Biography
Volker holds the chair for Applied Telematics
and e-Business at the Computer Science Department of University
of Leipzig. His research interests are component-based software
development, software architecture and distributed software
processes. An application focus is on point-of-sale systems
and always online solutions for mobile systems.
From 1997 to 2002 Volker Gruhn has been Professor of Software
Engineering at the University of Dortmund.
From 1994 to 1996 Volker Gruhn was appointed as chief technical
officer at LION, a medium sized software house with 400 employees.
In this position he was responsible for software development,
quality management and the mainframe computing center of LION.
In 1993 Volker Gruhn worked for the Fraunhofer Institute
for Software and Systems Engineering where he was responsible
for the European Professional Software Engineering Program.
He received a diploma degree (1987) and a PhD (1991) both
in computer science from the University of Dortmund. Volker
Gruhn is author and co-author of about 100 national and international
journal and conference articles.
He founded the consulting company adesso in 1997, where currently
more than 160 persons are employed. The main business of adesso
is consulting in system integration and software development,
process modelling and electronic business.
Volker Gruhn was program chair of the European Workshop on
Software Process Technology in 1998 and is currently member
of several workshops and conferences (Workshop on Software
Architecture, EUROMICRO Process Modelling Workshop, International
Conference on the Software Process, Working Conference on
Activity Coordination, DEXA Workshop on component-based development
of large systems).
Abstract
Mobility has an impact onto private life as well as on business
processes. Activities are carried out at locations not known
before starting processes. Data and applications are needed
at these locations. We sketch which kinds of activities (letting
alone whether they are of private or business nature) demand
for mobile support. Mobility of business processes is particularly
urgent for business processes, parts of which are carried
out at the point of sale. Along the lines of an example from
the insurance industry, we illustrate the needs for mobility
and we sketch how these needs could be satisfied in terms
of multi-channel software and IT infrastructure. Special attention
is paid to the question of supporting software architectures
and to the question of telecommunication services needed.
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