Tilburg School of Economics and Management

Completed Projects


. Apollo: Scriptie Wizard
. DECOMATE II
. Euroterm
. MEMO
. NEFETI 1
. NEFETI 2
. PIEC
. PRONIR
. TICS
. TREVI

Apollo: Scriptie Wizard
As part of the nation-wide Apollo Project, the Department of Information Management designed and implemented the Scriptie Wizard. This is a tool to support the administrative and intellectual processes surrounding the production of written theses of all kinds. Primary targets are the Bachelors Thesis in the third study year and the Graduation Thesis in the fourth year.
For questions and remarks, please contact: Hans Weigand

DECOMATE II
The project DECOMATE II (LB-5672/B-DECOMATE II) was partially funded by the European Commission DG XIII Telematics for Libraries programme. The program partners formed an international group, spread over various European countries. The goal of Decomate-II was to develop an end-user service which provides access to heterogeneous information resources distributed over different libraries in Europe using a uniform interface, leading to a working demonstrator of the European Digital Library for Economics.
The Infolab developed the Concept Browser and the Result Optimizer, both advanced features on top of the relatively standard keyword query engine in Decomate-II.
EuroTerm
The main objective of the EuroTerm preparatory action is to offer public sector information (concentrated on Environment and Environmental Health) in different languages beyond the mere homogeneous linguistic community it originates from.
Taking into consideration the problem of multilingualism among European countries, the preparatory action's main objective is to extend a lare general linguistic resource (EuroWordNet) by incorporating environmental terminology into it, and investigate a way to use such a resource for the exploitation of public sector information. EuroTerm combines multilingual domain specific information into a federated virtual lexical database through a Terminology Alignment System, lowering the barriers across European languages.
Another main goal of the preparatory action is to explore how such a multilingual lexical database could facilitate access to environmental information and contribute to the development and use of the European digital content. In the long run we expect that the domain specific terminology incorporated into the EuroWordNet multilingual database will open up a whole new range of services in Europe at a trans-national level.


MEMO
MEdiating & MOnitoring electronic commerce
MEMO is a project that aims at developing techniques to mediate pre-contract business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce. A broker system facilitates business data management, semantic search within and across business sectors, and negotiation support based on formal business contract chunks.
The goal of this project is to prototype, demonstrate and evaluate a lightweight Electronic Commerce environment (Electronic Commerce-broker) for the facilitation of smaller-scale and more diverse Electronic Commerce applications. This will mainly be done from the perspective of the ABN AMRO Bank, a mainly European Commercial bank with a long tradition in international trade, who intends to offer such an environment with the (already existing) associated human services as a new future service to (SME) companies in Europe.
In the project, SME's will be represented by end-user groups. Trusted third parties and parties as IHK Aachen (Chamber of Commerce) and SAREnet (Internet provider) will approach at the project start interested SMEs, establish round-tables to continuously discuss the incremental development and testing of the EC-broker and assist them during the phase of the project where the developed concepts are demonstrated and validated. The EC-broker provides an added value in the phases previous to the execution of the transaction where EDI traditionally provides support. With support in phases of partner search, negotiation and contracting the EC-broker in this project aims to fill a gap in currently available support to Electronic Commerce. Objective of the project will be to: Obtain practical experience with this new approach to facilitating Electronic Commerce, Obtain scientifically valuable input for further research and development on Electronic Commerce Investigate the economical potential for exploiting such a transitional EC-broker.
Partners: ABN AMRO (NL), ORIGIN (E), EIT Tilburg (NL), RWTH Aachen (D), IHK Aachen (D), IMK (NL), SARENET (E), FEND (E), EURIDIS (NL)
For questions and remarks, please contact: Hans Weigand
NEFETI 1
Networked Enterprises of the Future and Enabling Telematics Infrastructure1
The central objectives of the NEFETI 1:
  • Explaining, predicting and improving or re-designing the impact of telematics on the structuring and performance of networks of organisations. Structural characteristics of networked organisations may include geographical (re-)location of activities, type of outsourcing relationships, co-ordination mechanisms, contractual agreements i.e. regarding liabilities. Performance aspects may include productivity, innovativeness, stability, growth. Design aspects will include the design and evaluation of 'hybrid' networks consisting of business processes and marketplaces and the mechanisms for optimising value creation in networks.
  • Explaining, predicting and improving or re-designing the telematics management of flexible, agile, networked organisations; i.e. strategies regarding the adoption, use, integration and exploitation of telematics in multi-actor situations.
For questions and remarks, please contact: Martin Smits

NEFETI 2
Networked Enterprises of the Future and Enabling Telematics Infrastructure2 The central objectives of the NEFETI 2:

  • Mission:
    to improve the performance of electronic business networks
  • Research deals with:
    • finding business models of networked organisations
    • assessing the impact of telematics on organisations
    • developing effective implementation strategies of telematics in organisations
  • Research tasks:
    1. Develop instruments and methods
    2. Perform case studies of networked organisations in six lines of industry
    3. Use the findings of tasks 1 and 2
    4. Use the findings of tasks 1, 2, and 3 for practical advise for managerial decision making
For questions and remarks, please contact: Martin Smits
PIEC
The PIEC (Process-Integration for Electronic Commerce) project aims at integrating the BALES (Binding Business Applications to Legacy Systems) with the RSD (Rapid Service Development) approach. This integrated methodology can be used to model and implement transaction services that are mapped to (legacy) process components. The PIEC project is conducted with the Dutch Telematica Institute (TI).
For questions and remarks, please contact: Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
PRONIR
The PRONIR project aims to develop a theory, and demonstrate its validity by means of a prototype system, for profile based retrieval of heterogeneous networked resources.
TICS
Telematics Innovation and Control in Supply Chains
TICS is an exploratory research project by the Center for Research in Information Systems and Management (CRISM) of Tilburg University (UvT) and the Telematics Institute (Enschede, Netherlands).
TICS investigates the role of IT products and services for supply chain management, as seen from the perspective of users - business organizations - and IT vendors and intermediaries. The major issues covered by the project are current and future developments in multi-channel management, virtual production systems, supply chain management, e-procurement, and electronic markets.
For questions and remarks, please contact: Martin Smits
TREVI
The TREVI project fell under the Esprit (Information Technology) programme of the European Union.
TREVI (Text Retrieval and Enrichment for Vital Information) aimed at offering a solution tot the problem of information overflow, i.e. the difficulty experienced by both small and large companies in extracting useful information from large amounts of data coming from the numerous electronic textual information services available at local or global level (Internet, proprietary networks, subscription services, World Wide Web, etc.).
Key result of the TREVI project was a set of software tools (The TREVI Toolkit) representing a substantial improvement in the flexible management of distributed textual information sources. The TREVI Toolkit does not rely on simple text-based search tools, but rather combines concept-based search and active data mining techniques to enrich online input text streams.
The Infolab was responsible for the design and implementation of the two lexicons of the system (English and Spanish), containing both morphosyntactic and semantic information. A large part of Infolab's task involved the building and extraction of domain lexicons needed for the customizing of the system for specific applications.
For questions and remarks, please contact: Hans Weigand