This research report is part of a series of papers on the development and status of the Information Systems (IS) discipline in North-America and Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) its counterpart in the German speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The corresponding research project (IFWIS)...

There has been an ongoing debate about the use of research methods in Information Systems Research (ISR). Despite the international dominance of the behaviourist approach, there is a remarkable number of researchers who propagate alternative methods, such as hermeneutic approaches or the...

Business and information systems engineering (BISE) has established itself as a distinct sub-discipline “between” business sciences and computer science at least in the German-speaking countries. This primarily becomes obvious by two facts. First, the BISE section is one of the largest...

One of the key factors that hinders integration of distributed, heterogeneousinformation systems is the lack of a formal basis for modeling the complex, structuredknowledge that is to be exchanged. To alleviate this situation, we present anapproach based on core ontologies. Core ontologies are...

The estimation of various social objects is necessary in different fields of social life, science,education, etc. This estimation is usually used for forecasting, for evaluating of different propertiesand for other goals in complex man-machine systems.[...]

Ein wichtiger Eckpfeiler des Selbstverständnisses der Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) isteine methodenpluralistische Erkenntnisstrategie, die sich Instrumenten aus Real-,Formal- und Ingenieurswissenschaften bedient.1 Vor dieser Grundposition tendiertdie deutschsprachige WI – im Gegensatz zu ihrer...