Sharing Economy businesses like Airbnb and Uber have become very popular recently but there is little guidance available on how to develop the respective business models. We faced this problem during a consortium research project for developing a service for electric vehicle charging (CrowdStrom) that adopts the paradigm of Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Collaborative Consumption (P2P SCC) - a specific branch of the Sharing Economy. In this talk, I will explain how we developed and applied an... more

Machine Learning is omnipresence nowadays, for example face and speech recognition on your smartphone and other smart devices. The recent breakthroughs in many modern AI applications are due to deep learning (specifically deep neural networks). That is because deep learning scales better to big data, enables native end-to-end learning, and has established new state-of-the-art performance on many applications. However to get an accurate deep learning model, users have to make many important... more

The Total Landed Cost (TLC) often comprises of a large share of the total international sourcing costs and thereby determines the cost saving potential. Nevertheless, different studies clearly show that companies often underestimate the true costs, with the consequence of yielding less than expected savings or in fact uneconomical results.On the one hand, companies often have to deal with a set of different international supplier selection situations, on the other hand the literature deals... more

What are the manoeuvres through which designers seek to address opposition and rally strategic actors? We draw on an ethnographic work conducted within a start-up where we have traced the design of a 3D virtual learning environment, using game technologies, intended for geologists. In analysing the data, we identify four episodes in the design of a virtual learning environment: imagining the software; mapping ideologies; designing affordances; and enacting the infrastructure. Crucially, the... more