TY - JOUR A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram T1 - Augmenting voice of the customer analysis by analysis of belief JF - QFD-Forum Y1 - 2015 SN - 1431-6951 IS - 30 SP - 1 EP - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beverungen, Daniel A1 - Eggert, Mathias A1 - Voigt, Matthias A1 - Rosemann, Michael T1 - Augmenting Analytical CRM Strategies with Social BI JF - International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4018/ijbir.2013070103 SN - 1947-3591 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 32 EP - 49 PB - IGI Global CY - Hershey ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram A1 - Herzwurm, Georg A1 - Zander, Dietmar T1 - Assuring quality of QFD-education in Germany T2 - ISQFD'06: 12th International Symposium on QFD : Tokyo, 07.-09.2006 Y1 - 2006 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Möhren, Felix A1 - Bergmann, Ole A1 - Janser, Frank A1 - Braun, Carsten T1 - Assessment of structural mechanical effects related to torsional deformations of propellers JF - CEAS Aeronautical Journal N2 - Lifting propellers are of increasing interest for Advanced Air Mobility. All propellers and rotors are initially twisted beams, showing significant extension–twist coupling and centrifugal twisting. Torsional deformations severely impact aerodynamic performance. This paper presents a novel approach to assess different reasons for torsional deformations. A reduced-order model runs large parameter sweeps with algebraic formulations and numerical solution procedures. Generic beams represent three different propeller types for General Aviation, Commercial Aviation, and Advanced Air Mobility. Simulations include solid and hollow cross-sections made of aluminum, steel, and carbon fiber-reinforced polymer. The investigation shows that centrifugal twisting moments depend on both the elastic and initial twist. The determination of the centrifugal twisting moment solely based on the initial twist suffers from errors exceeding 5% in some cases. The nonlinear parts of the torsional rigidity do not significantly impact the overall torsional rigidity for the investigated propeller types. The extension–twist coupling related to the initial and elastic twist in combination with tension forces significantly impacts the net cross-sectional torsional loads. While the increase in torsional stiffness due to initial twist contributes to the overall stiffness for General and Commercial Aviation propellers, its contribution to the lift propeller’s stiffness is limited. The paper closes with the presentation of approximations for each effect identified as significant. Numerical evaluations are necessary to determine each effect for inhomogeneous cross-sections made of anisotropic material. KW - Lifting propeller KW - Extension–twist coupling KW - Trapeze effect KW - Centrifugal twisting moment Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-024-00737-7 SN - 1869-5590 (eISSN) SN - 1869-5582 N1 - Corresponding author: Felix Möhren PB - Springer CY - Wien ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus A1 - Haunert, Martina T1 - Assessing the effectiveness of price cap regimes for the regulation of fixed telephony markets: has it been successful in achieving competition? : preliminary draft / by Markus Fredebeul-Krein and Martina Haunert. 19th European Regional ITS Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, September 17–19, 2008 Rome, Italy N2 - 1. Introduction 2. Tariff regulation, rebalancing and price caps 3. Price cap regimes in selected European countries 4. Has price cap regulation been successful? 5. Regulatory implications for other countries KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kroll-Ludwigs, Kathrin ED - Colliess, Gralf-Peter T1 - Art. 7 Rome III-Regulation (formal validity) T2 - Rome Regulations : commentary Y1 - 2015 SN - 9789041147547 PB - Wolters Kluwer ET - 2nd ed. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kroll-Ludwigs, Kathrin ED - Calliess, Gralf-Peter T1 - Art. 5 Rom III-Regulation (choice of applicable law by the parties) T2 - Rome Regulations : commentary Y1 - 2015 SN - 9789041147547 PB - Wolters Kluwer ET - 2nd ed. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jacobs, Stephan A1 - Quernheim, Ulrich T1 - ARQ Error Control for Multipoint Satellite Communications / Ulrich Quernheim, Stephan Jacobs JF - Computer networking : proceedings of the IFIP TC 6 Conference on Computer Networking, COMNET '90, Budapest, Hungary, 8-10 May, 1990 / edited by László Csaba, Tibor Szentiványi, Katie Tarnay Y1 - 1990 SN - 0444888721 N1 - International Federation for Information Processing ; COMNET ; (1990, Budapest) PB - Elsevier CY - New York, N.Y. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saretzki, Charlotte A1 - Bergmann, Ole A1 - Dahmann, Peter A1 - Janser, Frank A1 - Keimer, Jona A1 - Machado, Patricia A1 - Morrison, Audry A1 - Page, Henry A1 - Pluta, Emil A1 - Stübing, Felix A1 - Küpper, Thomas T1 - Are small airplanes safe with regards to COVID-19 transmission? JF - Journal of Travel Medicine Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jtm/taab105 SN - 1708-8305 VL - 28 IS - 7 PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Eggert, Mathias A1 - Dyong, Julian T1 - Applying process mining in small and medium sized IT enterprises – challenges and guidelines T2 - Business Process Management, 20th International Conference, BPM 2022, Proceedings N2 - Process mining gets more and more attention even outside large enterprises and can be a major benefit for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to gain competitive advantages. Applying process mining is challenging, particularly for SMEs because they have less resources and process maturity. So far, IS researchers analyzed process mining challenges with a focus on larger companies. This paper investigates the application of process mining by means of a case study and sheds light into the particular challenges of an IT SME. The results reveal 13 SME process mining challenges and seven guidelines to address them. In this way, the paper contributes to the understanding of process mining application in SME and shows similarities and differences to larger companies. KW - Process mining KW - Challenges KW - Guidelines KW - SME KW - Case Study Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-16103-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16103-2_11 N1 - International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2022), Münster, Germany, Sept. 11-16, 2022 SP - 125 EP - 142 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Eggert, Mathias A1 - Zähl, Philipp M. A1 - Wolf, Martin R. A1 - Haase, Martin ED - Cooper, Kendra M.L. ED - Bucchiarone, Antonio T1 - Applying leaderboards for quality improvement in software development projects T2 - Software Engineering for Games in Serious Contexts N2 - Software development projects often fail because of insufficient code quality. It is now well documented that the task of testing software, for example, is perceived as uninteresting and rather boring, leading to poor software quality and major challenges to software development companies. One promising approach to increase the motivation for considering software quality is the use of gamification. Initial research works already investigated the effects of gamification on software developers and come to promising. Nevertheless, a lack of results from field experiments exists, which motivates the chapter at hand. By conducting a gamification experiment with five student software projects and by interviewing the project members, the chapter provides insights into the changing programming behavior of information systems students when confronted with a leaderboard. The results reveal a motivational effect as well as a reduction of code smells. KW - Leaderboard KW - Gamification KW - Software testing KW - Software development Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-031-33337-8 (Print) SN - 978-3-031-33338-5 (Online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33338-5_11 SP - 243 EP - 263 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Becker, Jörg A1 - Eggert, Mathias A1 - Bruning, Dennis A1 - Saat, Jan T1 - Applicability of Business Process Model Analysis Approaches – A Case Study in Financial Services Consulting T2 - Wirtschaftsinformatik Proceedings 2013 Y1 - 2013 N1 - 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, 27th February – 01st March 2013, Leipzig, Germany SP - 1181 EP - 1195 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biewendt, Marcel A1 - Blaschke, Florian A1 - Böhnert, Arno T1 - An evaluation of corporate sustainability in context of the Jevons paradox JF - SocioEconomic Challenges N2 - The successful implementation and continuous development of sustainable corporate-level solutions is a challenge. These are endeavours in which social, environmental, and financial aspects must be weighed against each other. They can prove difficult to handle and, in some cases, almost unrealistic. Concepts such as green controlling, IT, and manufacturing look promising and are constantly evolving. This paper aims to achieve a better understanding of the field of corporate sustainability (CS). It will evaluate the hypothesis by which Corporate Sustainability thrives, via being efficient, increasing the performance, and raising the value of the input of the enterprises to the resources used. In fact, Corporate Sustainability on the surface could seem to contradict the idea, which supports the understanding that it encourages the reduction of the heavy reliance on the use of natural resources, the overall environmental impact, and above all, their protection. To understand how the contradictory notion of CS came about, in this part of the paper, the emphasis is placed on providing useful insight to this regard. The first part of this paper summarizes various definitions, organizational theories, and measures used for CS and its derivatives like green controlling, IT, and manufacturing. Second, a case study is given that combines the aforementioned sustainability models. In addition to evaluating the hypothesis, the overarching objective of this paper is to demonstrate the use of green controlling, IT, and manufacturing in the corporate sector. Furthermore, this paper outlines the current challenges and possible directions for CS in the future. KW - rebound-effect KW - grey energy KW - efficiency side-effects KW - jevons paradox KW - corporate sustainability Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21272/sec.4(3).46-65.2020 SN - 2520-6214 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 46 EP - 65 PB - ARMG Publishing CY - Sumy ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Becker, Jörg A1 - Bergener, Philipp A1 - Breuker, Dominic A1 - Delfmann, Patrick A1 - Eggert, Mathias T1 - An Efficient Business Process Compliance Checking Approach T2 - Governance and Sustainability in Information Systems. Managing the Transfer and Diffusion of IT : IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference, Hamburg, Germany, September 22-24, 2011. Proceedings Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24148-2_19 SP - 282 EP - 287 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kohl, Philipp A1 - Freyer, Nils A1 - Krämer, Yoka A1 - Werth, Henri A1 - Wolf, Steffen A1 - Kraft, Bodo A1 - Meinecke, Matthias A1 - Zündorf, Albert ED - Conte, Donatello ED - Fred, Ana ED - Gusikhin, Oleg ED - Sansone, Carlo T1 - ALE: a simulation-based active learning evaluation framework for the parameter-driven comparison of query strategies for NLP T2 - Deep Learning Theory and Applications N2 - Supervised machine learning and deep learning require a large amount of labeled data, which data scientists obtain in a manual, and time-consuming annotation process. To mitigate this challenge, Active Learning (AL) proposes promising data points to annotators they annotate next instead of a subsequent or random sample. This method is supposed to save annotation effort while maintaining model performance. However, practitioners face many AL strategies for different tasks and need an empirical basis to choose between them. Surveys categorize AL strategies into taxonomies without performance indications. Presentations of novel AL strategies compare the performance to a small subset of strategies. Our contribution addresses the empirical basis by introducing a reproducible active learning evaluation (ALE) framework for the comparative evaluation of AL strategies in NLP. The framework allows the implementation of AL strategies with low effort and a fair data-driven comparison through defining and tracking experiment parameters (e.g., initial dataset size, number of data points per query step, and the budget). ALE helps practitioners to make more informed decisions, and researchers can focus on developing new, effective AL strategies and deriving best practices for specific use cases. With best practices, practitioners can lower their annotation costs. We present a case study to illustrate how to use the framework. KW - Active learning KW - Query learning KW - Natural language processing KW - Deep learning KW - Reproducible research Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-031-39058-6 (Print) SN - 978-3-031-39059-3 (Online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39059-3_16 N1 - 4th International Conference, DeLTA 2023, Rome, Italy, July 13–14, 2023. SP - 235 EP - 253 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Freyer, Nils A1 - Kempt, Hendrik ED - Bhakuni, Himani ED - Miotto, Lucas T1 - AI-DSS in healthcare and their power over health-insecure collectives T2 - Justice in global health N2 - AI-based systems are nearing ubiquity not only in everyday low-stakes activities but also in medical procedures. To protect patients and physicians alike, explainability requirements have been proposed for the operation of AI-based decision support systems (AI-DSS), which adds hurdles to the productive use of AI in clinical contexts. This raises two questions: Who decides these requirements? And how should access to AI-DSS be provided to communities that reject these standards (particularly when such communities are expert-scarce)? This chapter investigates a dilemma that emerges from the implementation of global AI governance. While rejecting global AI governance limits the ability to help communities in need, global AI governance risks undermining and subjecting health-insecure communities to the force of the neo-colonial world order. For this, this chapter first surveys the current landscape of AI governance and introduces the approach of relational egalitarianism as key to (global health) justice. To discuss the two horns of the referred dilemma, the core power imbalances faced by health-insecure collectives (HICs) are examined. The chapter argues that only strong demands of a dual strategy towards health-secure collectives can both remedy the immediate needs of HICs and enable them to become healthcare independent. Y1 - 2023 SN - 9781003399933 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003399933-4 SP - 38 EP - 55 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Eggert, Mathias A1 - Stanke, Max-Alexander T1 - Adoption of Integrated Voice Assistants in Health Care– Requirements and Design Guidelines N2 - Integrated voice assistants (IVA) receive more and more attention and are widespread for entertainment use cases, such as radio hearing or web searches. At the same time, the health care segment suffers in process inefficiency and missing staff, whereas the usage of IVA has the potential to improve caring processes and patient satisfaction. By applying a design science approach and based on a qualitative study, we identify IVA requirements, barriers and design guidelines for the health care sector. The results reveal three important IVA functions: the ability to set appointments with care service staff, the documentation of health history and the communication with service staff. Integration, system stability and volume control are the most important nonfunctional requirements. Based on the interview results and project experiences, six design and implementation guidelines are derived. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.30844/wi_2020_k2-eggert N1 - 15. Internationale Tagung zur Wirtschaftsinformatik, 09. – 11.03.2020, Potsdam PB - GITO CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus T1 - Adopting a coherent institutional framework for the Ukrainian telecom sector: Lessons to be learnt from European and German experience JF - Zerkalo Nedeli (2003) Y1 - 2003 N1 - (Ukrainian Journal) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schuh, Günther A1 - Gottschalk, Sebastian Friedrich A1 - Narr, Claus A1 - Höhne, Tim ED - Zäh, Michael F. T1 - Adaptive logistics : information management for planning and control of small series assembly T2 - 2nd International Conference on Changeable, Agile, Reconfigurable and Virtual Production (CARV 2007), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 July 2007 : Book of Abstracts Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-0-9783187-0-3 SP - 212 EP - 221 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gebhardt, Michael A1 - Jarke, Matthias A1 - Jacobs, Stephan T1 - A Toolkit for Negotiation Support Interfaces to Multidimensional Data JF - SIGMOD 1997 : proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, May 13 - 15, 1997, Tucson, Arizona, USA / ed. by Joan M. Peckman Y1 - 1997 SN - 0897919114 N1 - International Conference on Management of Data ; (1997, Tucson, Ariz.) PB - ACM Press CY - New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weigand, Christoph T1 - A Solution to the Scheduling Problem Taking into Account Quality JF - Operations research '91 : extended abstracts of the 16th Symposium on Operations Research held at the University of Trier at September 9 - 11, 1991 / [GMÖOR]. Peter Gritzmann ... (eds.) Y1 - 1991 SN - 3790806080 N1 - Symposium on Operations Research ; (16, 1991, Trier) SP - 373 EP - 375 PB - Physica-Verl. CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biewendt, Marcel A1 - Blaschke, Florian A1 - Böhnert, Arno T1 - A review of contemporary challenges in business culture JF - International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management N2 - The following article deals with the basic principles of intercultural management and possible improvements in terms of cultural, ethnic and gender diversification. The results are exemplarily applied to a bank located in Germany. The aim of this paper is to find out to what extent intercultural management could improve the productivity of Relatos-Bank in dealing with foreign employees or employees with a different cultural background. To achieve this goal, the authors con-duct a literature research. The main sources of information are books, journal articles and internet sources. It becomes clear that especially the different perceptions of different generations have a potential for conflict, which can be counteracted by applying presented scientific models. Equalizing the salaries of female and male employees and equalizing the rights and distribution of power could also be the key to becoming an open-minded, dynamic and fair organization that is pre-pared for the rapidly changing environment in which it operates. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.51137/ijarbm.2021.2.1.1 SN - 2700-8983 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Wohllebe & Ross Publishing CY - Hamburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gajewski, R. A1 - Thierauf, Georg T1 - A practical approach for the optimum design of reinforced concrete structures T2 - Developments in computational mechanics with high performance computing : [papers presented at the Third Euro-Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Computational Mechanics, held in Weimar, Germany between 20 - 25 March 1999] / ed. by B. H. V. Topping Y1 - 1999 SN - 0-94-8749-59-8 SP - 245 EP - 250 PB - Civil-Comp Press CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram A1 - Kurbel, Karl T1 - A Portable Implementation of Index Sequential Input-Output [Part 2] / Kurbel, Karl; Pietsch, W. JF - Ada letters. 6 (1986), H. 3 Y1 - 1986 SN - 0736-721X SP - 6 EP - 13 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram A1 - Kurbel, Karl T1 - A Portable Implementation of Index Sequential Input-Output [Part 1] / Kurbel, Karl; Pietsch, W. JF - Ada letters. 6 (1986), H. 2 Y1 - 1986 SN - 0736-721X SP - 29 EP - 40 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weigand, Christoph T1 - A new Approach for Optimal Control of a Production process JF - Economic Quality Control. 7 (1992) Y1 - 1992 SN - 0940-5151 SP - 225 EP - 251 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram T1 - A framework of quality function deployment T2 - Quality management / eds.: M. Ross ... (Software quality management ; 3,1) Y1 - 1995 SN - 1-85312-309-9 SP - 419 EP - 428 PB - Computational Mechanics Publ. CY - Southhampton ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram T1 - A framework for strategic positioning of IT-products T2 - Software business : from physical products to software services and solutions : 4th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2013; Potsdam; Germany; 11 June 2013 through 14 June 2013. (Lecture notes in business information processing ; 150) N2 - IT Products are viewed and managed differently depending on the perspectives and the stage within the life cycle. A model is presented that integrates different perspectives and stages serving as an aid for the analysis of business models and focused positioning of IT-products. Four generic business models are analysed with regard to the product management function in general and the positioning field for IT-products specifically: off-the-shelf (license), license plus service, project, and system service (incl. cloud computing). KW - Strategic Business Planning KW - IT Products KW - Business Models KW - Product Management Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39336-5_11 SP - 102 EP - 116 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jacobs, Stephan T1 - A Fault Diagnosis System Using Temporary Relations between Symptoms JF - Operations research '93 : extended abstracts of the 18th Symposium on Operations Research held at the University of Cologne, September 1 - 3, 1993 / Achim Bachem ... (ed.) Y1 - 1994 SN - 379080794X N1 - Symposium on Operations Research ; (18, 1993, Köln) PB - Physica-Verl. CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bernecker, Andreas T1 - A European Private Company: Is Europe’s single legal form for SMEs close to approval? JF - Research Briefing N2 - This Research Briefing, issued in July 2010, concluded that: - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe have long called for a matching legal form valid across the EU (similar to that of the European company (SE) for large firms) - The main benefits would be the availability of uniform Europe-wide company structures, significant cost reductions for businesses and further integration of the internal market - Given the differing national views regarding the concrete features of the new legal form there is currently no sign of an agreement being reached at the European level in the short term; however, it is possible that progress will be made in negotiations during the year - The key issues being discussed in depth are company formation, transnationality and employee participation rights in the new European private company (SPE). Y1 - 2010 SN - 2193-5955 PB - Deutsche Bank Research CY - Frankfurt a. M. ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Vieth, Matthias A1 - Hammer, A. A1 - Maier, F. T1 - A critical analysis of the co-plot method T2 - International University in Germany, School of Business Administration / Working paper Y1 - 2005 IS - 32 PB - School of Business Administration, Intern. Univ. in Germany CY - Bruchsal ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pietsch, Wolfram A1 - Kurbel, Karl T1 - A Cooperative Work Environment for Evolutionary Software Development / Kurbel, K., Pietsch, W. JF - Multi-user interfaces and applications : proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.4 Conference on Multi-User Interfaces and Applications, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 24 - 26 September, 1990 / ed. by Simon Gibbs ... Y1 - 1990 SN - 0-444-88760-1 N1 - Conference on Multi-User Interfaces and Applications <1990, Hērakleion> SP - 115 EP - 127 PB - North-Holland Publ. CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weber, Ingo A1 - Markovic, Ivan A1 - Drumm, Christian T1 - A conceptual framework for composition in business process management T2 - Business Information Systems : 10th International Conference, BIS 2007, Poznan, Poland, April 25-27, 2007. Proceedings Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-540-72035-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72035-5_5 SP - 54 EP - 66 PB - Springer CY - Berlin, Heidelberg ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Janz, Norbert A1 - Ebling, Günther A1 - Gottschalk, Sandra A1 - Niggemann, Hiltrud T1 - 2nd Community Innovation Survey. Final Report. Report prepared for Eurostat / Ebling, G. , S. Gottschalk, N. Janz und H. Niggemann Y1 - 1999 PB - ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung CY - Mannheim ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Janz, Norbert A1 - Ebling, Günther A1 - Gottschalk, Sandra A1 - Niggemann, Hiltrud T1 - 2nd Community Innovation Survey. 2nd Interim Report. Report prepared for Eurostat / Ebling, G. , S. Gottschalk, N. Janz und H. Niggemann Y1 - 1999 PB - ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung CY - Mannheim ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Janz, Norbert A1 - Ebling, Günther A1 - Niggemann, Hiltrud A1 - Stahl, Harald T1 - 2nd Community Innovation Survey. 1st Interim Report. Report prepared for Eurostat / Ebling, G., N. Janz, H. Niggemann und H. Stahl Y1 - 1998 PB - ZEW Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsförderung CY - Mannheim ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fredebeul-Krein, Markus T1 - 10 years of liberalised telecom markets in Germany: Assessing the degree of competition on the markets for voice telephony N2 - Market data for the German telecom market shows that Deutsche Telekom as the former incumbent is constantly loosing shares on all arkets for voice telephony: the market for local calls, the market for long-distance calls and the market for international calls. At the same time prices decline steadily with the latest trend being that operators offer voice services free of charge, the costs of which are covered by a monthly subscription charge. Against this background the paper examines the state of policy and regulatory reform in the telecommunications sector in Germany almost 10 years after the liberalisation of the fixed telecommunications market. Thereby the focus is on the analysis of the competitive conditions that have been established on the German market for voice telephony services. If these retail markets are competitive, there might be a need to remove remaining regulatory provisions. In the new environment of converging markets the future challenge of regulating fixed telecom markets might be to ensure that access to the network and/or services of a potentially dominant provider in a relevant market will satisfy requirements for openness and non-discrimination. KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt KW - Telekommunikationsmarkt Y1 - 2007 N1 - paper presented at 18th European Regional ITS Conference of the International Telecommunications Society, September 2-4, 2007 Istanbul, Turkey ER -