About us ...

E-Business and E-Commerce include, besides other influencing domains, rapid changes to economic and social processes. For this reason, the research area pursues taking an encompassing view at such processes reaching from analyzing enterprises and their respective processes to evaluating the entire market, as well as is active in creating ideas and solutions for meeting the demands of the respective stakeholders.
 
   Overall, the electronic commerce research area performs research and creates solutions in the Business-2-Business (B2B) and Business-2-Consumer (B2C) domains. In the B2B domain, the group focuses on (i) business (process) modeling and definition and consequently the specification and implementation of e-business systems while considering and contributing to semantic web research and service-oriented architectures, (ii) ontology engineering and information integration, (iii) "Web Science" focusing on network analysis and content as well as text mining. In the B2C domain, the group performs research targeting (i) visual interaction paradigms as well as (ii) mobile applications. Thereby, our group focuses especially on the development and application of our research in the area of e-tourism and its mobile applications.
 
   Data Intelligence refers to the intelligent interaction with data in a rich, semantically meaningful ways, where data are used to learn and to obtain knowledge (in a pragmatic sense). In this context one may distinguish between a data and an interaction layer. At the data layer, methods come from online analytics, data mining, and machine learning. At the intelligent interaction layer, the focus is on recommender systems and information retrieval. Beyond the basic research on the foundations of these approaches, emphasis is also put on the adaptation of these approaches to specific domains, as well as evaluation methodologies (both empirical and user-centred). Domains in which we have done research include: Intellectual Property, technical & scientific publications, health & medicine, and enterprise social networks.
 
   High Performance Computing (HPC) Systems possess high level of computing performance compared to a general-purpose computer. Nowadays virtualized HPC systems are used to address balancing issue between overall system performance and energy efficiency. We conduct research in the area of energy efficient HPC system by developing speculative methodologies and techniques to allocate resources in an energy efficient way, but at the same time meet requirements of the end users, like the certain latency of the applications. We strive to develop generic methods and methodologies but we let our research be inspired by a set of real world applications from different domains like life sciences (e.g., DNA sequencing) or social media applications.

News

Visiting professor: Derek Bridge from the University College Cork

We are happy to welcome visiting professor Derek Bridge, invited by the PhD School of our faculty, in our group! He is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science of the University College Cork, Ireland and will stay with us for one month. Students will have the opportunity to work with him on a Recommender Systems Team Project.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Wed, 05/15/2019 - 12:06

New ÖAW project starting soon - open PhD position!

The joint project "Diachronic Dynamics of Lexical Networks (DYLEN)" of TU Wien, the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and the University of Vienna is funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences' go!digital Next Generation Programme and will start on May 1st, 2019.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 17:01

Atakan Aral at B2B Software Days 2019

Atakan Aral gave a talk with the title "5G Multi-Access Edge Computing: Non-Functional Requirements" at the TU Wien Workshop: 5G Trends in Science and Technology. The workshop was organised in conjunction with the 5th International B2B Software Days 2019 that took place in Vienna from 14 to 15 March.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:59

ENTER 2020: Call for Papers

The ENTER 2020 Conference organized by IFITT will take place in Surrey, UK, from January 8-10, 2020. Its theme will be “Responsible eTourism”. Please note that the submission deadline for full papers will already be in July this year! Further details about paper preparation and submission will be provided soon. (Julia Neidhardt, Research Track Chair at ENTER 2020)

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:43

Study co-authored by Julia Neidhardt presented in Wall Street Journal!

The study with the title "Prior shared success predicts victory in team competitions", which was originally published in Nature Human Behavior in December 2018, is discussed in an interview given by Brian Uzzi, professor at Northwestern University, IL, USA to The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read the interview (only available to subscribers of WSJ).

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Wed, 02/27/2019 - 12:03

Guest comment of Prof. Werthner on the impact of the www in Die Zeit Chancenbrief

Prof. Werthner wrote a guest comment on the impact of the www on the world for the newsletter "Chancenbrief" of the German national weekly newspaper Die Zeit. Click here to read the comment.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Thu, 02/14/2019 - 10:56

JITT Article of the year award for Mete Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt and Prof. Werthner!

The JITT Article of the year award has been granted to Mete Sertkan, Julia Neidhardt and Prof. Werthner for their article "What is the 'Personality' of a tourism destination?", which was published in the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism (JITT) in December 2018.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 17:16

IFITT 2019 Master Thesis Excellence Award for Mete Sertkan!

We are proud to announce that our research assistant Mete Sertkan has received the IFITT 2019 Master Thesis Excellence Award in the framework of the ENTER 2019 conference (The 26th Annual eTourism Conference), which took place from 29 January to 1 February 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus.

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 16:23

Prof. Werthner and Michael Stampfer on digitalisation and society in Der Standard!

Our Prof. Werthner and Michael Stampfer, Managing director of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund WWTF, co-authored an article in Der Standard about the influence of digitalisation on society (German only).

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Fri, 01/11/2019 - 15:20

Blog article by Ivona Brandic in Der Standard

Prof. Brandic wrote a blog article for the Austrian newspaper Der Standard about the importance of edge computing in the future. Click here to read the article (German only).

submitted by Stephanie Wogowitsch on Wed, 01/09/2019 - 10:43

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