of tradable goods. An increasing number of data providers is recognizing this and is consequently setting up platforms that deserve the term “marketplace” for data. We identify...

Cloud sourcing and cloud computing have become de-facto standards in recent years for a range of applications. Cloud solutions are attractive for a number of reasons including ease of use, pricing, availability, scalability, and reliability. In particular, small and medium enterprises (SMEs)...

In practice the ability to find the right Web service decides between a functionality being implemented anew and at least the possibility of executing it via a service. This report evaluates existing public portals for Web service discovery with respect to their characteristics and their...