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Information Management

2004 - Dr. rer. pol.
Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT
Germany

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2001 - Diplom (Universitaet), Informatik
Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT
Germany

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1998 - Vordiplom Medizinische Informatik
Universitaet Heidelberg / Fachhochschule Heilbronn
Germany

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since 2012 - Volz Innovation GmbH - Germany

Chairman of the board

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since 2012 - Hochschule Pforzheim - Germany

Professor

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2009 - 2012 - Nagago GmbH - Germany

Geschäftsführer

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2008 - 2012 - Volz Innovation GmbH - Germany

Founder and Managing Director

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2004 - 2006 - Booz Allen Hamilton (now Booz&Co.) - Germany

Management Consultant

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2001 - 2004 - Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT - Germany

Researcher

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Business Administration and Engineering ,  Business Information Systems

Journal article

HEINRICH, S., KREFT, N., SCHUSTER, T., VOLZ, R. (2023). A Total Cost of Ownership Model for Cloud Computing Infrastructure. Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 5779-5788.

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Dissertation

VOLZ, R. (2004). Web ontology reasoning with logic databases. Promotion, Uni Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Chapter in Book

SCHUSTER, T., SCHUSTER, T., WAIDELICH, L., VOLZ, R. (2021). Maturity Models for the Assessment of Artificial Intelligence in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (1st ed.). In Stanislaw Wrycza, Jacek Maslankowski (Eds.), Digital Transformation (pp. 22-36). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

AUER, M., OSSWALD, K., VOLZ, R., WOIDASKY, J. (2019). Artificial Intelligence-based Process for Metal Identificaion. Resource Efficient Scrap Sorting. Resource Efficient Scrap Sorting. In Biedermann, H. et al. (Eds.), Industrial Life Cycle Management (pp. 135-146). Hampp Verlag.

VOLZ, R., NIXON, L., CIRAVEGNA, F., STUDER, R. (2011). Future Trends. In Dieter Fensel (Ed.), Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies (pp. 583-616). Springer-Verlag.

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Article in Proceedings

DÖRING, N., SCHUSTER, T., VOLZ, R., KREISS, J. (2021). Brezel-Cast: Verkaufsprognose von Backwaren. INFORMATIK 2021 (pp. 1177-1183). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).

SCHUSTER, T., VOLZ, R., WAIDELICH, L. (2021). Reifegradmodelle zur Bewertung Künstlicher Intelligenz in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. INFORMATIK 2021 (pp. 1237-1246). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI).

AUER, M., OSSWALD, K., VOLZ, R., WOIDASKY, J. (2019). Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz zur Metallidentifikation bei der Schrottsortierung. 9. Wissenschaftskongress Abfall- und Ressourcenwirtschaft (pp. 10).

SCHUSTER, T., VOLZ, R. (2019). Predicting Parking Demand with Open Data. 18th IFIP Conference on on e-Business, e-Services and e-Societ (pp. 218–229).

VOLZ, R., KLEB, J. (2009). Ontology based entity disambiguation with natural language patterns. ICDIM 2009. Fourth International Conference on Digital Information Management (pp. 1-8).

VOLZ, R., BOCK, J., HAASE, P., JI, Q. (2008). Benchmarking OWL reasoner. ARea2008 Workshop.

VOLZ, R., GROSOF, B., HORROCKS, I., DECKER, S. (2003). Description logic programs: Combining logic programs with description logic. Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web Seiten 48-57 (pp. 48-57).

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Certificate

2015

MIT Professional Education Big Data

MIT United States

2009

Quality coach, Initiative Servicequalität Deutschland

Germany

2005

Mini MBA Executive Education, Sankt Gallen University

Switzerland

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Session/Track chair at a conference

2014

Session Chair State of The Map Conference, Karlsruhe 2014

Germany

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Other administrative responsibility in academic service

since 2014

Member of the supervisory committee Studentenwerk Karlsruhe

Germany

since 2012

Leiter Arbeitskreis Öffentlichkeitsarbeit der Fakultät für Technik

Germany

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Leader of a project in cooperation with a company; the project length is typically not less than one semester but could be limited to one semester

since 2014

Internet of Things, Robert Bosch GmbH

Germany

2012

Requirements Engineering for Roche Group

Germany

2012 - 2015

Smarter Privacy, BMWi / SAP / KIT / Volz Innovation GmbH

Germany

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Presentation/Speech

2013

Mobile Apps in Travel, ITB, Berlin

Germany

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Participation in a project funded from public institutions

since 2012

Mitglied des Institus for Smart Systems and Services (IoS3)

Germany

2012 - 2015

Mitglied Projekt Smarter Privacy

Germany

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Other

since 2012

Mitglied der Vertreterversammlung des Studierendenwerks Karlsruhe

Germany

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Maintaining an active consulting practice (regular, not only on an informal basis)

since 2012

Software Architektur nogago Gmbh, Loffenau

Germany

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Patent

2012

Lage- oder positionsabhängige Betriebsprofile; Gebrauchsmuster, DPMA 20 2011 100 066.8; https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/pat/PatRechercheSchrifteneinsicht?docId=DE202011100066U1

Germany

2012

Verkehrszeichenerkennung; Gebrauchsmuster, DPMA 2020111000692; https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/pat/PatRechercheSchrifteneinsicht?docId=DE202011100069U1

Germany

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Member of a supervisory board

since 2012

Chairman of the board, Volz Innovation GmbH

Germany

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