Research Group 
"Electronic Business - Electronic Markets"

Electronic Business has seen a dramatic increase in the last years. In particular, the area of business-to-consumer electronic commerce has attracted much interest. A number of applications in the BtC area are well-known and have been in successful operation.

The research group on electronic markets concentrates on the area of business-to-business electronic commerce and looks in particular at electronic marketplaces. The emphasis is on the computer science view on electronic business. Topics of research include

 

	Electronic negotiations
	Intelligent search mechanisms
	Business ontologies
	Business data management
	Monitoring electronic transactions
	Brokering and mediating of electronic commerce
	Enabling electronic commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises
	Electronic marketplaces for the chemical industry
	Electronic marketplaces for the construction industry

Meetings

The group meets regularly to discuss current research. All group members contribute to these meetings. Individual work is presented and coordination efforts are made towards achieving a coherent integration into large prototypes and frameworks.

Group members

	Dr. Mareike Schoop
	Dipl.-Inform. Aida Jertila
	Dipl.-Inform. Jörg Köller
	Dipl.-Math. Thomas List
	Dipl.-Inform. Christoph Quix
	Moez ur Rehman, MSc

	Yiwei Cao
	En Chen
	Samuel Okae
	Kostas Papadimitropoulos
	Michael Schnitzler
	Dirk Staskiewicz
	Isabel Vasquez
	Qi Wang
	Christoph Weidmann

Contact

Students who are interested in joining the group are invited to discuss their interests with the group leader 
Dr. Mareike Schoop