Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen

Current affiliations

  • European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Databases and Information Systems
  • Business Process Modeling
  • Internet and Web - technological and social impacts
  • Paradigms to handle "big data"
  • Special aspects of Cloud Computing

Academic Education

1990Habilitation and venia legendi in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
1986Doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at RWTH Aachen University
1981University degree in Computer Science (diploma) at RWTH Aachen University
1974 - 1981Studies in Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University

Work Experience

1993 - 02/2024Full Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Information Systems, University of Münster, Germany
2004 - 12/2023Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) at University of Münster, Germany
1999 - 2007Visiting Professor at Karlstad University, Sweden, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey, the Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
1991 - 1993Professor of Computer Science at Gießen University
1988 - 1991Acting Professor at University of Kiel, University of Düsseldorf, and University of Koblenz-Landau
1981 - 1991Research Assistant at the Chair for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (Prof. Dr. W. Oberschelp) at RWTH Aachen University
1986 - 1988Visiting Assistant Professor at Computer Science Department of University of California, San Diego, USA

Functions and Memberships

since 2010Deputy chairman of the steering committee of the German information technology certification agency Cert-IT, Bonn
since 2004Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)
since 2004Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Information Systems"
since 1981Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA
since 1979Member of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
1985 - 2021Member of the IEEE Computer Society, USA
2008 - 2011Scientific advisor of Deutsche Informatik-Akademie (DIA, German Informatics Academy), the continuous-education subsidiary of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
2004 - 2005Vice-president and treasurer of the German Computer Science Society (GI)

Appointments

2000Offer to a Professorship, University of Halle-Wittenberg (rejected)

Publications

Martins, Denis Mayr Lima; Vossen, Gottfried (2023)
In: Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, János Botzheim, László Gulyás, Manuel Núñez, Jan Treur, Gottfried Vossen, Adrianna Kozierkiewicz (eds.), Computational Collective Intelligence. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.
Type of Publication: Research article in edited proceedings (conference)
Brigitta Königg-Ries, Stefanie Scherzinger, Wolfgang Lehner, Gottfried Vossen (eds.) (2023)
Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Type of Publication: Conference proceedings
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, János Botzheim, László Gulyás, Manuel Nunez, Jan Treur, Gottfried Vossen, Adrianna Kozierkiewicz (eds.) (2023)
Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.
Type of Publication: Conference proceedings
Vossen Gottfried (2022)
In: Roth Stefan, Caorsten Hans (eds.), Handbuch Digitalisierung. München: Verlag Franz Vahlen.
Type of Publication: Research article (book contribution)
Pohlmann, Petra; Vossen, Gottfried; Everding, Jan; Scheiper, Johanna (2022)
In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 111(2)
Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
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Projects

Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2019
Funded by: German Academic Exchange Service
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/03/2016 - 28/02/2019
Funded by: ARVATO direct services GmbH
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/01/2016 - 31/12/2016
Funded by: DFG - Initiation of International Collaboration
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 15/04/2015 - 30/09/2015
Funded by: SuperBioMarkt AG
Type of project: Individual project
Duration: 01/06/2014 - 30/11/2014
Funded by: Förderkreis der Angewandten Informatik an der Universität Münster e. V.
Type of project: Individual project
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Talks

Will Data Science Make the SME Future Naughty or Nice?
Vossen, Gottfried (27/05/2019)
High Tech Small Firms conference, University of Twente
Type of talk: scientific talk
University 4.0: Challenges, Concepts, and Preliminary (ERCIS) Experiences
Vossen Gottfried (16/05/2019)
Conference 40 Years EMISA - Digital Ecosystems of the Future: Methods, Techniques and Applications, Evangelische Akademie, Tutzing
Type of talk: scientific talk
Data, Analytics, AI: Will the Future be Naughty or Nice?
Vossen, Gottfried (26/03/2019)
DOAG Data Analytics 2019, Phantasialand, Brühl
Type of talk: scientific talk
Data (and only Data) Owns the Future!
Vossen, Gottfried (12/10/2018)
Klausurtagung der Fa. PROMATIS software GmbH, DEKRA-Konferenzzentrum, Altensteig-Wart
Type of talk: scientific talk
What Cloud and IoT Will Do to Prices and Pricing
Vossen, Gottfried (26/09/2018)
Research Seminar, Politechnika, Wroclawska, Wroclaw, Poland
Type of talk: scientific talk
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Prizes

Best Evolutionary & Swarm Computation Paper Award
Awarded by: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Award given to: Martins, Denis; Lechtenbörger, Jens; Vossen, Gottfried
Announced at: 15/11/2019 | Date of awarding: 15/11/2019
Type of distinction: Best publication award
CBI Best Paper Award 2019
Awarded by: 21st IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI '19)
Award given to: Carnein, Matthias; Homann, Leschek; Trautmann, Heike; Vossen, Gottfried
Announced at: 15/07/2019 | Date of awarding: 15/07/2019
Type of distinction: Best publication award
Digital Publishing Creative Ideas Award 2013
Awarded by: Frankfurter Academy and dem Goethe-Unibator
Award given to: Stahl, Florian; Vossen, Gottfried
Date of awarding: 15/10/2013
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Honorary Professorship
Awarded by: University of Waikato Management School, Hamilton, New Zealand
Award given to: Vossen, Gottfried
Announced at: 15/01/2013 | Date of awarding: 15/01/2013
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
Fellow of the German Computer Science Society (GI)
Awarded by: GI Fellow Selection Committee headed by past-president Prof. Dr. Stefan Jähnichen (TU Berlin)
Award given to: Vossen, Gottfried; Jarke, Matthias
Announced at: 15/10/2012 | Date of awarding: 15/10/2012
Type of distinction: Research award or other distinction
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Doctorates

Enabling Non-technical Users to ery and Purchase Data
Candidate: Martins, Denis Mayr Lima | Supervisors: Vossen, Gottfried
Period of time: 01/10/2015 - 29/02/2020
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Gamification for Business Process Modeling
Candidate: Pflanzl, Nicolas | Supervisors: Vossen, Gottfried
Period of time: 01/10/2012 - 20/09/2017
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
High-Quality Web Information Provisioning and Quality-Based Data Pricing
Candidate: Stahl, Florian | Supervisors: Vossen, Gottfried; Becker, Jörg
Period of time: 01/10/2011 - 07/07/2015
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
The Generic Model Query Language GMQL
Candidate: Steinhorst, Matthias | Supervisors: Becker, Jörg; Vossen, Gottfried
Period of time: 01/04/2010 - 31/07/2014
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
Webanwendungsentwicklung mit XML-Techniken
Candidate: Forster, Christian | Supervisors: Vossen, Gottfried
Period of time: until 24/04/2014
Doctoral examination procedure finished at: Doctoral examination procedure at University of Münster
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