Information systems research is about the methods and techniques to support the design, the implementation and the commercial use of information and communication systems in businesses and administrations, as well as the resulting changes in organizational structures. Accordingly, there is a wide range of different issues and solution concepts which our individual research groups are focused on.
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The Institute
The Institute for information systems (IS) research (german: Institut für Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungsinformatik - IWVI) currently consists of six professorships/research groups. The professorships are supplemented by a private lecturer, Dr. Andreas Engel (Chief Information Officer of Cologne City Council), who is a honorary professor for our institute in the area of Informatics in Public Administration.
Attention: Some pages of the professorships/research groups are still under construction. For those pages, you will be redirected to the old CMS.
The Institute for IS Research (IWVI) offers a diverse range of courses, seminars and internships as part of its studies and teaching through the participating professorships.
Process Science (Prof. Delfmann)
The team of the Process Science research group is dedicated to design-oriented research on core issues of operational information and communication systems.
The research group Business Informatics and Smart Data deals with topics related to the acquisition of data (sensor technology, Internet-of-Things), data management (IT infrastructures) and the analysis of corresponding data.
The research group Business Application Systems (Prof. Schubert) focuses on the use and integration of business software (especially ERP/CRM systems) and collaborative technologies (groupware, collaborative work, Enterprise 2.0, social software).
Enterprise Information Management (Prof. Williams)
The Enterprise Information Management (EIM) research group is an interdisciplinary research group focused on understanding socio-technical change and the design of the digital workplace.
The team of the process science group is committed to design-oriented research on key issues in corporate information and communication systems. In particular, we investigate technological aspects of Business Process Management. We develop methods, algorithms, models and tools that contribute to facilitating and rationalizing business processes. Current particular research topics are (Social) Process Mining, Predictive Process Monitoring, Business Rules Management, Intelligent Chatbots, Business Process Recommender Systems, and Ontology-based Process Engineering. The artifacts that we develop always aim to simplify and rationalize day-to-day operations in order to generate added value for the company and its customers as well as for its employees.
The main focus of the working group is resilient network infrastructure including the assessment and handling of threats, vulnerabilities and risks for existing IT infrastructures. Aspects are anomaly detection and mitigation and the use of machine learning in the context of networked system resilience.Dealing with threats includes the development, testing and use of security mechanisms in order to ensure the authenticity, data integrity, reliability and availability of the IT infrastructures. In particular, the group explores how the mechanisms are embedded in their operational infrastructures. One current research field is how resilience mechanisms (e.g. machine learning based methods) are themselves are the subject of manipulations and attacks.
The research group Smart Data investigate how data from different sources can be merged, managed and processed. Data formats, interfaces and database management systems are of particular importance. In order to answer relevant business questions, we use formal, conceptual and technical methods that are suitable for investigating the storage and analysis of data. Within the scope of practical cooperations, we demonstrate our developed solutions in order to increase not only operational procedures (business processes), but also the quality and scope of provided data. As data is an important basis for business decisions, our solutions enable organizations to make better quality decisions.
The research group Business Application Systems (Prof. Schubert) focuses on the use and integration of business software (especially ERP/CRM systems) and collaborative technologies (groupware, collaborative work, Enterprise 2.0, social software).
Enterprise Information Management (Prof. Williams)
The Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Research Group is an interdisciplinary research group focused on understanding socio-technical change and the design of the digital workplace. Our goal is to conduct high-quality, responsible, and collaborative research into emerging technologies and information infrastructures and to examine their impact and consequences on work and work practices.
The research group E-Government teaches and conducts research in the area around the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the public sector. This on the one hand includes the comprehensive examination of technological questions from the different viewpoints as well as the consideration of E-Government from a multidisciplinary perspective in order to understand and design the relationships between organizations, human and technology with the sense of a holistic approach.
