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A hybrid framework for solving multi-objective scheduling problems

The proposed new technologies in the context of industry 4.0 challenge the current practices of scheduling in industry and their associated research in academia. The conventional optimization techniques that are employed for solving ...

Flexible Erstellung von Lehr- und Lernumgebungen

Die stetig wachsende Nachfrage nach Lehr- und Lernumgebungen (englisch Teaching and Learning Environments; kurz: TLEs) stellt Curriculum Designer vor immer größere Herausforderungen. Die Kombination von Lerninhalten, didaktischen ...

Fujitsu Forum 2014

In 2014, the Fujitsu Forum, which is the largest IT event organized by Fujitsu in Europe, aroused considerable interest among more than 12,000 participants from more than 80 nations. As in the previous years, the Fujitsu Lab of the MRCC ...

DIGITALE DEGUSTATION | HYBRIDE VERANSTALTUNG | 05.07.2022

Das Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Magdeburg lädt Sie herzlich zur Digitalen Degustation am 05. Juli 2022 – in der Zeit von 16.00 bis 20.00 Uhr – virtuell oder vor Ort in die Festung Mark nach Magdeburg ein. Neben edlen Tropfen ...

Yet another Global Player invests in Otto von Guericke University: first Fujitsu Information System Lab established at OVGU

On September 14th in 2012, the “Fujitsu Information Systems Lab” (Fujitsu IS Lab), a laboratory for the investigation of large operational application systems, was established at the Otto von Guericke University by one of the largest ...

MRCC at the 25th Americas Conference on Information Systems

This year again the MRCC was represented with a delegation at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). This year's twenty-fifth edition took place in Cancún (Mexico) from August 15 to 17, 2019 and brought together ...

Das MRCC und Accenture arbeiten gemeinsam an der digitalen Transformation

Die Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg arbeitet künftig mit Accenture zusammen, um die neuen digitalen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu meistern. Mit ihrem ingenieur- und naturwissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt bietet ...

Creation of a Framework and a Corresponding Tool Enabling the Test-Driven Development of Locally Developed Microservices in Docker

Microservice architectures have emerged as a counter design to traditional monolithic applications. While monoliths are deployed as single executable applications whose modules share the resources of the underlying system, ...

VLBA Lab at BIS 2014

The VLBA Lab was represented at this year's 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS) in Lanarca, Cyprus, from May 22nd to 23rd, by the researcher Bastian Kurbjuhn. He presented the contribution by Christian Schulz and ...

University of Cape Town launches Curriculum 3.0

To ensure a high quality ES education, the University of Cape Town (UCT) as ESEFA-Centre endeavors to continuously evaluate and improve the course design. Since May 2015 a new version of the core curriculum of the ES Fundamentals for Business ...

Open Enterprise Cloud Initiative: OvGU, Google Cloud and Accenture

On 9.11.2021, the ceremonial opening of the OvGU's cooperation with the companies Google Cloud and Accenture took place, including numerous professional and motivating speeches. The goals are manifold. While on the one hand innovative ...

MRCC and Fujitsu Optimize Data Centers using Fujitsu's Digital Annealer

Given the world’s increasing dependency on IT, the complexity of data centers grows significantly. In a collaboration project, Fujitsu and the Magdeburg Research and Competence Cluster (MRCC) compare Fujitsu’s new quantum-inspired ...

15. Internationaler Kongress für Wirtschaftsinformatik – Potsdam

Following the motto "Changing Landscapes - Shaping Digital Transformation and its Impact" the international congress for business informatics will take place for the 15th time from 09.03-11.03.2020 in Potsdam. This year the MRCC ...

ESEFA in African IT media

On 5 November 2013 the ESEFA kick-off event took place in Cape Town. The SAP News Center reported on the successful start of the project as well as on key education and development objectives. Moreover, ESEFA as a cross-national project ...

Toward Adaptive Manufacturing: Scheduling problems in the Context of Industry 4.0.

Adaptive manufacturing and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have recently emerged as main topics in academia and the industry since recent projects on a governmental level have been launched to investigate and propose innovations under ...

Neues Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Magdeburg unterstützt den Mittelstand bei der digitalen Transformation mit kostenfreien Formaten

Am 01. August 2022 eröffnet das neue Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Magdeburg in der Experimentellen Fabrik. Die Förderung in Höhe von 5,5 Millionen Euro erfolgt über das Bundeministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz. Das neue Zentrum ...

Otto´s vernetzte Bolzenfabrik-Premiere einer Industrie 4.0-Modellfabrik

Zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft am 02. Juni 2018 wurde „Otto´s vernetzte Bolzenfabrik“ erstmals der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Sie ist als Demonstrator für Produktionsplanung und –monitoring im Rahmen ...

A Hybrid Job Scheduling approach in cloud computing environments on the usage of heuristics and meta-heuristics methods

The Information Technology (IT) Industry has been revolutionized through Cloud Computing by offering dynamic computing services to a large number of users through its on-demand provisioning of scalable and virtualized resources over the ...

Success Story des Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg – Forschungsengagement verlängert

Das Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg beforscht den klassischen SAP Systembetrieb und konzipiert dabei innovative Lösungen, die auch vor dem Hintergrund einer Industrie 4.0 Bestand haben. Eine Success Story fasst aktuelle Ergebnisse zusammen und ...

Fujitsu Explores the Operation of High Performance In-Memory Technology at University of Magdeburg

Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. ...

Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg automates capacity management activities

Capacity management and performance optimization are complex challenges that still involve costly and time-consuming activities. As capacity planning processes are barely automated, any changing requirements result in heavy delays, media ...

Contribution "Analyzing the Effects of Load Distribution Algorithms on Energy Consumption of Servers in Cloud Data Centers" will be presented at the WI2015

During the last decades, energy costs have become responsible for a significant part of the operating costs of data centers. The rise of Cloud Computing has caused the construction of an increasingly growing number of data centers that consume ...

An adaptive scheduling framework for the dynamic virtual machines placement to reduce energy consumption in cloud data centers

Optimized (multi-) Cloud Scenarios and Operations – Preliminary Results. The future vision of IT-industry is shifting toward a utility-based offering of on-demand computational power. However, the massive expansions of IT-system landscapes ...

Trading Off IT Service Availability and Costs

In order to control an internally or externally provided IT service, service level agreements (SLA) are formulated between service provider and consumer. Besides other information, SLA include guarantees for quality metrics to ensure a fast, safe, ...

Workshops - Industrie 4.0 - Integration und Anwendungen

Im Rahmen des Projektes "Mittelstand-Digital-Zentrum Magdeburg" finden ab September 2024 wieder Workshops im Rahmen unserer Blended-Learning Staffel "Industrie 4.0 - Integration und Anwendungen" statt. Die Teilnehmer können ...

VLBA Lab at the HPI Cloud Symposium

In the course of the symposium "Operating the Cloud" at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam, cloud operation from the viewpoints of science and industry was discussed at 28th of October 2014. In addition to practice reports ...

Flexible Creation of Teaching and Learning Environments

The growing demand for teaching and learning environments (TLEs) entails increasing challenges for curriculum designers. The combination of learning content, didactic requirements and practical examples creates a highly complex construct ...

ESEFA in local press

The ESEFA project under the academic guidance of Professor Klaus Turowski has the objective to promote young professionals in the African IT sector. The focus here is on the Enterprise Systems education of students at several partner ...

CVLBA Annual Meeting 2014

In the context of the long-term partnership between the MRCC and the SAP AG, the Centers for Very Large Business Applications in Magdeburg and Munich presented their current research results in Walldorf on  January 29th, 2014. On ...

10-jährige Bestehen der Forschungs- und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zwischen der OVGU und Fujitsu

Am 18.10.2022 haben wir das 10-jährige Bestehen der Forschungs- und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit zwischen der OVGU und Fujitsu, einem der weltweit führenden Technologie-Unternehmen, gefeiert.  2012 wurde das Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg unter ...

The new Cloud Lecture – Cloud DevOps Techniques

With highly interconnected applications, big data, and cloud computing, the thorough planning and engineering of the corresponding information systems’ landscapes and architectures is more important than ever. In many cases, the lifecycle ...

MRCC at the 15th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems

For the 15th time, international scientists from the fields of signal processing and web technologies came together to discuss their research work at the "International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet ...

Blended Learning

Am 10. September startete unser Blended Learning Workshop „Industrie 4.0 – Integration und Anwendungen“ – ein Format das Präsenzworkshops und E-Learning-Sessions miteinander kombiniert. Über mehrere Wochen und Sitzungen ...

Praxisauftaktveranstaltung des neuen Mittelstand-4.0-Kompetenzzentrums Magdeburg

Titel: „AUF DEM WEG IN RICHTUNG DIGITALISIERUNG – WO STEHE ICH UND WAS BRAUCHE ICH?“    Datum/Zeit: 30.11.2017 - 14:30 - 22:00   Veranstaltungsort Lichthöfe der regiocom GmbH, Marienstraße 1, ...

Controlled Text Generation: A Self Supervised Approach to Generate Text Satisfying a Given Set of Constraints

Language plays a crucial role in day-to-day communication. The cognitive ability of humans to generate language effortlessly to express ideas, information, and facts is nothing less than a sensational phenomenon. To express any form of ...

Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg Provides Expert Talks

With 4 Key Notes, 271 Expert Talks, 62 Break Out Sessions and a demonstration centre full of the latest innovative technology and solutions, the Fujitsu Forum was one of Europe’s greatest IT events in 2019. Needless to say, as a trusted ...

VLBA Lab auf der CLOSER 2018 & IoTBDS 2018 (Madeira, Portugal)

In diesem Jahr fand vom 19.03. bis 21.03.2018 auf Madeira (Portugal) zum 8. Mal die International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Sciences (CLOSER), zum 3. Mal zusammen mit der International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data ...

Fujitsu Lab Magdeburg Provides Keynote on AI4U Conference

In the domain of enterprise applications, organizations usually implement application performance monitoring (APM) software which creates a lot of structured and unstructured data from various system instances. In order to take advantage of ...

Complementary course modules successfully tested and launched

Following a successful trial phase the ESEFA core curriculum was complemented by the two new course modules Financial Accounting Integration and Production Planning and Execution. By means of additional case studies and exercises, students ...

Natural Language Processing in Project Management

The amount of semi-structured textual data being generated all over the world wide web has placed the limelight on the fields of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. With the continuous increase in business for IT companies, there are a lot ...

Blockchain Technology Framework (BA, MA)

Blockchain technology (BT) is, after well-known application scenarios as a crypto currency and smart contract, now also an interesting basis for distributed applications. Within the scope of previous investigations, known BT (such as ...

Characterizing the compatibility of Big Data Technologies and its manifestations (MA, WTP)

Since the beginning of this decade, big data has evolved as a promising term to realize data intensive projects and applications, which seemed impossible years ago. Using new technologies and techniques massive amounts of differently structured ...

Entwicklung von Modellen zur Antwortzeitvorhersage von Transaktionen betrieblicher Standardsoftware am Beispiel von SAP ERP

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Conception of a reference model for integrated campus management systems

The effects of the Bologna process and increasing numbers of students due to the suspension of compulsory military service and dual Abitur cohorts require a particularly economic and effective use of public funding for a high-quality range of ...

Investigation and characterization of operations in context of data-intensive projects (BA, MA, WIP, WTP)

Since the beginning of this decade, big data has evolved as a promising term to realize data intensive projects and applications, which seemed impossible years ago. Using new technologies and techniques massive amounts of differently structured ...

[Long-term] Thesis during internship (Data Science, Machine Learning, AI, Big Data) (BA,MA)

If you are a student who is currently doing an internship in a company or who is planning to do so in the near future, and are planning a thesis to accompany your internship, you can contact us. We take over the supervision from a university ...

A formalized and evaluated Datamodel through ITIL v3 and ISO/IEC20000

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Evaluation of Outlies Analysis Methods for Data Quality Mining

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Characterizing the compatibility of Big Data Technologies and its manifestations

Since the beginning of this decade, big data has evolved as a promising term to realize data intensive projects and applications, which seemed impossible years ago. Using new technologies and techniques massive amounts of differently structured ...

Optimierung der Aufwandschätzung des Geschäftsbereiches Entwicklung der Volkswagen R GmbH

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Representation of pricing master data entity types for products and services of IT service providers in SAP ERP

Motivated by the recent scientific discourse around the industrialization of IT, this project attempts to support the production of IT services with standard business applications such as ERP systems. It focuses on Cloud Service Providers (CSP) ...

Requirements Engineering for Data Science Projects

Data Science (DS) projects aim to methodologically extract knowledge and value from data, for example to help organizations to improve performance. Dedicated process models (e. g. CRISP-DM, Microsoft TDSP) are applied to ...

Valuation method for the applicability of a service identification- and –description-model by the means of case studies

Each enterprise is subjected to constant technological progress and change and thus aims to be able to adapt to the changeable market requirements quickly and flexibly. One approach promising this and many more benefits is the service ...

Identification and investigation of data characteristics (BA, MA, WIP)

Since the beginning of this decade, big data has evolved as a promising term to realize data intensive projects and applications, which seemed impossible years ago. Using new technologies and techniques massive amounts of differently structured ...

Entwicklung von Kriterien zur Gestaltung von Planungssystemen

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Incentive strategies for system-integrated business simulations

Companies use scenario-based simulations to simulate extraordinary business transactions or emergency situations. They can also use scenario-based simulations to prepare their employees and decision-makers for such situations and to examine ...

Beschreibung von Systemlandschaften im Kontext von Industrie 4.0

Der Weg zur Industrie 4.0 ist für Unternehmen mit einer Vielzahl von Herausforderungen, sowie Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaufwand verbunden. Die weitreichende Umgestaltung der Wertschöpfungsprozesse und Produktionsanlagen haben nicht ...

A software concept for robot manufacturing sites in car body construction

In the course of the develppment, scheduling and realization of robot manufacturing sites for car body construction, steadily rising demands for technologies and application become apparent. As a result, due to the divergence in the ...

Management and controlling of data science projects

Data science aims to extract knowledge from data using structured analysis, which promises, among other things, improved performance for businesses and other organizations (Martinez 2017). For example, e-commerce companies such as Amazon are ...

Konzept für die Implementierung einer Shopware-Ideen-Konnektor

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Occupancy Forecasting for Hotels with Machine Learning

Forecasting daily occupancy is very important for revenue management in a hotel. This can be challenging as occupancy values can fluctuate greatly. A study was conducted to try to make forecasts for sixteen hotels in Berlin using traditional ...

Change-Management mit dem Fokus auf Upgrade-Projekte

Dieses Projekt beschäftigt sich im Bereich Change Management mit Upgrade-Projekten. Das Augenmerk liegt hier speziell auf dem Prozess von Versions-Upgrades von Standardsoftware, welche mittels Customzing-Maßnahmen an die Anforderungen des ...

Conception and prototypical implementation of a tool for the collection and evaluation of server load data for the proactive improvement of the availability in data centers

In modern times, the IT segment has become increasingly important for companies. All sectors of a company such as administration, production, distribution, or human resources, depend more than ever on their specific IT systems in order to ...

Ein Betriebskonzept für Cloud-Computing-Services auf Basis von OpenStack Heat and Ceilometer

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Modernising Human Resources Management in South Mediterranean Higher Education (RISE)

The importance of quality human resource management (HRM) for the development and optimisation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) is undeniable today. There are increasingly complex academic scenarios which demand HRM models able to ...

IT Infrastructure Management

Currently, in many corporate environments and scientific institutions, a number of different IT-applications runs on a number of different computer systems. Computer systems on client-/server-architecture, which meanwhile have ...

Very Large Business Applications Serious Games

In many companies, Enterprise-Resource-Planning-Systems (ERP-Systeme) are the basis for information processing and thus contribute to the corporate success. It has to be assured, however, that qualified employees that are able to permeate ...

INternationaliSation of master Programs In Russia and China in Electrical engineering

Nowadays Russian and Chinese universities have to offer programs which facilitate graduates’ adaptation to the real manufacturing and business environment and raise their competitiveness at the labor market. In order to develop a ...

Prediction of non-functional properties of IT-services

The service-orientation of the IT-branch is of increasing importance, not least because of the concept of cloud computing. It supports the commoditization of IT and increases the transparency for the clients. For the providers of such services, ...

Predicting Availability of an In-Memory Computing Cluster

Together with the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam as well as with industry partners such as SAP, HP and Fujitsu, in 2014 a project was conducted by the VLBA Lab in Magdeburg in which the availability of an in-memory computing cluster was ...

Cloud Very Large Business Applications Operation

Currently, cloud computing is a topic that is widely discussed in literature and in practice. The establishment of cloud computing brings along several chances, but at the same time confronts the operators of computing centers with ...

Exporting Master Programmes in Enterprise Systems Engineering to Jordan, Syria, Tunisia and Egypt - TEMPUS - Project

Today, there is a major lack of knowledge and experiences in the field of ESE and Business Informatics in the EU southern neighboring region. The MSC.ESE project with the reference number 530260-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR aims at creating a ...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Social Media Marketing based on Complex Network Analysis

In recent years the online business environment is viewed by customers from a new perspective. Social media to a great extent affects the customer’s awareness, preference and even decision process. Dramatic developments in interactive social ...