Seminar by Prof. Matthias Jarke
Metadata and Cooperative Knowledge Management
Prof. Matthias Jarke
Computer Science Department
RWTH Aachen University
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Time: 04:00 PM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
Cooperative knowledge management refers to the work practice facet of information systems engineering. It plays a key role especially in engineering and business consulting domains. However, in comparison to technology-centered and business-process centered modeling approaches (exemplified, for example, by UML and ERP systems such as SAP), this aspect has received significantly less attention in research and is less mature in terms of international standardization. We claim that interdisciplinary research effort is needed in this direction, and discuss different points of attack as well as their implications for better metamodeling and metadata management.
About the Speaker
Matthias Jarke is a Professor of Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Fraunhofer FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology. After studying business administration and computer science at the University of Hamburg, he held faculty positions at New York University and the University of Passau prior to joining RWTH Aachen in 1991. His research area is information systems support for cooperative worktasks in application domains such as engineering and cultural sciences. He has been coordinator of three European projects in the field of requirements engineering. Prof. Jarke is Chief Editor of the journal, Information Systems, and has served as program chair of international conferences such as VLDB, EDBT, and CAiSE. In 2002, he co-founded the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT), a joint center of RWTH Aachen with the University of Bonn and the Fraunhofer Society, which offers international graduate programs in applied IT.