This report documents the program and the outcome of Dagstuhl Seminar 13441 “Evaluation Methodologies in Information Retrieval”, which brought together 42 participants from 11 countries. The seminar was motivated by the fact that today’s information retrieval (IR) applications can hardly be evaluated based on the classic test collection paradigm, thus there is a need for new evaluation approach...

This report describes the program and the results of Dagstuhl Seminar 17092 "Search as Learning", which brought together 26 researchers from diverse research backgrounds. The motivation for the seminar stems from the fact that modern Web search engines are largely engineered and optimized to fulfill lookup tasks instead of complex search tasks. The latter though are an essential component of in...

This report describes the program and the results of Dagstuhl Seminar 17092 “Search as Learning”, which brought together 26 researchers from diverse research backgrounds. The motivation for the seminar stems from the fact that modern Web search engines are largely engineered and optimized to fulfill lookup tasks instead of complex search tasks. The latter though are an essential component of in...

We organized a web-based coursework (feasibility study) and seminar during our information management and information systems development course for some students (experimental group). The students worked on the given development problems of information systems in small groups. For the web-based seminar each group had their own workspace in the Web CT environment for publishing and presenting c...

This report documents the programme and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16341 on “Integrating Process-Oriented and Event-Based Systems”, which took place August 21–26, 2016, at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The seminar brought together researchers and practitioners from the communities that have been established for research on process-oriented information systems on the o...

This paper, originally prepared as a keynote address for the 1999 Australasian Conference on Information Systems, critically examines some common assumptions underlying much IS research. The assumptions concern the scope and risks of IT projects, the rationales for and uses of IT, and the role of history and time in systems-related outcomes. Making different assumptions about these issues sugge...

Participatory--also called emancipatory--information systems development (ISD) approaches claim systematic and meaningful user involvement, workplace democratization, and reduced worker alienation. Grounded in a humanist view of information systems (IS) as social systems, participatory ISD advocates open and non-distorted communication, reasoned argumentation, cooperation and mutual understandi...