11th International Conference

Business Information Systems

Topics of interest | Important dates | SUPER PhD programme session | Submission guidelines | Organizers | Supporters | Organizing committee |

Call for Papers

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your work to BIS 2008 conference. It will take place in May 2008 in Innsbruck and will be jointly organized by Poznan University of Economics and University of Innsbruck.

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Topics of interest

Business processes and social contexts - reaching beyond the enterprise

The theme of the conference reflects recent developments in providing services over the Web and efforts in utilizing social phenomena of blogs, wikis, and folksonomies for advantages of the enterprises and public administrations. The basic idea behind is to bring services closer to users and to enable users to leverage the services or even build communities around services. Web 2.0 and Semantic Web allow for enterprise outreach and self-service. As it still not clear what Web 2.0 will mean for enterprises it is a perfect germ for investigations of research papers for BIS 2008. Topics are restricted by the theme of the conference as defined above and include:

Business Process Management

• semantic business process management
• adaptive and dynamic processes
• ERP/SCM implementations
• business rules
• integration of data and processes
• inter-organizational processes
• collaborative BPM

Ontologies

• creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation of ontologies
• ontologies for enterprise content management
• natural language processing and cognitive science
• semantic integration of heterogeneous semistructured information sources
• interoperability of heterogeneous information systems
• business models for Web information integration and aggregation

Contexts

• location-aware and geography-centric information systems
• wireless and mobile applications
• multi-agent distributed systems
• semantic web personalization
• ambient computing
• applications and challenges of RFID technology

Content retrieval and filtering

• hidden Web search and crawling
• data integration from Web information sources
• modelling and describing evolving data sources
• adaptive integration of evolving data sources
• information gathering support for knowledge-intensive enterprises
• search over semi-structural Web sources
• business models for a content

Web Services

• software as a service (SaaS)
• service oriented computing (SOA)
• semantic web services
• composition, choreography and orchestration
• open, decentralized self-service
• trust and quality of service (QoS)
• service level agreements

Collaboration

• social networks and social wikis
• enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0
• infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.)
• semantic grid
• security in distributed systems
• Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse

E-government

• e-participation, e-democracy
• e-administration
• digital divide
• government application integration
• e-government and multilingualism
• interoperability of public administrations and private-public partnership

SUPER PhD Programme Session

The SUPER PhD Programme Session of BIS 2008 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with various issues important from the perspective of the SUPER project. The goal of the SUPER Phd Programme session is to create an opportunity for doctoral students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and most of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. PhD Programme Mentors will be assigned to each student to provide individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and further developments. All papers submitted to the SUPER PhD Programme Session stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for presentation at the SUPER Phd Programme Session. The best of papers will be published in the proceedings of BIS 2008.

Submission Guidelines

• language of publication: English
• paper should not exceed 12 LNCS pages (including abstract and references)
• we understand that you submit your original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and that you agree to publish your work when it is accepted by the Program Committee; you will be required to send a signed copyright form as required by Springer at a later stage
• at least one author should register for the conference and present the paper; only registered authors' papers will be included in the proceedings
• the authors will prepare the final manuscript in time for its inclusion in conference proceedings
• more guidelines available here

Important dates

• Dec 1, 2007 - submission deadline for papers
• Jan 15, 2008 - notification of acceptance/rejection
• Feb 1, 2008 - submission of final papers
• May 5-7, 2008 - the conference

Organizers

Supporters

• ACM SIG on Management Information Systems, USA
• CTTS - Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
• EMISA - Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures, Germany
• GI - Gesellschaft fuer Informatik
• STI - Semantic Technology Institute International

Organizing Committee

OC Co-Chairs:

• Krzysztof Wecel
• Ilona Zaremba

OC Members:

• Dominik Flejter
• Konstanty Haniewicz
• Tomasz Kaczmarek
• Piotr Stolarski
• Karol Wieloch