Global tatige Unternehmen haben besondere Anforderungen an ihre Informationsversorgung. Das Modell der transnationalen Unternehmung mit seiner Netzwerkorganisation dient dem Autor als Grundlage fur die Ableitung geeigneter Anforderungskriterien. Die theoretische Untersuchung wird erganzt durch eine empirische Fallstudie der Siemens AG. Aktuelle Informationstechnologien werden vorgestellt und analysiert.

This book provides an introduction to Swarm Robotics, which is the application of methods from swarm intelligence to robotics. The author explains the methodology behind building multiple, simple robots and how the complexity emerges from the multiple interactions between these robots such that they are able to solve difficult tasks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2018, held in Braunschweig, Germany, in April 2018.The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2022, held in Málaga, Spain, in November 2022.The 19 full papers presented, together with 14 short papers and 4 extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. ANTS 2022 contributions are dealing with any aspect of swarm intelligence such as behavioral models of social insects, empirical and theoretical research in swarm intelligence, application of swarm intelligence methods, and much more.