Digital Health Application for Personalized Rehabilitation after Ankle Inversion Trauma

Ankle injuries after inversion trauma are common and they can have serious consequences1. Physiotherapy is rarely prescribed, although studies report a 60% reduced risk of re-injury after balance training2,3. Patients demonstrate a broad variety of impairments in function and activity after ankle inversion trauma1,4. E-health solutions such as InjuryMap© and SWORD HEALTH offer more or less independent rehabilitation after ankle inversion trauma. Their first user experiences are positive, though adherence is low without health professional interaction, and personalisation is limited. The digital system in this study aims to provide personalized rehabilitation, which could help patients return to work or sport in an effective and efficient manner and reduce the risk of chronic disability.

AI-bility: Cultivating AI Awareness in Schoolchildren (ERASMUS+ Project in strategic partnership with the University of Liechtenstein)

Innovative Weiterbildungskonzepte - Kompetenzturbo Digitalisierung

E-Government Campus: Koordination und Weiterentwicklung des eGov-Campus sowie Übergabe der Lernplattform an die Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer

Modularisierung eines eGov-Campus Lernmoduls zur nachhaltigen Nutzung in der Weiterbildung - Prozessmanagement im öffentlichen Sektor

GIGA Gebärdensprachen - Entwicklung einer 5G enabled Gebärdensprachen-Applikation

Das Projekt entwickelt eine App, die selbständig die deutsche Gebärdensprache über die Smartphone-Kamera lernt. Die Gebärdensprache wird anschließend automatisiert in Echtzeit in verständliche deutsche Sprache übersetzt.

Verbundprojekt: Erfolg durch Mitarbeiterdatenschutz - Teilvorhaben Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Aspekte

1st Conference on Sustainability and Data - Connecting Perspectives Between Practicioners and Researchers

Centre on Sustainable Tech Measures and Event

Geschäftsprozessuntersuchung im Rahmen des Prozessreorganisationsprojekts der ARD-Verwaltungsdirektionen

Utilization of spatially resolved data sources for an established agent-based model of Germany and its impact on predicted SARS-CoV-2 dynamics

SpaceImpact - Utilization of spatially resolved data sources for an established agent-based model of Germany and ist impact on predicted SARS-CoV-2 dynamics

Corona als Innovationstreiber? Untersuchung der Verstetigung von ad-hoc digitalisierten Prozessen und Arbeitsweisen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung

Blut-Informationssystem für Krisenintervention und -management - Teilvorhaben: Simulation und Enterprise Architecture Management

DemoRESILdigital: Democratic resilience in times of online-propaganda, fake news, fear- and hate speech

Messung und Bewertung des Risikos von unvorhersehbaren Strom- und Gasverbrauchsschwankungen für Energieversorger

SPP 1921: "Intentional Forgetting" in organisations: Forgetting confidently: Determinants and consequences of trustful usage of information systems in organizations

Continuously increasing and changing amounts of data in modern organizations demand new information handling strategies. Effective knowledge management requires a flexible selection of essential information, for example, for decision processes under uncertainty or in dynamic economic markets. In this regard, information systems can reduce decision maker's cognitive load, emotional strain, and stress. However, for those positive effects to occur, persons need to use the information systems trustfully in order to forget "confidently". The goal of the present research project is to model and empirically examine the psychological processes underlying trustful use of information systems, enabling intentional forgetting.

E-Government Campus: Coordination of platform development and implementation, creation of use cases

The project e-GovCampus targets the development of a massive open online courses (MOOC)-platform, which will help to facilitate the development of the digitalization of the public sector in Germany. The main objective of both platform and project is to provide public officials with an educational offer, that enables them to develop their own skills in a location-independent, interactive and self-responsible fashion. The Chair for Information Systems is responsible for the project coordination. This firstly entails the conception and development of the platform, which includes the establishment and analysis of stakeholder requirements. Furthermore, activities are targeted to ensure the platform’s sustainable impact, closely related future-proof business models and appropriate marketing efforts to ensure the existence of the platform even beyond the period of public financing.

LearnIT - Developing an adaptive optimization approach for operational management of grid-level energy storage in the context of renewable energies

The main project goal is the development of an adaptive optimization approach for operational management of grid-level battery storage. The adaptive optimization approach aims at increasing the economic efficiency of storage, and thereby enabling the widespread adoption of grid-level battery storage. The widespread adoption of energy storage is important to guarantee service security and reliability of electrical power supply in the presence of a high share of energy from volatile renewable sources. The research project LearnIT is funded by the 6th energy research program of the German federal government.

Practicability of IT services in operational use

Analysis of challenges faced by organizations introducing IT Service Management, in particular concerning the definition and contracting of IT Services.

Al, human rights and ethics: platform regulation and data protection (in context of the IVAC - International Virtual Academic Collaboration)

"Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Lingen"

The Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Lingen (competence centre) is a consortium that supports SME in topics about digitalisation and digital inter-organisational collaboration in north-west Germany. Businesses of the four sectors: retail, craft, maritime and agriculture are central players in this region. The overarching goal of the project is to raise awareness, to inform, and to impart critical competencies, for businesses in north-west Germany regarding the topic digitalisation.

WI Nachwuchswissenschaftlertreffen Münster, 16./17.September 2022

BPM 2022 - 20th International Conference on Business Process Management 2022 (Münster)

Demonstration of intelligent decision support for pandemic crisis prediction and management within and across European borders

From artifact to infra structure - The pharmaceutical prescription as access to the emergence of societal infrastructure

„Mit dem Blick zurück nach vorne schauen“ – mit diesem Satz könnte man die Idee des nun gestarteten interdisziplinären Forschungsprojektes ArIS „Durch das Artefakt zur infra structura – Das Arzneimittelrezept als Zugang zur Gestaltung gesellschaftlicher Infrastruktur“ beschreiben. Wirtschaftsinformatiker der RWTH Aachen und der WWU Münster werden gemeinsam mit Pharmaziehistorikern der Philipps-Universität Marburg und dem Deutschen Apotheken Museum in Heidelberg die Entstehung und Entwicklung eines zentralen Gegenstandes unseres heutigen Gesundheitswesens – des Arzneimittelrezeptes – erforschen. Dabei wird eine der größten digitalen Sammlungen von Arzneimittelrezepten von der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Moderne im deutschsprachigen Raum entstehen. Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung wird dieses Vorhaben über die nächsten 4 Jahre mit einem Volumen von ca. 1 Million Euro fördern.

Stanford Design Thinking Project 2021-2022

DigiCheck - Digitalcheck im Gesetzgebungsverfahren am Beispiel einer Sozialversicherung

User-oriented Extension and Automation of Agent-based Software for Pathogen-specific Modelling of Epidemics

Reducing the moderation effort of user comments with the help of automation using text analytical methods (MODERAT!)

In recent years, a rapid increase in racist, political and religiously motivated hate commentary has led many newspaper editors to deactivate their online comment functions on their websites. While this is understandable from an economic point of view for the individual publishers, serious problems for the public discourse arise in view of restriction quotas of up to 50%. The MODERAT! project aims to use an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to develop software tools and a web platform that will enable operators to moderate web debates with significantly less effort. Comments are analyzed automatically, so that only a small number of critical comments have to be viewed manually. In this way, media houses and publishers should be able to offer web debates again on their own websites and thus enter into a more active exchange with the readership.

Europawoche 2021 - Europäisches Lernen und Forschen in der Wirtschaftsinformatik

Algorithmization and Social Interaction

Imagine you call a company and your request is no longer answered by a human being but by an artificial assistant - how does this affect you as an individual and society at large? And does the customization of information in social media and online environments limit our horizon, or even keeps us in a ‚filter bubble‘? These are just a few of the socially and politically relevant core questions of the interdisciplinary topical program „Algorithmization and Social Interaction“. Scholars from information systems, economy, social sciences, law and communication studies work together to explore, first, how (artificially intelligent) algorithms can be used to influence social interaction. Second, the topical program is interested in how society (including the public as well as political and societal elites) reacts to this increasing algorithmic governance.

Branch and Price Methoden für Tourenplanungsprobleme mit Picking, Loading und Soft Time Windows

PPP Australien 2020: Detection and classification of malicious virtual grassroots influence campaigns

Detection & Analysis of Social Bots in 2021

International Conference on Managed Programming Languages & Runtimes in Münster 2021

Virtual Open Innovation Lab

The VOIL – Virtual Open Innovation Lab is a strategic partnership of nine project partners from seven countries with the goal to increase awareness and digital competences regarding technologies, tools and methods for the digital transformation of small and medium enterprises through a platform-based learning and simulation environment.

PIONEER - ERASMUS Mundus Master "Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance"

The four-semester European masters program, called PIONEER, developed by the University of Muenster together with KU Leuven and Tallinn University of Technology, focuses on the interdisciplinary know-how needed in the public sector to fully exploit the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) and technological innovation. PIONEER (1) addresses the needs of public administrations and identifies the potential benefits of ICT for the future development of public administrations and their service provision; (2) closes a gap in current higher education landscape; and (3) creates an innovative offer in terms of the required interdisciplinary skills in the public sector. PIONEER is co-financed by the ERASMUS + Program of the European Union.

Visualization and Analysis of Textual Stream Clustering Data for the Detection of Manipulative Campaigns in Social Media

The goal of the research project is to develop a dashboard that displays data from social media. Its purpose is to visually detect anomalies in order to observe and research the emergence or behavior of artificially generated campaigns. The long-term goal should be to detect politically motivated attempts to influence discussion on Social Media and to understand their spread. Examples of events whose course could be observed by using the dashboard are, for example, elections or the discussion of the new Coronavirus. In both examples, the targeted influencing of opinions is harmful to the society as a whole.

Ask Sophie! - Development of a Comic Figure to Answer Scientific Questions

The planned project "Ask Sophie! - Development of a Comic Figure to Answer Scientific Questions" is a novel participation concept that strengthens low-threshold communication between research and society. Within the framework of the planned project, a cartoon character - "Sophie" - is to be developed by means of which citizens' questions can be collected, evaluated and utilized. The citizens can address questions to "Sophie", which will be answered with a comic strip that is freely accessible online (homepage of the university, the AFO, Instagram, Facebook and also published in daily newspapers.

VISE: Virtual Institute Smart Energy: Development of Digital Business Models Based on the Energy Demand Behavior of Households

Energy providers and energy service providers only have little information regarding the determinants of their customers energy demand behaviour, especially regarding private households. A detailed analysis of expectations and requirements of private energy demand is an important prerequisite for a successfull adoption of new technology and basis for the development of new business models. The project's goal is the analysis private households intention to invest and intention to use and consequently the development of new business models addressing private households.

RTG 1712 - Trust and Communication in a Digitized World

The research training group examines how trust can be developed and maintained under the conditions of new forms of communication. Digitized means of communication change the structure and sustainability of trust because firstly, familiar face-to-face communication is replaced by digitized interactions, secondly, virtual social and office networks emerge and finally, because new forms of relationships between the public, organisations and individuals develop.

FOKUS:SE - Researcher Network Service Engineering

Services are highly relevant to the economy and the society. The market success and quality of services depend on their concept and design. The DFG-sponsered research network "FOKUS:SE" connects different German research institutions, which are doing theoretical and practical research on service engineering.

Feasibility Study on Requirements for Future Digitalization Pathways for the German Social Security Systems

Based on the successful introduction of the EESSI procedure, the task of the given study is to identify further digitalization potentials in the field of Social Security in Germany. These potentials are identified on the basis of semi-structured interviews with experts familiar with both the EESSI procedure and general topics of digitalization in German Social Security systems. These digitalization potentials show initial pathways that can be considered in the context of a future transformation of Social Security Systems.

Bildungs- und Weiterbildungsplattform eGovernment - Modul Prozessmanagement

Next to coordinating the project e-GovCampus, the Chair for Information Systems and Information Management is also heavily involved in creating content for the online learning platform. Several research undertakings concluded, that Process Management is severely important for the success or failure of digitalization-endeavors in the public sector. With the course “Process Management in Public Administration”, learners will be given all necessary knowledge they need to create and maintain efficient processes. The content focuses, for example, on the analysis of existing processes, the modeling of to-be-processes, Process Management Systems and the most recent developments in the field of software-supported process management. All material is tailored to the public administration sphere.

Das isolierte Individuum in der vernetzten Organisation

Less is sometimes more: Services and requirements for a no-stop shop

In a no-stop shop (NSS), public services are provided proactively without any activity from citizens. For a NSS, data of citizens is to be integrated so they do not have to apply for public services any longer. Instead, services are provided by public organizations without application. A shift to proactive service provision entails fundamental procedural changes and is therefore not comparable with standard digitalization decisions. For the realization of a NSS, both a customized instrument that supports public organizations in the selection of services for the NSS and a catalog of requirements for the concrete implementation of the NSS are necessary. The goals of this project are therefore 1. the creation of a catalog of requirements for a no-stop shop that takes into account and harmonizes both public organization and citizen interests (especially digital sovereignty) 2. development of a calculation method to support the decision-making process for the selection of services for the no-stop shop

Evaluation of the German Oline Access Act - Identification of data sources, data collection and data analysis

The aim of this project is to evaluate the municipal implementation of the online access law. On 18.08.2017, the Act on the Improvement of Online Access to Administrative Services (OZG for short) came into force, which stipulates that by 2022 the federal and state governments must also offer their administrative services electronically via so-called administrative portals. The federal, state and local authorities now have two more years to fulfil the requirements of the law and offer their administrative services completely electronically. The project now examines the status quo of the implementation of the OZG for municipal administrative services. A comprehensive survey of the implementation of the law at the municipal level will allow a detailed analysis of the development potential in the next two years. Based on the data and findings obtained, tailor-made recommendations for action for administration and politics can be derived, which will enable the timely implementation of the law.

Edyoucated

With the Learning Experience Platform edyoucated, employees can learn and continuously develop digital skills.

Interoperability of messenger services: how to make them more consumer-friendly

Interoperability of messenger services: how to make them more consumer-friendly

Branch-and-Price methods for dynamic vehicle routing with advance orders and heterogeneous drivers

Joint Project: smart services for interactive customer experiences in High Street Retailing - project part: Mobile application development for location-based services

smartmarket² adapts successful strategies from online retailing to high street retailing to create interactive customer experiences. The goal is to strengthen the versatility and the attractiveness of high streets and city centers, and to reinforce the individual business models of local retailers against their common competition with online retailing.

DRiving InnoVation in crisis management for European Resilience

Quo vadis, Civis? Development of a citizen journey for a demand-oriented service design in the public sector

Up to now, the public sector has taken a supply-oriented approach to the design of electronic services for citizens. Companies in the private sector, on the other hand, have been relying on demand-oriented service design for years. So-called 'customer journeys', which focus on improving the service experience of customers, are used to better understand the perception of services by customers and to tailor the use of online services to that perception. Especially against the background of the stagnating e-government usage rates in Germany, the necessity for a user-oriented design of public services is tremendous. In this project, we therefore examine the applicability of customer journeys to the public sector and develop a so-called e-Government Citizen Journey, which we evaluate for its applicability in practice.

Nationale E-Government-Strategien im europäischen Vergleich

Germany started digitisation comparatively late, which is why the focus is often on European partners who are already further advanced in this area. In many cases, the question of how Germany can learn from other countries has been, and still is, a central issue. The digitisation successes of the Scandinavian countries in particular appear to be groundbreaking in this respect, whereby the question arises as to how far the results can be transferred to German conditions there. In this project we critically analyse the transferability of e-government strategies as well as experiences in their implementation, especially in a direct comparison of Denmark and Germany.

Kompetenzvermittlung im öffentlichen Sektor neu gedacht

Unterstützung der Arbeitsgruppe IKT-Fachkräfte des Landes Berlin

Deep Recommendation based on Collective Knowledge

SPP 1921: 'Intentional Forgetting' in organisations: 'Forgetting confidently': Motivational and emotional influences on intentional forgetting in organisations

The tandem project of the University of Münster with the disciplines Organisational & Business Psychology (Guido Hertel) and Information Systems (Jörg Becker) focuses on studies on motivational factors that can interfere or promote intentional forgetting in organizations. Intentional forgetting is operationalized by the extent of the utilization of information systems. Information systems are considered to be a structural form of intentional forgetting in organizations that provide users with relevant information so that less relevant information can fade into the background (gradual forgetting). In this way, the use of information systems can save resources and increase the quality and speed of decisions by focusing on the essential decision criteria.

Joint research project: Identifying, verifying, and stopping concealed propaganda attacks via online media - Sub-Project: Coordination of simulation, identification, and defense against concealed propaganda attacks

This project addresses the identification and verification of (semi-)automated concealed propaganda in online media (e.g. in social networks) as an interdisciplinary approach.

MASTIS - Establishing Modern Master-level Studies in Information Systems

The main aim of the project is to improve Master Program in Information Systems according to the needs of the modern society; to bring the universities closer to changes in global labour market and world education sphere. MASTIS will enable the Partner Country & EU Universities to modernize Information System education based on the student-oriented principals, strong university-enterprise cooperation and modern approaches to the education. It will give the Partner Country Universities an opportunity to prepare competitive specialists for Ukrainian, Montenegrin and the global labour market.

Einführung und Betrieb eines landesweiten Cloud-Speicherdienstes für Forschung und Lehre

Private Sector Development and Technical Vocational Education and Training - Programme South Caucasus

FlexFleet - Digitale Vermarktungsplattform von Transportkapazitäten

Text Mining for Curriculum Design for Multiple Information Systems Disciplines

The main objectives of this project Text Mining for Curriculum Design​ is to objectify and automate Curriculum Design by using novel data and text mining techniques​. It will be done by deriving a novel semi-automatic, data driven curriculum design process, which is supported by software. In order to assess the proposed process two reference curricula, e.g. one in Data Science and BPM will be designed.

Development of an information platform for young women for professional and academic orientation in IT-related professions

Digital Me aims to provide women with a browser-based and target group-specific offer for the STEM professions. In a virtual world environment, the participants aged 15 to 17 can find information and decision-making aids as well as games. In the end they know the content and career opportunities in selected IT professions so that they can consciously chose their studies and professions. In this way, Digital Me strives for a higher participation of young women in occupations with IT content and their leadership positions.

Blockchain Royalties

Blockchain is on everyone's lips and has the potential to disrupt not only the business world. This project conceptualizes and implements a prototype on the basis of consumption data in SAP's cloud services.

Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions

EQUAL-IST aims at introducing structural changes to enhance gender equality within Information Systems and Technology Research institutions, which have been demonstrated to be among the research sectors most affected by gender inequalities at all levels.

Joint research project: Privacy Enhancing Technologies for mobile Apps

Das Projekt AppPETs („Privacy Enhancing Technologies for mobile Apps“) soll Entwicklern die Integration von datenschutzfreundlichen Technologien in ihre Smartphone-Apps erleichtern und die Entwicklung von nachweisbar sicheren Apps zum Selbstdatenschutz ermöglichen. Dadurch soll erreicht werden, dass Smartphone-Nutzer zukünftig aus einem größeren Angebot an datenschutzfreundlichen Smartphone-Apps und Selbstdatenschutz-Tools wählen können, um ihre Privatsphäre zu schützen. AppPETs adressiert die Schwerpunktthemen Nachvollziehbarkeit verbessern, Alltagstaugliche Anonymisierung und Pseudonymisierung schaffen und Vertraulichkeit unterstützen.

Propelling Business Process Management by Research and Innovation Staff Exchange

RISE_BPM networks world-leading research institutions and corporate innovators to develop new horizons for Business Process Management (BPM). BPM is a boundary-spanning discipline focused on division and re-integration of day-to-day work in organisations and on analysis of process data for organisational decision-making. Recent break-through innovations in Social Computing, Smart Devices, Real-Time Computing, and Big Data Technology create a strong impetus for propelling BPM into a pervasive corporate topic that enables design of entirely new products and services.

Branch-and-Price methods for real-time vehicle routing with time windows

CRIS.NRW initiative – Support structures for the implementation of the Research Core Dataset and research information systems at the universities in North Rhine-Westphalia as a contribution to harmonise federal research reporting structures

Fachtagung Verwaltungsinformatik und Fachtagung Rechtsinformatik 2019 6. - 7. März 2019, Münster

Using Evolutionary Algorithms for Diversity Optimization

This project is one of the STSMs (Short Term Scientific Missions) of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA15140 on "Improving Applicability of Nature-Inspired Optimisation by Joining Theory and Practice (ImAppNIO)", which aims at bridging the gap between theory and practice of nature inspired optimization algorithms.

ERCIS Omni-Channel Lab - powered by Arvato

The ERCIS Omni-Channel Lab, is a research project in collaboration with Arvato CRM Solutions. The Lab combines the academic research and teaching activities of ERCIS and Arvato’s practical experience of delivering tech-enabled Omni-Channel CRM solutions from 110 global locations for many of the world’s best-known brands. Its areas of investigation focus around ‘Processes’, ‘Data’ and ‘Analytics’.

Instance-Based Algorithm Selection of Inexact TSP solvers

The Travelling Salesperson Problem (TSP) is arguably the most prominent NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem. Given a set of n cities and pairwise distances between those, the objective in the TSP is to find the shortest round-trip or tour through all cities, i.e., a sequence in which every city is visited exactly once, the start and end cities are identical, and the total length of the tour is minimal. The Euclidean TSP has important applications, e.g., in the fabrication of printed circuit boards as well as in transportation and logistics. We aim at constructing an instance-based algorithm selection model in order to improve the current state-of-the-art solver.

Information-theoretic bounds for digital image forensics

Digital images and image processing pervade everyday life. This calls for new techniques to verify the authenticity and integrity of digital image data. Both questions pertain to the young research field of digital image forensics. This project tries to establish upper bounds for the information that can be exploited for image forensics.

Digitization Competencies of Managers in the Public Sector

An International, Cross-Sector Analysis of Online Search Behaviour

EXIST-Gründerstipendium "ProLeap"

AACSB-Accreditation of a German School of Business

AACSB is an international accreditation agency organized as a club with a network administration organization. AACSB emphasize formative evaluation, in order to facilitate its members learning and continuous development. Our research studies the precarious alignment between the identities of highly diverse members and AACSB’s standards and values, which are subject to an ongoing collective review and development, and are enacted by peer review teams throughout accreditation or continuous improvement visits.

EXIST-startup-scholarship: Sellplify

EXIST-startup-scholarship: Job board, administration tool and review portal: SELLplify is the app that makes life easier for promoters and promotion agencies. With SELLplify, promoters will find the best jobs, agencies the best promoters, and all the best way to organize their work efficiently and productively.

Joint research project: Prosecution and prevention of organized financial crime with virtual currencies

BITCRIME entwickelt innovative, der Natur virtueller Währungen angemessene und damit praktikable Ansätze zur Regulierung virtueller Währungen mit Blick auf Möglichkeiten zur Prävention und Verfolgung von Finanzkriminalität. Im Fokus stehen Ansätze technischer und organisatorischer Art, die effektive kriminalpolizeiliche Ermittlungen ermöglichen, ohne auf pauschalen Verboten zu beruhen oder erhöhtes Missbrauchspotenzial im Sinne einer Massenüberwachung aufzuweisen. Angestrebt werden im europäischen Raum umsetzbare Lösungen, welche jedoch international übertragbar und anschlussfähig sind.

Registration and optimisation of administrative processes at the University of Music Münster

This project executes a process registration and optimisation of adminstrative proceses at the University of Music Münster. Im preparation of the upcoming implementation of a SAP Campus Management System the specific processes will be recorded using the modelling method PICTURE.

JiTT@OperatingSystems

The project JiTT@OperatingSystems is sponsored by a fellowship for innovation in digital university teaching, awarded by the ministry of innovation, science, and research of North Rhine-Westphalia and Stifterverband and aims for an improved teaching and learning situation of the lecture Operating Systems at WWU Münster. In the course of the project, Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT) will be implemented to overcome previously observed shortcomings of classical lectures. As usual for JiTT, reading assignments, warm-up exercises, peer instruction, and exercises in small groups will be combined with instructor feedback in regular class meetings.

Validation of automated identification of Social Bots

The 4th International Conference on Information on Communication Technologies for Disaster Management, 11.- 13.12.2017, Münster

The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM’2017) will be held in Münster, Germany from 11th of December to 13th of December 2017. ICT-DM’2017 aims to bring together academics and practitioners who are involved in emergency services, ad hoc planning and disaster management and recovery, in order to learn about the latest research developments, share experiences and information about this area and develop recommendations.

Customer-Management-System

Towards EPC Standardization - Process Modelling with Event-driven Process Chains

Mit der Ereignisgesteuerten Prozesskette (EPK) wurde zu Beginn der 1990er Jahren die bis dato in Deutschland dominierende Modellierungssprache entwickelt. Insbesondere in Wissenschaft und Praxis trifft die EPK seit fast zwei Jahrzehnten auf breite Akzeptanz, obwohl bis dato kein anerkannter Standard für die EPK existiert. Ziel des Projekts SPEAK ist die Erarbeitung einer EPK-Spezifikation in Zusammenarbeit mit Fachexperten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Zur Zielerreichung werden in mehreren Arbeitspaketen die Grundlagen einer solchen Spezifikation geschaffen. Dies umfasst unter anderem die Durchführung einer Anforderungsanalyse, die metamodell-, formalsemantische-, und enumerative Spezifikation der EPK sowie die Definition eines Austausch- und Speicherformats.

Online Learning Modules for Business Process Management (BPM) Advanced Higher Education

Business Process Management (BPM) has evolved into an important topic at universities in Europe and abroad, and it has become an important part of modern management education both at the bachelor and master levels. At the same time, however, many practitioners are nowadays confronted with challenges related to BPM, even though BPM has not been part of their primary and secondary education. In addition, a technology-driven field such as BPM is subject to the rapid changes and innovations in information technology; so even managers who have graduated only recently have a permanent demand to update their knowledge and skillson a continuous, life-long basis. .Therefore, the goal of the BPM_Online project is to establish executive BPM education throughout Europe within a network of leading BPM research institutions.

Evaluating mathematical optimization methods for real-time vehicle routing with time windows

Online Consumer Behaviour: An analysis of the air travel industry

Based on the analysis of online consumer behaviour in the air travel industry, this study compares industry and company (Lufthansa) findings with respect to search space (consideration set), search time, search paths, and multi-channel behavior (role of online travel agents and price comparison sites).

Government as a Service (GaaS) in Germany - Concepts and Challenges

"Government as a Service" - the underlying idea of this concept is that procedures and processes for recurring services are standardized and reused by the administrations and their public IT service providers - as a service - in the provision of services. The goal is the seamless, consistently digitized service provision. The resulting concept describes the status quo and summarizes the challenges.

9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi- Criterion Optimization, Münster 19. - 22.03.2017

EMO 2017 is the 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi- Criterion Optimization, aiming to continue the success of previous EMO conferences. We will bring together both the EMO and the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) communities and moreover focus on solving real-world problems in government, business and industry. The classical EMO format will be supplemented by an EMO competition.

End-Of-Life Solutions for eCar-Batteries – Development of Product-Service-Systems and Information Systems for Decision Support

An immature battery technology appears to be a crucial obstacle to impede a quick diffusion of electric mobility in Germany. One core factor are the high initial costs of traction batteries. To improve the total cost of ownership an electric vehicle, depleted batteries could be repurposed after their automotive use. Depending on the technical properties of a battery, different second-life scenarios can be realized (e.g., to propel smaller vehicles or to store green energy in stationary applications). The EOL-IS project's goal is the development of services (e.g., pay-per-use business models, engineering services, maintenance services, refurbishment) for the second-life of eCar batteries that can be offered with the battery as a product-service system. Based on the chemical and technical features of individual batteries, the battery's use history, and its condition, a custom-fit product-service system is configured in order to enable the re-use of the battery.

Joint Project: Crowdsourcing - Charging Service Provided by Private Persons as an Innovative Business Model - Project Part: User Acceptance and Service Design

CrowdStrom is a project that aims at developing a new business model for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Through involvement of charging stations owned by private persons, the business model addresses challenges of the current infrastructure development for electric vehicles.

Life event based e-government using the example of the life situation "Child"

Although German municipalities offer similar services, their electronic implementations are often heterogeneous. Thus, citizens are confronted with many different websites which leads to a low adoption of e-government services. Consequently, this project aims at the conceptualization of a one-stop-shop for the German e-government. Based on a documentation of current processes at different public administrations, a to-be architecture will be conceptualized that represents a life event based, uniform nationwide platform to offer e-government services regarding the live event “child” such as child benefit.

DAAD Exchange Service: PPP Brasilien - MatuFlex III: Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework of Supply Chain Flexibility

DAAD Austauschprogramm: PPP Brasilien - Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework for Supply Chain Flexibility

Entwurf, Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Werkzeugs zur Motivation von Bürgern zur Teilnahme am Design öffentlicher Dienstleistungen

ISAP - IIMA, Indien

Failure Pattern Recognition and Extended Tactical Spare Parts Supply Chain Planning

The Brazilian-German project “Integrating Intelligent Maintenance Systems and Spare Parts Supply Chains” (I2MS2C) is part of the Brazilian-German Collaborative Research Initiative on Manufacturing Technologies (BRAGECRIM). The overall objective is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of spare parts service management operations for complex technical systems. This will be achieved by integrating information provided by embedded Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) into improved planning and coordination methods as well as processes in the spare parts supply chain. Vice versa, maintenance operation will benefit from an improved planning of the service operation synchronizing service demands with spare parts availability and servicing capacities.

Computational stochastic optimization for anticipatory utilization of renewable energies

Creation of manuals for the target-oriented preparation of the study "E-Government-Competence"

The aim of this project was to prepare the results of the e-Competence study in a focused and targeted manner for a better communication to the respective target groups. The results will be practicioner-oriented manuals. 19 identified reference roles can help to structure the competence requirements of a public administration, to develop profiles for job advertisements or to generally prepare job profiles and to identify future needs. The guideline, on the other hand, helps to select appropriate forms of communication. The reference roles therefore can support the phases of recruiting and personnel development, while the route to selecting suitable didactical methods can support the stages of personnel development and, where appropriate, staff retention, the latter, for example, by allowing employees to specifically train them to gain competences for an advancement to acquire a better job.

Carrying out a study and developing a road map of the status quo of electronic Billing in the public sector in Germany.

This project examined all ongoing or planned projects and initiatives around the topic „electronic billing in the public sector“. The study contains a complete documentation of all projects in Germany.

A Networked and IT-enabled Firm's Perspective on Crisis Management

A Networked and IT-enabled Firm's Perspective on Crisis Management

Anwendung und Verbesserung von Algorithmen der Computational Intelligence zur Modellierung und Optimierung komplexer Probleme der Planung von Supply Chains und der Vorhersagen und Epidemien

Anwendung und Verbesserung von Algorithmen der Computational Intelligence zur Modellierung und Optimierung komplexer Probleme der Planung von Supply Chains und der Vorhersagen und Epidemien

9th International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications

EXIST-startup-scholarship: stressfrei

EXIST-startup-scholarship: stress-free will give you and your staff a stress-free life. Stress-free empowers your company's employees by offloading them from their jobs through family-supportive and home-based services.

Sustainable High Performance - the quest for balanced work practices

The proliferation of information and communication technology (ICT) has significantly transformed the way work is organized in many companies today. A highly differentiated and elaborated repertoire of collaboration tools affords employees and organizations with unprecedented leeway in deciding when, where, how, and with whom work is to be done. Finally, it seems, employees are empowered to fashion their own solution for their work-life balance. At the same time studies acknowledge that we live in demanding, sometimes over-demanding times. Extended freedom puts the onus on employees, teams, and managers to craft their work. Under these circumstances, delivering high performance and staying healthy over long periods of time is an impressive achievement. Our research aims at understanding how high performers succeed to maintain their level of performance and to balance demands and periods of rest.

Definition and Verification of Privacy Metrics in Cloud Applications

The main goal of the VeriMetrix project is to develop new approaches and tools to model and quantify privacy requirements in cloud environments. Concepts and techniques to be developed within the scope of VeriMetrix facilitate new business models and market places.

eGovernment Competence

The project E-Government competence aims at identifying the future personnel requirements in the public sector and to develop teaching methods that help employees to better adjust to the changed environment and customer needs. Therefore, in a first step, today's and future roles incorporated by employees in the public sector are gathered on the basis of IT-supported administration processes. This should help to identify those (presumably) new competencies especially required when working in an "E-Government context". Then, competencies that are needed now and in the near future are derived from this analysis and suitable teaching methods are developed.

Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework for Supply Chain Flexibility

DAAD Austauschprogramm: PPP Brasilien - Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework for Supply Chain Flexibility

Test-Case Generation using Cooperating Constraint Solvers

The aim is the development of a tool for the automatic generation of test cases for programs written in Java. The set of generated test cases should cover all control and/or data flows of a considered system of Java classes.

DAAD Austauschprogramm: PPP Australien: "Social Media und Krisenreaktion (CRIF)"

Hybridization of indicator-based metaheuristics with modern local search methods in multiobjective optimization

The project realizes international expertise exchange between German and Mexican researchers in the context of hybrid evolutionary multi-objective optimization. A special focus lies on integrating local search into state-of-the-art meta-heuristics like SMS-EMOA and dP-EMOA.

Development of Medical Assistance Processes for Patients under Remote Health Monitoring

Federal Information Management

Many public administrations maintain their information on administrative procedures on their own. This leads to a heterogeneous information landscape. It is, however, crucial for maintaining a reliable public service that same content is always described the same. Here, the FIM project comes into play. It is the goal to build up an information management that supports information exchange across all federal levels between internal processes and between public administrations and citizens (public service). This will be achieved by combining functional and technical Standardization.

On the impact of collaboration tools - valuable resources or stressors?

Against the backdrop of current debates about new ways of working and technologically induced stress, we acknowledge the ambivalent effects of collaboration tools on their users: on the one hand they are enabling and facilitating distributed collaboration and knowledge sharing, on the other hand they add another layer of complexity to distributed project work and still too often fail. Therefore, we are exploring the link between the technology repertoires of employees engaged in multiple project teams and the level of stress.

PICTURE Improve

Perceptible Integration of Products and Services as necessary for the requirements-oriented Coordination of Product Service System Networks

In product service system networks manufacturers and service organizations collaborate for providing customers with individualized solutions. Cooperation Experience focuses on developing a methodology that allows to conceptualize these networks, with a special focus on the required coordination between the participating actors’ tasks. With this method and a supporting test environment, the collaboration between the actors is visualized and the impacts and requirements for inter-organizational information flows and document exchanges are explicated. For supporting the application of the method, reference contents are generated and integrated into the supporting prototypical tools. Within this project, the University of Muenster is responsible for the design and implementation of these software prototypes.

Konzeptionierung eines Customer Information Terminals für den SuperBioMarkt

Google Summer of Code 2015: Improving mlr's hyperparameter and tuning system for efficient model selection

This "Google Summer of Code 2015" project aims at enriching mlr's hyperparamter system with a-priori knowledge. The goal of the project is to make the hyperparameter configuration and tuning more flexible, efficient and convenient.

PUSH Münsterland

PUSH Münsterland aims at making SME in the project region aware of business opportunities arising from customer solutions that consist of physical products and services. The project will collect knowledge and best practices residing at universities and companies in the project region, and it will create innovative methods and tools to make that resources accessible by the SMEs.

Verbundprojekt: Sichere Lieferketten im Postverkehr - Analyse und Gestaltung von Prozessen, IT-Systemen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen zur Stärkung der Sicherheit in postalischen Lieferketten

Verbundprojekt: Sichere Lieferketten im Postverkehr - Analyse und Gestaltung von Prozessen, IT-Systemen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen zur Stärkung der Sicherheit in postalischen Lieferketten

Joint project: Analysis of Discourse in Social Media, Subproject: Data Tracking and Network Analysis

Within the bounds of this interdisciplinary collaborative project between Information Systems, Communcation Sciences and Computer Linguistics, we develop methods to minimize the existing limitations of the time and cost-intensive content analysis of Social Media Content.

Steigerung von Innovationsfähigkeit im demografischen Wandel durch die Integration sozialer Medien und IT-gestützter Geschäftsprozesse

Economic Impacts of Cybercrime

Some progress has been made in understanding and managing cybercrime as well assessing its economic impact. Yet much remains to be done. Lack of co-ordination in law enforcement and legislation, lack of common consensus on the nature of cybercrime and lack of knowledge sharing and trust are just some of the issues that both afflict cybercrime responses and cloud our understanding of cyber crime. E-CRIME addresses these well-known problems, while analysing the economic impact of cybercrime and developing concrete measures to manage risks and deter cybercriminals in non-ICT sectors. E-CRIME does so by adopting an interdisciplinary and multi-level-stakeholder focused approach that fully integrates a wide range of stakeholders’ knowledge and insights into the project. Further information and the project's website will be available soon.

End-Of-Life Solutions for eCar-Batteries – Development of Product-Service-Systems and Information Systems for Decision Support

The EOL-IS project’s goal is the development of service innovations for the phase after the eCar batteries’ EOL, based on the chemical and technical features of eCar batteries. A further object is to find the best Second-Life concept for each single battery as well as to conduct the application concept with accurately fitting hybrid bundles of services (HLB). Thereby the physical and chemical features and the battery’s history of usage, its condition and further economic, ecological and judicial information will be considered, as well.

Joint Project: Crowdsourcing - Charging Service Provided by Private Persons as an Innovative Business Model - Project Part: User Acceptance and Service Design

CrowdStrom is a project that aims at developing a new business model for electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Through involvement of charging stations owned by private persons, the business model addresses challenges of the current infrastructure development for electric vehicles.

Design and Usage of Mobile Applications for Gas Trading Companies

Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden Anforderungen erhoben, um eine mobile Applikation für den Gashandel zu designen und zu implementieren. Die Applikation unterstützt Unternehmen im Falle von Störungen und Ausfällen von Handelsprozessen.

Community Platform Redesign for the German Association of CIOs and IT Managers

VOICE e.V. is the association of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and IT Managers in Germany. The association provides an online community platform in order to facilitate communication and collaboration between its members, however, usage remains low. Consequently, the executive committee decided to initiate a major redesign of the platform. We support the association in this initiative by evaluating the role of the community platform for VOICE, assessing its status quo and formulating requirements for the redesigned platform.

Addressing Current Challenges in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: Indicator-based Selection, Convergence and Applicability

This project aims to initiate and intensify bi-lateral collaboration of researchers from Brazil and Germany under the umbrella of current research topics in the domain of evolutionary multi-objective optimization.

DAAD Austauschprogramm: PPP Brasilien - Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework for Supply Chain Flexibility

DAAD Austauschprogramm: PPP Brasilien - Development of a Maturity Measurement Framework for Supply Chain Flexibility

The Networked Service Society

The Networked Service Society project is focused on thoroughly analyzing the interplay between service networks and IT. First, we develop new methods and strategies for the global organization of business processes in multinational settings. Second, we theorize on and shape the commercialization of Social Media for networked service enterprises and the public sector. The objective of our project is to strengthen the long-term research structures with our partner institutions in the Asian-Pacific region. In Joint Research, we perform high quality research and publish our results in leading peer-reviewed journals and present them on international conferences. In Joint Industry Projects, we perform research that ‘matters’, in close cooperate with industry partners and the public sector. Our objective is to establish long-term cooperation initiatives funded by these stakeholders. In Joint Education, we develop and implement joint education programs for increasing the mobility of our students and PhD students.

The In-Memory Database Potential in and for SMEs

Mobile Crisis Situation Assessment: Development of new Tool in Cooperation with JRC and the United Nations OCHA and UNICEF

The project seminar "Mobile Crisis Situation Assessment"(MoCSA) at the Chair for Information Systems and Supply Chain Management has completed the development of the next version of the GDACSmobile prototype, in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and stakeholders from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

The Big Data Potential in and for SMEs

EXIST-Gründerstipendium: Contelligence - Compliance Informationssystem

Integrating Intelligent Maintenance Systems and Spare Parts Supply Chains

The Brazilian-German project “Integrating Intelligent Maintenance Systems and Spare Parts Supply Chains” (I2MS2C) is part of the Brazilian-German Collaborative Research Initiative on Manufacturing Technologies (BRAGECRIM). The overall objective is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of spare parts service management operations for complex technical systems. This will be achieved by integrating information provided by embedded Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) into improved planning and coordination methods as well as processes in the spare parts supply chain. Vice versa, maintenance operation will benefit from an improved planning of the service operation synchronizing service demands with spare parts availability and servicing capacities.

ERASMUS Intensive Programme 2013/2014: Systems Thinking and Assessment with Reflectories

Business Process Compliance Management in the Financial Sector

Secure adaptive Steganography

Adaptive steganography is a hiding technique to embed secret messages into covers by selecting the most secure embedding positions within a heterogeneous cover signal. Current adaptive techniques are designed without considering that differences in the detectability between different parts of a cover in fact leak side information to the detector. This enables a passive adversary to separate parts with presumably high embedding density from parts with presumably low embedding density, or to compare between both parts. This project for the first time combines signal processing and game theory to study distribution functions for embedding changes which anticipate such adversarial strategies.

Introduction and Management of Social Collaboration Platforms – A Concept for Consulting in the Banking Sector

Erforschung des Nutzerverhaltens in einer virtuellen Museumslandschaft

Issue Dynamics of Public Online Communication - Network and Content Analysis of Current Topics on Twitter

In this project we employ an automated network and word analysis as well as a relational content analysis. By doing so, we aim to identify "emerging" topics on Twitter in various economic and politcal fields. Eventually, the aim is obtaining insights into participation, the avoidance of journalism, the degree fragmentation of opinion and opportunities to take influence on the course of topics (Issue Management).

8th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics (IMF 2014)

IT security is an integral aspect in operating IT systems today. Yet, as even high-end precautionary measures cannot prevent every attack or security mishap, forensic capabilities in investigating such incidents in both technical and legal aspects are paramount. Capable incident response and forensic procedures have thus gained essential relevance in IT infrastructure operations and in law-enforcement, and there is ample need for research and standardization in this area. Since 2003, the IMF conference has established itself as one of the premier European venues for presenting research on IT security incident response and management and IT forensics. The conference provides a platform for experts from throughout the world to present and discuss recent technical and methodical advances in the field. It shall enable collaboration and exchange of ideas between industry (both as users and solution providers), academia, law-enforcement and other government bodies.

Social Media als Enabler in der Filmbranche

The EXIST-startup „filmreif“, sponsored by the BMWI, deals with the development of a platform that can be used to fund film productions, to help cinemas find out most wanted films and to get cheaper tickets than at the box office. A unique selling point is the complete integration with existing social networks.

Humanitarian Logistics Council of the BVL International

Produktivity Benchmarking for Industrial Services: Design and Evaluation of Adaptions for the Data Envelopment Analysis

The project ServDEA is using the operations-research method data envelopment analysis (DEA) to develop a software tool that is capable of benchmarking so-called service organizations.

Diffusion von Social Router Betriebsmodellen im privaten Umfeld

SocialCRM - Evaluation der Nutzung von öffentlichen Social Media Daten zu Anreicherung von Kundendatensätzen

Verbraucherschutz durch Mitentscheidung bei Online-Verträgen

Übergeordnetes Ziel des interdisziplinären Vorhabens von Juristen und Wirtschaftsinformatikern ist, Einwilligungsdialoge im Internet zu erforschen, die es Verbrauchern erlauben, ihren Willen durch Streichungen in einem vom Anbieter vorgeschlagenen Formvertragstext auszudrücken. Es soll herausgefunden werden, ob die beabsichtige Förderung der Selbstbestimmung der Verbraucher und Rückgewinnung der Möglichkeit, auf abzuschließende Verträge wieder Einfluss zu haben (d. h. Abkehr von Alles- oder-Nichts-Entscheidungen), praktikabel ist und damit gegebenenfalls Bestandteil zukünftiger Verbraucherschutzregulierung werden könnte.

Sync&Share

Im Rahmen des Projektes wird gemeinsam mit dem Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung der WWU Münster eine Adaptionsstudie zu Cloud-Diensten unter Studierenden und Mitarbeitern der Universität durchgeführt.

Electronic Government in an Aging Society - Policies, Projects, Potentials

Inter-organisational Informattion Infrastructures - Structures, Practices, Development Patterns

Inter-organisational information infrastructures have become the backbone of modern societies. Still we know little about their role, impact and development across different segments of society.

Meta-Heuristiken im Supply Chain Planning - Projektbezogener Personenaustausch mit Brasilien

The Brazilian-German research project “Application and Extension of Meta-Heuristics for Supply Chain Planning” is part of the bilateral research support program from the Brazilian CAPES and the German DAAD. The project sets out to evaluate the applicability and performance of two meta-heuristics for complex optimization problems in SCP that were recently proposed by the Brazilian project partners: the Fish School Search (FSS), an optimization technique inspired by the collective behavior of fish schools, and Evolutionary Self-Organized Map (EvSOM). Thus, the project contributes to the ongoing research in Supply Chain Planning by applying new, promising optimization techniques and feeds back the experiences made during this application into the ongoing development of the two new meta-heuristics.

Transfer project for the modeling technique "icebricks"

Goal of the transfer project is the application of new scientific results in the area of business process modeling into a marketable tool. icebricks is a modeling technique for business process modeling that integrates scientific results and experiences in the area of modeling conventions into a modeling language and tool. Key features are: building block based modeling language, glossary to ensure semantical correctness, flexible modeling through attributes and hierarchies, consequently web-oriented tool.

Informationsdiffusion und politische Themenkarrieren in der öffentlichen Social Media Kommunikation

Museum 2.0 – Virtual Environments for Collaboration

In cooperation with the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL), the State Museum for Art and Art History in Münster is reconstructed in a virtual 3D world. Thus visitors are enabled to enter the museum from any place at any time. Moreover, the interactive opportunities of the virtual world are employed to develop innovative utilisation concepts for exhibitors and visitors of the museum.

Analyse politischer Themenkarrieren in sozialen Netzwerken

Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden Themen im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 aus Social Media gesammelt und ausgewertet.

Analysis of Social Media Communication about German federal election in 2013.

Analysis of Social Media Communication about German federal election in 2013.

Social Media Monitoring öffentlicher Kommunikation im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013

Im Rahmen der Analyse werden Twitter, Blogs und Newsportale ausgewertet, um Rückschlüsse über die politische Kommunikation im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 zu erhalten.

EDUcation-Process-Analysis, Support and Service

Collaborative process-oriented service productivity management

Die Steigerung der Produktivität von Dienstleistungen ist eine zentrale Zielsetzung des Business Process Management (BPM). Mit Dienstleistungen werden in Deutschland bereits jetzt ca. 70 % der Bruttowertschöpfung generiert. Sie bergen darüber hinaus ein hohes gesamtwirtschaftliches Wachstumspotenzial, das sich durch eine Steigerung ihrer Produktivität in Zukunft noch besser ausgeschöpfen lässt. Damit Produktivitätspotenziale auch über die Unternehmensgrenzen einzelner Dienstleister hinaus gehoben werden können, sind neue BPM-Ansätze notwendig. Im Verbundprojekt KollaPro, bestehend aus Partnern aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, werden neue Methoden zum kollaborativen prozessorientierten Produktivitätsmanagement von Dienstleistungen entwickelt und in Form einer internetbasierten Softwarelösung (Toolkit) für die Praxis nutzbar gemacht.

Structural optimization of distributed energy supply systems - applied to chemical parks

The project aimed at setting up a method for structural optimization that enables the planning engineer to design a distributed energy supply system of near-optimal quality.

Konzeption eines Modelhandbuchs für den juristischen Postgraduierten-Studiengang im Bereich Handel & Logistik

Interdisciplinary knowledge sharing scenarios in social media / use of CRM in German universities

Event hosting for the interdisciplinary collaboration in social media topics. Among other things, the potential of CRM in German universities will be evaluated and specific scenarios will be developed.

Kommunikationsplattform zum Erfahrungsaustausch von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern

Project Seminar "Hilti Store of the future" in collaboration with Hilti AG

Einsatz von Social Media im Bankensektor

Im Rahmen des Projektes werden Einflussfaktoren auf die Social Media Adoption im Bankenwesen ermittelt und Use Cases identifiziert. Im Besonderen wird der Einfluss der Unternehmenskultur sowie die Struktur des Informations- und Wissensmanagements betrachtet.

Private Cloud and Collaboration for Enterprises

Development of a private cloud solution for small and medium sized companies.

Blockchain governance

Project in cooperation with University of Zurich (Prof. Gerhard Schwabe) and University College Dublin (Dr. Gianluca Miscione).

Book of the Future

Aim of this project is to develop an e-learning solution for textbooks which enables students to apply their analogous practices in a digital book. Furthermore, opportunities to enhance digital book are being explored.

Social Media Monitoring - Analysis of Online Social Networks for Business Related Issue Management

Combination of methods and theories of Information Systems and Communication Sciences to collect and analyse data from public social networks (esp. Twitter) which is of relevance for business related problems.

Social Media Monitoring of Political Communication in Germany

Central to the project are two sets of questions on topics and multipliers: What relevance do topics have, how will topics develop, and what issues are likely to become more important? Which actors are particularly influential because they are able to initiate discussions and to stimulate the proliferation of their messages? After the election, when the study material is fully present, more detailed analyzes will be conducted. The project is conducted in collaboration with Prof. Neuberger of the LMU Munich and supported by the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communication, and by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Development of a Research Map for the joint research projekt "Tech4P - Strategies for technology integration for person-related services"

Entrepreneurial Multi-Users Virtual Environments

Research on virtual collaborative spaces on entrepreneurial education. Development of a virtual training center for European entrepreneurs.

Data Integration within Routine Patient Care and Clinical Research

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2012

Berkeley, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard twice, ... in its 11th year, the renowned Workshop on the Economics of Information Securitywent to Berlin and thus for the first time to continental Europe. Rainer Böhme was proud to organize the event jointly with Gert G. Wagner and Nicola Jentzsch of DIW Berlin, an economic research institute. The workshop took place in the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences located in the heart of downtown Berlin on 25-26 June 2012.

Wirtschaftliche und plattformübergreifende Entwicklung von Business Apps

Social Media Analytics@Securitas - Cooperative research project within the "ERCIS-Competence Center Smarter Work"

Analyzing social media platforms has been continuously gaining importance in the corporate environment.

Mobile Business Intelligence

The project is about a software tool development for analysing and visualising data from the internal social network Yammer.

Automated document management

Development and analysis of mobile approaches for private document management solutions.

Benchmarking of service processes in the area of Facility Management

Joint German-Russian Innovation Forum "Promoting business process management excellence in Russia" (PropelleR 2012)

Analyse der logistischen Forschung in Indien - Eine empirische und bibliographische Studie zur Beschreibung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes im Bereich Logistik in Indien 2011/2012

Design of replenishment systems

Remira GmbH develops and distributes LogoMate, a tool for automated replenishment. Core of the tool is a component that forecasts demandon store level. Based on the forecast, LogoMate automatically generates order proposals that reduce stocks while keeping or increasing product availability. The project aimed to identify, evaluate and prototypically implement new methods for demand forecasting.

Management of creativity-intensive processes

German-Brazilian Workshop on Management and Engineering of IT-Supported Business Networks, Administration Networks and Social Networks

Data Center Cockpit

This project aims at developing a tool which makes it possible to map abstract organisational goals to concrete measures using a goal hierarchy.

Identifying Improvement Potentials in Processes by Analyzing the Banking Landscape

Virtual Customer Integration

Development of approaches for collaborative business process management.

Forschungslandkarte "Prozessorientierte Verwaltung"

Deutschland ist auf dem Weg hin zu einer prozessorientierten Verwaltung. Es gibt vielfältige Bestrebungen, den Prozessgedanken, insbesondere bei der Modernisierung von Verwaltungs-abläufen, in den Verwaltungen des Bundes, der Länder und der Kommunen zu etablieren. Nichtsdestotrotz ist der Weg bis zu einer ganzheitlichen Prozessorientierung und Nutzung der Vorteile einer ablauforientierten Gestaltung der Verwaltungsstrukturen noch weit. Auf dem Weg zur Erstellung der Forschungslandkarte Prozessorientierte Verwaltung wurden zahlreiche Literaturquellen und Datenbanken systematisch durchsucht. Die identifizierten Forscherinnen und Forscher, die in Deutschland in der Community arbeiten und forschen, wurden gebeten, den Stand ihrer Forschung im aufgebauten Forschungsportal zu dokumentieren. Dabei konnten 14 Forschungsfelder identifiziert werden, innerhalb derer sich die Forschungslücken der prozessorientierten Verwaltung strukturieren lassen und die Basis der Handlungsempfehlungen dieser Studie sind.

Mobile Applikation für Premium-Kunden der Automobilindustrie als Schnittstelle zu einem CRM-System

Investigation on Wiki usage in small and medium sized companies

In this project we surveyed CEOs and IT managers in small and medium sized companies. Based on the results we identified potencial benefits and challenges of wiki usage.

Software Tests

Information Technology for Administration and Intelligent Design of E-Government

Initiation of Bilateral Cooperation with Brazil - Evaluating Standards for Interorganizational Process Integration in Brazilian-German Value Networks

Computer-supported learning in hybrid systems

Flexible Information Systems Architectures for Service Networks

Practice oriented EU-RU Master in Business Informatics

SWOT Analysis of the Color Information Systems at BASF Coatings CR/T

International research network for e-Government between Germany and Brazil

Willingness-to-Pay for Service-Oriented Business Models

Process oriented value of IT

Prove IT project seminar in the frame of European educational project TEMPUS-JEP 27208-2006 is mentioned.

Process identification and clustering for transparency in reorganising public administrations

Elektronischer Aktenplan

Structures and evolutionary paths of interorganisational information systems: an international comparison in selected industry segments

Based on case studies in different countries and branches, the different structures and evolutionary paths of IOIS respective to the (national) institutional and economic conditions are analysed.

cHL-hybrid - Integration of Research- and Learning Processes

cHL-hybrid - Reference Technologies

cHL-hybrid - Introduction of Distance Learning-Certificate

cHL-hybrid - e-science networking

cHL-hybrid - Development and Evaluation of a Business Model for E-Learning Services

IÖ - Web-Evaluation in Mutli-Channel Systems

Evaluation of the implementation of multi-channel strategies that integrate on- and offline channels. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

IÖ - Modeling of hybrid information systems

Internet economy and hybridity

E-Inclusion - digital integration by e-Government

The objective of the study "E-Inclusion - digital integration by E-Government" was to analyze the usage and design possibilities of E-Government services for a less-involved audience in Germany and to develop recommendations that can improve the participation of this groups. The study has been conducted on the authority of the Federal Ministry of the Interior of Germany.

cHL-hybrid - Reference Models

Individual adaptation in software engineering

A Configurative Meta Modelling Tool

Developing a configurative meta modelling tool

cHL-hybrid - Integration of teaching and learning processes with administrative processes

cHL-hybrid - e-business networking

Complexity Management for the Development and Application of Adaptive Reference Models

Software-based POS-Couponing

cHL-hybrid - Development of a cHL-Repository

Reuse of conceptual models in small and medium size companies by means of adaptive component-based reference modelling

Process-driven business value assessment of SAP solutions

This description summarizes the results of an international research project with SAP, aiming at methodological and software-technical extension of the existing SAP business value assessment methodology. The extended SAP method is characterized by: (1) a process oriented analysis of ERP driven benefits, (2) a unified knowledge base structure for storing reference data related to ERP profitability analysis, (3) using reference data for effective business value assessment of ERP solutions and (4) reduced cost in preliminary stages of ERP projects. The SAP Value Analyzer is a software-technical implementation of the extended method.

Developing IT-enabled competitive advantage in manufacturing

Objectives: Extending the SAP BVA methodology with regard to the customer needs Providing decision support by an integrated software tool The project is funded by the SAP University Alliance Program and the SAP Research, and actively supported by the SAP Business Consulting Russia and SAP Business Consulting Germany.

Management of Customer-Related knowledge in Service Companies

DOMINO - Dynamic Organizational Management for Inter-firm Network Orchestrations

European Research project on Dynamic Organizational Management for Inter-firm Network Orchestrations.

Workflow-based Production Planning and Control (PPC) Systems

The objective of PROWORK was to conceptualize, develop and introduce workflow systems for production planning and control (PPC) systems. The project especially focused on order processing - a process that describes the relevant activities from customer order to the delivery of physical goods.

Construction of Configurative Reference Models for an Integrated Application and Organization Development

Controlling and Monitoring of Distributed Workflows for continuous Business Process Optimization

Guidelines of Modeling

Parallel Model for Productionplanning- and Control of Small- and Medium-Sized Comission Manufacturers

Modeling of Uniform and Global Sequences in Retail Systems

Distributed System for Construction Support with Neuronal Networks

Research on Strategic IT/IS Management and Digitalization

The research on Strategic Information Management is concerned with the development of IT/IS strategies, the management of IT/IS investments, investment portfolios, and programmes, as well as with the sourcing, organization and governance of the corporate IT/IS function.

COSEAL - Configuration and Selection of Algorithms

The COSEAL research group is an international consortium of researchers from all over the world (e.g. Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Denmark and Germany) which addresses current challenges from Algorithm Selection, Algorithm Configuration and Machine Learning.

PIONEER II - ERASMUS Mundus Master "Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance"

Detaillierte Waldüberwachung mittels skalierbarer KI-Methoden

SPP 2267: The digitalisation of working worlds. Conceptualising and capturing a systemic transformation - SP: Digitalization and Deep Structural Change: Is the Platformization of the Healthcare Sector Inevitable?

FOR 5393: The future smart town

Die Forschungsgruppe „Die digitale Mittelstadt der Zukunft“ untersucht, wie Mittelstädte den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung begegnen, und entwickelt digitale Instrumente zur Stärkung ihrer Lebensqualität. Dabei nimmt sie mit den Aspekten „Zivilgesellschaft und soziale Leistungen“, „Verwaltung und Politik“, „Wirtschaft und Energie“ sowie „Bildung und Kultur“ vier zentrale Strukturbereiche in den Fokus. Im Zentrum stehen Mittelstädte vor allem außerhalb von Metropolenregionen, die spezielle Spezifika aufweisen und im ländlichen Raum für ihre in der Regel 20 000 bis 100 000 Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner häufig starken Identifikationscharakter besitzen.

FOR 5393: The future smart town - Subproject: Efficient and identity-enhancing law enforcement in the municipality of a mid-sized town

FOR 5393: The future smart town - Subproject: E-competences and imparting e-competences in medium-sized local administrations

FOR 5393: The future smart town - Subproject: Trust management in the digital mid-sized town

FOR 5393: The future smart town - Coordination Funds

FOR 5393: The future smart town - Subproject: IT Security: Strategic Security Orchestration, Automation and Response for Digitalizing Medium-sized Cities

Joint Research Training Group: „North Rhine-Westphalian Experts on Research in Digitalization“ (NERD) - Tandem doctorate: "MedMax: Preparing Hospital Environments for Future Cyber lncidents"

Co-created student-centered incubator program

The role of Large Language Models in the Detection/Mitigation of Disinformation

Verbund - KI: Energie- und ressourceneffiziente künstliche Intelligenz für moderne IoT-Anwendungen

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers us more and more opportunities to connect different devices and exchange data. Accordingly, the number of IoT-enabled end devices such as smartphones, smartwatches or fitness trackers is increasing. Many of these devices have microcontrollers or sensors, such as cameras or motion sensors, with which they exchange data via cloud services using AI processes. However, both the devices themselves and the AI applications consume resources in the form of materials and energy. It is important to reduce this resource consumption - especially for IoT applications that are used in the environmental sector.

Interdisciplinary cooperation with the Glorius Group of the Organic Chemistry Institute in the field of machine learning and data analysis

In cooperation with the Institute of Organic Chemistry, new methods and application context are discovered to apply machine learning in this area of natural science. We do not limit ourselves to the analysis of data but develop additional methods to prepare chemical data for analysis.

Game theoretical approach for the distribution of children to day-care facilities

The distribution of children to day-care facilities is a complex matching problem. Many cities solve the problem with a decentralized approach, where each day-care facility has its own wait-list. This process is often time-consuming and not optimized in view of parents’ preferences. We work in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research on a market mechanism, which enables an automatic distribution, which considers the needs of both parents and day-care facilities.

Intelligenter lntermodaler Pendlerverkehr

E-Assessment Tool for UML class diagrams

The correction of student exercises for modelling UML class diagrams can be complex. Especially, when the exercise urges the students to use suitable design patterns, it can be difficult to compare two solutions with different design patterns. For this reason, we work on an E-Assessment tool, which is able to automatically identify design patterns within student solutions. The results can be leveraged to create customized feedback for students, which aims at the correct choice and application of design patterns.

Model-driven Mobile Development

MD² (MD2) is a model-driven framework for cross-platform development of mobile applications. Based on a textual DSL, MD2 generates runnable native apps for Android and iOS.

Optimal control of the epidemic under heterogeneity conditions - Subproject B

Epidemie Hospital Resource Demand - Modeling lncidence, Bed-occupancy, Staffing and Supply Chains - Subproject D

Algorithmic Skeletons - The Muenster Skeleton Library (Muesli)

Experience shows that the development of parallel programs is an elaborate and time-consuming task. The Muenster Skeleton Library (Muesli) is a collection of high-level concepts that facilitate the development of parallel programs. The library contains so-called algorithmic skeletons, i.e. frequently recurring parallel programming patterns, which can be easily and efficiently combined to develop parallel applications.

Responsible Use of Digital Cash-based Assistance in Refugee Crises

CoDeAI: Collaborative development of Al capabilities in SMEs

Joint Research Project: Real-time detection and analysis of hybrid disinformation campaigns in online media (HybriD)

Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management 2024

EXIST-Gründerstipendium "Zeropath"

Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development

Das Projekt INNO4S zielt darauf ab, die Themenfelder Nachhaltigkeit, Digitalisierung und Innovation in wirtschaftlichen Studiengängen weiter zu verankern, aber auch entsprechende Lehrmaterialien für andere Disziplinen modular zur Verfügung zu stellen.

Monitoring Changes in Big Satellite Data via Massively-Parallel Artificial Intelligence

The remote sensing field witnesses an explosion in the amount of available data, with petabytes of data being gathered by single satellites every year. Such data allow the identification of fine details in the landscape and the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) facilitate application areas such as agricultural monitoring, infrastructure management, mapping forest development, and many others. Applying AI models on a global scale can become extremely time-consuming with analyses potentially taking weeks, months, or even years. This project aims at the development of highly-efficient parallel implementations for AI methods that allow to detect and monitor “changes” visible in time series satellite data. Collaboration with the University of Copenhagen (Cosmin Oancea and Marcos Vaz Sallies). Supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).

DeepCrop: Quantification of Carbon Stocks via Deep Learning

Recent technological developments in deep learning and drone-borne Lidar scanners pave the way for constraining the uncertainty inherent to quantify and project ecosystems' carbon (C) stocks. With a rising demand for biomass, DeepCrop aims to precisely measure above ground biomass and to estimate C sinks in croplands and forests. The ambition is to bridge expertise of experimental and computer scientists to develop novel tools for the automated processing of Lidar data utilizing deep learning and drones. Joint work with the University of Copenhagen (Katerina Trepekli, Thomas Friborg, Christian Igel). This project is, in part, supported by the Villum Foundation and the Data+ program of the University of Copenhagen.

Benchmarking Network

The Benchmarking Network is an initiative that has emerged in summer 2019, with the idea to consolidate and to stimulate activities on benchmarking iterative optimization heuristics such as local search algorithms, swarm intelligence techniques, model- and/or surrogate-based heuristics, etc - in short, all algorithms that work by a sequential evaluation of solution candidates.

Patients' perspective of a healthcare multi-sided platform: information privacy, patient empowerment and chronic illness

Theoretical understanding and practical implementation guidance for S&OP

Uncovering leadership styles performed in Open Source Software Communities

Open source software (OSS) communities have a distinct way of organising of dispersed individuals and mobilize these individuals for producing the software products. The success of these communities is dependent on the presence and contribution of the participating volunteer individuals in the community. The leaders of the OSS community are the key members in keeping the contributing developers together, facilitating collaboration, and sustaining communities. Therefore, firstly we aim to enhance the understanding of OSS leadership by developing an integrative framework. This framework aims to consolidate all the attributes or cues associated with OSS leaders and provide a coherence understanding of OSS leadership. Secondly, the research endeavors to methodologically operationalize this framework of OSS leadership and shed light on real OSS leadership practices. Finally, the research further aims to provide granular insights on the actual performance of the specific OSS leader.

Autonomic Computing in Cloud-Native Environments

ERCIS Social Media Analytics Competence Center

The Social Media Analytics Competence Center (SMA CC) emerged from the funded BMBF project PropStop and comprises all partners of this consortium. In the meantime, the initial idea of Propstop (addressing the detection of automatically generated propaganda in online media) has become a major issue in societal and scientific discussion. This competence center aims at reaching beyond the boundaries of PropStop and etstablishes a community of researchers and practitioners to address the topics of Disinformation, Propaganda, and Manipulation via Online Media in a multidisciplinary approach.

Workplace and people analytics in spatial-, temporal-, and formal-boundary spanning workplaces through the construction of meaning in digital traces

Musket - Muenster Skeleton Tool for High-Performance Code Generation

Many existing approaches to high-level parallel programming provide parallel constructs in the form of a library. This causes some limitations such as the difficulty to implement optimizations and a higher entry barrier for inexperienced programmers. Thus, Musket is based on a DSL. Important design decisions such as the syntax and structure of code can be selected purposefully when building a DSL. To abstract from low-level details, algorithmic skeletons (skeletons for short) are used. In essence, skeletons are higher order functions and encapsulate typical parallel computation/communication patterns.

Creation of and collaboration on Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) reduce entry barriers towards educational resources and avoid redundant work when educational resources of high quality are created in different organizations. Adoption of OER faces known challenges, and the ALMS framework provides evaluation criteria for the re-use of OER. This project extends the ALMS framework, provides an infrastructure for the creation of and collaboration on OER, and publishes OER. The infrastructure rests upon a newly developed Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), called emacs-reveal for the generation of HTML presentations with embedded audio explanations, which are suitable for self-study. The generation of HTML from simple text files (in org mode) takes place in a public GitLab infrastructure, increasing the software’s ease of use. OER are created and improved continuously, since April 2017 in particular for a lecture on Operating Systems. Besides, the infrastructure itself is documented via OER.

Accountability Systems in Aid Organisations: A study of Indian NGOs in Disaster Resilience Projects

Information Systems Strategy in the Digital Age: Concept and Contents

Muli – The Münster Logic-Imperative Language

Object-oriented programming languages prevail in the development of enterprise software, but they do not particularly support the implementation of software which includes solving complicated search problems with dynamically appearing constraints. We propose the constraint-logic object-oriented language Muli. It facilitates an integrated implementation of business applications that involve search. Muli extends Java by logic variables and encapsulated search and leverages a symbolic virtual machine and constraint solvers.

Architectures for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms to support User Expertise Integration

This project strives to analyze existing algorithm architectures and design new structures such that integration of expertise becomes seamlessly possible. Users should be free of the need to redesign or deeply understand the general algorithms structure.

Big Data Laboratory

We study the potential of Big Data for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To this end, we have built a web-based Big Data lab that can be accessed via a browser. Its intention is to help companies as well as research understand the role as well as the implications of Big Data.

The Münster Generator of Glass-box Test Cases

Testing is a task that requires much effort, yet it is essential for developing software. Automated test case generation (TCG) promises to relieve humans of manual work. We introduce Muggl (the Muenster generator of glass-box test cases), which is developed at our institute. Muggl generates test cases for Java bytecode.