DBIS embraces Social Media

The Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) has deliberately enhanced its social media presence for the last few months. On the one hand side, information from and about DBIS (e.g., research results, software prototypes, news) is to be distributed faster and purposefully. On the other hand side, the efforts spent should enable an increased on-topic communication among anyone interested. Therefore, appropriate accounts have been put in place on established social media... [more]

DBIS joins the IFIP Working Group on Enterprise Interoperability

The chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) has appointed  Prof. Manfred Reichert as a member of the IFIP Working Group 5.8 on “Enterprise Interoperability". IFIP is the leading multinational organization in Information & Communication Technologies and Sciences, representing IT societies from 56 countries and five continents. DBIS will contribute to IFIP TC 5, which is a technical committee promoting the research and... [more]

Congratulations! Linh Thao Ly successfully defended her PhD thesis

On April 25, 2013 Linh Thao Ly successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “SeaFlows - A Compliance Checking Framwork for Supporting the Process Lifecycle” at the University of Ulm, Germany. The DBIS team is pleased to congratulate Thao on her successful PhD defense and wishes her all the best for his future. Thao's PhD advisor and PhD promotor has been Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma (DBIS alumni, see picture together with Thao). In her PhD, Thao Ly developed a framework for supporting... [more]

Keynote by Manfred Reichert at the IWEI'13 Conference

Manfred Reichert was invited keynote speaker at the International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2013) - IWEI'13 took place in Enschede, The Netherlands from March 27-28, 2013. In his keynote entitled "Collaboration and Interoperability Support for Agile Enterprises in a Networked World: Emerging Scenarios, Research Challenges, Enabling Technologies", Manfred discussed major research challenges to be tackled when targeting at IT support for the agile... [more]

International Workshop on Process and Knowledge Management in Medicine

Prof. Manfred Reichert is co-chair of the joined 6th Int'l Workshop on Process-Oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth'12) and 5th Int'l Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KR4HC'12). Manfred Reichert shares this task with his colleagues Richard Lenz (University of Nurnberg-Erlangen), Silvia Miksch (Vienna University of Technology), Mor Peleg (University of Haifa), David Riaño (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), and Annette ten Teije (Vrije Universiteit... [more]