Digitally Supported Innovation

1. Introduction by the Editors
Leonardo Caporarello, Fabrizio Cesaroni, Raphael Giesecke, Michele Missikoff

Part I. Innovative ICT Enablers in Use on Organisational Level

2. Empowering IT Organizations’ Capabilities of Emerging Technology Integration Through User Participation in Innovations Based on IT
Nabil Georges Badr

3. How and for What Purposes Global Food Brands Use Online Contests: Entertainment or Innovation?
Silvia Massa, Stefania Testa

4. Future Internet: Cloud-Based Open Business Models
Fabrizio Cesaroni, Tindara Abbate, Massimo Villari

5. Potential Benefits of the Deep Web for SMEs
Andreea-Roxanna Obreja, Penny Hart, Peter Bednar

Part II. Specific ICT Enablers in Use for Innovation

6. New Design Techniques for New Users: An Action Research-Based Approach
Tania Di Mascio, Laura Tarantino

7. Context and Action: A Unitary Vision Within a Logic-Based Multi-agent Environment
Stefania Costantini, Giovanni De Gasperis, Giulio Nazzicone, Laura Tarantino

8. From Care for Design to Becoming Matters: New Perspectives for the Development of Socio-technical Systems
Federico Cabitza, Angela Locoro

9. Redefining the Mutual Positions of the Social and Technical Sides of Socio-Technical Systems
Giorgio Michelis

10. Co-production Through ICT in the Public Sector: When Citizens Reframe the Production of Public Services
Andrea Paletti

11. 3-D Printing in the Spare Parts Supply Chain: An Explorative Study in the Automotive Industry
Marco Savastano, Carlo Amendola, Fabrizio D′Ascenzo, Enrico Massaroni

12. 4D Printing: An Emerging Technology in Manufacturing?
Alessandra Ghi, Francesca Rossetti

Part III. Implementing Innovative ICT Enablers

13. How to Manage the Application Portfolio Over Time: A Qualitative Analysis
Roberto Candiotto, Silvia Gandini, Giulia Palmarini

14. Marks & Spencer’s RFID Initiative: Laying the Foundation for Omnichannel Retailing
Rebecca Angeles

15. M-Health and Self Care Management in Chronic Diseases—Territorial Intelligence Can Make the Difference
Monica Sebillo, Maurizio Tucci, Genny Tortora, Giuliana Vitiello, Athula Ginige

16. Enforcing Software Developers’ Productivity by Using Knowledge and Experience
Pasquale Ardimento, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Nicola Boffoli, Danilo Caivano, Michele Scalera, Giuseppe Visaggio

17. Digital Services for New Model of Sustainable Mobility
Giuliana Vinci, Martina Musarra

Part IV. Innovating Novel ICT Solutions

18. Towards a Design Pattern Language to Assist the Design of Alarm Visualizations for Operating Control Systems
Rosa Romero-Gómez, Paloma Díaz

19. A Generic, Multimodal Framework for Sensorial Feedback on Android Systems
Rosario Sensale, Francesco Cutugno, Antonio Origlia

20. Modeling Replication and Erasure Coding in Large Scale Distributed Storage Systems Based on CEPH
Daniele Manini, Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono

21. Power Consumption Analysis of Replicated Virtual Applications in Heterogeneous Architectures
Gianfranco Ciardo, Marco Gribaudo, Mauro Iacono, Andrew Miner, Pietro Piazzolla

22. An Agent-Based Platform for Resource Configuration and Monitoring of Cloud Applications
Rocco Aversa, Luca Tasquier, Davide Fusco

Keywords: Business and Management, Business Information Systems, Information Systems and Communication Service, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Organization, Innovation/Technology Management, Public Administration