--- title: University of Stuttgart type: entity tags: [organization, university, bpm, manufacturing, data-engineering] affiliation: Stuttgart, Germany sources: ["[[sources/2014-groger-prescriptive-analytics-bpo]]"] created: 2026-04-20 updated: 2026-04-20 --- # University of Stuttgart German research university. Its **Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS)** was the organisational home of Christoph Gröger, Holger Schwarz and Bernhard Mitschang when they published the 2014 BIS paper proposing recommendation-based Business Process Optimization (rBPO) on a holistic process warehouse — an early articulation of prescriptive process monitoring, with a manufacturing (steel-spring) proof of concept. ## Contributions in this wiki - [[sources/2014-groger-prescriptive-analytics-bpo]] — all three authors' primary affiliation at the time. ## Related people [[entities/christoph-groger]]