Peter Loos

Professor Dr. Peter Loos (1960) is director of the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and head of the Chair of Business Administration and Information Systems at Saarland University. His research activities include business process management, information modeling, enterprise systems, software development as well as implementation of information systems. Professor Loos studied business administration and information systems at the University of Saarland and completed his degree (Dipl.-Kfm.) in 1984. He wrote his PhD thesis on the issue of data modeling in manufacturing systems – awarded with the Dr.-Eduard-Martin-Preis – in 1991 as a research assistant at the Institute for Information Systems (directed by Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer). In 1997, Professor Loos received the venia legendi in business administration. During his earlier career Professor Loos had been chair of information systems & management at the University of Mainz (2002-2005), chair of information systems & management at Chemnitz University of Technology (1998-2002), deputy chair at University of Münster as well as lecturer (Privatdozent) at Saarland University. Furthermore, he had worked for 6 years as manager of the software development department at the software and consulting company IDS Scheer AG. Professor Loos has written several books, contributed to 30 books and published more than 100 papers in journals and proceedings.

Publications

Computer-Assisted E-Customs Transactions: Proposing a System to Support Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Electronically Declaring International Exports
Computer-Assisted E-Customs Transactions: Proposing a System to Support Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Electronically Declaring International Exports
Julian Krumeich, Timo Bredehöft, Dirk Werth, Peter Loos. © 2015. 18 pages.
E-government aims to ease administrative processes based on an electronic handling. While larger enterprises can often benefit from electronically integrated governmental...
Design and Usage of a Process-Centric Collaboration Methodology for Virtual Organizations in Hybrid Environments
Design and Usage of a Process-Centric Collaboration Methodology for Virtual Organizations in Hybrid Environments
Thorsten J. Dollmann, Peter Loos, Michael Fellmann, Oliver Thomas, Andreas Hoheisel, Peter Katranuschkov, Raimar Scherer. © 2013. 20 pages.
This article describes a collaboration methodology for virtual organizations where the processes can be automatically executed using a hybrid web service, grid or cloud...
Ontological Evaluation of Scheer’s Reference Model for Production Planning and Control Systems
Ontological Evaluation of Scheer’s Reference Model for Production Planning and Control Systems
Peter Fettke, Peter Loos. © 2012. 19 pages.
Within the information systems field, reference models have been known for many years. A reference model is a conceptual framework and may be used as a blueprint for information...
Serious Games in Business
Serious Games in Business
Silke Balzert, Lucia Pannese, Marie-Therese Walter, Peter Loos. © 2012. 20 pages.
The intention of this book chapter is to give an overview about Serious Games from a scientific as well as from a business related point of view. As a first step, several...
Process-Oriented Information Modeling and Exchange Paradigm for the Support of Complex after Sales Services with Mobile Technologies: A Case Study in the German Machine and Plant Construction Industry
Process-Oriented Information Modeling and Exchange Paradigm for the Support of Complex after Sales Services with Mobile Technologies: A Case Study in the German Machine and Plant Construction Industry
Nadine Blinn, Markus Nüttgens, Thorsten Dollmann, Oliver Thomas, Peter Loos, Michael Schlicker. © 2011. 18 pages.
As technical products become more complex, the related technical customer services also do. The required information to accomplish technical customer services are dynamic...
Towards eGovernment in the Large: A Requirements-Based Evaluation Framework
Towards eGovernment in the Large: A Requirements-Based Evaluation Framework
Thomas Matheis, Jörg Ziemann, Peter Loos, Daniel Schmidt, Maria Wimmer. © 2011. 17 pages.
An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations nowadays on national, regional and local level requires methods to develop interoperable eGovernment solutions...
Design and Usage of a Process-Centric Collaboration Methodology for Virtual Organizations in Hybrid Environments
Design and Usage of a Process-Centric Collaboration Methodology for Virtual Organizations in Hybrid Environments
Thorsten J. Dollmann, Peter Loos, Michael Fellmann, Oliver Thomas, Andreas Hoheisel, Peter Katranuschkov, Raimar Scherer. © 2011. 20 pages.
This article describes a collaboration methodology for virtual organizations where the processes can be automatically executed using a hybrid web service, grid or cloud...
Requirements Based Evaluation of eGovernment in the Large
Requirements Based Evaluation of eGovernment in the Large
Thomas Matheis, Jörgg Ziemann, Peter Loos, Daniel Schmidt, Maria Wimmer. © 2009. 15 pages.
An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations nowadays on national, regional and local level requires methods to develop interoperable eGovernment solutions...
Transforming Cross-Organisational Processes between European Administrations: Towards a Comprehensive Business Interoperability Interface
Transforming Cross-Organisational Processes between European Administrations: Towards a Comprehensive Business Interoperability Interface
Jörg Ziemann, Peter Loos. © 2009. 24 pages.
New legal settings, the need for improved quality of service, and technological advances increase the pressure on public administrations to cooperate in order to modernize and...
Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis
Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis
Peter Fettke, Peter Loos. © 2007. 410 pages.
Conceptual models play an increasingly important role in all phases of the information systems life cycle. Despite being vital for developing information systems, the modeling...
Using UML for Reference Modeling
Using UML for Reference Modeling
Peter Fettke, Peter Loos, Jörg Zwicker. © 2007. 32 pages.
Within the Information Systems field, information modeling is a vital instrument to develop information systems. However, the modeling process is often resource-consuming and...
Modeling the Resource Perspective of Business Processes by UML Activity Diagram and Object Petri Net
Modeling the Resource Perspective of Business Processes by UML Activity Diagram and Object Petri Net
Kamyar Sarshar, Peter Loos. © 2007. 27 pages.
Given that business processes are performed in an organizational context, it is essential that process modeling notations provide proper mechanisms to represent the resources...
Perspectives on Reference Modeling
Perspectives on Reference Modeling
Peter Fettke, Peter Loos. © 2007. 21 pages.
Conceptual models play an increasingly important role in all phases of the information systems life cycle. For instance, they are used for business engineering, information...
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS)
International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (IJEIS)
Gianluigi Viscusi. Est. 2005.
Global markets and competition have forced companies to operate in a physically distributed environment to take the advantage of benefits of strategic alliances between...
Ontological Analysis of Reference Models
Ontological Analysis of Reference Models
Peter Fettke, Peter Loos. © 2005. 26 pages.
Within the information systems field, reference models have been known for many years. A reference model is a conceptual framework and may be used as a blueprint for information...