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BlockChain Based Certificate Verification Platform
This research is still in progress and focuses on using the blockchain for the verification of the authenticity of issued certificates. In this first stage of the research we are presenting a prototype that al...
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Decentralized Energy Networks Based on Blockchain: Background, Overview and Concept Discussion
This paper provides a snapshot of the globally ongoing decentralization of (business) relations in the energy sector. This tendency can be observed in other domains as well and is accompanied by new digital te...
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Mixed Methods Approach as Requirements Analysis of a Method for Process Harmonization in Design Science Research
Process harmonization (PH) in the post-merger integration phase is essential for successful mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Especially in the service sector, the know-how is bundled in processes, thus PH is an e...
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Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Extensions for Smart-Contract Design Patterns
Blockchains enable the trustless establishment of long-term consensus. The primary paradigm for extending this capability to generalized use cases is smart contracts. Smart contracts have the advantages of trustl...
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Assessing Process Suitability for AI-Based Automation. Research Idea and Design
Recent advancements in Big Data and Machine Learning (ML) have triggered progressive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the enterprise domains to address growing business process complexity. What is y...
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Invisible BlockChain and Plasticity of Money – Adam Smith Meets Darwin to Buy Crypto Currency
This paper will attempt to compare evolution in nature (based on Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection), with similar processes happening in money, especially in the current iteration of money (cry...
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Smart Contract-Based Role Management on the Blockchain
Role-based access management is essential in today’s business applications. The need for such access control is indisputable, implementation in a centralized way, on the other hand, is not ideal. An improvemen...
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Enhancing Clinical Decision Support Through Information Processing Capabilities and Strategic IT Alignment
Hospitals heavily invest in Healthcare IT to improve the efficiency of hospital operations, improve practitioner performance and to enhance patient care. The literature suggests that decision support systems m...
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Chaining Property to Blocks – On the Economic Efficiency of Blockchain-Based Property Enforcement
Within the last two years, much has been written about the blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. However, few actual use cases related to real world phenomena have been proffered in that literature....
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SmartExchange: Decentralised Trustless Cryptocurrency Exchange
Trading cryptocurrency on current digital exchange platforms is a trust-based process, where the parties involved in the exchange have to fully trust the service provider. As it has been proven several times, ...
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Enhancing Teamwork Behavior of Services
Nowadays, many large software systems that are developed for business are mainly built from services leveraging the benefits of interoperability. However, the development of new technologies such as Cloud Comp...
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Risk Engineering and Blockchain: Anticipating and Mitigating Risks
Complex systems require an integrated approach to risks. In this paper, we describe risk engineering, a methodology to incorporate risks at the planning and design stage for complex systems, and introduce som...
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Profiling User Colour Preferences with BFI-44 Personality Traits
Nowadays, a lot of attention is paid to personalisation of services and content presented to a user. Personalisation is based on profiles of a users built on top of diverse data: logs, texts, pictures, etc. Th...
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The IT Department as a Service Broker: A Qualitative Research
The accelerated increase of new IT suppliers and services is allowing organizations to easily access to specialized outsourced services. Consequently, IT departments are increasingly develo** fewer IT servi...
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Challenges from Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance in Brownfield Industrial Settings
In the last years many companies made substantial investments in digitization of production and started collecting a lot of data. However, the big question arises how to make sense of all these data and to cre...
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Process Mining of Periodic Rating Scale Survey Data Using Analytic Hierarchy Process
The main purpose of our research is to propose original algorithm to evaluate the dynamic behavior of processes from the survey data collected with the help of periodically repeated surveys based on Likert sca...
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TEA - A Technology Evaluation and Adoption Influence Framework for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Emerging technologies compel small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to advance their digital transformation. However, a conclusive and applicable overview on influencing factors for the evaluation and adopt...
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A Multiple-Layer Clustering Method for Real-Time Decision Support in a Water Distribution System
Machine learning provides a foundation for a new paradigm where the facilities of computing extend to the level of cognitive abilities in the form of decision support systems. In the area of water distribution...
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High-Performance Computing Applied in Project UBEST
UBEST aims at improving the global understanding of present and future biogeochemical buffering capacity of estuaries through the development of Observatories, computational web-portals that integrate field ob...
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Using Business Process Modelling to Improve Student Recruitment in UK Higher Education
We consider how the student recruitment process might be improved to optimize performance with particular reference to the clearing process. A Design Science Research (DSR) methodology was used which entails l...