The Institute for Information Systems (IWi) at the DFKI employs more than 60 people in the field of applied research under the scientific supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter Loos. The research and teaching comprises of information and process management in industry, services and administration. Of particular importance is the transfer of technology from science to practice. The interdisciplinary structure of the staff and research projects also encourages the exchange of specialist knowledge from different disciplines.
Based on many years of experience in BPM research, the IWi concentrates on researching the potential of using artificial intelligence in process data with the goal of generating added value for the processes and companies involved. This includes in particular the research areas of Process Mining, Process Analytics, Reference Model Mining and Predictive Process Monitoring.
The IWi is working in a number of different research projects to realize the vision of an industry 4.0 in the German economy. This includes data protection, the use of AI technologies to optimize processes and the support of SMEs in the implementation of Industry 4.0.
Together with industry partners and public authorities, the IWi is working on digitizing administrative processes and using business process management and artificial intelligence techniques to simplify and accelerate administrative processes for citizens and public authorities.
Due to the high complexity of the processes and legal texts, the high costs and the high entrepreneurial risk, the tax area is ideally suited for the use of AI. Together with practice partners, the competence centre „Tax Technology“ of IWi, DFKI, investigates on the influence of digitalization and Artificial Intelligence on future tax consultancy.