=========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================================== 5th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business (AKTB 2013) in conjunction with 16th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2013) Poznań, Poland June 19, 2013 /bis2013/wscfp.php?ws=aktb2013 =========================================================================== Deadline for submissions: April 29, 2013 =========================================================================== The workshop pursue to engage researchers and practitioners, specialists and market analysts to share their research experiences and domain knowledge in application of contemporary computational intelligence methods for modelling and implementation of business information systems. We invite papers which provide advanced services for the information systems users, propose innovative solutions for systems and process modelling. The conference workshop themes are related to methods of solving complex business tasks, analytic insights and application of intelligent and knowledge-based technologies for high quality experimental research in various fields of business problems. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Advanced knowledge-based business information systems * Computational intelligence for business (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, expert systems) * Decision support systems in business enterprises, financial institutions and e-management * Knowledge-based models of data mining in business * Business process and information requirements analysis * Information technologies and software developments for business process modelling * Agent-based and embedded systems in business applications * Information systems in e-business, e-banking and marketing * Online trading by using evolution-based methods, neural networks and rule-based systems * Advanced computational approaches to portfolio optimization and selection * Analysis of financial time series * Estimations, modelling, algorithms of application of investment strategies in financial markets * Advanced research and case studies of application computational methods in banking, insurance and credit risk evaluation, company rating systems SUBMISSION * Long papers: max. 12 pages * Work-in-progress reports: max. 6 pages * Demo papers: max. 4 pages Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to Springer LNBIP template available from http://www.springer.com/computer+science/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0. Submission system is available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aktb2013. Papers approved for presentation at AKTB 2013 will be published in BIS 2013 workshop post-conference proceedings, as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. BIS 2013 Workshops proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants in November 2013 by regular mail. Workshop papers will be made available in electronic form by the BIS organizers to all workshop participants (and only to them) directly before the conference. WORKSHOP FORMAT Each paper submitted to BIS workshop will be reviewed by at least two Referees. At least one author of each paper needs to register for the conference for the paper to be included in proceedings. Workshop registration entitles to participate in the conference, as well as in all workshops and tutorials held in conjunction with it. IMPORTANT DATES * April 29, 2013 - submission deadline for papers * May 20, 2013 - notification of acceptance/rejection * May 30, 2013 - submission of final papers * June 19, 2013 - the workshop ORGANIZERS * Vilnius University, Department of Informatics (http://www.khf.vu.lt/) * Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (http://www.fi.muni.cz/index.xhtml.en) CHAIRS * Dalia Kriksciuniene * Tomas Pitner * Virgilijus Sakalauskas PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended) * Rajendra Akerkar, Western Norway Research Institute, Norway * Lia Bassa, Foundation for Information Society, Hungary * Tânia Cristina D´Agostini Bueno, Instituto de Governo Eletrônico Inteligências e Sistemas, SC, Brasil * Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Mario Hernandez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - SIANI institute, Spain * Daning Hu, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Ferenc Kiss, Foundation for information Society, Hungary * Irene Krebs, Potsdam University, Germany * Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Audrius Lopata, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Dhrupad Mathur, S.P.J. Centre of Management, Singapore * Laima Papreckiene, Kaunas Technological University, Lithuania * Razvan Petrusel, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania * Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University, Czech Republik * Vytautas Rudzionis, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Virgilijus Sakalauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Eric Schoop, Dresden University of Technology, Germany * Mikhail Simonov, ISMB, Italy * Rimvydas Simutis, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania * Darijus Strasunskas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Sebastián Ventura, Cordoba University, Spain * Leonard Walletzky, Masaryk University, Czech Republik * Danuta Zakrzewska, Institute of Computer Science Technical University of Lodz, Poland ===========================================================================