Wolfgang Ketter receives award for innovative information technology
Dr Wolfgang Ketter, Associate Professor of Information Systems at Erasmus University, and his research team received the prestigious INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2012 for their project entitled “Design of Automated Agents Capable of Recognising and Forecasting the Economic Environment.” In this project, methods for software agents have been developed to characterise the economic environment they operate in and predict its future conditions.
The jury said about Ketter’s project: “This work is outstanding. The authors have combined design science principles and economic theory to design and evaluate specific artifacts but also to develop “design theory” for software agents. The evaluation is well-conceived and convincing".
<link people wolfgang-ketter http: www.rsm.nl external-link-new-window>Dr Ketter founded and runs the <link research centres learning-agents>Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus(LARGE) and the <link research centres future-energy-business>Erasmus Centre for Future Energy Business. Energy research will enable robust, intelligent and sustainable energy networks in the future.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the world’s largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research, management science and business analytics.
Paulo Goes, chairman of the jury and incoming editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly, announced the award and handed it over to Dr Ketter in Orlando, Florida, in December 2012. The annual INFORMS ISS Design Science Award promotes and recognises research efforts focusing on the design and realisation of innovative information technology artefacts, such as IT systems.
