Recently, several platforms for arranging credit mediation between borrowers and lenders without usage of a financial intermediary have emerged. Social lending has attracted the interest of researchers who analyzed the behavior of borrowers and lenders on these platforms. The authors examine the...

The majority of RFID implementations can be traced back either to mandates issued by companies or institutions withsignificant market power like Wal-Mart or the U.S. Department of Defense, or to the replacement of existing Auto-IDtechnologies like barcodes. Only sporadically is RFID being used...

Particle Swarm Optimization is a population based search strategy based on the idea of the simulation of bird flocks. In this paper we will introduce an application of the PSO to a management problem. The simulated stochastic 2-product-warehouse with the parameters order amount and safety stock...

The number of scientific journals and thereby the number of published articles grew with an enormousrate in the last century (e.g. Price 1986; Henderson 2002). In the second half of the 20th century thesystem seemed to abut against its boundaries, because in relation to research budgets, library...

Due to the widespread appearance of filesharing systemslike Napster, the peer-to-peer concept has recentlybecome well known. So far, these file-sharing systemshave been used for the exchange of digital goods. Werecommend a concept, based on that of the file-sharingsystem, for a decentralized...

Due to decreasing hardware prices and growing standardization, RFID-systems (Radio FrequencyIdentification) are increasingly being used in global supply chains. In the beginning a simple identificationnumber was stored on the RFID tag, but meanwhile, there is a variety of applications storing...