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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Optimierung des Kommunikationsflusses innerhalb von Workflow-gestützten Prozessen im Kontext von SAP Technologien

Viele Unternehmen legen einen großen Fokus auf die Verwaltung und Optimierung von Prozessabläufen. Das Ziel ist meist, Kosten zu senken, um sich gegenüber der Konkurrenz Vorteile zu verschaffen. Deswegen werden zur Optimierung von ...

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 ...

Otto’s vernetzte Bolzenfabrik zeigt neue Anwendungsszenarien

Das Industrie 4.0-Modell „Otto´s vernetzte Bolzenfabrik“ wurde zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft 2019 mit neuen Anwendungsszenarien gezeigt. Im Produktionsmonitoring wird nun auch das Büro mit gleichlaufenden Daten der Fabrik-Instanzen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Optimierung der Aufwandschätzung des Geschäftsbereiches Entwicklung der Volkswagen R GmbH

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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 ...

The quest for Open Source knowledge (MA)

After more than a decade Microsoft has transformed from the famous claim of Steve Ballmer: "Linux is a cancer" [2] to Satya Nadellas "Microsoft loves Linux" [3]. Nowadays “Open Source is fueling the digital transformation” ...

[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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...