Business information systems and technology 4.0 : new trends in the age of digital change / Rolf Dornberger, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Digitalization : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Rolf Dornberger, Terry Inglese, Safak Korkut and Vivienne Jia Zhong -- Part I. Information systems. ERP systems towards digital transformation / Petra Maria Asprion, Bettina Schneider and Frank Grimberg ; Determining information relevance based on personalization techniques to meet specific user needs / Barbara Thönssen, Hans Friedrich Witschel and Oleg Rusinov ; Case-based reasoning for process experience / Andreas Martin and Knut Hinkelmann ; Road to agile requirements engineering : lessons learned from a web app project / Rainer Telesko -- Part II. E-business applications. E-Business in the era of digital transformation / Uwe Leimstoll, Achim Dannecker, Hanspeter Knechtli, Michael Quade, Christian Tanner and Ralf Wölfle ; Digitalizing B2B business processes : the learnings from E-invoicing / Christian Tanner and Sarah-Louise Richter ; Marketing automation / Martina Dalla Vecchia and Marc K. Peter -- Part III. Web 2.0 revolution. FHNW maturity models for cloud and enterprise IT / Stella Gatziu Grivas, Marco Peter, Claudio Giovanoli and Kathrin Hubli ; Digital transformation management and digital business development / Dino Schwaferts and Shama Baldi ; Using feedback systems thinking to explore theories of digital business for medtech companies / Michael von Kutzschenbach, Alexander Schmid and Lukas Schoenenberger ; Ontology-based metamodeling / Knut Hinkelmann, Emanuele Laurenzi, Andreas Martin and Barbara Thönssen -- Part IV. Artificial intelligence. Searching and browsing in historical documents : state of the art and novel approaches for template-based keyword spotting / Michael Stauffer, Andreas Fischer and Kaspar Riesen ; How to teach blockchain in a business school / Walter Dettling ; Computational intelligence in modelling, simulation, optimization, and control / Thomas Hanne and Rolf Dornberger ; Innovation potential for human computer interaction domains in the digital enterprise / Stephan Jüngling, Jonas Lutz, Safak Korkut and Janine Jäger ; Prototype-based research on immersive virtual reality and on self-replicating robots / Rolf Dornberger, Safak Korkut, Jonas Lutz, Janina Berga and Janine Jäger ; Co-robots from an ethical perspective / Oliver Bendel.

This book discusses digitalization trends and their concrete applications in business and societal contexts. It summarizes new findings from research, teaching and management activities comprising digital transformation, e-business, the representation of knowledge, human-computer interaction and business optimization. The trends discussed include artificial intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, blockchain, and many more. Professors and researchers who conduct research and teach at the interface between academia and business present the latest advances in their field. The book adopts the philosophy of applied sciences and combines both rigorous research and practical applications. As such, it addresses the needs of both professors and researchers, who are constantly seeking inspiration, and of managers seeking to tap the potential of the latest trends to take their business to the next level. Readers will find answers to pressing questions that arise in their daily work -- page 4 of cover.