Electronic Markets on the next convergence

Digital Transformation in the Restaurant Industry: Current Developments and Implications

“…This not only comprised the bundling of network technologies under the notion of triple or quadruple play, but in particular the confluence of social, mobile, analytics and cloud computing under the notion of SMAC. In addition, the more recent coming together of distributed ledger technologies (DLT, including blockchain technologies), artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR) and quantum computing (QC) was captured under the notion of DARQ (Alt, 2021). These technological developments allowed for digitalization on a technological level, but increasingly comprised the application level with redesigned business processes and business models (Alt, 2018).…”

How to organize for AI? An interview with Yao-Hua Tan

“…From a technological perspective, future solutions feature the growing convergence of several general purpose technologies (Alt, 2021). Among the examples are blockchain technologies that create new distributed infrastructures with automated procedures based on smart contracts (Segers et al, 2019), the use of internet-of-things (IoT) and mobile technologies such as smart containers and drones (Heijmann et al, 2020) as well as the application of various forms of data analytics to automatically detect anomalies and the like (Rukanova et al, 2021).…”

Artificial intelligence and machine learning

“…Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been named as one of the most recent, fundamental developments of the convergence in electronic markets (Alt, 2021) and has become an increasingly relevant topic for information systems (IS) research (Abdel-Karim et al, 2021;Alt, 2018). While a large body of literature is concerned with designing AI to mimic and replace humans (Dunin-Barkowski, 2020;Fukuda et al, 2001), IS research in general, and decision support systems (DSS) research in particular, emphasize the support of humans with AI (Arnott & Pervan, 2005).…”