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New paper: “Evacuate everyone south of that line” Analyzing structural communication patterns during natural disasters

 (11/23/20)

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Semantic Technologies for Data and Algorithmic Governance

 (10/20/20)

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Researcher of the Month: Sabrina Kirrane

 (10/05/20)

Data misuse and misinformation are key problems associated with the use of the internet today. As part of the PENNI project (Policy Enabled Next generation Internet), WU Senior Assistant Professor Sabrina Kirrane is working to build a new, decentralized internet that is based on transparency and allows users to keep more control over their data. Computer scientist Sabrina Kirrane is WU's Researcher of the Month October. [more...]

Research

The emphasis of our Institute lies in constructing and analyzing infrastructures for software-based Information Systems. Our research focuses on two major areas:

• New Media, in particular Computational Media, Active Media, Polymorphic Media, and
• Information Systems, in particular highly flexible Systems and Application Engineering.

Within these two areas we cover:

• Software engineering techniques, with the goal to create highly flexible software systems,
• Scalable Infrastructures, to support flexible Security and Workflow Management,
• Scalable Community Frameworks, to build large scale, socially enriched Web Based Systems in the
• Application areas of E-Learning and Information Retrieval

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Teaching

Our Institute provides courses in Information Systems for the Study Programs of Information Systems (Bachelor & Master Program) as well as for the Business Administration Programs of the University.

The long term objective of our academic program is to enable graduates to actively design and implement organizational information systems by means of new media. Our lectures encompass the subject areas new media and electronic commerce, object-oriented design of application systems, and object-oriented Internet applications. The deepening and practical application of the skills developed in the lectures is supported through proseminars and the Seminar in New Media.

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