As in previous years, there has been a fruitful collaboration between the 
Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) and three Viennese Universities in 2015, which resulted in a number of excellent joint publications.
Traditionally, there has been a close collaboration between DBIS and 
Prof. Stefanie Rinderle-Ma's chair of Workflow Systems and Technology [LINK] from the University of Vienna. Currently, in the joint research project C³Pro [LINK], researchers from both groups are developing an advanced framework for collaborative business processes, which ensures compliance along the entire process lifecycle, particularly in connection with cross-organizational processes and process changes -- C³Pro is co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In 2015, the C3Pro project team has already published several papers, including an article in the Information Systems journal [2] and two high quality papers in the ER 2015 [2] und IEEE SCC 2015 [3] conference proceedings.
Manfred Reichert and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
Besides this long-running cooperation with the University of Vienna, there has been another intense collaboration with Prof. Jan Mendling and Dr. Cristina Cabanillas from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, which has resulted in a joint paper [4] at the CAiSE 2015 conference in Stockholm. In this paper, which is also co-authored by colleagues from the University of Seville, a graphical notation for resource assignments in business processes has been introduced.
Finally, together with Prof. Silvia Miksch from the Technical University of Vienna as well as other European colleagues, Manfred Reichert has been co-organizer of the KR4HC 2015 / ProHealth 2015 international workshop, which focuses on process and knowledge support in healthcare information systems. The proceedings of this year's workshop will appear soon in the Springer LNAI series (see [5, 6] for previous proceedings of this workshop series).
The DBIS team is looking forward to continuing these collaborations with its Viennese partners.
References:
[1] Fdhila, Walid and Indiono, Conrad and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Dealing with change in process choreographies: Design and implementation of propagation algorithms. Information Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 49, pp. 1-24.
[2] Knuplesch, David and Fdhila, Walid and Reichert, Manfred and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie (2015) Detecting the Effects of Changes on the Compliance of Cross-organizational Business Processes. In: 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2015), 19-22 October 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. (Accepted for Publication)
[3] Fdhila, Walid and Rinderle-Ma, Stefanie and Knuplesch, David and Reichert, Manfred (2015) Change and Compliance in Collaborative Processes. In: 12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2015), New York, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2015, IEEE Computer Society Press.
[4] Cabanillas, Cristina and Knuplesch, David and Resinas, Manuel and Reichert, Manfred and Mendling, Jan and Ruiz-Cortes, Antonio (2015) RALph: A Graphical Notation for Resource Assignments in Business Processes. In: 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2015), Stockholm, Sweden, 8-12 June 2015, LNCS 9097, Springer, pp. 53-68.
[5] Lenz, Richard and Miksch, Silvia and Peleg, Mor and Reichert, Manfred and Riano, David and ten Teije, Annette (2013) Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer, Vol. 7738.
[6] Riaño, David and Lenz, Richard and Miksch, Silvia and Peleg, Mor and Reichert, Manfred and ten Teije, Annette (2013) Process Support and Knowledge Representation in Health Care - AIME 2013 Joint Workshop, KR4HC 2013/ProHealth 2013, Murcia, Spain, June 1, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol. 8268.