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Exciting News: Interreg VI Funding for CARE-FLOW
The “CARE-FLOW” project is being funded with 4.5 million euros by the Interreg VI program to enhance cross-border cooperation in the healthcare sector between Germany and the Netherlands. The aim is to develop innovative, data-driven solutions that optimize patient flow and capacity planning in emergency services, hospitals, and care facilities.
Successful final presentation of the project seminar ‘Process Transformation and Automation for Software-as-a-Service Offerings @ d.velop’
As part of their project seminar, four Master's students from different parts of the world successfully developed and presented solutions for automating the end-to-end use cases of the quote-to-invoice process based on the test cases provided for the company d.velop. The aim of the project was to rationalise the test process, ensure accuracy and efficiency and at the same time reduce manual effort. This should facilitate the validation of critical functionalities in connection with quotations and invoices.
Successful final presentation of the project seminar “Digital Product Innovation with Design Thinking“ in cooperation with the Marquardt Group
As part of a project seminar, six students from the Information Systems master's program presented their innovative prototypes, which were developed in collaboration with the Marquardt Group - a leading company in the field of switching and sensor systems based in the Black Forest.
Final Presentation of the "Eduplay Hub" Project Seminar at Provinzial
Last Friday, nine students from the "Eduplay Hub" bachelor’s project seminar presented their newly developed learning platform with innovative AI features. The event took place at the headquarters of Provinzial Versicherung and was attended by about 30 interested people from different departments of the company.
GenAI for crisis management in the mobility sector: final presentation in the “Future Mobility Lab” project seminar
As part of the final presentation of the “Future Mobility Lab” project seminar, students presented a prototype and dashboard that helps Transdev employees make quick and informed decisions in crisis situations. The project, which focuses on the use of GenAI in crisis management in the mobility sector, was developed in collaboration with Transdev - a company of the Rethmann Group and Germany's second-largest rail and bus company.
Master your future 2025: Registration activated
On Friday, April 4, 2025, the next “Master your Future” Infoday of the School of Business & Economics will take place in the "Schloss" of the University of Münster. We invite you to find out more about our Master's degree program in Information Systems as well as the programs in Business Administration, Business Development and Economics and experience highlights from our research and teaching. In addition to information stands and plenty of time for questions, we also offer a campus tour. On-site advice is available in German and English, the program will be mainly in English.
Final presentation in the project seminar “Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld“
The project seminar ‘Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld’ ends with the presentation of the results of all seven students.
The goal of the project seminar, which focused on the integration of documents from the decentralised and separate wikis and the transfer of the intranet into an AI-supported knowledge management system using the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system, was achieved. From now on, contextualised answers will be possible and internal data sources of the city of Krefeld will be used that are not available to public GenAI models.
Ski Seminar 2025
Over the past two weeks, 80 participants took part in this year's ski seminar, which was organised by Dr Sebastian Reiners in collaboration with the University of Koblenz (Prof. Dr Patrick Delfmann and Dennis M. Riehle) and took place at a mountain hut in Mittelberg, Austria.
There were three seminars from Münster, which focussed on the topics “Transformers“, “Exploring Human-AI Interaction: Methodologies and Applications“ and “Decision-Making with Generative AI - Design Science Competition“.
ICIS 2024 (International Conference on Information Systems)
At the end of 2024, the Department of Information Systems was well represented at ICIS 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand by numerous PhD students, postdocs, and professors. ICIS – The International Conference on Information Systems – is one of the world’s leading conferences for information systems, bringing together researchers from around the globe to discuss the latest research findings.
Prof. Jan vom Brocke is the new Managing Director of the Department of Information Systems
The Department of Information Systems has elected Prof. Jan vom Brocke as its new Managing Director effective 1 January 2025. He succeeds Prof. Jörg Becker, who served as Managing Director for 30 years until now.
In June 2023 Jan vom Brocke was appointed Professor and Chair of Information Systems and Business Process Management.