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Education
2004 PhD in Business Information Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen
Thesis: Conception of B2B Catalog Data Management
Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Stefan Eicker, Prof. Dr. Heimo H. Adelsberger
1998 MSc in Business Information Systems, University of Essen
Affiliations
2006-present Senior Researcher and Lecturer, University of Hohenheim
Department for Information Systems II
Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirn
1999-2006 Research Assistant and Lecturer, University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Procurement, Logistics and Information Management
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank-Dieter Dorloff
1998 Graduate Assistant, University of Essen
Prof. Dr. Stefan Eicker
Research Projects
2006-2009 BREIN - Business objective driven reliable and intelligent grids for real business [FP6 IST]
2006-2009 SInProD - Strategies for Integrating Products and Services in the Construction Industry [BMBF]
2000-2006 BMEcat - XML Standard for Product Catalog Data [www.bmecat.org]
2003-2005 ePDC - Global Multilingual Product Description and Classification for eCommerce and eBusiness [CEN/ISSS]
2000-2004 Web Portal and E-Government Services [City of Essen & State NRW]
2000-2003 E-START - E-Commerce Standards and Applications for SMEs [BMWA]
Non-scientific Work
1999-2006 Consultation Projects for: HAZET-WERK GmbH & Co.KG (Remscheid); Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik e.V. (Frankfurt am Main); Medizert GmbH (Cologne)
1998 Software Developer, O&K Rolltreppen GmbH & Co.KG, Hattingen
1996 Internship, bofrost* Dienstleistungs GmbH, Straelen
1992-1993 Alternative Civilian Service, St. Bernhard-Hospital, Kamp-Lintfort
Courses Taught
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Publications
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Presentations
  • Reverse Pricing in Supply Chains: An Assessment of Sourcing Strategies. 10th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2008), Washington, D.C., USA, July 23, 2008.
  • A Supply Chain Management Approach to Logistics Ontologies in Information Systems. 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, May 5, 2008.
  • Representing Mechatronic Products in Interorganizational Information Systems. IFIP TC8 WG8.9 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2007), Beijing, China, October 14, 2007.
  • An Agent-based Reverse Pricing Model for Reducing Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains. 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 10, 2007.
  • A Reverse Pricing Model for Multi-Tier Supply Chains. 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2007), Tokyo, Japan, July 26, 2007.
  • Ontologizing B2B Message Specifications: Experiences from Adopting the PLIB Ontology for Commercial Product Data. IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2006), Shanghai, China, October 24, 2006.
  • A Critical Assessment of ISO 13584 Adoption by B2B Data Exchange Specifications. 13th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE 2006), Antibes, France, September 19, 2006.
  • Maintaining Property Libraries in Product Classification Schemes. 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2006), Paphos, Cyprus, May 24, 2006.
  • Integrated Specification and Documentation based on XML Schema Annotations. Annual Conference Terminology in Advanced Management Applications (TAMA 2005), Wiesbaden, Germany, November 9, 2005.
  • Product Classification and Description in Public e-Procurement: Are there Lessons to be learned from Private e-Procurement? 5th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG 2005), Antwerp, Belgium, June 16, 2005.
  • Status Report: BMEcat. EBES EEG1 cCatalogue Project Team, Brussels, Belgium, February 2, 2005.
  • Standardization of Product Ontologies in B2B Relationships - On the Role of ISO 13584. 10th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004), New York, USA, August 7, 2004.
  • Automating Product Classification: The Impact of Standardization. IADIS International Conference e-Society 2004 (ES 2004), Avila, Spain, July 16, 2004.
  • B2B E-Procurement Beyond MRO? 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR-6), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 26, 2003.
  • BMEcat and its future development. CEN/ISSS Workshop eCAT, Plenary Meeting, Cologne, Germany, October 10, 2003.
  • XML Data Modeling Concepts in B2B Catalog Standards. IADIS International Conference e-Society 2003 (ES 2003), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2, 2003.
  • Exchange of Catalog Data in B2B Relationships - Analysis and Improvement. IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2002 (ICWI 2002), Lisbon, Portugal, November 13, 2002.
  • A Modeling Approach for Product Classification Systems. 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs (WEBH 2002 / DEXA 2002), Aix-en-Provence, France, September 6, 2002.
  • Modeling and Exchange of Product Classification Systems using XML. 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS 2002), Newport Beach, California, USA, June 26, 2002.
  • Towards Extended Price Models in XML Standards for Electronic Product Catalogs. 4th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2002), Ciudad Real, Spain, April 4, 2002.
Professional Activities
Conference and Workshop Organization
  • Co-Chair: 2nd International Workshop on E-Marketplace Integration and Interoperability (EM2I'08), in conjunction with ICEBE 2008, Xian, China
  • Co-Chair: 1st International Symposium on E-Marketplace Integration and Interoperability (EM2I'07), in conjunction with CONFENIS 2007, Beijing, China
  • Co-Chair: Workshop on Product-related Data in Information Systems (PRODIS 2005), in conjunction with INFORMATIK 2005, Bonn, Germany
  • Co-Chair: Track on E-Business - Standardization and Integration, in conjunction with MKWI04, Essen, Germany
Program Committees
  • International Workshop on Intelligent Service Management (ISM'09)
  • 9th & 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007-2008)
  • 8th & 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web '07-'08)
  • 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG 2005-2008)
  • 16th & 17th IRMA International Conference (2005-2006)
  • 1st International Business Information, Organisation and Process Management Conference (BIOPoM 2006)
  • 4th International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG 2006)
  • IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005-2006
  • IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2004-2006
Reviewer for Journals
  • Enterprise Information Systems (2008)
  • Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (2008)
  • Electronic Markets (2006)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems (2005)
  • Journal of Organizational Computing and Eletronic Commerce (2005)
  • Electronic Commerce Research (2004)
  • International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management (2004-2005)
Reviewer for Conferences
  • 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2004-2007)
  • 25th & 26th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2004-2005)
  • Annual Conference of the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS 2003)
  • 15th & 16th Bled Electronic Commerce Conference (2002-2003)
Reviewer for Research Funding
  • Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Academy of Finland (2006)
Awards
  • Distinguished International Academic Research Cooperation Award, awarded by IFIP TC8 WG8.9 CONFENIS (2007)
  • Outstanding Dissertation, awarded by University of Duisburg-Essen (2005)
  • Best Diploma Thesis in Business Information Systems, awarded by Geno-Volks-Bank Essen eG (1998)
Memberships in Professional Organizations
  • Association for Information Systems (AIS)
  • Bundesvereinigung Logistik e.V. (BVL; German Logistics Association)
  • Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI; German Informatics Society)
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