MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
“Crowdsourcing” is currently one of the most discussed key words within the open innovation community. The major question for both research and business is how to find and lev...
Winfried Ebner, Jan Marco Leimeister, Ulrich Brets...
We present the case study of a complex, mixed-initiative scheduling system to illustrate Work-Centered Design (WCD), a new approach for the design of information systems. WCD is b...
Keith A. Butler, Jiajie Zhang, Chris Esposito, Ali...
Knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage for organizations. Knowledge is a renewable, re-usable and accumulating asset of value to firms t...
Team members usually cooperate on a business process by partitioning it into several activities, which in turn generate one or more work items. Work items either need to be proces...