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

IEEE TMC Event: "Validated Learning / Split Tests for Web Applications"

For start-ups related to web applications, the topic of validated learning & split tests is very important (see e.g. the book "The Lean Startup"). This event will be in German language and will report about our practical experience in applying the idea of split tests to TechnoWeb. If you are interested, you are invited to participate in the event. The participation is free of charge. A registration at http://doodle.com/aeu34xbrch5s922u is required.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Wed, 11/20/2013 - 16:47

ECSS'15

In 2015 the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) will be hosted by the faculty of informatics, with Prof. Hannes Werthner as the program chair.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 16:34

RecSys'15

We are pleased to announce that the E-Commerce group will host the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) in 2015. Prof. Hannes Werthner will be the general chair of the conference.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 15:18

The Informatics Innovation Center: Call for Application

The Informatics Innovation Center announces a new call for application to its innovation study curriculum. The submission deadline is Friday November 22nd, 2013. To find more detailed information about the curriculum and application process please follow here.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 12:14

Open Data Mashup

Open Data Mashup
The Linked Data researchers of our institute have developed a Mashup solution for easy consumption of Vienna's Open Governmental Data (OGD). In order to explore the system, please follow this link.

submitted by webmaster on Thu, 09/19/2013 - 16:34

Announcement

The course Information Search on the Internet will not be offered this Winter Term. For that reason, the course Web Science, which starts on November 21, can also be combined with Service Design, Management and Composition in order to constitute a module within the Specialization Track Business Informatics (SBI).

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 12:31

CBI 2013 – 15th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics

The IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI) constitutes the next step in the evolution of the IEEE Conference on e-Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC).

The first event under this new banner will take place at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, July 15 – 18, 2013.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 13:08

etOpt - eTourism Options Austria

The E-Commerce Group has just finished the report on strategic options for Austrian e-tourism. The full report is accessible here.

submitted by Nataliia Rümmele on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 12:46

ATP Award 2012 for CDL-Flex

The contribution "Requirement analysis for integrated engineering – Mechanisms and practical demands" (atp edition 55(4), pp.28-35) [1] will be awarded with the atp-award 2012 in the category "Hochschule". Atp edition is a peer-reviewed professional and scientific magazine for automation technology. The award gains additional weight by the fact, that atp edition itself recently has been honored as German "Professional Media of the Year” ("Fachmedium des Jahres") in the category "Construction / Production / Industry".

submitted by webmaster on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 19:02

Kempelen Award for Prof. Tjoa

Kempelen Award
The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava has awarded the medal of Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen to Prof. Tjoa for his significant contribution to advancement of knowledge and collaboration in Informatics and Information Technologies.

submitted by webmaster on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:05

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