Land-use planners have a critical role to play in building vibrant, sustainable and hazard resilient communities in New Zealand. The policy and legal setting for natural hazards planning provides a solid foundation for good practice. But there are many examples of ‘bad practice’ that result...

Der Prozess des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens stellt besondere Anforderungen an die eingesetzte Standardsoftware. Verschiedene Autoren arbeiten gemeinsam an Dokumenten, was aufgrund mangelnder Koordination und informationstechnischer Unterstützung in der Regel zur uneinheitlichen Verwendung...

If mass-media reception as well as production are at once expression and motor of structural violence; if communications technology can be understood, historically, only as an integral part of the emerging military industrial complex; if the access to and the power over the mass media are unequal...

The traditional way of budgeting in public administrations is input-oriented; however, this system does not meet actual methods of efficient budget controlling as a mapping of output parameters. Due to challenges, such as the need for cost reduction because of decreasing tax revenues, pressure for...

The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) was founded on October, 12th 2004. This Working Paper was written with respect to the establishment of ERCIS. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, writes about fundamental issues of ERCIS. Furthermore all Founding Members...

BPM research has been of great importance in Germany since the early 1990s. In Russia, increased competition and new IT possibilities have only recently forced both companies and governmental institutions to start taking benefits from BPM. Against this background, the workshop PropelleR 2012...

Das Ziel dieses gemeinsamen Arbeitsberichtes der Forschungsprojekte MW-KiD und ARGEPLAN ist somit, die Anpassung der MW-KiD Methode zur Abbildung web-basierter Informationssysteme sowie die Entwicklung eines geeigneten Beschreibungsinstrumentariums für die Darstellung und Analyse der...