Institute of Information Systems & New Media
We are part of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
In research, the emphasis of our Institute is the construction and analysis of infrastructures for software-based Information Systems. Areas of interest include Domain-Specific Language, Domain-Specific Modeling Languages, Evolutionary Information Systems and Technology Enhanced Learning. For further information on our topics in detail continue here.
Our Institute provides courses in Information Systems for the Study Programs of Information Systems as well as for the Business Administration Programs of the University. This includes introductory and advanced courses in Business Information Systems at the Bachelor's Level and specialized topics on management, engineering and development of Information Systems. For more information on our focus in teaching continue here.
Research & Development Projects
HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience)
Duration: 2019-2021
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a three-year national research project on improving the ease-of-use of DSL and DSL-based software-development tooling in industry, funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (6th call 2017) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #867535. Four partner organisations contribute to HybriDLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, TU Wien and WU Vienna. The project started in the first quarter of 2019 and is a continuation of the successful exploratory project DLUX (FFG #855465, ICT of the Future, 4th call).
Duration: 2019-2021
Contact: Prof. Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: HybriDLUX (Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a three-year national research project on improving the ease-of-use of DSL and DSL-based software-development tooling in industry, funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (6th call 2017) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #867535. Four partner organisations contribute to HybriDLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, TU Wien and WU Vienna. The project started in the first quarter of 2019 and is a continuation of the successful exploratory project DLUX (FFG #855465, ICT of the Future, 4th call).
DLUX - Domain Specific Language User Experience
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: DLUX (Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a one-year national exploratory research project funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (4th call 2015) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #855465. Three partner organisations contribute to DLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, and WU Vienna.
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: DLUX (Domain-specific Language User EXperience) is a one-year national exploratory research project funded by the Austrian research funding association (FFG) within the funding programme ICT of the Future (4th call 2015) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), contract #855465. Three partner organisations contribute to DLUX: AVL List GmbH, EclipseSource Services Vienna, and WU Vienna.
Learn@WU
Duration: 2001-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: The main objective of Learn@WU was to provide an electronic learning environment for students and faculty in order to support the University's mass courses. However, it was not the goal to introduce a new distance education program (and to attract even more students).
Duration: 2001-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: The main objective of Learn@WU was to provide an electronic learning environment for students and faculty in order to support the University's mass courses. However, it was not the goal to introduce a new distance education program (and to attract even more students).
OpenACS
Duration: 1995-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: OpenACS is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN (pronounced "dot learn") e-learning platform.
Duration: 1995-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: OpenACS is a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented web applications. OpenACS is the foundation for many products and websites, including the .LRN (pronounced "dot learn") e-learning platform.
Next Scripting Framework
Duration: 2011-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NX is a highly flexible, Tcl-based, object-oriented scripting language. It is a descendant of XOTcl and was designed based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing several hundred thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first language designed to provide language support for design patterns and to provide a highly dynamic programming environment, the Next Scripting Framework (NSF) and NX add to these features support for language-oriented programming.
Duration: 2011-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NX is a highly flexible, Tcl-based, object-oriented scripting language. It is a descendant of XOTcl and was designed based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing several hundred thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first language designed to provide language support for design patterns and to provide a highly dynamic programming environment, the Next Scripting Framework (NSF) and NX add to these features support for language-oriented programming.
NaviServer
Duration: 2005-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NaviServer is a programmable web server written in C and Tcl. It offers many features for building custom web sites. The implementation is high performance, but the interface is easy to use, at both the C and Tcl level.
Duration: 2005-ongoing
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: NaviServer is a programmable web server written in C and Tcl. It offers many features for building custom web sites. The implementation is high performance, but the interface is easy to use, at both the C and Tcl level.
Gamification for Teaching and Learning at WU (GamIng)
Duration: June 2019 - Ongoing
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Marjan Khobreh
Description: GamIng is a one-year project funded by the vice-rector for Academic Programs and Student Affairs, Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU) and conducted by the Institute of Information Systems and New Media.
Duration: June 2019 - Ongoing
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Marjan Khobreh
Description: GamIng is a one-year project funded by the vice-rector for Academic Programs and Student Affairs, Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU) and conducted by the Institute of Information Systems and New Media.
Expedite | EXPloring opportunities and challenges for Emerging personal DaTa Ecosystems: Empowering humans in the age of the GDPR - A Roadmap for Austria
Duration: 2018-ongoing
Contact: Soheil Human
Description: The Institute of Information Systems and New Media (WU Wien) conducts the interdisciplinary research project EXPEDiTE in collaboration with the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab. The full title of the project is "EXPloring opportunities and challenges for Emerging personal DaTa Ecosystems: Empowering humans in the age of the GDPR - A Roadmap for Austria". The Linked Data Lab of the Vienna University of Technology and OwnYourData are our partners in this project which is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Soheil Human and Ben Wagner lead EXPEDiTE. Prof. Gustaf Neumann, prof. Axel Polleres, and prof. Sarah Spiekermann shape the advisory board of the project.
Duration: 2018-ongoing
Contact: Soheil Human
Description: The Institute of Information Systems and New Media (WU Wien) conducts the interdisciplinary research project EXPEDiTE in collaboration with the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab. The full title of the project is "EXPloring opportunities and challenges for Emerging personal DaTa Ecosystems: Empowering humans in the age of the GDPR - A Roadmap for Austria". The Linked Data Lab of the Vienna University of Technology and OwnYourData are our partners in this project which is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). Soheil Human and Ben Wagner lead EXPEDiTE. Prof. Gustaf Neumann, prof. Axel Polleres, and prof. Sarah Spiekermann shape the advisory board of the project.
PENNI: Richtlinienbasiertes Internet der nächsten Generation
Duration: March 2020 to August 2022
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: The Policy Enabled Next geNeration Internet (PENNI) project will lay the foundations for a policy, trust and transparency enabled decentralised Next Generation Internet (NGI), that can support intelligent agents that act on behalf of humans. Our hypothesis being that decentralized applications that are able to understand constraints (in the form of goals, preferences, norms and usage restrictions) together with trust and transparency mechanisms will give citizens more control over how their data is utilised and will foster trustworthiness in NGI applications, such as intelligent agents.
Duration: March 2020 to August 2022
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: The Policy Enabled Next geNeration Internet (PENNI) project will lay the foundations for a policy, trust and transparency enabled decentralised Next Generation Internet (NGI), that can support intelligent agents that act on behalf of humans. Our hypothesis being that decentralized applications that are able to understand constraints (in the form of goals, preferences, norms and usage restrictions) together with trust and transparency mechanisms will give citizens more control over how their data is utilised and will foster trustworthiness in NGI applications, such as intelligent agents.
Supporting Educators' Pedagogical Activities with 360°-Video
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022
Contact: Michael S. Feurstein
Description: The SEPA360 project – Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-video – is a European funded, Erasmus+ project for lectures, researchers and universities working, or looking to engage with the learning opportunities brought about by innovative 360 video cameras. The project aims to demonstrate how the effective use of 360 video can support and enhance the learning of university students by immersing them in real life video scenarios that they can manipulate to view as if they were actually there. The partners are developing a unique interactive platform for these video scenarios that will allow lecturers to embed hotspots, hyperlinks and other interactive media within the 360 video and will also track their student’s interactions and movements through these scenarios.
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022
Contact: Michael S. Feurstein
Description: The SEPA360 project – Supporting Educators’ Pedagogical Activities with 360°-video – is a European funded, Erasmus+ project for lectures, researchers and universities working, or looking to engage with the learning opportunities brought about by innovative 360 video cameras. The project aims to demonstrate how the effective use of 360 video can support and enhance the learning of university students by immersing them in real life video scenarios that they can manipulate to view as if they were actually there. The partners are developing a unique interactive platform for these video scenarios that will allow lecturers to embed hotspots, hyperlinks and other interactive media within the 360 video and will also track their student’s interactions and movements through these scenarios.
Knowledge Graphs at Scale (KnowGraphs)
Duration: October 2019 to September 2023
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a flexible knowledge representation paradigm intended to allow knowledge to be consumed by humans and machines. Hence, they are regarded as a key enabler for a number of technologies including question answering, personal assistants and artificial intelligence across all sectors including Industry 4.0, personalized medicine, legislation, economics and more.
Duration: October 2019 to September 2023
Contact: Sabrina Kirrane
Description: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a flexible knowledge representation paradigm intended to allow knowledge to be consumed by humans and machines. Hence, they are regarded as a key enabler for a number of technologies including question answering, personal assistants and artificial intelligence across all sectors including Industry 4.0, personalized medicine, legislation, economics and more.
iCamp
Duration: n/a
Contact: Fridolin Wild
Description: The main objective of iCamp is to create an open virtual learning environment for university students across Europe by connecting different open source learning systems and tools and provide interoperability amongst them. This new learning environment is a learner centred space where students and educators will work collaboratively on assignments across disciplines and across countries with a special focus on the integration of students and universities from the NMS and the AC. iCamp will offer students and educators both innovative and easy-to-use tools for collaboration and interaction as well as access to a broad variety of resources.
Duration: n/a
Contact: Fridolin Wild
Description: The main objective of iCamp is to create an open virtual learning environment for university students across Europe by connecting different open source learning systems and tools and provide interoperability amongst them. This new learning environment is a learner centred space where students and educators will work collaboratively on assignments across disciplines and across countries with a special focus on the integration of students and universities from the NMS and the AC. iCamp will offer students and educators both innovative and easy-to-use tools for collaboration and interaction as well as access to a broad variety of resources.
ROLE
Duration: 2009-2014
Contact: Dr. Felix Mödritscher
Description: ROLE’s cross- disciplinary innovations will deliver and test prototypes of high responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation.
Duration: 2009-2014
Contact: Dr. Felix Mödritscher
Description: ROLE’s cross- disciplinary innovations will deliver and test prototypes of high responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation.
Prolix
Duration: 2005-2008
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: Align learning with business processes in order to enable organisations to faster improve the competencies of their employees according to continuous changes of business requirements
Duration: 2005-2008
Contact: Dr. Stefan Sobernig
Description: Align learning with business processes in order to enable organisations to faster improve the competencies of their employees according to continuous changes of business requirements
EducaNext
Duration: 2000-2003
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: Create an innovative, trustable and scalable environment to allow the secure exchange of learning materials over the internet.
Duration: 2000-2003
Contact: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gustaf Neumann
Description: Create an innovative, trustable and scalable environment to allow the secure exchange of learning materials over the internet.
ModSec
Duration: 2011-2013
Contact: DI MMag. Bernhard Hoisl
Description: Building on the concept of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) we specify security requirements in business processes on the modeling-level and automatically transform these models to the system-level
Duration: 2011-2013
Contact: DI MMag. Bernhard Hoisl
Description: Building on the concept of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) we specify security requirements in business processes on the modeling-level and automatically transform these models to the system-level
PROLEARN
Duration: n/a
Contact: Fridolin Wild
Description: PROLEARN is a 'Network of Excellence' financed by the IST (Information Society Technology - Contract number 507310) programme of the European commission dealing with technology enhanced professional learning.
Duration: n/a
Contact: Fridolin Wild
Description: PROLEARN is a 'Network of Excellence' financed by the IST (Information Society Technology - Contract number 507310) programme of the European commission dealing with technology enhanced professional learning.
Elena
Duration: 2002-2005
Contact: Dr. Bernd Simon
Description: The interdisciplinary research team followed the vision of creating Smart Spaces for LearningTM. These are open environments that support learners in optimising their learning management. The mission of the ELENA project was to demonstrate the feasibility of Smart Spaces for LearningTM.
Duration: 2002-2005
Contact: Dr. Bernd Simon
Description: The interdisciplinary research team followed the vision of creating Smart Spaces for LearningTM. These are open environments that support learners in optimising their learning management. The mission of the ELENA project was to demonstrate the feasibility of Smart Spaces for LearningTM.
iCoper
Duration: 2008-2011
Contact: Dr. Bernd Simon
Description: ICOPER will provide mechanisms to ensure European-wide user involvement, cooperation, and adoption of standards within a large community to support all phases of standardization.
Duration: 2008-2011
Contact: Dr. Bernd Simon
Description: ICOPER will provide mechanisms to ensure European-wide user involvement, cooperation, and adoption of standards within a large community to support all phases of standardization.
Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning
Duration: n/a
Contact: Bernhard Hoisl
Description: The LTfLL project ('Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning') will create next-generation support and advice services to enhance individual and collaborative building of competences and knowledge creation in educational and organizational settings. The project makes extensive use of language technologies and cognitive models in the services.
Duration: n/a
Contact: Bernhard Hoisl
Description: The LTfLL project ('Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning') will create next-generation support and advice services to enhance individual and collaborative building of competences and knowledge creation in educational and organizational settings. The project makes extensive use of language technologies and cognitive models in the services.