Research Fields

Next to the research area of the Knowledge-based Systems Group (Prof. G. Lakemeyer, Ph. D.) and those of the three FIT professors Visual Knowledge Management/ Life Science Informatik (Prof. Dr. Berlage), Cooperation Systems/CSCW (Prof. Dr. Prinz)and Media Informatics/Media Processes (Prof. Dr. Rose),research at the chair contributes to the following fields:

• Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS)

Group leader(s): PD Dr. Ralf Klamma, AOR

The Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS) group supports professional communities with heterogeneous needs by open and responsive community environments. Results of our research are advancing the emerging Web Science discipline by new analysis and engineering methodologies for large-scale and heterogeneous information systems.

• Model Management

Group leader(s): Dr. Christoph Quix

The work of the Model Management group aims at developing technologies and mechanisms to support the integration, merging, evolution, and matching of complex data models to support the management of complex, integrated, distributed, heterogeneous information systems.

• Engineering Information Systems

Group leader(s): Prof. Dr. Matthias Jarke

To support and improve design, operating and work processes in plastics and chemical engineering, the Engineering Information Systems group works on fine grained support of cooperative work processes and an approach for metadata based information and knowledge management.

• Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW

Group leader(s): Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Prinz

The Cooperation Systems group (CSCW) develops and evaluates groupware and community systems for virtual teams and organizations.