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The common underlying theme of my research is process-, agent- and goal-oriented modeling in the context of collaborative knowledge management. Currently, I am especially interested in two specific streams of research:
- Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design of Social Computing Applications
With more and more information being produced by society, we increasingly depend on computer algorithms to prioritize and sort out relevant information for us (such as Google’s search for the internet). In turn, computer algorithms increasingly depend on social and human activities, such as the implicit “voting” of internet users by setting links (Google’s PageRank algorithm [52]), to achieve their purpose. Together, these systems constitute highly complex, compound actors in which the boundaries between social and computer systems are increasingly eroding, and in which human knowledge gets embodied in the systems' structure.
By focussing on social factors, social computing applications such as social sharing, social search or social authoring applications represent an especially interesting technology for facilitating knowledge transfer between distributed individuals and groups. On a more conceptual level, social computing applications provide the software services, tools and instruments that support and facilitate social interactions. Due to the compound social-technological systems' structure, important factors in social computing applications are the stakeholders, and their acceptance, motivation and goals. As a result, analyzing the motivations and goals from different interdependent stakeholders is critical. In my research, I am interested in agent- and goal-oriented conceptual modeling techniques for the analysis and design of social interactions in social computing applications.
Selected Paper: Analyzing knowledge transfer effectiveness - An agent-oriented approach.pdf
- Intentional Structures and Representations for the Web
Many activities on the web are driven by high-level goals of users, such as "planning a trip" or "buying a product". Yet, the web - in its current form - is largely non-intentional, i.e. it lacks explicit intentional structures. As a result, users have to cognitively translate their high-level goals into (often non-intentional) search queries, tags, concepts or classifications. This makes it hard for web applications (such as search engines) to capture, recognize, refine and act upon users' high-level goals. I am interested in the development of techniques and algorithms to capture and guide user intent on the web, the development of semi-automatic techniques for the construction of intentional representations (e.g. collaboratively constructed goal graphs) and the development of instruments to associate goals and goal graphs with (textual or multi-media) ressources.
Selected Papers:
[1] How do users express goals on the web? - An exploration of intentional structures in web search.pdf
[2] Different degrees of explicitness in intentional artifacts - Studying user goals in a large search query log.pdf
Research collaborators include the Know-Center (Graz University of Technology), Eric Yu (University of Toronto) and Mathias Lux (Klagenfurt University)
Conferences related to my research interests include, but are not limited to: RE'07, CAiSE'07, BPM'07, HICSS-40, ER'07, ICIS'07, ECIS'07, I-Know'07.
Journals related to these interests include KM journals such as the J.UKM, Journal of Knowledge and Process Management, International Journal of KM, Journal of KM, Journal of KM Research and Practice, IS journals such as MISQ, ISR, JMIS, JEIM and SE/RE journals/magazines such as the International Journal of SE&KE, IEEE Software, Transactions of SE and the RE Journal.
A tagged bibliography of papers I am interested in is available via bibsonomy.org/user/mstrohm - and via RSS  .
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Books
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Markus Strohmaier, B-KIDE: A Framework and a Tool for Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures, Shaker Verlag, ISBN 3-8322-3620-1, January, 2005. (pdf)
Book Chapters
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Wolfgang Kienreich and Markus Strohmaier,
Chapter Wissensmodellierung als Grundlage für die Anwendung semantischer Technologien, in "Semantic Web - Wege zur vernetzten Wissensgesellschaft", Springer Publishing, 2006.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
- M. Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, Rapid Knowledge Work Visualization for Organizations, Journal of Knowledge Management, Emerald Publishing, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2007. (pdf)
- H. Rollett, M. Lux, M. Strohmaier, G. Dösinger and K. Tochtermann, The Web 2.0 Way of Learning with Technologies, International Journal of Learning Technology, Volume 3, Issue 1, Inderscience Publishers. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and K. Tochtermann, B-KIDE: A Framework and a Tool for Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructure Development", Journal of Knowledge and Process Management, John Wiley & Sons, Volume 12 Issue 3, July 2005. (pdf)
Peer-Reviewed Conference and Workshop Publications
- M. Strohmaier, P. Prettenhofer, M. Lux, Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts - Studying User Goals in a Large Search Query Log, CSKGOI'08 International Workshop on Commonsense Knowledge and Goal Oriented Interfaces, in conjunction with IUI'08, Canary Islands, Spain, 2008. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier, M. Lux, M. Granitzer, P. Scheir, S. Liaskos, E. Yu, How Do Users Express Goals on the Web? -
An Exploration of Intentional Structures in Web Search, We Know'07 International Workshop on Collaborative Knowledge Management for Web Information Systems in conjunction with WISE'07, Nancy, France, 2007. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier, E. Yu, J. Horkoff, J. Aranda and S. Easterbrook, Analyzing Knowledge Transfer Effectiveness – An Agent-Oriented Approach, In Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40 2007), January 3-9, IEEE Computer Society, Hawaii, USA, 2007. Best Paper Nomination (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, A Hybrid Approach to Identifying and Visualizing Distributed Knowledge Work Practices, In Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40 2007), January 3-9, IEEE Computer Society, Hawaii, USA, 2007. (pdf)
- E. Yu, M. Strohmaier and X. Deng, Exploring Intentional Modeling and Analysis for Enterprise Architecture. In Proceedings of the EDOC 2006 Conference Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR 2006), IEEE Computer Society, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2006. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and E. Yu, Towards Autonomic Workflow Management Systems. In Proceedings of CASCON2006: The 16th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2006), Toronto, Canada, 2006. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, Application of Knowledge Problem Patterns in Process Oriented Organizations. In: Professional Knowledge Management: Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Editors: Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick, Thomas Roth-Berghofer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 3782, Springer Publishing, 2005. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, Beyond Flexible Information Systems:
Why Business Agility Matters, Sixth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS'05) during CAiSE’05, Porto, Portugal, 2005. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier and H. Rollett, Future Research Challenges in Business Agility – Time, Control and Information Systems, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Business Transformation during the 7th International IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology, IEEE Press, Munich, Germany, 2005. (pdf)
- M. Strohmaier, S. Lindstaedt, W. Dietrich, P. Koronakis, Knowledge Problems in Process-Oriented Organizations: A Pattern Approach, In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM2005), Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2005. (pdf)
- Janez Hrastnik, Herwig Rollett, Markus Strohmaier, Heterogenes Wissen über Prozesse als Grundlage für die Geschäftsprozessverbesserung,
Prozesswissen als Erfolgsfaktor - Effiziente Kombination von Prozessmanagement und Wissensmanagement. Hrsg.: Engelhardt, C./Hall, K./Ortner, J., Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Austria, 2004. (pdf)
- Markus Strohmaier, Designing Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures,
Proceedings der GI Workshopwoche, Workshop der Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement, Karlsruhe - Germany, 2003. (pdf)
- Markus Strohmaier, A Business Process oriented Approach for the Identification and Support of organizational Knowledge Processes,
Proceedings der 4. Oldenburger Fachtagung Wissensmanagement, Oldenburg - Germany, 2003. (pdf)
- S. Lindstaedt, M. Strohmaier, J. Farmer, J. Hrastnik, H. Rollett, Integration von Prozess- und Wissensmanagement-orientierten Designstrategien zur Erstellung benutzerfreundlicher Unternehmensportale,
Proceedings der 2. Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement (WM2003), Springer-Verlag, Luzern - Switzerland, 2003. (pdf)
- S. Lindstaedt, M. Strohmaier, H. Rollett, J. Hrastnik, K. Bruhnsen, G. Droschl, M. Gerold. KMap: Providing Orientation for Practitioners when Introducing Knowledge Management,
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM 2002), Springer Verlag, Vienna - Austria, 2002. (pdf)
Other Publications
- A. Gordon, C. Havasi, M. Lux and M. Strohmaier, Common Sense and Goal-Oriented Interfaces. Proceedings of the 2008
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. January 13-16,
2008, Canary Islands, Spain. (pdf)
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Workshop Organization
Editorial Activities
- Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Emerald Publishing
Member of the Editorial Review Board
- J.UKM Special Issue on Knowledge Infrastructures for the Support of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes
edited by Markus Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria, Volume 0, Issue 2, 2005
- J.UCS Special Issue on Business Process Oriented Knowledge Infrastructures
edited by Markus Strohmaier and S. Lindstaedt, Know-Center Graz, Austria, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2005
- Graz Series on Knowledge Management
Initiator and Editor of the Graz Series on Knowledge Management that publishes dissertations on the topic of knowledge management
Selected Program Committee Memberships and Reviewing Activities
- IBM Systems Journal (IBM SJ)
Reviewer in 2007
- Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS)
Reviewer for a 2008 Special Issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) on Collaboration Engineering
- Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
Reviewer for a 2008 Special Issue of the Journal of Management Information Systems
- Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS)
Reviewer for the Communications of the Association of Information Systems
- Workshop TEAR 2007 in conjunction with ECIS 2007
Program Committee Member of the 2nd Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture, Switzerland
- Book “The Geospatial Web”
Editorial Reviewer for the book “The Geospatial Web”, Editors A. Scharl and K. Tochtermann, Springer Publishing, Germany
- Workshop BPMDS 2007 in conjunction with CAiSE 2007
Program Committee Member of the 8th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support, Norway
- Minitrack Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange In Organizations during HICSS 40
Reviewer for the Minitrack Knowledge Management Systems - Knowledge Flows, Transfer, Sharing and Exchange In Organizations, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Minitrack Designing Collaboration Processes & Systems during HICSS 40
Reviewer for the Minitrack Designing Collaboration Processes & Systems, Hawaii, U.S.A.
- Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
Reviewer
- Technology Enhanced Learning Conference EC-TEL 2006
Reviewer for the First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Crete, Greece
- Knowledge Management Track during ICIS 2006
Reviewer of the Knowledge Management Track, Milwaukee, U.S.A.
- CSAC 2006 in conjunction with ICEIS 2006
Program Committee Member of the Third International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination, Paphos, Cyprus
- BPMDS 2006 in conjunction with CAISE 2006
Program Committee Member of the 7th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support: Requirements for flexibility and the ways to achieve it, Luxembourg
- Workshop on Similarities - Processes - Workflows in conjunction with ICCBR 2005
Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Similarities, Processes, Workflows, Chicago, U.S.A.
- CSAC-2005 in conjunction with ICEIS 2005
Program Committee Member of the Second International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination
- Knowledge Management Track during ICIS2005
Reviewer of the Knowledge Management Track
- LSO'04 in conjunction with SEKE 2004
Program Committee Member of the VIth International Workshop on Learning Software Organisations
- CSAC-2004 in conjunction with ICEIS 2004
Auxiliary Reviewer of the First International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination
Memberships
- IEEE CS, ACM, GI, Member
- PWM, the largest KM community in German-speaking countries, Management Team Member
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last update:
22-Jan-2008
