Prof. Dr. Marcus Spies

address:: Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; Institute for Informatics; Programming and Modeling Languages (head: Prof. Dr. F. Bry); Oettingenstr. 67; D-80538 Munich
office: room 3116 (Leopoldstr. 13; D-80802 Munich): tel: +49-89-2180-5164; fax: +49-89-2180-5002
e-mail: m a r c u s . s p i e s {at} lmu°de
consulting hours:: after courses and seminars and by appointment

Research

Current research

IT Governance and Compliance Management for Cloud Services. Cooperation with the Cloud Security Alliance.
Knowledge Management in Continuous Monitoring and Auditing. Operational risk modelling and management. Cooperation with the Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab at Rutgers Business School, Newark, NJ.
Multi-Industry Next Generation Semantics Based Business Intelligence (MUSING) -- an integrated project funded by the European Commission in Framework 6. Marcus is scientific / technical director of this project.
Intelligent regulatory compliance management -- cooperation with the Open Compliance and Ethics Group and KnowGravity, Zurich.
Integration of business rules processing in business process management systems (cooperation with IBM Global Services, diploma thesis and several joint publications).
Content management systems and repositories (prototype for automotive product design (cooperation with BMW, semantics enabled content repositories)
Service Computing, Service Composition (cooperation with Fujitsu Software Corporation and others)
Ontology-based knowledge management (cooperation with Infraserv Gendorf and Wacker Chemicals)
Knowledge management processes and search engine support in a decentralized global financial services provider (cooperation with Allianz AG)

Research interests

Enterprise Architectures
Business Processes Management Systems
Enterprise Application and Information Integration
Enterprise Knowledge Management
Web Services and Service oriented Architectures
Business reporting (XBRL) taxonomies, business rules, and compliance management
Risk and Compliance Management
Semantics enabled Business Analytics (Knowledge Discovery, Text mining)
Information security in business processes
Knowledge Discovery (neural networks, statistical approaches)
Cognitive Systems and Speech Processing

Industry projects

Process Modelling for Secure Transactions and e-business
Optimization in multimode Transportation Problems
Statistical Language Models for Speech Recognition
Expert Systems for Environmental Monitoring

(These are just a few of the projects I led or participated in during my 14 years as IBM researcher and senior consultant.)

Memberships and Awards

Organizer of the IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference at LMU in 2008
Program Chair of the IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference at MITRE in 2007
Program Committees (selection)
- Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Track Knowledge Management.
- Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE) at IEEE EDOC 2006 (as coordinating organizer, see the presentations).
- Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management.
- Workshop for Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI), since 2004
- BITKOM KnowTech Conference, Systems Munich, since 2002.
- Human Centered Processes, ENST Brest, 1999.
From October 2006 to September 2008 Visiting Professor at Computer Science Lab DERI Digital Enterprise Research Institute at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department of Innsbruck University.
Since November 2005 Guest Professor at Computer Science Lab LISTIC of Université de Savoie (Technolac in Chambéry)
Since 2002 instructor at university of Würzburg MBA programme business integration
2002 and 2004 instructor at university of Chemnitz knowledge management executive MBA
1997-1999 President of the German Cognitive Science Society
1995 Patent Application Award for innovative solutions in speech recognition. The invention has subsequently become a patent in Germany, the U.S., and in Japan.
1988 Best PhD thesis award from the German Society of Psychological Research.

Presentations and Conferences (sel.)

From Business Processes to Application Integration -- Model-based Development with WS-BPEL 2.0 20th OOP 2011 -- Software meets business. Nightschool on Jan 27th, 2011. Organized by SIGS Datacom
Information Extraction based Monitoring of Intangibles and Risk Measurement Rutgers Business School, Continuous Auditing and Reporting Lab Comprehensive Firm Valuation Symposium on Sept 14, 2010.
Towards an ontology model of XBRL reporting taxonomies 20th XBRL Conference Rome, April 20-22, 2010.
The semantics enabled next generation Data Warehouse – Results and Industry applications of the EU MUSING project 20th XBRL Conference Rome, April 20-22, 2010.
Next Generation BI -- turning unstructured data into business value PROWIS Forschungsverbund, Fraunhofer IFF and Kolloquium of the Department of Informatics at LMU, February and March 2009
Publishing of Asynchronous Web Services and Processes in UDDI Workflow Management Coalition Meeting, Miami, FL, 02/06/2006.
New Standards in Business Process Management Colloquium at the chair of software technology, Mannheim university, 02/13/2006, and at the Computer Science Lab LISTIC, Université de Savoie, 08/12/2005.
Wissensmanagement am Arbeitsplatz VDI Mannheim, 02/22/2005
Wissensmanagement im Geschäftsprozeß Hertie Stiftung, 04/15/2005
Sichere Geschäftsprozesse als Grundlage des e-business. IT Manager Forum, Systems99, München, 19.10. 1999; Kolloquium des Inst. f. Informatik, Jena, 22. 11.1999; CeBIT 2000 Company Lectures, Hannover, 24.-27.2. 2000.

Courses

Courses at institute for informatics

Business Process Modeling and Management Systems
Enterprise Application and Information Integration
Speech Recognition and integrated Dialogue Systems
Information Security and Security Infrastructures for Business Processes
Enterprise Information Portals and Knowledge Management (seminar)

For documentation, see the web sites of PMS at IFI

Courses at the faculty of education sciences

Knowledge and Information Management
Introduction to Logic and Knowledge Representation
Structuring Organization Knowledge -- From Ontologies to the Semantic Web (seminar)
Methods and Tools for Content Management (seminar)
Statistical Methods for Knowledge Discovery (seminar)

documentation of these courses and seminars is available for registered students on our LMU collaboration platform

hosted by LMU knowledge management.

Publications

see Marcus Spies' publications list at DBLP, further publications can be retrieved from IEEE Digital Library and related web resources.

Last modified: Feb 10 14:15 CEST 2010