Financial corporations and especially banking institutions have important needs concerning to the development of software around their business core. The software, that traditionally had been developed in house by the IT departments, is now usually outsourced to IT firms. These firms work under the software factories model. An important feature within this sector is that usually the financial g...

This paper reports on the goals and first results of the CAWICOMS project. This EU-funded project has two main goals: The first one is providing technologies for the development of customeradaptive Web-interfaces for the configuration of masscustomized products. The second one is the integration of configuration systems along the supplychain. Within this paper we first motivate the demand for p...

Business process modeling and design, which has attracted much attention in recent years, emphasizes mainly graphical representation, usually without an underlying theory. The lack of a theoretical foundation causes several important issues to remain intuitionrather than theory -based. In particular, many process-modeling methods, being semi-formal, lack a mechanism for verifying the “correctne...

Many more consumers have tried at least once organic food, but despite higher consumer awareness, they still show a great concern about food quality and safety. Recent research showed that there is still little knowledge of how organic products are produced and processed and which characteristics are fundamental for the consumer with regard to quality and safety. In this scenario, primary produ...

Many security standards and cryptographic solutions exist for different applications such as agriculture, aircraft, banking systems etc. but a more effective efficient solution can be given by combining existing technologies with blockchain. This work addresses the problems of previous works scalability, immutability, robustness, network latency, auditability, traceability. Satoshi Nakamoto int...

time for business enterprise software in general, and software for optimized supply-chain planning in particular. The spread of enterprise resource-planning software, warehouse-management systems, factory-planning systems, and other enterprise applications, had the side effect of moving online much of the raw data needed to optimize supply chains. Furthermore, the pace of business change, incre...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a major focus of interest not only for corporate managers but also for development practitioners, both within the NGO community and within the multilateral and bilateral development agencies.1 Development NGOs have, for the most part, been extremely critical of the voluntary initiatives undertaken by the corporate sector. In a recent report Chris...