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Research Interests
  • interorganizational information systems
  • supply chain management
  • product lifecycle management
  • semantic interoperability
  • business ontologies
  • standardization
Current Projects
BREIN - Business objective driven reliable and intelligent grids for real business
(www.eu-brein.com)
Funded by: European Union (FP 6 IST)
Partners: 16 research institutes and companies from 7 European countries
Position: Leader of work package WP3.3 'Business and Process Modelling'; project manager for the University of Hohenheim (3 project team members)
SInProD - Strategies for Integrating Products and Services in the Construction Industry
Funded by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Partners: 4 departments of the University of Hohenheim and 4 companies
Position: Project manager for Information Systems II (1 project team member)
 
Past Projects
BMEcat - XML Standard for Product Catalog Data (www.bmecat.org)
BMEcat is the leading XML e-catalog standard in Europe. It is being developed by an industry consortium of major German companies and the German Association for Material Management, Purchasing and Logistics (BME).
Partners: 22 companies (i.e., Bayer, BMW, cc-hubwoo, DaimlerChrysler, SAP, Siemens, and Volkswagen).
Position: Co-Author of BMEcat 2005.

ePDC - Global Multilingual Product Description and Classification for eCommerce and eBusiness [CEN/ISSS]
ePDC is a project of CEN/ISSS, the European standardization organization for ICT. The objective of ePDC is to harmonize existing standards for product description and classification into a common architecture, then maintain, promote, and make it available to the public under a royalty-free license on an on-going basis. Major providers of product classification schemes and related standards join forces in this effort.
Position: Team Expert, Co-Author of 2 CEN Workshop Agreements.

E-START - E-Commerce Standards and Applications for SMEs [BMWA]
Partners: Fraunhofer Institute IAO, 9 suppliers (i.e., Cooper Tools, Festo, Sartorius)
Position: Project Team Member

Web Portal and E-Government Services [City of Essen & State NRW]
This project had lead to an award-winning web portal for the City of Essen, the 7th biggest city in Germany. It was ranked as one of the best portals combining easy-to-use design & navigation, a comprehensive content and basic E-Government services. Topics are dynamic portal applications, backoffice information system, content syndication and a City-wide web content management system (WCMS).
Partners: City of Essen, Essener Marketing GmbH, Essener Wirtschaftsfoerderungs GmbH, CNE Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation mbH
Position: Technical Project Manager