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Profile of the Research Group

In its research, the chair focuses on the challenges associated with digital transformation and examines the opportunities that digital change offers companies. We focus on the research of smart products and services, the efficient design of modern user interfaces in the context of web engineering, and the transformation of energy networks into smart grids.

Our goal is to train business information systems specialists with a profound knowledge of software engineering concepts. Students learn to evaluate and acquire technologies from an innovation and management perspective. The focus of the education is on the design of the process level.

News

 Tue, 04. Nov 2025

SOFTEC contributes research on GenAI-based user simulation at ICIS 2025

We are pleased to announce that Florian Holldack, Leonardo Banh and Gero Strobel have had their paper „Synthetic Conversations, Real Insights: Towards Realistic User Simulations with Generative Agents“ accepted for presentation at...
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 Thu, 30. Oct 2025

SOFTEC at the Day of Computer Science 2025: Research on Compassionate AI

On October 29, 2025, the Day of Computer Science was held by the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen in cooperation with Fraunhofer IMS at the Fraunhofer inHaus Center in Duisburg. Under the motto “Bits...
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 Tue, 30. Sept 2025

Studienprojektthemen für das WS25/26 jetzt online

Die Projektthemen für das Wintersemester 2022/2023 sind ab sofort auf unserer Seite verfügbar. Ihr könnt Euch über das Online-Bewerbungsformular bis zum 12.10.2025 (23:55 Uhr) bewerben. In diesem Semester bieten wir wieder...
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 Fri, 19. Sept 2025

SOFTEC Successfully Represented at WI 2025 in Münster and Wins Best Student Paper Award

Our chair has every reason to celebrate after a successful participation at the 20th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2025), held in Münster from September 13 to 17! First and foremost, we warmly congratulate...
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 Mon, 30. Jun 2025   Laufer, Jan

UDE Summer Festival 2025

At the UDE Summer Festival on June 26, 2025, the SOFTEC Chair was represented on the Duisburg campus at the Faculty of Computer Science booth. The team took the opportunity to present current research projects, answer questions...
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