Schwerpunktthema „Gender & Diversity“

Schwerpunktthema Services and Service Composition –

In this overview paper, we discuss the basic principles underlying service-oriented computing in general, and (Web) services in particular. We discuss the important differences between (Web) services and Web applications and other models in Internet computing. Finally, we discuss where we see the future research challenges in the area of service composition. Zusammenfassung In diesem Übersichts...

Does Gender Diversity Promote Nonconformity?

Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition affects expression of minority...

Gender Diversity in the Boardroom

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

CGIAR GENDER AND DIVERSITY PROGRAM EXECUTIVE SELECTION IN THE CGIAR Implications for Gender and Diversity

Schwerpunktthema Medienkunst Oder Die Kunst Die Medien Zu Erforschen

Zusammenfassung Die Möglichkeiten und Wirkungsweisen von Medien lassen sich mit künstlerischen Projekten frei von Anforderungen an das Ergebnis oder ein Anwendungsziel entdecken und erforschen. Bereits in den 60er Jahren untersuchten sowohl Künstler als auch Ingenieure das Medium Computer künstlerisch und kreativ, um Einblicke in die Möglichkeiten des Computers zu bekommen. Ein aktuelles intera...