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Research Interests |
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- interorganizational information systems
- supply chain management
- product lifecycle management
- semantic interoperability
- business ontologies
- standardization
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Current Projects |
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BREIN - Business objective driven reliable and intelligent grids for real business
(www.eu-brein.com) |
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European Union (FP 6 IST) |
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16 research institutes and companies from 7 European countries |
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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 |
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
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4 departments of the University of Hohenheim and 4 companies |
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Project manager for Information Systems II (1 project team member)
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Past Projects |
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| 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).
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22 companies (i.e., Bayer, BMW, cc-hubwoo, DaimlerChrysler, SAP, Siemens, and Volkswagen). |
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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.
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Team Expert, Co-Author of 2 CEN Workshop Agreements. |
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E-START - E-Commerce Standards and Applications for SMEs [BMWA] |
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Fraunhofer Institute IAO, 9 suppliers (i.e., Cooper Tools, Festo, Sartorius) |
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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).
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City of Essen, Essener Marketing GmbH, Essener Wirtschaftsfoerderungs GmbH, CNE Gesellschaft fuer Telekommunikation mbH |
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Technical Project Manager |
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