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The topic of the present thesis was the analysis of information intermediaries, particularly with regard to applications in open Wide Area Networks like the Internet. As a fact, information is gaining importance for today’s economies, but the increasing amount of available information and the decreasing density of information relevant to a particular task incident thereto call for possibilities to efficiently match information needs with available information. Intermediaries operating in physical distribution channels or in financial markets have demonstrated that the introduction of a specialized middleman in the relationship between opposite market sides can efficiently bridge incompatibilities between supply and demand. Information intermediaries can play a similar role in markets for information, in which information can be conceived as an economic commodity.
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Cf. [Benjamin 95].
Cf. Sections 3.2 and 5.2.
Cf. [Froomkin 96], [Rebel 97], see Section 2.3.3 as well.
Cf. Section 3.2.2.3, especially Figure 6.
These network-based intermediaries require theoretic approaches going beyond the one discussed in the present work, for example, the detailed treatment of the information processing activities of the intermediary (see Section 4.7.6) or the explicit representation of the intermediary’s knowledge within the model.
For the effects of information technology on organizations in general see [Österle 95], [Picot 96], [Wigand 97].
Cf. [Maes 94], [Mitchell 94], [Etzioni 95], [Reese Hedberg 95].
See, for example, Java RMI, Java Beans (http://java.sun.com), for CORBA see [Mowbray 95], [Ben-Natan 96].
Cf. Section 5.4.1.
Cf. Section 4.8.2, see Section 5.4.3 as well.
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Rose, F. (1999). Conclusion. In: The Economics, Concept, and Design of Information Intermediaries. Information Age Economy. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99805-8_6
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