This book contains 11 papers from the 8th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Val d'Isere, France, during March 23-26, 2014, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.
They are based on a vast empirical base brought together by leading researchers in information systems, strategic management, and operations. This volume is intended for students, academics, and practitioners interested in research results and experiences in outsourcing and offshoring of information technology and business processes. Topics discussed in this book combine theoretical and practical...
This book contains 11 papers from the 8th Workshop on Global Sourcing, held in Val d'Isere, France, during March 23-26, 2014, which were carefully ...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2014, held in Lund, Sweden, in September 2014. Overall, 71 submissions were rigorously reviewed by 55 members of the Program Committee representing 22 countries. As a result, 27 full papers have been selected for publication in this volume. The papers cover many aspects of business information research and have been organized in topical sections on: business, people, and systems; business and information systems development; and contextualized evaluation of business...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2014, held in Lund, S...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Euro Symposium on Systems Analysis and Design, SIGSAND/PLAIS 2014, held in Gda sk, Poland, in September 2014.
The objective of this symposium is to promote and develop high-quality research on all issues related to systems analysis and design (SAND). It provides a forum for SAND researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond to interact, collaborate, and develop their field. The 7 papers were carefully reviewed and selected with an acceptance rate of 40% cover topics in information systems evaluation and education, and they reflect...
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th Euro Symposium on Systems Analysis and Design, SIGSAND/PLAIS 2014, held in Gda sk, Poland, in Sept...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2014, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus, in May 2014. The 27 papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions and were revised and extended after the event. The workshop topics covered applications and economics of knowledge-based technologies (AKTB), business and IT alignment (BITA), digital currencies (DC), modern applications of business information systems (MODAPP), and tools for...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five workshops that were organized in conjunction with the International Conference on Business ...
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2014.
The aim of ISCRAM-med was to gather researchers and practitioners working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, with a special but not limited focus on Mediterranean crises. These include political crises, economic crises, natural hazards, and fatal industrial incidents.
The 15 full papers included in this book were...
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Medi...
This volume contains 12 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for agent-mediated e-commerce. They were originally presented at three events: the Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2013), co-located with AAMAS 2013 in Saint Paul, MN, USA, in May 2013; the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2013), co-located with AAAI 2013 in Bellevue, WA, USA, in July 2013; and the Joint Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA 2014) and Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC 2014),...
This volume contains 12 thoroughly refereed and revised papers detailing recent advances in research on designing trading agents and mechanisms for ag...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific track of the 7th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in January 2015. The SWQD conference offers a range of comprehensive and valuable information by presenting new ideas from the latest research papers, keynote speeches by renowned academics and industry leaders, professional lectures, exhibits, and tutorials. The four scientific full papers accepted for SWQD were each peer reviewed by three or more reviewers and selected out of 13 high-quality submissions. Further, four short papers were...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific track of the 7th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2015, held in Vienna, Austria...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three international workshops held in Rome, Italy, in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2014, in May 2014. The workshops comprised Principles of Large-Scale Agile Development, Refactoring & Testing (RefTest 2014), and Estimations in the 21st Century Software Engineering (EstSE21 2014). The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. In addition, an introduction and a keynote paper are included.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three international workshops held in Rome, Italy, in conjunction with the 15th International Confer...
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Porto, Portugal in February 2015. Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial, social, legal, and engineering aspects to address the theoretical and practical challenges of the service industry and its economy. The 27 full papers accepted for IESS were selected from 69 submissions. The papers consider the topics service innovation, service exploration, service design, IT based service...
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Porto, Portugal in Februa...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in August 2013. The six revised full papers were carefully selected from 18 submissions. Following the event, authors were given the opportunity to improve their papers with the insights they gained from the symposium. The selected papers cover theoretical issues related to process representation, discovery and analysis or provide practical and operational experiences in process discovery and analysis.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in R...
