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Open Access 26.04.2024 | Editorial

Digital Democracy: A Wake-Up Call

How IS Research Can Contribute to Strengthening the Resilience of Modern Democracies

The aftermath of the pandemic, the climate crisis, rising inflation, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the attack on Israel by Hamas, and the growing right-wing extremism, including visible antisemitism, all this is keeping politics …

verfasst von:: Christof Weinhardt, Jonas Fegert, Oliver Hinz, Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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22.04.2024 | Research Paper

Internet of Things Network Security Improvement Investment

The Role of Platform and Smart Device Manufacturer

At present, businesses can reap impressive benefits from the Internet of Things (IoT). However, with the increasing number of IoT devices and the complexity of the IoT ecosystem, there is a growing concern about security vulnerabilities. This …

verfasst von:: Xiufeng Li, Zhen Zhang

Open Access 12.04.2024 | Obituary

Matthias Jarke (1952–2024), A Pioneer in Information Systems and Data Management

verfasst von:: Wil M. P. van der Aalst

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Open Access 06.04.2024 | Discussion

Hybrid Adaptive Systems

Ivo Benke, Alexander Maedche, Jella Pfeiffer, Christof Weinhardt …

verfasst von:: Ivo Benke, Michael Knierim, Marc Adam, Michael Beigl, Verena Dorner, Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, Manfred Herrmann, Martin Klarmann, Alexander Maedche, Julia Nafziger, Petra Nieken, Jella Pfeiffer, Clemens Puppe, Felix Putze, Benjamin Scheibehenne, Tanja Schultz, Christof Weinhardt

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Open Access 18.03.2024 | State of the Art

On the Interplay Between Business Process Management and Internet-of-Things

A Systematic Literature Review

In the last years, the increasing scientific and industrial interest in Business Process Management (BPM) approaches and methods on the one side, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and tools on the other. Are these fields complementary?

verfasst von:: Francesca De Luzi, Francesco Leotta, Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella

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Open Access 07.03.2024 | Catchword

Process Mining Success Factors and Their Interrelationships

Process mining—a suite of techniques for extracting insights from event logs of Information Systems (IS)—is increasingly being used by a wide range of organisations to improve operational efficiency. Despite extensive studies of Critical Success …

verfasst von:: Azumah Mamudu, Wasana Bandara, Moe T. Wynn, Sander J. J. Leemans

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Open Access 05.03.2024 | Discussion

Open Science

Towards Greater Transparency and Openness in Science

Alexander Maedche …

verfasst von:: Alexander Maedche, Edona Elshan, Hartmut Höhle, Christiane Lehrer, Jan Recker, Ali Sunyaev, Benjamin Sturm, Oliver Werth

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Open Access 05.03.2024 | Catchword

Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence

Data-centric artificial intelligence (data-centric AI) represents an emerging paradigm that emphasizes the importance of enhancing data systematically and at scale to build effective and efficient AI-based systems. The novel paradigm complements …

verfasst von:: Johannes Jakubik, Michael Vössing, Niklas Kühl, Jannis Walk, Gerhard Satzger

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Open Access 19.02.2024 | Research Paper

Toward Seamless Mobility-as-a-Service

Providing Multimodal Mobility Through Digital Wallets

With growing awareness of sustainability and convenience expectations, customers are increasingly demanding integrated and seamless mobility in the form of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS). However, as centralized MaaS platforms have thus far failed …

verfasst von:: Alexandra Hoess, Jonathan Lautenschlager, Johannes Sedlmeir, Gilbert Fridgen, Vincent Schlatt, Nils Urbach

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12.02.2024 | Research Paper

Designing Game-based Learning Artefacts for Cybersecurity Processes Using Action Design Research

Nascent Design Theory Implications

Cybersecurity threats faced by organizations are growing in volume and sophistication, with human issues being a significant reason underlying these threats. Organizations report the need for skills development to face these challenges. This need …

verfasst von:: Dixon Prem Daniel Rajendran, Rangaraja P. Sundarraj

Open Access 12.02.2024 | Research Paper

Hedonic Signals in Crowdfunding

A Comparison Across Crowdfunding Platform Types

This study draws on signaling theory to investigate the effect of hedonic signals in crowdfunding projects on funding performance. It compares the effect of hedonic signals across reward-, equity-, and donation-based crowdfunding platforms by …

verfasst von:: Ivo Blohm, Moritz Schulz, Jan Marco Leimeister

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08.02.2024 | Research Paper

An Expert-Validated Bridging Model for IoT Process Mining

Contextualization is an important challenge in process mining. While Internet of Things (IoT) devices are collecting increasing amounts of data on the physical context in which business processes are executed, the IoT and process mining fields are …

verfasst von:: Yannis Bertrand, Jochen De Weerdt, Estefanía Serral

Open Access 29.01.2024 | Research Paper

Putting the SWORD to the Test: Finding Workarounds with Process Mining

Workarounds, or deviations from standardized operating procedures, can indicate discrepancies between theory and practice in work processes. Traditionally, observations and interviews have been used to identify workarounds, but these methods can …

verfasst von:: Wouter van der Waal, Inge van de Weerd, Iris Beerepoot, Xixi Lu, Teus Kappen, Saskia Haitjema, Hajo A. Reijers

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Open Access 29.01.2024 | Research Paper

Evaluating BPMN Extensions for Continuous Processes Based on Use Cases and Expert Interviews

The majority of (business) processes described in literature are discrete, i.e., they result in an identifiable and distinct outcome such as a settled customer claim or a produced part. However, there also exists a plethora of processes in process …

verfasst von:: Diana Strutzenberger, Juergen Mangler, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

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Open Access 29.01.2024 | Catchword

Foundation Models

A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence

Recently, the domain of artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced a profound transformation with the emergence of foundation models as a new paradigm for developing AI systems (Bommasani et al. 2021 ). Foundation models constitute large-scale AI …

verfasst von:: Johannes Schneider, Christian Meske, Pauline Kuss

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Open Access 23.01.2024 | Research Paper

The Twin Transformation Butterfly

Capabilities for an Integrated Digital and Sustainability Transformation

Complex digitalization and sustainability challenges shape today’s management agendas. To date, the dedication of Information Systems research to both challenges has not been equal in terms of effort and reward. Building capabilities to leverage …

verfasst von:: Anne-Sophie Christmann, Carlotta Crome, Valerie Graf-Drasch, Anna Maria Oberländer, Leonie Schmidt

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Open Access 05.01.2024 | Research Note

User Behavior Mining

A Research Agenda

Studying the behavior of users in software systems has become an essential task for software vendors who want to mitigate usability problems and identify automation potentials, or for researchers who want to test behavioral theories. One approach …

verfasst von:: Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Luka Abb, Gregor Berg, Carsten Bormann, Timotheus Kampik, Christian Warmuth

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Open Access 21.12.2023 | Research Paper

SJORS: A Semantic Recommender System for Journalists

Recommender Systems support a broad range of domains, each with peculiarities that recommendation algorithms must consider to produce appropriate suggestions. In the paper, we bring attention to a little-studied scenario related to the news …

verfasst von:: Ángel Luis Garrido, Maria Soledad Pera, Carlos Bobed

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Open Access 21.12.2023 | State of the Art

A Survey on Association Rule Mining for Enterprise Architecture Model Discovery

Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a field of data mining (DM) that attempts to identify correlations among database items. It has been applied in various domains to discover patterns, provide insight into different topics, and build understandable …

verfasst von:: Carlos Pinheiro, Sergio Guerreiro, Henrique S. Mamede

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21.12.2023 | Research Paper

The Structuring of Enterprise Architecture Functions in Organizations

Towards a Systematic Theory

Enterprise architecture (EA) practice is a complex set of organizational activities enabling well-coordinated business and IT planning. Organizationally, EA practices are implemented by specialized EA functions, which have existed in many …

verfasst von:: Svyatoslav Kotusev, Sherah Kurnia, Rod Dilnutt, Rogier van de Wetering

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