Most research projects that start to implement the so called “Internetof Things” typically use smart products and mobile devices within brick-andmortarsupermarkets for consumer-product communication at the point-of-sale.But outside the supermarket specific information collected about the...

The position paper at hand points out how to use semantictechnologies enabling the development of ambient services. Therefore a 4-layered approach that integrates so-called object information with additionalavailable information from external resources is introduced. The proposedapproach is...

This chapter reviews core concepts of peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. Ithighlights the management of resources, such as bandwidth, storage,information, files, and processor cycles based on P2P networks. A modeldifferentiating P2P infrastructures, P2P applications, and P2P communitiesis...

Purpose: This paper reviews and classifies research connecting supply chain risk management (SCRM) and information technology (IT) and derives a structured proposal for fruitful research directions. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a systematic literature review of the...