Experts & Expertise

• Cooperative information systems
• Data warehouse
• Databases
• Information management
• Information systems
• Knowledge representation
• Meta models
• Modeling

Manfred Jeusfeld studied computer science (minor Operations Research) from 1980 to 1986 at the University of Technology Aachen (RWTH), Germany. After getting his Diploma degree, he moved to University of Passau, Germany, to join the institute of Prof. Matthias Jarke. He worked on development support for database applications and on foundations of deductive & object-oriented databases. In 1992 he received his Doctoral degree from the University of Passau.

In 1992 he returned to the RWTH Aachen as a senior researcher of the Information Systems Institute (Informatik V). He led research projects in the areas of distributed cooperative information systems, meta modelling techniques, and medical terminology. He has been the principal developer of the ConceptBase system which is now used by about 200 institutes and companies world-wide for designing information systems.

In 1995, he spend one year as a visiting assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Information & Systems Management. There, he worked on interoperable decision support systems and information architectures for electronic shops.

Since 1997, he is assistant professor in the department Information Systems and Management (ISM) at the faculty of economics of the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. His research covers cooperative conceptual modeling, data warehouse quality management, method engineering, and repository systems.

Since 2007, he is research coordinator of the research group Computerized Information Systems (CIS), responsible for the fundamental research on information systems at the department ISM.

Dr. Jeusfeld has published more than 10 journal articles (Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, etc.) and numerous conference articles. He is area editor for the Requirements Engineering Journal. He is or has been reviewer for international journals like Transactions on Informations Systems and conferences including ICIS, VLDB, CAiSE, ER and others.

Memberships: ACM, SIGMOD, IEEE, ACM-German Chapter

1. European Network of Excellence InterOp (2004-2007; 40 KEURO) on Enterprise Application
   Integration
2. Co-operation with LCN Nijmegen (2000; 15.000 NLG) on design method for hyperbook
   system to be used in professional education
3. Co-operation with Ericsson Rijen (1998; 1 person year) on charging modelling for telephone
   calls
4. ESPRIT Project MEMO (1998-2001; 1.5 person per year ) on moderation for electronic
   commerce; co-workpackage leader for business data management
5. SFB 1587 IMPROVE (1997-2000; 1 person per year), a long-term German research
   project on information infrastructure for chemical process industry
6. ESPRIT LTR Project 22469 Foundations of Data Warehouse Quality (1996-1 999; 1
   person per year)
7. EU Telematics Engineering Project TE2003 Interoperable Tools for Cooperation Support
   using the World-Wide Web; result of this project was the BSCW system that is now in
   widespread use (1996-1998; 2 person per year)
8. Hong Kong Industrial Board/Electronic Commerce Project for development of electronic
   shopping software (1995-1997; 1 person per year)
9. BMFT MEDWIS/KONTAKT (1995-1997; 0.5 person per year); a German project on terminology servers for medical experts
10. BMFT WIBQUS (1992-1995; 1 person per year); a German project on coopertative information systems for industrial quality management
11. ESPRIT COMPULOG I+II (1987-1995; 1 person per year) on computational logic, esp.
    knowledge base systems
12. ESPRIT DAIDA (1986-1990; 1 person per year) on design aids for database applications

M.A. Jeusfeld teaches the following subjects:

• Workflow Management (320078) Further information
• Method Engineering (320063) Further information
• IS Analysis and Design (320073) Further information

Research Coordinator of the research group Computerized Information Systems (since 2007)

Publisher of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CEUR-WS.org (since 1994)

Associate Information Director of ACM-Sigmod (since 2002)

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