CEIR presents at WI 2024

Last week (16.09-19.09.2024), our research team attended the Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2024), the most important German Conference on Information Systems. Petra Schubert, Martin Just and Lucas Schlömer participated in the conference, which was hosted in the modern facilities of the University of Würzburg. Martin Just presented a paper entitled “Using Materialised Ontology-Based Data Access (MOBDA) for the Harmonisation of Trace Data from Enterprise Collaboration Systems”, which had been accepted for inclusion in the proceedings (acceptance rate: 21% in this track).

In the paper presentation, Martin focused on the building blocks and applicability of MOBDA. He demonstrated how MOBDA can be used to harmonise trace data from collaboration systems. The MOBDA approach builds on existing ontologies and frameworks and aims to improve data integration and consistency across different platforms used in enterprise environments. By materialising selected parts of the ontology, the data retrieval process can be significantly enhanced, making it easier for business analysts to retrieve and analyse the data. The method is particularly useful for large datasets where traditional query methods may be too slow. To illustrate its application, Martin presented three replication studies which were used to successfully evaluate the method. We are happy that, with our work on materialised ontology-based data access, we have provided a new method that can be used by academics as well as practitioners for longitudinal collaboration analytics.