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Paul Hofmann
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 37
Citations - 1064
Paul Hofmann is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supply chain & Cloud computing. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 37 publications receiving 1017 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Hofmann include Intel & Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
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Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications
Paul Hofmann,Dan Woods +1 more
TL;DR: The cloud computing model - especially the public cloud - is unsuited to many business applications and is likely to remain so for many years due to fundamental limitations in architecture and design, but private clouds offer the benefits like scale and virtualization with fewer drawbacks.
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Cloud computing and electricity: beyond the utility model
TL;DR: Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model suggests that the business model is likely to grow in the coming years.
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ERP is Dead, Long Live ERP
TL;DR: Investing in disruptive markets and business models and exploring innovative technologies in high-performance computing, pervasive connectivity, Web services, and other trends will be vital if ERP vendors wish to survive well in the unfolding future.
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A Mixed Initiative Approach to Semantic Web Service Discovery and Composition: SAP's Guided Procedures Framework
TL;DR: This article describes a mixed initiative framework for semantic Web service discovery and composition that aims at flexibly interleaving human decision making and automated functionality in environments where annotations may be incomplete and even inconsistent.
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Efficiency Analysis of Supply Chain Processes
Gerald Reiner,Paul Hofmann +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of inter-organizational (supply chain) processes at company level is analyzed by combining dependency analysis and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify inputs and outputs as well as the relevant dependencies.