Software-as-a-Service is a delivery model whose basic idea is to provide applications to the customer on demand over the Internet. SaaS thereby promotes multi-tenancy as a tool to exploit economies of scale. This means that a single application instance serves multiple customers. However, a major drawback of SaaS is the ...

Through the risen operating of autonomous and automated Accounting Information System (AIS), enterprises are increasingly faced with the growing size of accounting-relevant data. Therefore, the audit's purpose, which is namely to examine the true and fair view of financial statements, is heavily increasing in complexity. ...

As a contribution for eScience, we discuss the bottom-up derivation of scientific choreography models from existing simulation workflows interconnected as a multi-scale and multi-field simulation. Starting from a motivating scenario of only implicitly coupled simulation workflows for the studying of thermal aging of ...

Compliance has evolved into a mature research topic in business process management (BPM). However, most companies and BPM tool providers do not incorporate advanced methods from scientific research into their everyday life. This work gives an insight on the state in the industry based on expert interviews in companies ...

The OASIS TOSCA specification [OAS13b] aims at enhancing the portability and interoperability of cloud-based applications by providing a language to describe and manage them across heterogeneous clouds. A cloud-based application is modelled by a service template, an orchestration of typed nodes which can be in turn ...

Computer systems are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Many of today's application areas do not fit for monolithic approaches, but for distributed intelligent systems. The multi-agent paradigm is an appropriate and therefore popular approach for building these systems. To interpret messages and provided services the ...

Das BusinessActivities Framework stellt einen integrierten, modellgetriebenen Ansatz zur Modellierung von Sicherheitseigenschaften für prozessbasierte Informationssysteme zur Verfügung. Ein wichtiger Teil des BusinessActivity Frameworks ermöglicht die Modellierung von rollenbasierten Zugriffskontrollmodellen. In diesem ...

NoSQL-Datenbanken sind gerade in der Webentwicklung zunehmend beliebt. Oft sind es die großen Datenmengen, die es zu verwalten gilt, mitunter sind diese Systeme aber auch wegen ihrer Schema-Flexibilität für agile Entwicklungsteams interessant. Indem viele NoSQL-Datenbanken keine Unterstützung für die Definition, Einhaltung ...

Companies have to adapt to change if they want to stay competitive. Inducing and managing change processes are, however, highly complex and difficult tasks, especially when individual beliefs, knowledge, and routines are addressed. Despite the importance of this aspect, research on concrete measures is still underrepresented. ...

Der lokale Bekleidungseinzelhandel steht unter immer stärkerem Konkurrenzdruck durch Versandunternehmen. Zusätzlich bestehen durch gewachsene Architekturen eine Reihe von Wachstumshemmnissen. Daher sollen hier eine Reihe von AnsŠtze zur Gestaltung datenzentrierter Unternehmensarchitekturen f\?r den Bekleidungseinzelhandel ...