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This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13361 “Crowdsourcing: From Theory to Practice and Long-Term Perspectives”. Crowdsourcing is a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of worke...

This paper examines why both B2B and B2C small businesses adopt of E-commerce. It provides an examination of the association between B2B/B2C adoption and other organizational and managerial factors by questioning small business managers about business sector, market focus, gender of the CEO and educational level of the CEO. It also examines the groupings and priorities of criteria used in the d...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13252 “Interoperation in Complex Information Ecosystems”. Seminar 16.–19. June, 2013 – www.dagstuhl.de/13252 1998 ACM Subject Classification D.3.1 Formal Definitions and Theory, H.2.3 Languages, H.2.4 Systems, H.2.8 Database Applications, I.2.4 Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11421 “Foundations of distributed data management”. Seminar 16.–21. October, 2011 – www.dagstuhl.de/11421 1998 ACM Subject Classification C.2.4 Distributed Systems, H.2 Database Management, H.3.5 Online Information Services

Organic Computing (OC) has become a challenging vision for the design of future information processing systems: As they become increasingly powerful, cheaper and smaller, our environment will be lled with collections of autonomous systems equipped with sensors and actuators to be aware of their environment, to communicate, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and servic-es...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 13361 “Crowdsourcing: From Theory to Practice and Long-Term Perspectives”. Crowdsourcing is a newly emerging service platform and business model in the Internet. In contrast to outsourcing, where a job is performed by a designated worker or employee, crowdsourcing means to outsource a job to a large, anonymous crowd of worke...