Oliver ThomasOliver Thomas has, since 2009, held the Chair in Information Management and Information Systems, which is part of the Institute of Information Management and Corporate Governance (IMU) at the University of Osnabrück. In 1999, he received his diploma n Business Administration from the University of Saarland/Germany. From 1999 to 2002 he worked at the Institute for Information Systems (IWi) of the University of Saarland. Later, this institute has been integrated into the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), and Oliver Thomas was a deputy head and a senior researcher from 2003 to 2009. Since 2004, Oliver Thomas is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (Japan). His fields of research are business process management, enterprise modeling, product-service systems, enterprise architecture management, semantic technologies in information systems, and mobile information systems. Read More Read Less