Hans Weigand

Hans Weigand

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6035-9045

  • Warandelaan 2, Koopmans Building, room K 902

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

Accepting PhD Students

1986 …2024

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Personal profile

Research interests

Hans Weigand is Associate Professor at the Dept of Management at which he teaches general Information Management courses and on Business Analytics. His research domain is Information Systems. He considers organizational and technical aspects and how they interact. He is an expert on Language/Action Perspective (communciation modeling) and ontologies (such as accounting ontology and design artifact ontology) and investigates new technologies such as distributed ledger.  His interests also include the mimetic theory of Rene Girard and philosophical aspects of AI.

Career

Hans Weigand did his PhD project at VU Amsterdam on linguistic knowledge representation. In 1989 he moved to Tilburg and worked as senior-researcher in the ESPRIT II project SPRITE (database support for technical documentation). Since 1991 he is Lecturer (or Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University and participated in the LIKE project sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He has participated in several external projects, including two ESPRIT projects, TREVI (news filtering) and MEMO (electronic commerce). Later, he participated in several NWO projects. He has been co-organizing international workshops on the Language/Action Perspective (LAP),  Pragweb and Value Modeling/Businesss Ontologies (VMBO) Since 2016, he is Academic Director of the master program Information Management.

Current courses

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PhD supervision

Running projects:

Joost de Kruijff - Smart Contracts

Ruud van Cruchten - Event Log Management for Process Mining

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

  • Auditing
  • Information Management
  • Databases
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • Business Process Management
  • Innovation
  • Systems Development
  • Agents
  • Blockchain
  • Internet
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Linguistic Information Systems
  • Ontologies
  • Value Modeling
  • Communication Models

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  • From conceptual framework toward revenue recognition

    Blums, I. & Weigand, H., Feb 2024, Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies. Weigand, H., Prince Sales, T. & Johanesson, P. (eds.). 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

  • Ontological analysis of policy-based decision making

    Weigand, H., Johansson, P. & Andersson, B., Feb 2024, Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies (VMBO 2024). Weigand, H., Prince Sales, T. & Johanesson, P. (eds.). 10 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

  • The dual nature of organizational policies

    Weigand, H., Johansson, P. & Guizzardi, G., Dec 2024, The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: 17th IFIP Working Conference, PoEM 2024, Stockholm, Sweden, December 3–5, 2024, Proceedings. Paja, E., Zdravkovic, J., Kavakli, E. & Stirna, J. (eds.). Springer Nature, 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing)(IFIP Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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  • Toward ontology-guided IFRS standard-setting

    Blums, I. & Weigand, H., Jun 2024, Intelligent Information Systems: CAiSE Forum 2024, Limassol, Cyprus, June 3–7, 2024, Proceedings. Islam, S. & Sturm, A. (eds.). Springer Nature, p. 73-81 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing)(CAiSE: International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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  • Towards ontological convergence of accounting frameworks

    Blums, I. & Weigand, H., Dec 2024, Companion Proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling Forum. Hacks, S. & Roelens, B. (eds.). 15 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review

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