Interoperability refers to a property of diverse systems and organizations enabling them to
work together. The current exchanges are, however, often inefficient and error-prone …

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are
likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires …

Nowadays, outsourcing has proved to be an enterprise management strategy in the face of
globalization and growing competition. The decision to outsource a business process for …

To enable effective cross-organizational collaborations, process providers have to offer
external views on their internal processes to their partners. A process view hides details of …

For improving the efficiency and effectiveness of business collaboration, the need emerges
to inter-organizationally match e-business services. Recent research activities show …

Contemporary organizations invest much efforts in creating models of their business
processes. This raises the issue of how to deal with large sets of process models that …

The ever-increasing complexity of contemporary products and services demands business
supply chains that ultimately involve a large number of autonomous organizations …

Software solutions to automate the procurement of web services are gaining importance
when technology evolves, the number of providers increases and the needs of the clients …

We study the problem of augmenting battery-powered sensornet trees with energy-
harvesting leaf nodes. Our results show that leaf nodes that are smaller in size than today's …

Mobile applications (apps) have attracted increasing attention as an unprecedented
opportunity for retailers. This study aims to explore how a branded app supports customers' …