Books

Cloud Computing: Web-basierte dynamische IT-Services
by Christian Baun, Marcel Kunze, Jens Nimis, Stefan Tai
(Oktober 2009)
Cloud Computing is about provisioning and usage of infrastructures, platforms and software as a service over the internet. Based on the idea of Utility Computing, these services are billed by actual service consumption rather than coarse grain usage fees. The German book “Cloud Computing – Web-basierte dynamische IT-Services” wants to provide an overview on technological and economical aspects of Cloud Computing, its architecture, application and engineering. The aim is to enable its readers to find a common mind set and terminology as a base for discussion and further exploration of the field.

 

 

Handbook on Information Technology in Finance
by Detlef Seese, Christof Weinhardt, Frank Schlottmann (ed.)
(Juni 2008)
This Handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance. Included are recent trends and challenges, IT systems and architectures in finance, essential developments and case studies on management information systems, service oriented architecture modelling, IT architectures for securities trading, IT-systems in banking, process-oriented systems in corporate treasuries, grid computing and networking. The IT applications in banking, trading and insurance cover risk management and controlling, financial portals, electronic payment and others. In addition, also finance-related IT applications in non-financial companies are considered. The concept-oriented part of the book focuses on IT methods in finance like financial models and modelling financial data, planning and processes, security, algorithms and complexity.

 

Semantics@Work: Ontology Management – Tools and Techniques
by Raphael Volz (ed.)
(Februar 2008)
Semantic technologies typically take part in the challenge of managing the massive amounts of information that we are facing today. A series of standardization efforts, research and industrial projects have led to semantic technologies that are mature enough to be part of business systems. Fundamental to the creation and sustained operation of semantic systems is successful ontology management. The 2008 state of the art of ontology management with its key tasks ontology design, ontology evolution, ontology mapping and ontology reasoning is presented in this book. This book is a first result of the German THESEUS project, funded by the German federal ministry of economics and technology.

 

Handbook on Ontologies
by Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer (ed.)
(Februar 2008)
An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. The concept is important for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies. The handbook demonstrates standards that have been created recently, it surveys methods that have been developed and it shows how to bring both into practice of ontology infrastructures and applications that are the best of their kind.

 

 

Datenbanken und XML. Konzepte, Anwendungen, Systeme (Xpert.press)
by Wassilios Kazakos, Andreas Schmidt, Peter Tomczyk
(Dezember 2007)
This book provides a well-founded introduction for project leades and computer scientists in research and practice, into the world of XML and XML-based standards, such as XML Schema, XML Query and XSL/T from a database point of view. Hereby the central concepts will be presented in their relation to conventional relational and object-oriented techniques. The use of conceptual models with respect to XML, as well as their translation to different data models will be explained. For the assessment of the practical usability the book provides an in-depth analysis of numerous commercial products, such as Oracle 9i, MS SQL Server 2000 or Tamino. The real application of the presented techniques will be illustrated with two scenarios, and an outlook on future developments is topping the book off.

 

Semantic Web Services: Concepts, Technologies, and Applications
by Rudi Studer, Stephan Grimm, Andreas Abecker (ed.)
(Mai 2007)
Service-Oriented Architectures and Web Services are the new, most influential paradigm for distributed, Web-based computing. Semantic Web Services employ Semantic Web technologies (expressive meta data, formal background knowledge, and automated reasoning) to achieve better quality, better usability, and a higher degree of automation in SOA scenarios. This edited volume presents essential Semantic Web basics and approaches, as well as some innovative applications. It can serve as a comprehensive introductory book on this upcoming topic.

 

 

eOrganisation: Service-, Prozess-, Market-Engineering, Vol. 1 & 2
by Andreas Oberweis, Christof Weinhardt, Henner Gimpel, Agnes Koschmider, Victor Pankratius, Björn Schnizler (ed.)
(Februar 2007)
„eOrganisation: Service-, Prozess-, Market-Engineering" was the main topic of the 8th International Conference on Business Informatics in 2007 (WI 2007).

 

 

Adaptive Bidding in Single-Sided Auctions under Uncertainty: An Agent-based Approach in Market Engineering
by Clemens van Dinther
(Februar 2007)
In the last years electronic markets, especially online auctions, have become very popular and received more and more attention in both, business (B2B) as well as in public practice (B2C and C2C). Science, however, is still far from having studied all phenomena and effects which can be observed on electronic markets. Apart from theoretic analysis, other approaches are necessary to evaluate and understand market effects. This book shows that and how software agents can be used to simulate bidding behaviour in electronic auctions. The main emphasis of this book is to apply computational economics to market theory. It summarizes the most common and up-to-date agent-based simulation methods and tools and develops the simulation software AMASE. On basis of the introduced methods a model is established to simulate bidding behaviour under uncertainty. The book addresses researchers, computer scientists, economists and students who are interested in applying agent-based computational methods to electronic markets. It helps to learn more about simulations in economics in general and common agent-based methods and tools in particular. The reader finds basic definitions and learns how to build an appropriate model for the posed research question. It is the first time that quantitative results are presented for the problem of valuation uncertainty. These results significantly contribute to existing research in computational economics and supplements interesting research aspects.

Semantic Web Technologies: Trends and Research in Ontology-based Systems
by John Davies, Rudi Studer, Paul Warren (ed.)
(April 2006)
The Semantic Web combines the descriptive languages RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language), with the data-centric, customizable XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) to provide descriptions of the content of Web documents. These machine-interpretable descriptions allow more intelligent software systems to be written, automating the analysis and exploitation of web-based information. Software agents will be able to create automatically new services from already published services, with potentially huge implications for models of e-Business. Semantic Web Technologies provides a comprehensive overview of key semantic knowledge technologies and research. The authors explain (semi-)automatic ontology generation and metadata extraction in depth, along with ontology management and mediation. Further chapters examine how Semantic Web technology is being applied in knowledge management (“Semantic Information Access”) and in the next generation of Web services.

Knowledge Asset Management – Beyond the Process-centred and Product-centred Approaches
by Gregoris Mentzas, Dimitris Apostolou, Andreas Abecker, Ron Young
(November 2002)
Holistic Knowledge Management comprises measures regarding people, processes, and technology in an organisation. This book presents a comprehensive framework, a modular analysis and introduction method, suitable software tool support, as well as some case studies for that.

 

 

 

Geschäftsprozessorientiertes Wissensmanagement – Effektive Wissensnutzung bei der Planung und Umsetzung von Geschäftsprozessen
by Andreas Abecker, Knut Hinkelmann, Heiko Maus, Heiz J. Müller (ed.)
(Mai 2002)
Business processes are at the heart of the creation, usage and further development of business-critical organisation knowledge. Hence, Business-Process oriented Knowledge Management combines and amalgamates methods and tools from Knowledge Management and Business Process / Workflow Management in order to exploit synergies of both approaches and deliver new kinds of added value. This books is a collection of academic as well as practice oriented contributions to this field.

 

 

Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web
by Alexander Maedche
(Februar 2002)
"Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web" explores techniques for applying knowledge discovery techniques to different web data sources (such as HTML documents, dictionaries, etc.), in order to support the task of engineering and maintaining ontologies. The approach of ontology learning proposed in "Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web" includes a number of complementary disciplines that feed in different types of unstructured and semi-structured data. This data is necessary in order to support a semi-automatic ontology engineering process. "Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web" is designed for researchers and developers of semantic web applications. It also serves as an excellent supplemental reference to advanced level courses in ontologies and the semantic web.