@inproceedings{AmitrajitSarkarTraubinger, author = {Amitrajit Sarkar, Ara and Traubinger, Thomas}, title = {IS Resilience Decision Priorities at German SMEs}, series = {27th American Conference on Information Systems 2021 (AMCIS 2021): Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Virtual Conference, August 9-13, 2021}, booktitle = {27th American Conference on Information Systems 2021 (AMCIS 2021): Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Virtual Conference, August 9-13, 2021}, abstract = {IS resilience addresses the challenge of securing organizational information systems against disruptions to ensure the continuation of daily business processes and to guarantee the resilience of the organization as a whole. In this paper, we adopt Agency Theory and Weill's IT Governance framework to investigate the decision priorities of senior executives in the context of IS resilience planning, which falls under the broader umbrella of IT governance. The management of IS resilience involves different fields of action types and interests which decision-makers within organizations must confront. This is of special importance for small- to medium-sized companies (SMEs) where IS often is not a dedicated or small corporate function. This paper identifies distinctive character types of corporate decision-makers at SMEs in a European context and their priorities in IS resilience. The study was performed using Q-methodology. It was able to identify and describe three additional types of decision-makers in comparison to previous research thereby clearly showing that the field has progressed. These character types provide an informative insight into the priorities of IS resilience planning in SMEs and show differences and commonalities between decision-makers.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{VoelklMelzerDuennweberetal., author = {V{\"o}lkl, Jakob and Melzer, Matthias and D{\"u}nnweber, Jan and Sarkar, Amitrajit}, title = {Dynamic Route Planning for a Data Collecting Luggage Transport Service}, series = {18th IEEE International Conference on Control \& Automation, June 18-21, 2024, Reykjav{\´i}k, Iceland}, booktitle = {18th IEEE International Conference on Control \& Automation, June 18-21, 2024, Reykjav{\´i}k, Iceland}, publisher = {IEEE}, abstract = {Control and Automation of services of the urban infrastructure offered to citizens and tourists are elementary parts of a smart city. But both rely on a stable supply of data from sensors spread across the whole city, e. g., the fill level sensors of waste bins needed for a waste management tool which we developed in a collaboration with the Regensburg city council for the on-demand collection of waste bins. Europe has a lot of historic cities like Regensburg with narrow streets and huge building walls, some made from granite and fieldstones, which often represents an insurmountable obstacle to wireless data transmission. The reduction of the road traffic volume poses an additional challenge for city planners. By means of networked planning and simulation software, the situation, state and efficiency of citywide logistic services can be monitored and optimized. In the course of such optimizations, we propose the combination of digital and logistic services. As an example, we show that monitoring state information, such as the waste bin fill levels, can be accomplished using the same vehicles and the same planning software, that is used for luggage transportation. Moreover, we describe how we adapted a solver for a variant of the TSP, namely the prize-collecting traveling salesman, to optimize the route planning dynamically.}, language = {en} }