Univ. Prof. Dr. Martin Bichler Contact Information Short Bio Selected Academic Activities Working Papers Selected Publications Courses Community Service

Contact Information

E-Mail:	bichlerin.tum.de (S/MIME Certificate, RGB-CA)
Phone:	+49 (0) 89 289 - 17500
Fax:	+49 (0) 89 289 - 17535
Office:	Room 01.10.061 Boltzmannstr 3 85748 Munich, Germany
Hours:	by arrangement

Short Bio

Martin Bichler received his MSc in Information Systems from the Technical University of Vienna, and his Ph. D. as well as his Habilitation (2000) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, where he was Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems. He was working as a research fellow at UC Berkeley, and as research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Since 2003 he is full Professor at the Department of Informatics of the TU München, and also a faculty member at the TUM School of Management. Martin is responsible for the Master's program in Information Systems at TU München and a faculty and board member of the Bavarian Elite Master program "Finance and Information Management" and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce (TCEC). Martin is currently vice chair of the IS Section of the German Informatics Society (GI FB Wirtschaftsinformatik).

Martin has contributed to different areas in computer science, information systems, and operations research. In particular he is interested in the design of multi-object markets and in computational methods to solve managerial decision and planning problems. Both areas have seen major advances in the recent years (both from a theory and an applied point of view). Martin is excited about real-world problems and, therefore, is interested in transfering results of his research:

• Design and development of several commercial software packages, and co-founder of a software spin-off with former team mebers.
• Design of large-scale procurement auctions with industry partners for direct and indirect materials. These projects draw on latest developments in discrete optimization and market design and include applications such as the procurement of different types of services across Europe, the purchase of machinery in the automotive industry, the procurement of transportation services, or office supplies with a total spend of several hundred million Euro.
• Game-theoretical consulting in spectrum auctions in several European countries.
• Development of algorithms and tools for server consolidation and resource allocation in virtualized data centers with an IT service provider.

Martin is regularly contributing to the theoretical and experimental literature in these fields. He has published in journals such as INFORMS ISR, IEEE TSC, EJOR, IEEE Computer, CACM, Computer Networks, Distributed and Parallel Databases, DSS, IBM Systems Journal, ITM, Information Systems Frontiers,  Production and Operations Management, SIGMOD Records and is on the editorial board of a number or journals such as ACM TWEB, BISE and POM. He recently received an HP Labs eAward, the IBM Faculty Award 2008, and the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award, and holds several patents.

Vita (pdf)

Selected Academic Activities

• ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ACM Transactions on the Web, Association of Computing Machinery.
• DEPARTMENT EDITOR, Business and Information Systems Engineering, Springer.
• EDITORIAL BOARD, Production and Operations Management, POM Society.
• EDITORIAL BOARD, Review of Managerial Science, Springer.
• EDITORIAL BOARD, International Journal on Operational Research, Inderscience.
• EDITORIAL BOARD, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, Inderscience

• ASSOCIATE EDITOR, Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer (til 2011).

• EDITORIAL BOARD, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Springer (til 2008).
• EDITORIAL BOARD, Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS (til 2006)
  
  

• Vice Chair of the GI FB WI (Information Systems) since 2010

• BOARD MEMBER of the Bavarian Elite Master program “Finance and Information Management”
• EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on E-Commerce.
• CO-CHAIR of the GI Task Force 5.5 on E-Commerce (2006-09)
• MEMBER, Roland Berger Academic Network.
• MEMBER, INFORMS Information Systems Society.
• ASSOCIATE PARTNER, E-Commerce Competence Center, Vienna, Austria.

Working Papers

M. Bichler, P. Shabalin, and J. Wolf. Efficiency, auctioneer revenue, and bidding behavior in the combinatorial clock auction. Technical report, TU München, 2011. [ pdf ]

M. Bichler, P. Shabalin, and G. Ziegler. Efficiency with linear prices? a theoretical and experimental analysis of the combinatorial clock auction. Technical report, 2010. [ pdf ]

T. Scheffel, G. Ziegler, and M. Bichler. On the impact of cognitive limits in combinatorial auctions: An experimental study in the context of spectrum auction design. Technical report, 2010. [ pdf ]

Recent Journal Publications

I. Petrakis, C. Hass, and M. Bichler. On the impact of real-time information on field service scheduling. Decision Support Systems, tba:tba, 2012. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler, A. Gupta, and W. Ketter. Designing smart markets. INFORMS Information Systems Research, 21:688-699, 2011. [ link ]

M. Bichler, S. Schneider, K. Guler, and M. Sayal. Compact bidding languages and supplier selection for markets with economies of scale and scope. European Journal on Operational Research, 214(1):67-77, 2011. [ pdf ]

T. Dierkes, M. Bichler, and R. Krishnan. Estimating the effect of word of mouth on churn and cross-buying in the mobile phone market with markov logic networks. Decision Support Systems, 51:361-371, 2011. [ link | pdf ]

T. Scheffel, A. Pikovsky, M. Bichler, and K. Guler. An experimental comparison of linear and non-linear price combinatorial auctions. INFORMS Information Systems Research, 22(2):346-368, 2011. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler. Combinatorial auctions: Complexity and algorithms. In Wiley Encyclopedia on Operations Research and Management Science. Fall 2010. [ link | pdf ]

O. Hühn, C. Markl, and M. Bichler. On the predictive performance of queueing network models for large-scale distributed transaction processing systems. Information Technology & Management, (2-3):135-149, 2010. [ link | pdf ]

C. Markl, O. Hühn, and M. Bichler. Short-term performance management by priority-based queueing. Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer Verlag, 3:169-180, 2010. [ link | pdf ]

S. Schneider, P. Shabalin, and M. Bichler. On the robustness of non-linear personalized price combinatorial auctions. European Journal on Operational Research, 206:248-259, 2010. [ link | pdf ]

B. Speitkamp and M. Bichler. A mathematical programming approach for server consolidation problems in virtualized data centers. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 3:266-278, 2010. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler, A. Pikovsky, and T. Setzer. An analysis of design problems in combinatorial procurement auctions. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 51(1), 2009. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler, P. Shabalin, and A. Pikovsky. A computational analysis of linear price iterative combinatorial auction formats. INFORMS Information Systems Research, 20(1):33-59, 2009. [ link | pdf ]

T. Setzer and M. Bichler. Web service technologies. In Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2nd Edition. 2009.

M. Bichler. Kombinatorische online-verhandlung bei audi - wie aristoteles irrte. Beschaffung aktuell, 9, 2008.

C. Kiss and M. Bichler. Identification of influencers - measuring influence in customer networks. Decision Support Systems, 46(1):233-253, 2008. [ link | pdf ]

A. Paschke and M. Bichler. Knowledge representation concepts for automated sla management. Decision Support Systems, 46(1):187-205, 2008. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler and T. Setzer. Admission control for media on demand services. Service Oriented Computing and Application, 1(1):65-73, 2007. [ link ]

R. Brandl, M. Bichler, and M. Ströbel. Cost accounting for shared it infrastructures - estimating resource utilization in distributed it architectures. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 49(2):83-94, 2007. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler. Für sie gelesen: Design science in information systems research. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 48(2):133-135, 2006.

M. Bichler and J. Kalagnanam. Software frameworks for advanced procurement auction markets. Communications of the ACM (CACM), 49(12):104-108, 2006. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler and J. Kalagnanam. A non-parametric estimator for setting reservation prices in procurement auctions. Information Technology and Management, 7(3):157-169, 2006. [ link | pdf ]

M. Bichler and K. J. Lin. Service-oriented computing: Composition and qos issues in business services networks. IEEE Computer, 39(3):99-101, 2006. [ link ]

M. Bichler, T. Setzer, and B. Speitkamp. A capacity planning and resource allocation method for virtualized servers. Patent, August 2006.

T. Setzer, M. Bichler, and O. Hühn. Adaptive zugriffskontrollverfahren - ein entscheidungsmodell für die kontrolle des zugriffs auf gemeinsam genutzte it-infrastrukturen. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 48(4):246-256, 2006. [ link ]

Special Issues

M. Bichler. Special issue on it service management and it automation. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 2010.

M. Bichler and R. Steinberg. Special issues on e-auctions in procurement operations. Production and Operations Management, 2006.

M. Bichler and J.-Y. Chung. Special issues on service-oriented enterprise applications and web services composition. Information Systems and e-Business Management, June 2005.

M. Bichler. Special issue on business process integration and e-commerce infrastructure. Electronic Commerce Research Journal, 2003.

M. Bichler. Special issue on electronic negotiations. Group Decisions and Negotiations, 2003.

M. Bichler. Special issue on theory and application of electronic market design. Electronic Commerce Research Journal, 2001.

Courses

Martin Bichler is responsible for the Master's program in Information Systems at TU München. He is also a board member of the ENB MSc Finance and Information Management. For a complete list of all offered courses, see the Teaching page.

• Vorlesung WI2: Planen und Entscheiden in betrieblichen IS / Operations Research (2V)
• Vorlesung Business Analytics / OLAP, Data Mining and Forecasting (2V)
• Vorlesung Auktionstheorie und Marktdesign / Auction theory and market design (2 V)
• Vorlesung Internetbasierte Geschäftssysteme / Internet Protocols, XML, Web Services Computing (3V)
• Oberseminar Internet-based Information Systems (2S)

Community Service

• PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Singapore, 2012.
• CLUSTER Co-CHAIR, for the Auction Cluster of the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, USA, 2011.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, ICSE 2009 Workshop on Cloud Computing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 23, 2009.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, MKWI 2008, Munich, Germany, February 26-28, 2008.
• PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, IEEE Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, Irvine, USA, June 19-20, 2007.
• TRACK CHAIR, eServices: Applications, Service Management and Technologies, Wirtschaftsinformatik 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2007.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, „Service-oriented E-Commerce”, Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2006), Passau, Germany, 20.-22.03.2006.
• GENERAL CHAIR, IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2005), Munich, Germany, July 2005.
• PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR, IEEE Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2004), San Diego, USA, July 2004.
• PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR, DEXA E-Commerce and Web Technologies (ecWeb 2004), Zaragoza, Spain, Sept. 2004.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, „Coordination in Supply Networks" Track, Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI 2004), Duisburg, Germany, 9.-11.03.2004.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC 2003), Newport Beach, CA, USA, June 26-28, 2003.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, Fourth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2004), Miami, FL, USA, Dec. 2004
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE/PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems (WECWIS 02), Newport Beach, CA, USA, June 26-28, 2002.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, IBM Research Workshop on Dynamic Pricing in eBusiness, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, July 16-17, 2001.
• ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, ECIS 2000, Vienna, Austria, July 3-5, 2000.
• Workshop CHAIR, CaiSE*00 Workshop on Infrastructures for Dynamic Business-to-Business Service Outsourcing (IDSO’00), June 6, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden.
• WORKSHOP CHAIR, International Workshop on Component-based Electronic Commerce, Berkeley, California, USA, July 25, 1998.