Professor Seppe vanden Broucke joins the CVAMO team

Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke of UGent Business Informatics has joined the CVAMO (Cost and Value Analytics, Modelling and Optimization) Core Lab of Flanders Make @ Ghent University. He is welcomed by UGent Business Informatics professors Frederik Gailly and Geert Poels who were already members of CVAMO.

CVAMO unites 10 professors of different departments and research groups of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. CVAMO is a research group associated to the Strategic Research Center Flanders Make, which groups research labs from all Flemish universities. Based on high-tech research, Flanders Make offers active support to companies in the manufacturing industry to develop and optimize products and production processes.

Furthermore, CVAMO is also part of Machineries & Factories (M&F). M&F is an industrial research platform grouping the activities of about 125 researchers from different research groups from several faculties at Ghent University and Howest. The M&F research activities add value in smart motion products and smart production systems in an industry 4.0 environment driven by digitalization and digital twin technology. Next to this, M&F is a member of ai.ugent.be and contributes to the Flanders AI research program.

PhD defence of Joklan Goni, 31 March 2025

PhD candidate Joklan Goni obtained the academic grade of PhD in Business Economics on 31 March 2025, defending her thesis ‘Process Innovation Capability in Less-structured Business Processes’. Prof. dr. Amy Van Looy of UGent Business Informatics was her supervisor.

Prof. dr. Broos Maenhout was Chair of the Examination Committee, which included, apart from the supervisor, Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke and Prof. dr. Michaël Verdonck of Ghent University, Prof. dr. Niels Martin of Hasselt University, Prof. Dr. Bany Aylsolmaz of the Eindhoven University of Technology, and Prof. Dr. Peter Trkman of the University of Ljubljana.

The UGent Business Informatics research group congratulates Dr. Goni for this outstanding achievement and wishes her all the best in her future career as lecturer and researcher.

PhD defence of Georgios Georgiadis, 13 June 2024

PhD candidate Georgios Georgiadis obtained the academic grade of PhD in Business Economics on 13 June 2024, defending his thesis ‘GDPR compliance in big data analytics : a holistic approach for data protection impact assessment’. Prof. dr. Geert Poels and Prof. dr. Frederik Gailly of UGent Business Informatics were his supervisors.

Members of the Doctoral Advisory Committee, apart from the supervisors, were Dr. Dariusz Kloza (Human Rights Center, Ghent University) and Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke (UGent Business Informatics). Prof. dr. Patricia Everaert (Dept. Accounting, UGent) was Chair of the Examination Committee, which included, apart from the members of the Doctoral Advisory Committee, Dr. Kim Wuyts (PwC Belgium) and Prof. dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou (Law Faculty, VUB), who attended the ceremony online.

The UGent Business Informatics research group congratulates Dr. Georgiadis for this exceptional achievement, being a non-funded external student for many years, and wishes him all the best as affiliated post-doctoral researcher and fellow at Skövde University, Sweden.

PhD defence of Anis Amna, 12 June 2024

PhD candidate Anis Amna obtained the academic grade of PhD in Business Economics on 12 June 2024, defending her thesis ‘Enhancing Requirements Clarity: Analyzing Potential Ambiguity in User Stories’. Prof. dr. Geert Poels of UGent Business Informatics was her supervisor.

Members of the Doctoral Advisory Committee, apart from the supervisor, were Prof. dr. Palash Bera (Saint Louis University, USA) and Prof. dr. Yves Wautelet (KULeuven). Prof. dr. Carine Smolders was Chair of the Examination Committee, which included, apart from the members of the Doctoral Advisory Committee, Dr. Maya Daneva (Twente University, The Netherlands), Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke and Prof. dr. Frederik Gailly.

The UGent Business Informatics research group congratulates Dr. Amna for this outstanding achievement and wishes her all the best as affiliated post-doctoral researcher.

UGent Business Informatics participates in the Digital Kiosks network - poster

The Digital Kiosk project of the European Digital Kiosks Network is financed by EU Interreg North-Sea. The project will run from 1 May 2024 till 30 April 2027. A summary of the project can be seen in the attached poster. UGent Business Informatics is one of the two academic partners in the project.

PhD defence of Pooria Jafari, 20 March 2024

PhD candidate Pooria Jafari obtained the academic grade of PhD in Business Economics on 20 March 2024, defending his thesis ‘Investigating a roadmap for digital work practices based on a maturity model approach’. Prof. dr. Amy Van Looy of UGent Business Informatics was his supervisor. The UGent Business Informatics research group congratulates Dr. Jafari for this nice achievement and wishes him all the best.

The 23rd IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2024)

The 23rd IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2024) will be held in Heerlen, The Netherlands, on September 11-13, 2024. The conference is organized by the Department of Information Science of the Open University, The Netherlands. This is the department of Dr. Ben Roelens who is a conference program and organization co-chair. Ben is a PhD graduate of UGent Business Informatics and affiliated post-doctoral researcher. The call for papers and other relevant information can be found on the conference website, see I3E 2024.

2 job openings for post-doctoral researchers @UGent Business Informatics

The Business Informatics Research Group of the Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management of Ghent University (Belgium) (https://ugent-businessinformatics.github.io) is hiring two postdoctoral researchers. The earliest possible starting date is 1 February 2024.

One position is in the area of Business/Data Analytics with applications of Process Mining, Text Mining (NLP), KDD, Deep Learning, Ontologies, and Knowledge Graphs in Manufacturing.

The other position is in the area of Business/Enterprise Modelling/Architecture and focuses on the use of digital technologies to create or enhance sustainability in production and services.

Both positions involve supporting the research, education, and scientific services of the professorial staff of the UGent Business Informatics group whilst strengthening the academic CV of the postdoctoral researcher. A minimum of 70% of the assignment will be dedicated to research.

To apply to these positions see

Postdoc Business/Data Analytics (deadline 6 February 2024): https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Postdoctoral-researcher-9000/786752102/

Postdoc Business/Enterprise Modelling/Architecture (deadline 30 January 2024): https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post-doctoral-assistant-department-of-Business-Informatics-and-Operations-Management-9000/785636502/

For more information, you are welcome to contact Professor Geert Poels

3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE24) at CAiSE24 organized by Saint Louis University (USA), KU Leuven (LIRIS - campus Brussels) and UGent Business Informatics

The 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods in Information Systems Engineering is co-located with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE24) in Limassol, Cyprus, and will be held on June 3, 2024. The organizers are Palash Bera (Saint Louis University, USA), Yves Wautelet (KU Leuven) and Geert Poels (UGent). See Agil-ISE24 for the call for papers.

UGent Business Informatics participates in the Digital Kiosks network

We are delighted to announce that UGent Business Informatics is an academic research partner in the European Digital Kiosks network which engages with the sharing economy of commodity goods in urban settings. More news will follow soon…

International Workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Capabilities in Enterprises, Transformations, and E(SG) Initiatives (FACETE 2023) at PoEM 2023 organised by UGent Business Informatics (Jonas Van Riel, Geert Poels) and Twente University (Rodrigo Fernandes Calhau, Tiago Prince Sales)

The International Workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Capabilities in Enterprises, Transformations and ESG Initiatives is co-located with the 16th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM 2023) in Vienna, Austria, and will be held on November 29, 2023. See FACETE23 for the workshop website.

2nd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE23) at CAiSE23 organized by Saint Louis University (USA), KU Leuven and UGent Business Informatics

The 2nd International Workshop on Agile Methods in Information Systems Engineering is co-located with the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE23) in Zaragoza, Spain, and will be held on June 13, 2023. The organizers are Palash Bera (Saint Louis University, USA), Yves Wautelet (KU Leuven) and Geert Poels (UGent). See Agil-ISE23 for the program and the papers.

Keynote at the ISD 2023 conference, Lisbon, 30 August - 1 September 2023

UGent Business Informatics professor Geert Poels will be a keynote speaker at the 31st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2023). Proceedings of the conference will be available in the AIS eLibrary.

Facilitation in Complexity. From Creation to Co-creation, from Dreaming to Co-dreaming, from Evolution to Co-evolution

UGent Business Informatics is proud to present Facilitation in Complexity, a new book in Springer’s Contributions to Management Science series. Three hunderd and sixty five pages of knowledge, best practices, and actionable advice on how to exploit (rather than avoid) complexity in today’s and tomorrow’s VUCA world. See Springer Link for details on how to obtain this must-have jewel.

Decentralized Governance Design (DGD) workshop at CAiSE23 organized by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, KU Leuven and UGent Business Informatics

The 2nd International Decentralized Governance Design workshop will be organized as a workshop at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE23) in Zaragoza, Spain, on June 12, 2023. The organizers are Fadime Kaya and Jaap Gordijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Yves Wautelet (KU Leuven) and Geert Poels (UGent). See DGD 2023 for details and the call for papers.

Vlerick Centre for Enterprise Architecture and Digital Design webinar with Professor Stijn Viaene (Vlerick, KULeuven) and Professor Geert Poels (UGent Business Informatics): What can practitioners learn from Enterprise Architecture research?

See Vlerick Insights for a summary and video compilation of the interview.

Best prize for IT-related thesis for non-IT students

Master of Business Engineering students Arnoud Triest and Niels Byn have won the Best prize for IT-related thesis for non-IT students for their thesis Development of a tactical management software solution, upon the MIS concept for the Denica method, co-supervised by Renata Petrevska and Geert Poels. Congratulations to Arnoud and Niels!

Caise 22 organized by KULeuven LIRIS and UGent Business Informatics Research group

In June 2022 KULeuven LIRIS and UGent Business Informatics organize the 34rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (Caise ’22).

We have a new site

We have a new site which looks similar to the old one but should hopefully be more stable. We’ll move all the content here soon.

CVAMO joins Flanders Make

Cost and Value Analytics, Models & Optimization (CVAMO) is a new research lab that groups 10 professors and about 28 pre- or postdoctoral researchers form different departments linked to the degree in Business Engineering at the faculty of Economics and Business Administration (Ghent University). The goal of CVAMO is to successfully leverage technological innovation to competitive business growth. This can only be realized when there is a mutual understanding about technological aspects on the one hand and cost and value drivers on the other hand.

Caise 2021

This week three researchers are presenting their work at Caise 2021:

• Camelia Maleki and Abdel-Jaouad Aberkane will present their Phd Project at the CAISE Doctoral Consortium
• Thomas Derave will present his work at the main conference on Friday.

Tandem Master Dissertation between student from UGent Master Business Engineering and student UKLO Master in Business Administration

Under the supervision of Prof. dr. Geert Poels and Prof. dr. Renata Petrevska Nechkoska, Anouk Doom (student master Business Engineering) and Luciano Petreski (student Master in Business Administration) investigate:

CAISE21 DC best paper presentation award

Abdel-Jaouad Aberkane wins the CAISE 21 doctoral consortium best presentation award!

DXC Digital Talent Masterclass 2021

36 students from the master Business Engineering participated in the DXC Digital Talent Masterclass.

Prof. dr. Amy Van Looy is one of the inspiring Fifty Belgium 2020

Our UGentMIS colleague, associate professor Amy Van Looy, was selected as one of 50 most inspiring female tech professionals. The entire team congratulates Amy for this fine achievement. We are so proud to have Amy as one of our UGentMIS members!

Steven Mertens wins the CAiSE 2020 PhD Award

Congratulations to Dr. Steven Mertens for winning this year’s CAiSE PhD award. This is a prize for the best PhD dissertation in advanced information systems engineering. Candidates have participated at least once in a CAiSE PhD consortium.

Call for papers: EMMSAD 2020

UGentMIS is involved in the organisation of this year’s EMMSAD, more specifically the Evaluation of Modelling Approaches track with Prof. Poels as co-chair. The EMMSAD working conference is a satellite event of CAiSE, which wil run in Grenoble in the week of June 8, 2020 (with EMMSAD on June 8-9).

UGentMIS in 2019

Ghent University’s Management Information Systems (UGentMIS) research group realised in 2019

CfP VMBO 2020 in Brussels

• Call for Papers – 14th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies – VMBO 2020

Aygun Shafagatova wins BPM 2019 best PhD student paper award

UGentMIS PhD student Aygun Shafagatova and her supervisor/co-author Amy Van Looy have won the prestigious PhD student best paper award of the BPM 2019 conference for their paper ‘Understanding the Alignment of Employee Appraisals and Rewards with Business Processes’.

Een evaluatie van het gebruik van AHP voor het bepalen van strategische prioriteiten

Wie: 1of 2 studenten

De praktische evaluatie van een simulatietechniek op basis van de PGA methode

Wie: 1-2 studenten (duomasterproef mogelijk)

A maturity model for IT governance with COBIT 2019

COBIT 2019 is the revised framework for enterprise governance of information & technology. A new step in the development of COBIT is a model for assessing the IT governance maturity and capabilities of an organization. Such model should allow evaluating the performance of the IT governance system.

Early identification of potential Distributed Ledger Technology business cases using e3value models - Defining the pattern (Henri Arno)

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) like Blockchain are being experimented with in nearly every economic sector. Most of the time, projects don’t survive after their first year and it has proven to be extremely difficult to reap benefits from implementing DLT. What is currently missing is an analytical tool that allows early decision-making on DLT implementation.

Language Development for Business Process Architecture Description (Ilias Benabdellah)

The idea of this thesis is to develop a concrete syntax (i.e., notation) for the Business Process Architecture Language (BPAL) we are currently developing. The development is a joint effort of UGentMIS (Prof. Geert Poels) and the ALARCOS research group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Prof. Francisco Ruiz, Prof. Felix Garcia, Prof. Mario Piattini).

Two Phd positions available

Ghent University (Belgium) is hiring two PhD students in the domain of Business Process Management: one technical profile and one management-related profile.

What is the impact of big data analytics on the service offering, business model and business processes of manufacturing companies that already invested in lean manufacturing? (Simon Schelstraete)

Enterprise modeling of the impact of augmented reality on the buyer-seller relationship (Ruben Lovenweent)

Design of a data quality model for COBIT (Joris Desplenter)

Is Artificial Intelligence feasible for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (Alexander Lauweryns)

Big Data Analytics in de gezondheidszorg (Rani Van Moortel)

Investigating the use of social media by startups through enterprise modeling (Maud Vande Moortel)

De impact van kunstmatige intelligentie op cybersecurity (Louis Boval)

Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Banking Sector (Lisa Lagaert)

Use case on exploring the adoption of blockchain technology within a Flemish start-up

This thesis aims to explore how the blockchain technology may benefit a Flemish start-up in their day-to-day operations. More specifically, the student will have close contact with the founders of the start-up, and will explore different options on how blockchain technology can be applied. Possible use cases to investigate are: (i) to facilitate global transactions between the start-up and its suppliers, (ii) to support the operations that are performed within the company or (iii) to attract financial capital as a means to financially support the start-up.

Artificial intelligence within the medical sector: overview and future possibilities

This thesis aims to provide an overview of the different types of adoptions and improvements that have already been made with artificial intelligence and machine-learning practices in the medical sector. More specifically, the student will assess the current state-of-the art in the sector, and identify the possible future innovations this new technology could bring.

Adopting blockchain technology to register car ownership and insurance

This thesis aims to explore how blockchain technology can be integrated and implemented to register car ownership and related insurance registration forms. More specifically, this thesis will look at the advantages and disadantages of adopting blockchain for this particular case, while also discussing the necessary changes and possible pitfalls that such a change of system could imply.

Adopting blockchain technology within hospitals for managing patient files and sensitive medical data.

This thesis aims to explore how blockchain technology can be integrated and implemented within hospitals to manage patient file registration and privacy. More specifically, this thesis will look at the advantages and disadantages of adopting blockchain for this particular case, while also discussing the necessary changes and possible pitfalls that such a change of system could imply.

Conversation Robots (Alexandre t'Kint)

De invloed van Distributed Ledger Technology op de banksector (Jesse Verbeke)

Analysis of the impact of blockchain on healthcare through enterprise modelling (Sophie De Vuyst)

This thesis investigates how blockchain can be used in healthcare applications. The research starts with a study of the state-of-the-art of blockchain applications in healthcare (based on academic literature, popular press, information on the web). This state-of-the-art review of secondary data will be extended with primary data collected through a survey with Belgian hospitals and interviews with experts in medical informatics. Next, existing or planned blockchain applications in other domains will be studied to discover opportunities for application in healthcare. Finally, a potentially promising new application will be designed using enterprise modelling techniques. Using these techniques it can be analysed what the impact of the new blockchain application is on relevant variables like patient satisfaction, patient safety, quality of service, efficiency and costs.

Reporting 3.0 - Linking the Value Management Platform and the MultiCapital Scorecard: Sustainable energy case-study (Maxime Van Der Stuyft)

Student Job Dodona

For the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019 we are looking for a student who wants to help us in developing program exercises for the online learning environment dodona.ugent.be. More information can be found here: vacature_eb

Nominee for BPM 2018 best paper award

The paper ‘On the synergies between Business Process Management and Digital Innovation’ by Amy Van Looy is nominated for the BPM 2018 best paper award. BPM is the premier conference on Business Process Management and is held this year in Sidney, Australia.

Enhancing Agile Development through Modelling of User Stories (Emma Willard & Axelle Pysson)

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Natural Language Processing of user stories (Jacob Laureyns)

Natural Language Processing of behaviour-driven development scenarios (Jasper Verdonck)

Business Process Management Project reporting using R markdown

Available for Master Business Engineering Student

Comparison Process Mining Tools

Available for 1 business engineering student who is also prepared to do an internship at Delaware

The triple crown: Combining case management, business process modeling and decision modelling

Available for 1 student Master Business Engineering

Educational Process Mining of Ufora learning paths

Tool development for business process architecture description

The idea of this thesis is to develop tool support for the Business Process Architecture Language (BPAL) we are currently developing. The development is a joint effort of UGentMIS (Prof. Geert Poels) and the ALARCOS research group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Prof. Francisco Ruiz, Prof. Felix Garcia, Prof. Mario Piattini).

Strategic alignment of business process architecture

The idea of this thesis is to investigate how the Business Process Architecture Language (BPAL) we are currently developing, can be used in the analysis of strategic fit within an organisation. Strategic fit is the condition in which the organisation is able to realise its strategies. The business processes of an organisation are an important component of the enterprise architecture needed to realise the organisational strategies. The question is how can models of business process architecture (developed using BPAL) contribute to the analysis of strategic fit.

Linking leading and lagging strategic business process measures

Integrating the CARS method for strategic sourcing modelling in ArchiMate

CARS is a conceptual modelling approach that we developed with the UGentMIS team to support strategic sourcing in organisations. With CARS, sourcing options can be explored an analysed from the perspective of value co-creation in networks of organisations and other economic actors.

Value Delivery Modelling - Empirical Investigation of the Value Management Platform

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Comparing user stories with behaviour-driven development scenarios (Laura Lambrecht)

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User stories: text-to-model and model-to-text transformations (Margaux Vander Plaetsen)

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Natural Language Processing to Assure the Quality of User Stories (Michiel Blommaert)

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Systematic Literature Review text-to-model transformation in Requirements Engineering (Heleen Vanelverdinghe)

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Aligning the ArchiMate language for Enterprise Architecture and the CORAS language for risk modelling (Camille Wittouck)

Aligning COBIT with Enterprise Architecture

COBIT is the best known and most widely used framework for IT governance. Using COBIT, organisations can design a governance system to make sure that the use of Information Technology delivers value to the organisation and thus contributes to the achievement of the strategic objectives. The UGentMIS team has been involved in the development of COBIT’s latest version, i.e., COBIT 2019.

Design of an information governance model for COBIT (Johana Chaviarra)

Analysis of the COBIT risk management model (Endrita Syla)

Physical Internet Case-Study

CHOOSE YOUR OWN CASE-STUDY

Towards a Physical Internet Ontology – Exploring the boundaries of the Internet metaphor (Iriet Danon)

Industry survey of the state-of-the-practice of the Physical Internet in Flanders

Systematic Literature Review new business and operating models enabled by the Physical Internet (David van der Steen)

Systematic Literature Mapping of the state-of-the-art of Physical Internet

Enterprise modelling of the impact of novel technologies on business models, service offerings and business processes

CHOOSE YOUR OWN TECHNOLOGY TO INVESTIGATE!

Geert Poels chairs EMMSAD++ Panel @CAiSE2018, Tallinn, Estland - IoT, Blockchain, Big Data and Intelligent Process Automation: Analysing their impact through modelling

Slides can be consulted by clicking this LINK

dr. Michael Verdonck

On the 24th of May Michael Verdonck successfully defended his phd “Ontology-driven conceptual modeling: Model Comprehension, Ontology Selection and Method Complexity.”

UGentMIS zoekt een nieuwe assistent - kandideren kan tot 27 maart

CLICK HERE >>>PhD Position Business & IT (11284)

Hurray - UGent Business Informatics has a new doctor!

DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Goodbye and congratulations to Dr. Ben Roelens

UGentMIS wishes to thank Ben for his enthusiastic engagement since October 1, 2011. Ben has accepted a position of Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) at the Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands, and will be affiliated with our team as a parttime voluntary postdoctoral researcher. We wish him all the best with his new career in far-away Holland!

Educational Process Mining of Dodona learning paths

References

Internet of Things - a technical perspective (Koen Van Vaerenbergh - MEA)

Business capability as "glue" concept in Enterprise Architecture (Maxime Bernaert - MEA)

Designing an Enterprise Architecture framework for the identification of capabilities (Yves Drubbel - MEA)

Integration of value representation in ArchiMate (François Harot - MEA)

Designing a generic capability map for professional sports clubs (Jonas Van Riel - MEA)

PhD position Business - IT at UGentMIS, Dept. Business Informatics and Operations Management

The UGentMIS research team of the Dept. of Business Informatics and Operations Management will open a PhD position (junior assistant) for research and (limited) teaching in Business & IT (teaching requires mastering of the Dutch language). The candidate is expected to complete a PhD research within 4 – 6 years.

UGentMIS congratulates Nadejda Alkhaldi and supervisor Frederik Gailly for obtaining the joint UGent-VUB doctoral degree in Business Economics

A fine accomplishment of the UGent-VUB Alliance Research Group in Information Systems (UVIS)

The PoEM 2017 book is ready

Public defence PhD Renata Petrevska Nechkoska @UKLO

On 26 October, Mrs. Renata Petrevska Nechkoska successfully defended her dissertation ‘Tactical management sense-and-respond framework enhancement using ICT’ in Prilep, Macedonia. UGentMIS congratulates Dr. Renata Petrevska for this fine achievement, obtaining the degrees of Doctor of Business Administration (UGent) and Doctor of Management (UKLO).

Decentralised peer-to-peer energy network: how can Blockchain technology support this? An economical study (Jorn Nys & Hannes Degraeve)

Analysis of Engine supported Healthcare processes.

Who: Business Engineering Students

Transforming a hospital into a process-oriented organization: Process-aware Hospital IT systems (Lore Vermeulen)

Blockchain as a disruptive or sustaining technologie: How can Enterprise Modelling help in analysing the impact of blockchain on business and operating models? (Fekri Darkaoui Dahou)

The impact of social media on marketing and sales processes (Justine Rousseeuw)

For a description, see this link

Public Defense Joint PhD Maria das Graças da Silva Teixeira

Conceptual modelling of user stories (Niels Van den Berghe)

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ICT for managing business change (Simon Geldof)

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Application and evaluation of the Value Management Platform (Ruben Lovenweent & Thomas De Waelle)

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The impact of blockchain on Business Process Management (Tom Planckaert)

See http://www.mis.ugent.be/the-impact-of-blockchain-on-business-models-service-offerings-and-business-processes/

Development of a GUI for the R Business Process Simulation package

Who: Master Business Engineering + Master Business Economics

Transforming a hospital into a process-oriented organization: Business Process Maturity (Anna Verjans)

Transforming a hospital into a process-oriented organization: Process Identification (Sarah Van Cleemput)

BPMN vs BPMN+DMN: an empirical study

Who? Master Business Engineering

Nieuwe onderwerpen masterproeven 2017-2018

De beleidsinformatica onderzoeksgroep stelt een nieuwe reeks van onderwerpen voor masterproeven voor. Deze onderwerpen betreffen de toepassing van Information Systems theorieën, technologieën, methoden, modellen en concepten op actuele vraagstukken, problemen en opportuniteiten betreffende de inzet van ICT in bedrijven en andere typen organisaties. Elk onderwerp is praktijkrelevant en tegelijk vernieuwend met betrekking tot de beleidsinformatica discipline.

The impact of Internet of Things on business models, service offerings and business processes (Simon Mertens)

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The impact of blockchain on business models, service offerings and business processes (Cedric Manhaeve)

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The impact of big data analytics on business models, service offerings and business processes (Charlotte Vandenbrande)

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The impact of artificial intelligence on business models, service offerings and business processes (Amon De Keyser)

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The impact of augmented reality on business models, service offerings and business processes (Lars Rosseel)

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The impact of data and IoT driven unmanned vehicles on business models, service offerings and business processes (Hendrik Vervust)

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The impact of intelligent automation on business models, service offerings and business processes (Maxime De Winter)

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The impact of social networking services on business models, service offerings and business processes (Amélie Van Hoecke)

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The impact of cloud technologies on business models, service offerings and business processes (Andreas Porters)

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The impact of 3D printing on business models, service offerings and business processes (Pieter Van Wayenberge)

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UGentMIS co-organises PoEM 2017

UGentMIS at BPM 2017 Barcelona, Spain. September 10-15, 2017

Journeys of perseverance - Renata's story

UGentMIS PhD student Renata Petrevska (Joint PhD with the University of St.Clement Ohridski in Macedonia) was selected as one of three researchers for Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Journeys of Perseverance. Check out her story at Story #2.

Empirical Evaluation Business Process Simulation Approaches

Who? Master Business Engineering

E-commerce food in België (Thomas Genie)

Who: Thomas Genie
Promotor: Geert Poels

Mobiel Schade melden (Jizo Van Lancker and Suzan Coppens)

Who: Jizo Van Lancker and Suzan Coppens
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New scientific research community on Process Mining

In September ’16 we applied together with researchers from UHasselt and KULeuven for Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) funding on supporting a scientific research community on Process Mining. Recently we received the good news that the FWO accepted our proposal. The grant will mainly leverage international mobility between the flemish and the international partners, to improve collaboration, and to organize symposia on post-doc level.

Een overzicht van de focus op waarde binnen bedrijfsmodellen uit de academische literatuur (Jens Vanhoecke).

Wie: 1 student

Describing the organizational strategy through the development of an integrative framework (Jelle Cappelle)

Wie: 2 studenten (duomasterproef mogelijk)

Process-driven Clinical Decision Support Systems (Corentin Rombaut)

Who: Corentin Rombaut (Master Business Engineering )
Promotor:** Frederik Gailly
Supervisor: Steven Mertens

Predictive Business Analytics and Business Process Management: a literature study (Yannick Arys)

Who: Yannick Arys
Promotor: Frederik Gailly
Supervisor: Steven Mertens

UGent MIS Research Group @ The 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

The UGent MIS research group has three papers accepted at the 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling:

Cloud Computing as a sustaining or disruptive technology: How can Enterprise Modeling help in analyzing the impact of Cloud Computing on business and operating models? (Jan Van Der Burgt)

This thesis investigates through a number of case-studies whether Cloud Computing presents a sustaining or disruptive technology, and for which (types of) companies. The impact of Cloud Computing as sustaining/disruptive technology will be modelled and analyzed using various Enterprise Modeling techniques and associated tools (e.g., business model canvas, value delivery model/platform, Archi(Mate), …).

Internet of Things as a sustaining or disruptive technology: How can Enterprise Modeling help in analyzing the impact of IoT on business and operating models? (Simon Dhaenens)

This thesis investigates through a number of documented applications and case-studies whether Internet of Things (IoT) presents a sustaining or disruptive technology, and for which (types of) companies and industry sectors (e.g., Industry 4.0). The impact of IoT as sustaining/disruptive technology will be modelled and analyzed using various Enterprise Modeling techniques and associated tools (e.g., business model canvas, value delivery model/platform, Archi(Mate), …).

NoSQL databases - substitute or complement of relational databases? Implications for University education (Ewoud Stroom)

Although the initial hype of NoSQL databases seems to be over, and the concept has evolved into ‘not only SQL’ databases, there is the question whether this database technology should substitute or complement traditional business students university education in relational databases (i.e., entity-relationship modeling, relational database design, SQL).

Process Mapping and Process Landscape Models: Review of the state-of-the-art (Ward Van den Abeele)

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Value Modeling in ArchiMate (Kathleen Nollet)

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Multi-Level Business Service Design and Analysis using ArchiMate (Matthew Wright)

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Implementation of Social Network Analysis in Enterprise Architecture Modeling and Analysis (Pierre Gerardi)

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Enterprise Architecture Analysis: Review of the state-of-the-art (Francisca Alao)

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Design of Business Process Architecture Viewpoints in ArchiMate

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