The International Conferencde on Business Information Systems (Wirtschaftsinformatik) is the most important academic conference in the German-speaking countries and comprises 19 academic tracks as well as numerous workshops and panels. Between September 16 and 19, 2024, the conference will be…
A new special issue on the Metaverse has now been published in the journal Internet Research. Titled "The Opportunities and Challenges in the Metaverse", the guest editors Xusen Cheng (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Jian Mou (Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea), Xiao-Liang…
With the recently published preface on "The future of fintech — Towards ubiquitous financial services" the third special issue on financial technology (fintech) in the journal Electronic Markets s completed. The special issue was organized by Rainer Alt, Gilbert Fridgen and Younghoon Chang and…
In December 2023, a new cooperation agreement was signed between the Faculty of Economics at Leipzig University and the School of Tourism and Hotel Management at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea. The aim is to intensify cooperation in the field of smart tourism in the form of research…
A new fundamental on assistant platforms by Rainer Schmidt, Rainer Alt and Alfred Zimmermann has been published in the academic journal Electronic Markets. It is a fundamental article on the assistance systems that have emerged in recent years, such as voice (e.g. Alexa, Siri, Messenger) and text…
At the International Conference on Information Systems (WI 2023) in Paderborn on September 21, three teams of authors presented their work in the conference track "Innovative Prototypes & Impact of IS". The track, organized by Rainer Alt, Susanne Leist (University of Regensburg) and Stefan Morana…