With its international cooperations and research results, the ERCIS wants to reach not only the experts but also the interested public with its press work. This occurs with constant press releases, annual reports and professional publications. A selection can be found here, divided into network news from the whole network and headquarters news from Münster (German language).
[Thursday, May 16, 2013]
Six Russian and four German students have united in an international project seminar called “EDUPASS”, a collaboration that officially started 11 April in the course of the SAP Forum 2013 at Crocus Expo in Moscow (Russia). The two main goals of EDUPASS include an analysis and adaption of the academic situation at Voronezh State University to industry needs and European standards as well as an investigation of promising new business areas for T-Systems CIS in Russia.
[Monday, May 6, 2013]
On Tuesday, 7th May, Dr. Martina Comes from the ERCIS member University of Agder in Norway gives a talk at the ERCIS Lunchtime Seminar in Münster. In her presenation "Decision Support in Emergency Management: Confronting Complexity and Uncertainty" Martina will talk about the challenges of efficient disaster management like the disruption of Critical Infrastructures.
[Thursday, April 4, 2013]
The International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Operability (IWEI 2013) was hosted by ERCIS network member Universiteit Twente in Enschede from March, 26 - 28.
[Tuesday, March 5, 2013]
Sanja Tumbas and Dr. Theresa Schmiedel were assigned the Hilti Best Student Paper Award for their publication "Developing an Organizational Culture Supportive of Business Process Management" presented at the 11th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) in Leipzig.
[Thursday, January 17, 2013]
On March 7, 3 pm, Björn Niehaves from the ERCIS headquarters will give a presentation at the Software AG Process Lounge at CeBIT, Hannover. The topic will be “Business Model and Process Model – Competitor or Confederate?” Björn will present results of the research project KollaPro the University of Muenster conducted together with Software AG, best practice consulting AG, and Durable Hunke & Jochheim GmbH & Co.
[Tuesday, November 6, 2012]
On November 5th 2012, ERCIS partners from Münster and Liechtenstein (Patrick Delfmann, Michael Räckers and Theresa Schmiedel) took part in a special meeting of the BPM Round Table at the University of Eindhoven. The researchers from Münster gave a talk about Semantic Business Process Management while Theresa from Liechtenstein presented results from BPM Cultural Fitness Studies.
[Thursday, September 27, 2012]
THEME
“Information, Services and Processes for the Interoperable Economy and Society”
[Friday, September 21, 2012]
On the 19th September Ralf Plattfaut from the ERCIS-Headquarter in Münster gave a talk at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He presented a study he conducted together with Sara Hofmann, Michael Räckers, Daniel Beverungen, and Björn Niehaves from Münster as well as Thomas Kohlborn from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. The study deals with factors influencing governmental service channel adoption.
[Thursday, September 13, 2012]
For the Information Systems Department at the Kaunas University of Technology, the Lithuanian ERCIS member, september is the month of the International Conference on Information and Software Technologies (ICIST).
[Friday, August 3, 2012]
Germany and France have started a research project with the aim of providing greater protection for international letter and parcel traffic. Logistics and legal experts from Münster University (WWU) were entrusted with heading the project entitled InPoSec (Integrated Postal Security). Among them are Prof. Bernd Hellingrath, an expert on business information systems and logistics – and spokesman for the German-French project – and Prof.
[Monday, July 16, 2012]
Leon Krause, normally in his senior years of secondary school, is currently working at the ERCIS headquarters as an intern. In his two weeks in Münster, he will think of design possibilities for an ERCIS app available for all ERCIS members.
[Friday, July 13, 2012]
Yuri Kupriyanov and Vadim Agievich from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow are currently visiting the ERCIS headquarters. They presented their current research in an open presentation this week.
[Friday, July 6, 2012]
Prof. Han-Gyun Woo from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has arrived at in Münster for a research visit. During a period of three weeks, we plan to initiate a student exchange program between UNIST and WWU in the IS Masters' Program. In addition, we will further boost initiatives for joint research in the subject areas of "Business Process Management" and "B2C Service Innovation".
[Monday, July 2, 2012]
The department of Industrial Engineering and Business Information systems will host a PhD summer workshop targeted at PhD’s in Business Information Systems. Both fulltime (AIOs) and Parttime or Executive PhD candidates enrolled in IS or similar programs are invited. The program will be aimed at deepening theoretical skills through interactive sessions by senior faculty and professors.
[Friday, June 15, 2012]
Karen Stendal and Bjørn Erik Munkvold from the University of Agder, our ERCIS partner in Kristiansand, Norway, won the ECIS 2012 Best Paper Award. Congratulations! Their paper was titled "Virtual worlds and people with lifelong disability: exploring the relationship with virtual self and others". They wrote the paper together with Judith Molka-Danielsen and Susan Balandin from the Molde University College.
[Monday, June 4, 2012]
We would like to invite all ERCIS members (be it professors, postdocs, or Phd students) to have a beer with us on Monday, June 11, 5pm at the caféteria of the University! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact team@ercis.org!
[Wednesday, May 16, 2012]
Björn Niehaves, Kevin Ortbach and Asin Tavakoli (ERCIS members from Münster) were awarded for their publication "On the Relationship between the IT Artifact and Design Theory: The Case of Virtual Social Facilitation" at this years DESRIST Conference in Las Vegas.
Abstract of the paper:
[Friday, May 11, 2012]
Civil protests on the web, the rise of the Pirate Party or the role of Facebook and Twitter in the „Arab Spring“: Internet-based political communication takes place in a different way compared to that in traditional media. However, until now little is known about how topics spread through online networks and how opinion-making emerges there as there is a lack of appropriate methodological instruments for analyzing the internet public.
[Monday, April 30, 2012]
Last week, The ERCIS conducted the Innovation Forum "PropelleR" for business process management (BPM), together with the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. 25 German and 45 Russian researchers and practitioners participated in the event. A lot of hot topics and questions were discussed during the three day workshop.
[Monday, April 30, 2012]
“When a disaster strikes, logisticians have to quickly choose next actions. Are lives at risk, or is the rebuilding of infrastructure most important? What does the affected population lack most – water, food, or clothing? Only when these questions are answered, logisticians can set the right priorities”, Prof. Hellingrath explains.
[Wednesday, April 4, 2012]
Leading German and Russian researchers and practitioners in the BPM field will come together in Moscow to discuss BPM trends and challenges, exchange experience, get involved in current German and Russian BPM projects, and establish and strengthen relationships for future cooperation.
[Tuesday, March 6, 2012]
The Information Systems School at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, offers a three year PhD scholarship in the area of process model design for decision making.
Detailed information is available in the attached file. For further information please contact Jan Recker (j.recker@qut.edu.au).
[Monday, February 27, 2012]
The core topic of WIS 2012 is health-related inequalities in daily life. Among others, vision-, hearing- and movement-impaired people have difficulties in accessing services in the modern society, including information-technology enabled services. Yet information technology also offers a multitude of possibilities for improving the life of impaired people. Most often these solutions are well in line with the needs and benefits of everyone.
[Tuesday, February 7, 2012]
Dr. Matti Mäntymäki with the Highly Commended Award for his doctoral dissertation “Continuous Use and Purchasing Behaviour in Social Virtual Worlds” in the Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards by Emerald Publishing and European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) in the marketing research category.
[Tuesday, January 31, 2012]
In the course of the final presentation of the joint ERCIS seminar “Global Challenges”, Dr. Bernd Schenk, representing the University of Liechtenstein, and Dr. Armin Stein, representing the University of Münster, signed the agreement together with Katrin Bergener, who initiated the exchange agreement.
[Monday, January 16, 2012]
During The 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'12) in Gdańsk on June 25th till 29th, 2012
[Monday, January 9, 2012]
Stefan Stieglitz and Linh Dang-Xuan were awared with the Best Paper Award for their publication "Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging – An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior" in the Track "Internet and the Digital Economy".
Abstract of the paper:
[Monday, December 5, 2011]
ECIS 2013 will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The organizers have opened the call for Track Proposals and as a program co-chair our partner Jos van Hillegersberg is looking for innovative proposals. Please find enclosed the call and consider sending ideas!
[Tuesday, November 29, 2011]
Our partner in Brisbane, Australia, Michael Rosemann, has been interviewed by Gartner Fellows: "Dr. Michael Rosemann on BPM in Australia". If you got access to Gartner, you can download the interview following this link: Gartner
[Friday, November 25, 2011]
The German-Brazilian workshop on Management and Engineering of IT-Supported Business Networks, Administration Networks and Social Networks was held from November 21-23 at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianópolis. Application and realization were organized by the professors Hellingrath and Becker. Form Germany, Prof. Dr.-Ing.
[Monday, November 7, 2011]
Date: 27th February (Monday) – 2nd March (Friday), 2012
Location: University of Liechtenstein
[Thursday, October 20, 2011]
The University of Agder invites applications for three full-time fixed-term appointments as PhD Research Fellows in Information Systems for a period of three years, alternatively four years with 25% of the time assigned to tasks at the Faculty’s discretion, at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. The positions are located in Kristiansand, Norway.