Softwaretests sind als ein Hauptbestandteil des Entwicklungsprozesses ausschlaggebend für das Erstellen hochqualitativer Software. Wir haben mit regionalen Unternehmen zusammengearbeitet, um ihre Stärken und Schwächen bezüglich des Testens von Software kennenzulernen. Darauf aufbauend haben...

Dieser Arbeitsbericht fasst die Beiträge des 16. Kolloquium 'Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung (KPS'11)' zusammen, das vom 26. bis 28. September 2011 auf Schloss Raesfeld im Münsterland in Deutschland stattgefunden hat.

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...

Supply chains for various goods span across multiple nations. Often, lower developed countries are involved in which no adequate background institutions have been established. Consequently, sustainable behavior of multinational corporations is important. To make companies’ performance...

Computer games have become an influential socio-economic phenomenon. Millions of people play online games regularly. At the same time, game vendors' revenues are increasing. As a new emergence, virtual (i.e. in-game) goods are traded for real money. However, not much research has been conducted...

The research presented in this paper was motivated by the central role of infrastructure charing in European transport policy. It is dedicated to the question whether and to what extent marginal infrastructure costs of airports, e.g. the marginal costs of maintaining, renewing and operating...

This paper analyses the cost bahaviour of motorway renewal costs with the aim to derive an estimate of marginal infrastructure costs per vehicle-km of trucks as part of optimal road user charges. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data of motorway renewal costs and traffic volume per...

With the increasing profit orientation of German airport operators the question as to weather they possess market power is gaining more importance. Whereas there have been some studies about the degree of market power of individual airports in countries as Australia and Great Britain, the German...

Recently, Chinese firms have become more active in attempting to go public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB). This paper uses multivaria te probit analysis to test the motivations of Chinese firms to list on the FWB. In general, Chinese firms are driven by the following motivations. Firstly,...