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Valerie Stehling1,2,3\*, Lana Plumanns1,2,3, Anja Richert1,2,3, Frank Hees1,2,3 and Sabina Jeschke1,2,3

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\*Address all correspondence to: valerie.stehling@ima-zlw-ifu.rwth-aachen.de

1 Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering of RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

2 Center for Learning and Knowledge Management of RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

3 Associate Institute for Management Cybernetics, Aachen, Germany
