Special Issue on "AI-based assistants and platforms"

Editors

• Rainer Schmidt , 

  Rainer Schmidt

  Rainer Schmidt (rainer.schmidt@hm.edu) is a full professor of business information systems at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from KIT Karlsruhe and a degree in Computer Science. His research interests encompass AI-based assistants, platforms, ecosystems, social information systems, and business process management. He is co-organizer of this minitrack, the BPMDS working conference, and the BPMS2 and SoEA4EE workshops. He was awarded the Oskar von Miller Prize 2018 as the best researcher at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

• Rainer Alt  &

  Rainer Alt

  Rainer Alt (rainer.alt@uni-leipzig.de) is a Full Professor at Leipzig University's Information Systems Institute in Germany. He holds a doctoral (Dr. oec. HSG) as well as a post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. His research focuses on architectures and methods for inter-organizational information systems and digital platforms. He is author of numerous publications on platform, fintech as well as customer-orientation topics and is Editor-in-Chief of this journal.

• Alfred Zimmermann

  Alfred Zimmermann

  Alfred Zimmermann (Alfred.Zimmermann@Reutlingen-University.DE), is professor of computer science at Reutlingen University. He is director of research and coordinator of doctoral programs at the Herman Hollerith Center Böblingen. His research is focused on digital transformation and digital enterprise architecture with decision analytics in relationship with digital strategy and governance, software architecture and engineering, AI, data analytics, IoT, services computing, and cloud computing. He graduated in Medical Informatics at the University of Heidelberg and obtained his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Stuttgart.