Matthias Jarke (1952–2024), A Pioneer in Information Systems and Data Management

van der Aalst, Wil M. P. Article — Published Version Matthias Jarke (1952–2024), A Pioneer in Information Systems and Data Management Business & Information Systems Engineering Provided in Cooperation with: Springer Nature Suggested Citation: van der Aalst, Wil M. P. (2024) : Matthias Jarke (1952–2024), A Pioneer in Information Systems and Data Management, Business & Information Systems Engineering, ISSN 1867-0202, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden, Vol. 66, Iss. 2, pp. 135-135, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-024-00865-8 This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315716 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. 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P. van der Aalst Published online: 12 April 2024 ÓThe Author(s) 2024 It is with deep regret that we announce Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Matthias Jarke’s passing on March 21, 2024. Prof. Jarke served as a Department Editor for BISE for many years and was one of the pioneers in Information Systems and Data Management. After completing a double degree in Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Hamburg, Jarke earned his doctorate in Business Informatics and held professorships at the Stern School of Management at New York University and at the University of Passau before joining RWTH Aachen University in 1991. He played a key role in developing the Computer Science Department in Aachen and was founding director of the Bonn-Aachen International Graduate Center for Information Technology (B-IT). He also served for many years as the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, steering the institute towards groundbreaking achievements. He worked on a wide variety of topics in Computer Science, including metadata management, data quality, conceptual modeling, requirements engineering, information systems engineering, query optimization, recommender systems, and cooperative information systems. He also played a key role in connecting the Wirtschaftsinformatik-community with other branches of Computer Science; see, for example, his article ‘‘Perspectives in the Interplay Between Business and Information Systems Engineering and Computer Science’’ in the inaugural issue of BISE from 2009. As President of the Gesellschaft fu ¨r Informatik (GI), he organized the Computer Science Year 2006. He was a fellow of the ACM, a member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering, and won the Peter Chen Award. These and many more awards reflect the impact of his work. Beyond his scientific and organizational achievements, Prof. Jarke was a passionate mentor. He always had great visions and, at the same time, an open ear for other researchers of all kinds – regardless of their career stage, origin, or background. We mourn the loss of a passionate scientist, a truly valued colleague with an exceptional grasp of the key issues in and around our field. Our thoughts are with the family of Prof. Matthias Jarke, his wife Sibylle Hentsch-Jarke, and their children during this difficult time. He will be deeply missed by the BISE community. Wil M. P. van der Aalst and the Editorial Board of BISE Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/. W. M. P. van der Aalst (&) Lehrstuhl fu ¨r Informatik 9, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, 52056 Aachen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] 123 Bus Inf Syst Eng 66(2):135 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-024-00865-8