Matthias Schu examines three main topics in his research: The intention of store-based retail and wholesale companies to open up an own online channel, factors determining the foreign market selection behavior of online retailers as well as factors affecting the speed in the internationalization process of online retailers. New insights for retail research and management are presented and contribute to existing knowledge; the study is valuable for academic researchers and for practitioners who are interested in a thorough analysis of online retailing from a strategic and theoretical perspective.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2017, held in Dalian, China, in December 2017. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in tracks, starting with mobile and wireless networks, quality and reliability, wireless networking algorithms and protocols, and smart applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making, IUKM 2018, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in March 2018.The 39 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on uncertainty management and decision support; clustering and classification; machine learning applications; statistical methods; and econometric applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International GI/ITG Conference on Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems, MMB 2018, held in Erlangen, Germany, in February 2018. The 16 full papers, 4 PhD track papers, and 9 tool papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They are dealing with performance and dependability evaluation techniques for computer and communication systems and its related fields.

This book features a selection of best papers from 13 workshops held at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2017. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They cover specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2017, in Sliema, Malta, in April 2017.The 39 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They feature the outcome of the 5th Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, WAHC 2017, the 4th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, BITCOIN 2017, the Second Workshop on Secure Voting Systems, VOTING 2017, the First Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2017, and the First Workshop on Targeted Attacks, TA 2017.The papers are grouped in topical sections named: encrypted computing and applied homomorphic cryptography; bitcoin and blockchain research; advances in secure electronic voting schemes; trusted smart contracts; targeted attacks.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 15th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2016, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS, in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. WeB 2016 provided a forum for scholars to exchange ideas and share results from their research. Original articles addressing a broad coverage of technical, managerial, economic, and strategic issues related to consumers, businesses, industries, and governments were presented at the workshop, employing various IS research methods such as case study, survey, analytical modeling, experiments, computational models, and design science. The 15 full and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. They deal with the "Internetworked World" focusing on digitalization, consumerization, global platforms, and transformative innovations in industry.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in malaga, Spain, in November 2017. The 33 full papers presented together with 20 short papers and 4 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 179 submissions. The selected papers cover a wide variety of important topics in the area of service-oriented computing, including foundational issues on service discovery and service-systems design, business process modelling and management, economics of service-systems engineering, as well as services on the cloud, social networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analytics. The chapter "Risk-based Proactive Process Adaptation" is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking, UNet 2017, held in Casablanca, Morocco, in May 2017. The 56 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: context-awareness and autonomy paradigms; mobile edge networking and virtualization; ubiquitous internet of things: emerging technologies and breakthroughs; and enablers, challenges and applications.

This volume contains the workshopproceedings of the accompanying workshops of the 14th Financial Cryptograpy and Data Security International Conference 2010, held on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, January 25-28, 2010. FinancialCryptographyandData Securityis a majorinternationalforumfor research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a speci?c focus on commercial contexts. The c- ference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems and especially encourages original work focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security. Three workshops were co-located with FC 2010: the Workshop on Real-Life CryptographicProtocolsandStandardization(RLCPS),theWorkshoponEthics in Computer Security Research (WECSR), and the Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Resource-Constrained Devices (WLC). Intimate and colorful by tradition, the high-quality program was not the only attraction of FC. In the past, FC conferences have been held in highly research-synergistic locations such as Tobago, Anguilla, Dominica, Key West, Guadelupe, Bermuda, the Grand Cayman, and Cozumel Mexico. 2010 was the ?rst year that the conference was held on European soil, in the Spanish Canary Islands, in Atlantic waters, a few miles across Morocco. Over 100 researchers from more than 20 countries were in attendance.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2016, held in Rome, Italy, April 23-25, 2016, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC). The purpose of the WEBIST series of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers and practitioners interested in technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The 9 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected originally 123 paper submissions. They contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Web Information Systems and Technologies, comprising recommender systems, sentiment analysis, ranking, and Web applications and Web architecture.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2017, held in Delhi, India, in November 2017. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 92 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Adoption of Smart Services; Assessment of ICT Enabled Smart Initiatives; Analytics for Smart Governance; Social Media and Web 3.0 for Smartness; and Smart Solutions for the Future.

Use this practical, hands-on guide to get started with ProcessMaker. The book provides clear steps for you to walk through and set up ProcessMaker on your own system and make processes run faster and smarter. You will model and build a complete business process for requesting, approving, and reporting expenses. In the course of building the process, you will understand: The Workflow Designer for modeling business processes using BPMN 2.0 The Dynaform Designer for creating responsive HTML forms Input and Output documents for capturing supporting documents for business processes and generating standardized documents from the data captured in a process Triggers for implementing custom business logic and extending ProcessMaker functionality What You'll Learn Send email notifications and add comments to cases Build complex routing rules Manage users and their permissions Deploy ProcessMaker to a cloud server Configure and use the ProcessMaker mobile app Who This Book Is For Business analysts, programmers, and professionals in all industries (e.g., higher education, finance and insurance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security, RFIDSec 2016, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/December 2016. The 14 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions and are organized in topical sections on protocols; side channel and hardware; cards and tokens; proximity; and communication.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2016, held in Athens. Greece, in September 2016. The 11 revised full papers and 11 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. This volume has been structured following the seven sessions that comprised the conference program (three of which are work-in-progress sessions): Session 1: Business Models Session 2: Work in Progress on Quality of Services and Service Level Agreements Session 3: Work in Progress on Cloud Economics Session 4: Energy Consumption Session 5: Resource Allocation Session 6: Work in Progress on Resource Allocation Session 7: Cloud Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2017, held in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in May 2017. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The theme of ICDEc 2017 was "Digital Economy: Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation". The conference offered a number of sessions discussing innovative research focusing on emerging technologies which support the digital transformation of business and the economy: digital marketing, digital economy and e-learning, data science and security, and uncertainty in Web data.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2017, held in May/June 2017 in Karlsruhe, Germany. The 25 full and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 full and 19 short papers. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: DSR in business process management; DSR in human computer interaction; DSR in data science and business analytics; DSR in service science; methodological contributions; domain-specific DSR applications; emerging themes and new ideas; and products and prototypes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the nine workshops co-located with the 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in June 2017.The 41 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agent based Applications for Air Transport and Application of Agents to Passenger Transport; Workshop on Agent-based Artificial Markets Computational Economics; Workshop on Agents and Multi-agent Systems for AAL and e-HEALTH; Workshop on Agent-Based Solutions for Manufacturing and Supply Chain; Workshop on MAS for Complex Networks and Social Computation; Workshop on Decision Making in Dynamic Information Environments; Workshop on Multi-agent based Applications for Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy Systems; Workshop on Multiagent System based Learning Environments; Workshop on Smart Cities and Intelligent Agents.

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 31 papers presented in this volume, focusing on interacting with information systems, are organized in topical sections named: human-centered design in information systems; information systems in healthcare, learning, cultural heritage and government; novel interaction devices and techniques;

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government and Organizations, HCIBGO 2017, held as part of the 19 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction , HCII 2017, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2017. HCII 2017 received a total of 4340 submissions, of which 1228 papers were accepted for publication after a careful reviewing process. The 35 papers presented in this volume, focusing on supporting business, are organized in topical sections named: e-commerce and consumer behavior; social media for business; analytics, visualization and decision support.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2016, held in Christ church, Barbados, in February 2016. The 27 revised full papers and 9 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 137 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: fraud and deception; payments, auctions, and e-voting; multiparty computation; mobile malware; social interaction and policy; cryptanalysis; surveillance and anonymity; Web security and data privacy; Bitcoin mining; cryptographic protocols; payment use and abuse.

The papers presented in this volume advance the state-of-the-art research on digital marketing and social media, mobile computing and responsive web design, semantic technologies and recommender systems, augmented and virtual reality, electronic distribution and online travel reviews, MOOC and eLearning, eGovernment and sharing economy. This book covers the most significant areas contributed by prominent scholars from around the world and is suitable for both academics and practitioners who are interested in the latest developments in eTourism.

SPSS. Powerful, user-friendly, and useful, particularly in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and other social sciences. But to fully exploit its capabilities and effectively execute its wide range of procedures, users need detailed, to-the-point guidance that other resources lack.

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS clearly and concisely describes how to conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using the latest release of SPSS, version 11. Each chapter addresses a different type of analytical procedure and applies it to real data sets, primarily, though not exclusively, from the social and behavioral sciences. The authors briefly review the theoretical background of many of the techniques, but they set that material apart in boxes so that the presentation of the various analyses proceeds without interruption.

Each chapter ends with exercises, some related to the data sets introduced in that chapter, others introducing additional data sets. These data sets and answers to most of the exercises are available for download at www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/iop/departments/BioComp/SPSSBook.shtml.

If you're a relative newcomer to performing statistical analyses, a new user of SPSS, or a veteran on both fronts, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS will be a welcome addition to your library. Researchers and students alike will find this a convenient, self-contained route to using SPSS for effective data analysis.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, held in Luxembourg, Luxembourg, in October 2015. The 11 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. The topics focus on privacy by design (PbD), i.e. the attempt to combine technical and organizational measures to ensure the basic rights of the individual. The papers are organized in three sessions: measuring privacy; rules and principles; legal and economic perspectives on privacy.

This book presents select contributions of the International Scientific-Practical Conference 2021 (ISCP 2021) organized by East European University (Georgia) and Fresenius University of Applied Sciences (Germany). It discusses the challenges of digital transformation during and after the pandemic and introduces advanced research and solutions from both academic and professional's aspects. The topics covered include digitalization in social and corporate responsibility, e-commerce and digital entrepreneurship, and digitalization in education. The book is an interesting read for researchers and professionals interested in digital management.