15 research outputs found

    Research in Business Process Management: A bibliometric analysis

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    It contains several growing subtopics such as process mining, process flexibility and process compliance. BPM is also highly relevant for numerous related fields, such as Business Intelligence, ERP systems or Knowledge Management. The growing number of publications and the variety of topics in BPM make it useful to apply bibliometric methods on this scientific field. With bibliometric methods, topical clusters, essential authors and the relationships between them can be discovered. In this work, the BibTechMon software from the Austrian Institute of Technology is utilized to perform the bibliometric analyses. As a novelty for the work with BibTechMon, data from Google Scholar is used as the basis of the analyses. The nature of Google Scholar data differs significantly from the data of other scientific databases. These differences lead to changes on how the bibliometric analyses can be performed. After these changes have been assessed, several bibliometric analyses in the BPM field and related fields are performed. As a result of these analyses, diverse topical clusters in BPM and its related fields could be discovered. Additionally, important authors for each cluster and for the BPM field as a whole were determined. In order to evaluate the results of the bibliometric analyses, I conducted an interview on BPM with Professor Reichert, who is an active researcher in the field. Subsequently, his statements are compared with the results of the bibliometric analyses and the match between the bibliometric analyses and his statements is assessed

    A list of websites and reading materials on strategy & complexity

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    The list has been developed based on a broad interpretation of the subject of ‘strategy & complexity’. Resources will therefore more, or less directly relate to ‘being strategic in the face of complexity’. Many of the articles and reports referred to in the attached bibliography can be accessed and downloaded from the internet. Most books can be found at amazon.com where you will often find a number of book reviews and summaries as well. Sometimes, reading the reviews will suffice and will give you the essence of the contents of the book after which you do not need to buy it. If the book looks interesting enough, buying options are easy

    Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis

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    The aim of this study is to map the intellectual structure of the field of Information Retrieval (IR) during the period of 1987-1997. Co-word analysis was employed to reveal patterns and trends in the IR field by measuring the association strengths of terms representative of relevant publications or other texts produced in IR field. Data were collected from Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) for the period of 1987-1997. In addition to the keywords added by the SCI and SSCI databases, other important keywords were extracted from titles and abstracts manually. These keywords were further standardized using vocabulary control tools. In order to trace the dynamic changes of the IR field, the whole 11-year period was further separated into two consecutive periods: 1987-1991 and 1992-1997. The results show that the IR field has some established research themes and it also changes rapidly to embrace new themes

    A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS

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    VOS is a new mapping technique that can serve as an alternative to the well-known technique of multidimensional scaling. We present an extensive comparison between the use of multidimensional scaling and the use of VOS for constructing bibliometric maps. In our theoretical analysis, we show the mathematical relation between the two techniques. In our experimental analysis, we use the techniques for constructing maps of authors, journals, and keywords. Two commonly used approaches to bibliometric mapping, both based on multidimensional scaling, turn out to produce maps that suffer from artifacts. Maps constructed using VOS turn out not to have this problem. We conclude that in general maps constructed using VOS provide a more satisfactory representation of a data set than maps constructed using well-known multidimensional scaling approaches

    Developing Construction CAD-Based Experience Management System

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    Informationsvisualisierung am Beispiel des Begriffs Informationskompetenz: Eine szientometrische Untersuchung unter Verwendung von BibExcel und VOSviewer

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    Objective — Due to the rapid growth of literature on information literacy, overview and review articles are becoming increasingly important. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the scientific literature using a science mapping approach. Methods — The software tools BibExcel and VOSviewer were used to analyze 1589 scientific papers dealing with information literacy and to create three different types of visualizations. Results — There is a relatively large international author-network in which most of the main authors are connected to each other. The most important topics are: teaching information literacy in higher education, information search behaviour, workplace information literacy and phenomenography. Conclusions — Most of the dimensions have already been mentioned in various review articles. However, until now they have not been visualized jointly using science mapping techniques. Therefore, this article for the first time shows the “big picture” of the scientific literature. Future researchers could use different science mapping tools or visualization techniques

    The integration of lessons learned knowledge in Building Information Modelling (BIM)

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    Lessons learned systems are vital means for integrating construction knowledge into the various phases of the construction project life cycle. Many such systems are tailored towards the owner organisation’s specific needs and workflows to overcome challenges with information collection, documentation and retrieval. Previous works have relied on the development of conventional local and network/cloud-based database management systems to store and retrieve lessons gathered on projects. These lessons learned systems operate independently and have not been developed to take full advantage of the benefits of integration with emerging building information modelling (BIM) technology. As such construction professionals are faced with the shortcomings of the lack in efficient and speedy retrieval of context-focused information on lessons learned for appropriate utilization in projects. To tackle this challenge, we propose the integration of lesson learned knowledge management in BIM in addition to existing 2D-8D modelling of project information. The integration was implemented through the embedding of non –structured query system, NoSQL (MongoDB), in a BIM enabled environment to host lessons learned information linked to model items and 4D modelling project tasks of the digitised model. This is beyond existing conventional text-based queries and is novel. The system is implemented in .NET Frameworks and interfaced with a project management BIM tool, Navisworks Manage. The demonstration with a test case of a federated model from a pre-design school project suggests that lessons learned systems can become an integral part of BIM environments and contribute to enhancing knowledge reuse in projects

    Robuste und kontextbezogene AusfĂŒhrung mobiler AktivitĂ€ten in Prozessumgebungen

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    IT-Trendanalysten sehen das Thema "MobilitĂ€t" als eine wichtige SĂ€ule nachhaltiger IT-Lösungen. Der Trend in Richtung mobiler IT-Anwendungen wird maßgeblich durch Millenials getrieben, d.h. Menschen die mit dem digitalen Zeitalter aufgewachsen sind. Diese erwarten insbesondere auch eine Integration von Smart-MobilgerĂ€ten in bestehende IT-Lösungen. In Bezug auf Prozess-Management-Technologie bedeutet dieser Trend, dass Smart-MobilgerĂ€te in IT-gestĂŒtzte Arbeits- bzw. ProzessablĂ€ufe nahtlos integriert werden können mĂŒssen. Insbesondere sollten sowohl einzelne AktivitĂ€ten (d.h. Prozessschritte) als auch ganze Prozessfragmente (d.h. Ausschnitte eines Prozesses) auf Smart-MobilgerĂ€ten ausfĂŒhrbar sein. Die vorliegende Arbeit adressiert eine solche Integration von Prozess-Management-Technologie und Smart-MobilgerĂ€ten. Konkret wird untersucht, wie ausgewĂ€hlte AktivitĂ€ten eines Prozesses robust und kontextbezogen auf Smart-MobilgerĂ€ten ausgefĂŒhrt werden können und welche weitergehenden Anforderungen sich fĂŒr mobil ausgefĂŒhrte AktivitĂ€ten im Vergleich zur AusfĂŒhrung von AktivitĂ€ten auf stationĂ€ren Systemen ergeben. Da Smart-MobilgerĂ€te beschrĂ€nkte Ressourcen besitzen und das Risiko eines Ausfalls höher als bei stationĂ€ren Systemen ist, erfordern diese Aspekte tiefergehende Untersuchungen. DarĂŒber hinaus erfordert die UnterstĂŒtzung mobiler AktivitĂ€ten eine technische Umgebung, in der Prozesse ausgefĂŒhrt werden (sog. Prozessumgebung). Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die nahtlose Integration von Smart-MobilgerĂ€ten in eine Prozessumgebung einen mobilen Kontext (d.h. Attribute wie z.B. AusfĂŒhrungsort, GerĂ€teeigenschaften und Netzverbindung) erfordert. Auf dessen Basis wird ein umfassendes Rahmenwerk eingefĂŒhrt, mit dem sich mobile AktivitĂ€ten robust und kontextbezogen in einer Prozessumgebung ausfĂŒhren lassen. Das Rahmenwerk fußt auf fĂŒnf technischen SĂ€ulen, deren Konzepte die robuste und kontextbezogene AusfĂŒhrung bewerkstelligen. DarĂŒber hinaus wird gezeigt, wie sich die vorgestellte Lösung in existierende Prozess-Management-Technologie integrieren lĂ€sst. Insgesamt eröffnet eine robuste und kontextbezogene AusfĂŒhrung mobiler AktivitĂ€ten in einer Prozessumgebung neue Perspektiven fĂŒr die Einbindung von Endanwendern in ihre Prozesse

    Methodological Advances in Bibliometric Mapping of Science

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    Bibliometric mapping of science is concerned with quantitative methods for visually representing scientific literature based on bibliographic data. Since the first pioneering efforts in the 1970s, a large number of methods and techniques for bibliometric mapping have been proposed and tested. Although this has not resulted in a single generally accepted methodological standard, it did result in a limited set of commonly used methods and techniques. In this thesis, a new methodology for bibliometric mapping is presented. It is argued that some well-known methods and techniques for bibliometric mapping have serious shortcomings. For instance, the mathematical justification of a number of commonly used normalization methods is criticized, and popular multidimensional-scaling-based approaches for constructing bibliometric maps are shown to suffer from artifacts, especially when working with larger data sets. The methodology introduced in this thesis aims to provide improved methods and techniques for bibliometric mapping. The thesis contains an extensive mathematical analysis of normalization methods, indicating that the so-called association strength measure has the most satisfactory mathematical properties. The thesis also introduces the VOS technique for constructing bibliometric maps, where VOS stands for visualization of similarities. Compared with well-known multidimensional-scaling-based approaches, the VOS technique is shown to produce more satisfactory maps. In addition to the VOS mapping technique, the thesis also presents the VOS clustering technique. Together, these two techniques provide a unified framework for mapping and clustering. Finally, the VOSviewer software for constructing, displaying, and exploring bibliometric maps is introduced
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