Der Einsatz von Social Software in Personalmanagementprozessen gilt als ein Zukunftsthema im HRBereich.Durch das Nutzen von Blogs, Wikis und Social Networking Services (SNS) im Internet undinnerhalb eines Unternehmens sollen Informationen über Bewerber und Mitarbeiter schnell und einfachzur...

The production planning with renewable resources faces several special problems compared tocommon planning methods with inputs which are “always available”. Due to their unsteadiness ingrowth, external influences like weather and natural resources and specific transport and...

Groupwareplattformen im schulischen Umfeld sind seit vielen Jahren fest im Schulalltag integriert (Stahl 2004, S. 163). Die Akzeptanz vieler Systeme leidet aber an einer umständlichen Bedienung und einem nicht bedürfnisgerechten Funktions-angebot (Jiang et al. 2005, S. 570). Zudem scheint die...

This paper defines IT architectures and introduces possibilities to integrate them after a merger. Furthermoreit describes the merger process particularly for IT architectures. First, a consistent definition for ITarchitectures is created, demands on IT architectures are presented and the...

This paper introduces the possibilities of Weblogs in the context of e-learning and knowledge management. At the beginning it gives a classification of Weblogs in the context of social software. Then one tries to find a general valid definition for the research object. Based on that, main...

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) has proven to be a good metaheuristic for continuous optimizationproblems. In this paper we present a solution for applying the PSO to a combinatorial optimizationproblem of a real data university course timetabling problem. We first describe the...

Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

Mobility is obviously one of the main characteristics of the mobile Internet. Next toheterogeneity it is one of the root causes for challenges when mobile end devices are used.Mobility leads to specific characteristics of the usage of end devices which can becategorized as technical, social and...